Markelle Fultz’ First 47 Minutes Back

I’ll leave it to the sighted to analyze the wetness level of Markelle’s jumper. I suggest a scale that goes from “Death Valley in midsummer” to “Mariana Trench” with “Caught in the monsoon without a raincoat” toward the high end and “Dishrag after cleaning up from a light snack” toward the lower. As for me, I’m all about the numbers. What have we got?

47 minutes

21 points

10 rebounds

13 assists

3 steals

1 block (unless they revised the stats to give him credit for the block he obviously deserved against Denver)

Um, wow! Now, obviously some of his play was in garbage time, and we don’t want to overrate garbage time stats. On the other hand, lots of guys play mostly in garbage time, and…