https://youtu.be/gDr1JDcP4Fs
OFFICIAL VERNON CAREY JR BUCKET COUNT UPDATE
12 (+9 over last update)
THIS CONCLUDES THE OFFICIAL VERNON CAREY JR BUCKET COUNT UPDATE
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Yeah, you interpreted the bucket count update correctly: Vernon Carey Jr. had all of 3 buckets for the entire season prior to this game against the Nets. That’s not a lot. Most players (around 480 of them) in the NBA this year have more than 3 buckets, including scrubs like Henry Ellenson, Robert Woodard, and LeBron James. But now he’s got 12 buckets, a seriously legit amount of buckets that puts him in the company of slightly better scrubs like Sean McDermott and Daniel Oturu (not to be confused with Daniel Ochefu, because I know you were confused). When I make that end-of-season compilation of the first bucket for every NBAer who bucketed this season, Carey is now guaranteed a spot closer to the beginning of part 4, rather than the end. Heck, if he keeps this up, maybe he can squeeze himself into part 3!
And why shouldn’t he be able to keep this up? If the Hornets are going to continue being injured, then he’s going to continue to get opportunities. Sure, some of the shots he was making don’t seem entirely sustainable (that turnaround middy over the immobile corpse of Blake Griffin wouldn’t work at all against a player who wasn’t a corpse, and even against that corpse it probably only goes in five percent of the time), but there’s always easy layups available for players who want them.
Okay, that’s not true. I don’t even know why I would say something so untrue. What’s true is that if you just hang around the basket enough, you can get some points as long as you’re big and strong. And those are two things that Carey is. BIG and STRONG.
So now we can cross Carey off the list of Hornets players I want to make a video for before the season ends. The list is still way too long, though, and we’re kinda running out of time. Nate Darling, Nick Richards, those might as well be the same player until I can put the VHS tapes containing their highlight videos into my sacred archive of scrublights. And apparently there’s some dude named Grant Riller hanging around? Hot damn, it’s a fun time to be a Hornets fan. Who needs LaMelo Ball?