Hate to say it folks, but this vid just sucks. I was hoping to try and avoid making blatantly awful videos for the restart, but here we are, on only the second day, and I’ve gone and done it. I’m sorry.
All I wanted was for people to be enriched by a Khem Birch highlight video. Is that so wrong?
There is little enrichment to be found here. I knew, from looking at the boxscore, that he only had three buckets, an absolutely puny total that should’ve been a disqualifier for the making of the vid. But then I saw those five assists, and I couldn’t resist. I simply could not resist. One short of a career-high in points, and tying a career-high in assists? I’d been feeling the lack of Birch vids this year, and I let myself get carried away by the imagined quality of this vid.
Also, he had like 10 points at halftime, which had gotten me so hyped yesterday that the hype still hadn’t worn off by this morning.
I still maintain that he’s better than Mo Bamba, though. Despite how unenjoyable this vid is to watch, Birch still impacts winning on a much greater level than Bamba (who, with his physical profile, should be about a million times better than he actually is). That was maybe more true last year, since Birch has regressed a bit (his scoring rate is now reaching historically low levels), but give me him over Bamba any day.