https://youtu.be/Qdf7J8Hl5N0
I was saying Max Strus’ last name wrong this entire time and that fact is greatly upsetting to me.
Who knew it was “stroose”? I was saying “struss”. And when I say “saying”, I mean “thinking”, because I don’t have any occasion to say his name (none of my IRL acquaintances share my passion for NBA scrubnuggets). And when I say “say “saying””, I mean “type “saying””, because I’m not actually saying anything to you either. I’m typing it to you and you’re reading it. Does that make sense? I feel like I’ve completely lost the thread here, but I’ve said (typed) too much to go back and start over.
Anyway, the guy whose name rhymes with “Moose” just had one of the more inexplicable performances of the season, doing his best Duncan Robinson impression on his way to nineteen points scored mostly by way of the three-pointer. White guys all across the country now have another Heat player to look up to, assuming that Strus can build on this performance and not just go back to the 4 PPG guy he was before this.
Now, can somebody in the NBA headquarters please mail me the official NBA pronunciation guide? And don’t tell me that it doesn’t exist. I know it exists because there’s no way in hell that anybody would know how to pronounce Strus’ name otherwise. And I want a god damn copy of it so that my internal monologue can be error-free.