Mike Breen brought up a fun stat while he was commentating this game. It was so fun that I am going to steal it and expand upon it. As they say in the biz, “BANG!!”
Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot scored twenty ore more points exactly three times in his pre-Bubb career. The he got to The Bubb and scored 20+ in three of the eight games. And now he’s done it again. That’s four twenty-burgers in The Bubb for a guy who was not known for his twenty-burgers (or, really, any of his burgers) at all.
Of course, the Nets’ unfortunate injury situation contributes a lot to TLC’s success. However, it would be doing him a disservice to assume that was the only reason. Not every player can just go out there and start dropping twenty like it’s nothing, especially when the quality of the surrounding roster has suffered and there are no “good players” to distract defenders with.
I, for one, am totally ready for TLC to have a season-high of thirteen next season when he’s getting eight minutes per game.
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