Delon Wright’s 13 assists in this game represent a career-high for him. The phrase “Career High” in my video titles is reserved usually for points (though I did once humorously state that Nick Young’s 4 assists were a career high, back before I had my “tell the truth in the title even if you don’t in the description” rule), so I need to say this right away. In fact, he’s never even had double-digit assists prior to tonight. His previous high was 8.
Impressed yet? You should be, but if you’re not, consider the following. All of the assists were to one of these four players:
-Bruno Caboclo
-Tyler Dorsey
-Justin Holiday
-Jonas Valanciunas
-Chandler Parsons
That’s insane. Valanciunas is fine for passing to, he’s been a nice target for assists his whole career, but the rest of those guys? Holiday is the brickiest “shooter” currently in the league, Dorsey is an extremely marginal NBA talent who isn’t even Greek (sorry Greekbros but he just isn’t), Parsons hasn’t been relevant for years, and we all know about Caboclo. He caught all those guys on good nights, or rather, his passing led them all to have good nights. 13 assists to that collection of “talent” is like 25 or 30 assists on a team that has actual scorers on it.
I really want to complain that lots of these dimes are iffy, because so many of them involved a bunch of moves by the scoring player, but I don’t have it in me. Even on some of those, it was Wright’s drives that collapsed the defense, so even if maybe he shouldn’t have gotten credit for the assist, he did make the play happen.