I’m writing this as the fourth quarter is currently happening, as I couldn’t care less about this game. I even missed some of the beginning of the fourth quarter because I needed to feed my kitty cats. To be perfectly honest, I haven’t had much interest in these games since the All-Star break ended, but I don’t want to digress any further as this is a postgame post.
Let’s get the highlights out of the way so I can get some quick takes in. The game started off fun with a Smith–Jordan alley-oop:
The ball was moving and the team was draining threes:
Everything was going smoothly as the second quarter neared its end.