If I’m Steven Adams on the receiving end of unintelligible trash talk from Salah Mejri, I just call him a Jafa (doesn’t matter that Mejri is from a place called Jendouba and not Auckland) in response and be done with it. There are some battles you just can’t win, and I’m sure a back-and-forth smack-talk battle against a dude who knows all the Arabic swears is one of them.
Is that even how one talks trash in Arabic? With swears? I simply have no idea. Maybe they have really vivid metaphors in place of outright profanities. That would be cool. I can never find out the truth though, because that language just looks like a bunch of squiggles to me (mindblowing thought of the day: ALL written languages are just squiggles HOLY BALLS). And based on what I’ve heard of it, it sounds like a bunch of squiggles as well.
In other news, Mejri contributed a fair amount to the Mavericks’ surprising win tonight, hitting a good amount of shots and “blocking” some of the Thunders’. Turns out that the blocks he was awarded on the statsheet are kind of iffy, but hey, it means you get to see a bit of what he can do on the defensive end. DownToBuck’s highlights cater to all.