Raptors fans will be exceedingly happy to tell you all about this guy, this “Paul Watson”. That’s what Raptors fans live for: to tell other fanbases how good and sweet and amazing their young players are due to their team’s high-class developmental system. They’ll talk for hours about it, nonstop. Just endless jabbering about how well they utilize the G-League and how they turn undrafted players into studs and blah blah blah who cares. You’d think they’d take a break from it and talk about how they won a championship instead, but no.
I can make fun of them all I want, but in this case, I think some Raptors fans need to come in here and tell me what to think about Watson. They would at least have a little bit of an idea, which is way more than anyone else except for maybe Hawks fans (who saw him go 0 for 6 in a game in January before he departed their team). Everyone else, they’re probably not even aware that a player by the name “Paul Watson” exists.
Was this an expected performance from Watson? I would say no, unequivocally. Raptors fans would probably also say no, but some of them might claim that they knew that he had this in him the whole time. He was probably doing stuff like this in the G-League, right?
I don’t see how this could be an expected performance, considering that prior to this game, he had a grand total of nine NBA points to his name. Not buckets. POINTS. The amount of pre-Bubb points? One. Just a single free throw. He had picked it up significantly in the two games prior, scoring 4 each time, but this is just way over the top. I’d be hyped, but I had to make 32 highlight vids for the previous slate of games so all I feel right now is a dull nothingness caused by a severely depleted reserve of vital life-force. The hype will have to wait until tomorrow.