In my opinion, if you get a career high in a game, and, on top of that, score ten points in an overtime period (which is only five minutes long), you should get to have the chance at the game-winning shot with your team down two with five seconds left. The inbounder should pass it to you and you should get to do whatever you want to do in order to get a shot off.
Justin Holiday checked all of those boxes, but the chance at the game-winner was given to Mr. Triple-Double, Delon Wright. My sources have failed me and I don’t know if they actually punched each other after the game, but I’m thinking they did. Because Holiday totally deserved to take that shot. He was the hot one, and not only was he hot, he was ESPECIALLY hot in overtime. Hot enough that you could put him in a volcano and he would melt it, not the other way around.
In a video description earlier today I intimated that I would have liked to see Bruno Caboclo take the final shot. That was obviously a comment made in jest. Caboclo is not a good enough scorer to take that shot. Normally, Justin Holiday isn’t good enough either, but on this night, he definitely was. Remember: he had a career-high. Never in his life had he been more dialed-in than he was right at that moment.
So Holiday didn’t get a chance at glory like he should have, but at least he gets the glory of a career-high highlight video on the prestigious DownToBuck highlight channel. And he gets the glory of me fawning over him even though he hasn’t really played well this year at all. But the ultimate glory was denied him, and I don’t know if he’ll ever forgive that.