One of the addictive qualities of the game is this: there is still the capacity to surprise. Even in an age of analytics, there is still a requirement to play the games, to either make sense of the numbers or defy them.
Hey, any dice player can tell you: the laws of probability insist you won’t keep hitting point after point when the bones are in your hand, but we’ve all seen it happen.
It was always a little remarkable how quick people were to declare Frank Ntilikina a bust.