https://youtu.be/YCmN0X8G108
This current Thunder squad is one of those rare teams where every single player is DTB-eligible. The only two players who aren’t eligible for highlightage courtesy DownToBuck are Al Horford and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. SGA is injured, and Horford has apparently reached an agreement with the team where he won’t play anymore, Luol Deng style. That means that the best player on the Thunder, whoever you determine that to be, is, at best, a high-end role-player, because anything higher than that would get immediately kicked off my channel.
The Thunder’s reliance on scrubs and role-players also means that the best player for the Thunder in any given game is usually going to get a highlight video from me. That is an upsetting fact to acknowledge. I’m supposed to be semi-retired here, and I don’t appreciate the Thunder fielding a scrubby team where scrubs are forced to make contributions on offense for lack of any established offensive firepower. They should have traded for Norman Powell so Powell could take all the shots and average 45 PPG and hinder the development of all his teammates. Or they could sign Jordan Crawford (note that I’m talking about Jordan Crawford here, not Jamal Crawford) for the rest of the season so he could score 19 PPG per game on 21 FGA per game.
Last night, Ty Jerome was the one who decided he would pick up the scoring load, dropping his first-ever twenty-burger for a career-high 23 points. Jerome has been a decent scorer this season, but really not much more than that. He doesn’t seem to be willing to take the amount of shots necessary to score truly impressive amounts of points. In that way, he sort of reminds me of Kenrich Williams and Justin Jackson (RIP) – passable scorers, but they would be complete wallflowers on a team that had one or two stars on it.
That said, my take on Jerome might need some adjustment, because 23 points is a LEGIT amount of points, and there’s no obvious reason why he couldn’t keep this up, unless this was just a fluke that can never be repeated.