No Kawhi? No problem! All you need is the devastating Afri-duo of Serge Ibaka (seen here) and Pascal Siakam (coming soon). They combined for 52 points on 22 of 37 shooting, torching all the bigs that the Bucks had to throw at them. To be fair, and fairness is what I’m all about when it comes down to it, the Bucks’ gameplan is to allow midrange jimbos, so that’s exactly how Ibaka dominated them.
So it’s kind of like the Bucks let him dominate them, knowing that it wouldn’t be so bad in the end.
But it was still a sick performance by Ibaka. I thought it might be a career-high, and it’s too bad it isn’t (1 short, dammit) because a career-high on the back of almost all jumpers would be rad as heck. He even added a few threes, something he hasn’t been doing as much of this season. This was so good that I’m not even going to cast doubt on the fact that he’s still only 29 years old. Just for tonight, I’ll believe it. The lack of blocks is no longer suspicious to me.