Don’t get your hopes up regarding Ian Mahinmi and his career-high 7 assists. You all shouldn’t be expecting a Jokic-esque passing performance from him, but I know at least one of you is, and whoever you are, you deserve to be slapped. It’s Ian Mahinmi, people. If he had passing skills of any sort, we would’ve found out by now, since he’s been in the league for 12 seasons now.
In fairness to Mahinmi, he did have a pair of nice, crisp passes to a cutting Bradley Beal for dunks. I was legitimately impressed, because I was expecting nothing but lame handoffs. The rest of the assists were lame handoffs, true, but those two were primo. I’m sorry I slapped whoever it was who thought they were going to see a Jokic-esque passing performance, because in a sense, it was.
This is up there with that 7-steal game he had a few years ago in the “unexpected Ian Mahinmi statlines” category. I know a dude who swears he won a bunch of money based on that 7-steal performance on one of those daily fantasy sites that used to advertise everywhere but now you barely hear about them at all anymore (what’s up with that?). Hopefully someone out there won a bunch of money because of these assists as well.