https://youtu.be/txAkcs2dPFw
There were probably ten or so individual scrub performances from last night that were statistically more impressive than this one, but I don’t want to make any of those videos. I’m semi-retired and I reside in a plane far above the endless wailful din of plebes demanding this video or that video. Their tears do not move me. THIS is the video I wanted to make. Because Daniel Gafford is awesome and he’s been even more awesome since getting traded to the ‘Zards.
When a player goes from “underutilized” on one team to “absolutely balling the FRICK out” on another team, that’s when your old pal DTB starts getting all tingly inside. Seeing a player immediately improve like that means that the player’s original team probably lost the trade, and lost trades mean angst for the front office and angst for the fans. And, as you should know by now, the angst of NBA fans is what gives me life. Bulls fans have gotta be looking at their horrible record since acquiring Vuc, and looking at their poopy bench, and wondering why they gave up Gafford just to apparently get worse.
Gafford’s not even playing significantly more minutes in Washington than in Chicago (12 MPG per game vs. 17 MPG per game), but he is way more productive and engaged. Westbrook is getting him involved in a way that the Bulls’ motley assemblage of non-point-guards (plus ball-hogging Zach Lavine) never could. Let this be an object lesson to all front offices around the league: if you have a super-efficient shot-blocking young big on your roster, NEVER EVER trade him because it will only go wrong for you.