I don’t know if I’m on board with Markelle Fultz just strolling to the three-point line and letting it fly. This is the ‘YOFFS. Every possession matters, even when you’re kicking the other team’s booty and causing their star player to go on a coach-firing spree. Fultz is objectively an awful three-point shooter (his janked-up form goes in as often as you’d expect it to) so he should not have a green light to shoot that shot. He should have a RED LIGHT. Not a yellow light but a RED LIGHT. That shot shouldn’t happen.
That said, Fultz just performed admirably in what wasn’t actually his playoff debut, but might as well have been, since his three playoff games with the Philadelphias were all strictly garbage time. When you’re a young player getting a taste of playoff success, it might make you do weird things. Like shooting pull-up three-pointers as a 26% three-point shooter. Or beating the number one seed as the number eight seed.
If this is truly the beginning of the end of the D.J. Augustin era in Orlando (Orlando as in the location of the NBA franchise, not Orlando as in the location of the NBA bubble), then I want to hear some cheering from the Magic fans out there. And I expect even more cheering when I announce that I won’t be making a hig