I always thought that, if Jarrett Allen was ever going to get a triple-double in his career, it was going to be via points, rebounds, and blocked shots. Most players, when considering their threat to notch a trippy-dubby, are going to get one the conventional way with points, rebounds, and assists. But Allen is such a non-passer that I considered it more likely that he would hold a personal block party to the tune of ten blocks than somehow racking up ten dimes via his basic passes. If somehow his hair could count as one of the three facets of the triple-double, that would get my vote, but afros aren’t a box-score stat. Yet.
Anyway, I’m a total moron I guess because Allen got EIGHT assists in this game, leaving him just two assists shy of his first career triple-double. He didn’t really display exceptional passing vision in this game, and he racked up some Jokic-style assists by just doing handoffs, but eight assists is eight assists. The box-score for this game will forever remain a tribute to that fact. And if he had just executed a few more simple handoffs, we could be talking about the next bigman passing prodigy ala Nikola Jokic, Bam Adebayo, or Domantas Sabonis, minus the “being an actual passing prodigy” part.
So we’re still waiting for that triple-double from Allen, but now that he’s had a taste of what it feels like to accumulate so many stats, he might be emboldened to flex his playmaking muscles. That’s cool and all but what I really want him to do is catch more lobs and then come talk to me about computer components. If he left a comment on this video on this video asking me about my opinion on the newest line of Ryzen CPU’s I would be so starstruck that I would literally die.