I don’t even feel any shame in saying that Gerald Green has become one of my favorite players to watch these days. He’s lighting it up in New Jersey! He posted another double-figure half on Friday night, and threw down a pretty nice alley-oop dunk. As did Glen Davis. Wait, what?
That’s correct. Let me assure you that this was one of the most unusual NBA games I’ve ever watched in my life. When I say it was an unusual game… I don’t mean that in the typical way, either. Like, the flow of the game wasn’t strange at all, and neither was the final score. The Magic put a thorough beatdown on the Nets, as I expected. However, some of the sh!t that happened was downright bizarre.
The following is a list of all the weirdness that I can remember. Although I could have, I didn’t go back and get any videos or screenshots. I think it’ll be funnier if you’re forced to use your imagination.
- Glen Davis threw down an alley-oop dunk. Nothing pops up on Youtube when I search “Glen Davis alley-oop.” I imagine it was the first of his career.
- Glen Davis also threw a behind-the-back pass, but to absolutely nobody. After it sailed out of bounds he looked at a random teammate all like “WTF, man, you were supposed to be there!”
- DeShawn Stevenson made back-to-back-to-back threes. The third one was a poorly-thrown alley-oop pass from half court.
- As DeShawn Stevenson did all of this, his mouth guard only actually went in his mouth maybe one or two times.
- Dwight Howard fumbled the ball on a perfectly-placed off-glass lob from Jason Richardson.
- Gerald Green scored 14 points in the first half, including a stretch of six buckets in a row. Then he scored 0 in the second half.
- A D-Leaguer named Jerry Smith, who has been called up by the Nets, made the first shot of his NBA career (a three). Things went downhill from there, though. He proceeded to drive into the paint and launch a floater over the top of the backboard.
- Shelden Williams dunked on Ryan Anderson. He exploded from the edge of the painted area, turned sideways, and leaned like a youthful Steve Francis.
- MarShon Brooks and Sundiata Gaines combined to go 3-24 from the floor. This included Gaines matching his career high of 13 shot attempts.
- Johan Petro. For 31 minutes and 47 seconds.
Ha ha well put. Well I’d like to see few of those, but nevermind. Just have to tune in the actual game sometimes… You have your clock back one hour? Games starting in-not-so-late-night here.