BROOKLYN—Of course Brice Johnson scored his career high in that game. Of course he did.
Career highs are supposed to be those ones you remember forever, the ones where everything happens just perfectly in exactly the way it has to happen for you to have a better performance than you’ve ever had before.
So it was for Johnson on Saturday afternoon at the Barclays Center against UCLA, where the breakdown of his afternoon looked a little like this:
Three minutes playing listlessly at the start of the game, missing his first field goal attempt.
Ten seconds getting blistered by Roy Williams after Johnson expressed his displeasure with his early performance a little too vigorously for Williams’ taste while the senior was returning to the bench.