Can that be right? PapaG was +15 in 4 minutes? (I was watching with the sound off and I wondered who that lumbering guy was who took out that Rockets player and didn't get called for it.)
We have great garbage-time players. Even that piece of shit McCollum was able to pad his horrible 1st-half stats. There's a lot to be proud of there.
Just as coaches are allowed a certain number of timeouts in each first half, teams should be allowed to nuke the 1st-half stat records of a limited number of games each season. Without such memories, fans can feast on McDonalds Happy Meals after blowouts. This should be an issue in the next CBA negotiations.
Baldwin has now played in 2 games in which it wasn't mop up or garbage time. In those two game he is averaging 14.5 points on 11-16 (.679) shooting and 3-4 (.750) from 3-pt range. Combine that with the way he harassed Harden as much as a guy who is basically a rookie can, and I'm all for giving him most Pat/Shabazz's minutes for the rest of the regular season to see what he can do. It would be a small sample size but if he can produce versus what those other two have been doing on most nights lately, give the kid a shot.
Baldwin IV is what Connaughton would be without Stotts' coaching. Git it while it's hot, because it'll go cold next season.
