We are currently living in a world where Fred VanVleet not only gets minutes in the NBA Finals, but a world where Fred VanVleet gets almost forty minutes in the most important game in Raptors’ franchise history to date. It’s also a world where Fred VanVleet takes seventeen shot attempts in that game. And a world where he plays good enough defense on Stephen Curry that Curry was overheard saying to Andre Iguodala after the game, “VanVleet is going to win the Raptors a god damn ring and I can’t do anything to stop it.” I know he said those words because I disguised myself as refrigerator full of Gatorade products in the visitor’s locker room.
(This is also a world where Quinn Cook gets twenty minutes in a Finals game. He’s not the focus of this video description, but I just wanted to point it out because that fact makes me unreasonably giddy.)
Going 2-of-8 from three (after going 1-of-4 in game 1), it appears that VanVleet’s blistering three-point shooting accuracy has finally cooled down. I wish he had cooled it down while still playing the Bucks, but that’s in the past now. In the present time, his three-point attempts will continue to cause Warriors fans much anxiety, since he has shown that he can hit large amounts of them if he gets going. And anything that causes Warriors fans anxiety is a good thing in my book, because I hate bandwagoners and fairweather fans like nothing else in this world.