I have this vague notion that Rayjon Tucker (who by the way is getting his first-ever DownToBuck highlight video, CONGRATULATIONS RAYJON!) once played for the Wisconsin Herd, who are the Bucks’ G-League affiliate based in a city you’ve never heard of called Oshkosh. I won’t bother fact-checking myself (because facts are less entertaining than conjectures) but, if it turns out that Tucker was a beast for the Herd, then I am officially very pissed off, because the Bucks couldn’t figure out how to make him into an NBA player and the Jazz obviously did figure it out.
In fairness, Tucker hasn’t actually shown that much in the NBA. He had a good game here, but it’s the first good game of his career. On the rare occasions in the past where he got more than ten minutes in a game, he failed to capitalize on the opportunity. I would expect a G-League stud to be more aggressive overall (although he did show that aggression in this one). Again, it would be neat to look up his G-League stats to see how much of a beast he was, but remember, facts are less entertaining than conjectures. It is more fun to conjecture that he was a beast in the G-League than to look up the actual stats and find out that maybe he wasn’t as much of a beast as we all wished.
I do find some solace in the fact Tucker has a really cool name. Rayjon. RAYjon. RayJON. However you pronounce it, it’s cool. If you replace the J with an X, it sounds like a feature in Nvidia’s latest line of video cards. I would definitely buy a piece of graphics hardware that advertised Rayxon technology that would enable me to blast apart zombies at 9001 FPS on an 8K monitor. How much would I shell out for the new GTX 3090 Ti with 24 gigs of RAM and 32 Rayxon cores? Probably $2,000 bucks. Don’t worry, when my Patreon really takes off (any day now), my Patreonbux will pay for it.