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This game was a blowout from start to finish. Everything after the six-minute mark was garbage time. The Mavericks held a 28-point lead near the beginning of the second quarter and at one point the Warriors went nine minutes without converting a bucket. Meanwhile, everybody at TNT headquarters was running around in a panic, trying to figure out how to salvage a national broadcast that most people probably had turned off before the second half even started. “What if we have Ian Eagle do a rap about Luka Doncic,” one of them wailed in a panic while dumping an entire carafe of blistering-hot coffee on his head. “We could show reruns of monster truck rallies,” yelled another while literally ripping the hair from her head.
Meanwhile, I was running around my apartment in absolute glee as I saw Mychal Mulder hit shot after shot in the fourth quarter. I was experiencing true Mulder Mania, to the point where I called multiple local politicians and told them to arrange a Mychal Mulder for Thon Maker trade. I didn’t actually manage to reach any politicians, but I was assured by the various secretaries who answered their phones that my message would be passed along. So any day now, the Bucks are going to have the hot-shooting stud Mychal Mulder on the team, and the Warriors are going to have to deal with Thon Maker’s stone hands and extremely sweaty body.
Again, I have to reiterate tht this game was a blowout of the highest order. The Warriors were down forty going into the fourth! Mulder looked at the grotesque numbers displayed on the scoreboard and saw his chance to be the hero, dropping in eighteen points all by himself while trying to will his team to an unlikely come-from-behind victory. His efforts were so futile (the Warriors lost by thirty in the end) that one could easily imagine that actually winning the game wasn’t on Mulder’s mind, but I think it was.Obviously, he was also trying to demonstrate that he deserves playing time and/or contracts, but imagine how big a contract he would get if he had a thirty-point quarter and stole the win from the Mavs while Luka Doncic got more and more pink and flustered. It would be a damn big contract.