The second half of the month of November had not been kind to Dario Saric. After sitting pretty at 13th in the NBA in three-point percentage on November 16, things went south for Saric, sending him on a downbound train headed for the dreaded rookie wall.
In Saric’s previous 11 games before his coming out party as the Boston Strangler 2.0 on Saturday, he was downright awful. He shot just 34.7 percent from the floor and 31.7 from deep. He was relegated to the bench in favor of newcomer Ersan Ilyasova. His handle was sloppy, a far cry from the maverick who pushed the ball in transition off rebounds in EuroLeague for easy buckets, as his turnover rate rose to 17.