It may be a detail for you, but for PJ Tucker it means a lot: PJ finally found his way to the basket. Yes, the veteran only had three points in 33 minutes, and yes, he only shot 25%. But can’t you settle for the simple pleasures of life, you ingrates?
Five games, twelve shots and exactly one hundred and eighty-five minutes and twenty-three seconds on the floor: this is precisely what separates PJ Tucker’s last two baskets. And suddenly, deliverance. Undoubtedly a soft noise of string in the precincts of the Spectrum Center of Charlotte, noise which will perhaps allow the forward Pennsylvanian to sleep better this night. Deliverance also for Doc Rivers, one imagines. Despite the veteran’s slump, the Doc stubbornly kept Tucker in the starting lineup every game. But what do I hear? Doc Rivers would not have adapted his rotations to the situation that his player is going through? I fall out of my chair. Or from the sofa, as you prefer. But anyway, that’s not the point.
Clearly, it was high time for the 76ers summer rookie to end this all-time streak. League Sources tells TrashTalk that Daryl Morey, failing to monetize the contract of Anthony Leon Tucker of his real name, would actively try to dump the veteran’s contract with all the DIY stores in Pennsylvania, including in the package one to two tons of bricks, piled up in a corner of the Wells Fargo Center. No response from the main stakeholders so far, but be sure that the editorial staff will monitor this rumor until the deadline. But enough joking, what regarding the stats? PJ’s debacle unfortunately does not date from yesterday: only 4 meager points on average at the start of the season for the Tuck Wagon, and a feeling of end of race. The PJ Tucker we see in Philadelphia is clearly not the one we might see in Miami last season, but we can imagine (and especially hope) that this bad patch will come to an end at one time or another. of the season.
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What will remain, however, is this sad record of four consecutive games with more than 30 minutes on the pitch but without a single point. We know very well that the contribution of Pops Junior is not limited to scoring, far from it, but the 76ers might well need the threat that PJ represents (or at least represented?) PJ in the corner to punish their opponents later in the season, particularly from mid- april…
PJ now finds himself at a crossroads of sorts. But one question remains to be answered: will he use this new momentum to get his teammates back on track, or simply restart a game of BTP Simulator?
