Jakob “Pink Mamba” Poeltl looks like he was enjoying the Spurs’ recent off days a little too much. I get that in Austria people don’t have to worry as much about sunburn because they only have one season, which is winter (don’t believe the lies peddled by “The Sound of Music”), and most people don’t leave much skin exposed during that part of the year (or entire year, as the case may be) even when the sun is out. But hasn’t anyone told him about the magical properties of sunscreen? Good golly. I can feel the melanomata developing as we speak.
DownToBuck learned his lesson a long time ago, after a fun day in the sun turned into a not-very-fun-at-all night because he, in the absence of parental supervision, decided to spend a whole day lounging around in the sun without an additional dermal protection layer (neither a shirt nor sunscreen). Yes, the lesson had been learned painfully, and now DownToBuck never goes outside without… well, he just never goes outside.
Somehow, Poeltl dealt with the skin peeling off his arms/face in huge flakes and had what might be his best game of the season. Okay, I just looked it up and I think I forgot about that 20-burger he had, but maybe the second best game of the season for him? 5 blocks is a lot, and he provided value in every facet of the game. I still think he’s being misused a little bit, because I swear I saw a video of him in a gym hitting midrange jumpers and isn’t that what the Spurs want to do nowadays?