This is going to sound kind of sick, but I’m sort of half-happy that Jonas Valanciunas got injured. If Valanciunas was in possession of two intact hands, there’s no way that Lucas Nogueira (I refuse to call him “Bebe”) would get any minutes at all. No minutes for Nogueira = no chance of ever making Nogueira highlights. Therefore, I am a little bit glad that Valanciunas smashed up his hand. Not really glad but a little bit. I’m not some kind of psychopath or anything.
After this performance, we can now state unequivocally that Nogueira is better than Biyombo. The last time Biyombo scored fourteen was either in high school or one of his dreams about high school. Since Nogueira is now officially the superior player, he should be the starter, because one of Dr. Naismith’s original rules of the sport is that you have to start your best players and your lesser players have to come off the bench. Them’s the rules. Look for Nogueira to start next game and every game after that.
P.S. Do you know how hard it is to write a video description when you’re trying to watch basketball at the same time? It’s hard.