Was there a reason that Nigel Williams-Goss was inactive for every Bubb game up until the last one? While his G-Leaguer teammates on the Jazz were out there having fun playing basketball with their friends, NWG was sitting on the bench trying and failing to maintain his facade of happiness. It’s a new kind of insulting when your coach gives all kinds of scrubs all kinds of minutes, but you’re deemed an even lesser scrub than those scrubs, a scrub so low on the scrub totem pole (“scrubtem pole”) that even garbage-time minutes in meaningless games are unattainable.
It seems like a real waste of effort to keep a player inside The Bubb, with all the quarantine rules and with each additional player making the changes of a positive COVID-19 infection more likely, and not even use him. But now I guess all that work was worth it because NWG checked in to the second half of this game and played through to the end, recording a statline of 10/1/1/2/0 in 22 minutes.
Now we just need to get some of the other late-second-round picks from the 2017 into the NBA. If NWG can do it as the 55th pick, why can’t 57th pick Alexsandar Vezenkov do it? Or 60th pick Alpha Kaba? Won’t somebody please give me a GM role on a team somewhere so I can make this happen?