Exhibition games are meaningless, which makes garbage time in exhibition games about as conducive to meaningful analysis as a page full of scribble. But when Shelden Williams does something productive on a basketball court, we call it out.
So it was with Shelden's 4 minutes of play last night.
Nineteen seconds after entering the game, seven-footer Yi Jianlian decides he's gonna take Shelden to the hoop. He does, but bowls him over in the process. Offensive foul. Somewhere, Leon Powe acknowledges that's how you draw a charge.
After a Baby turnover and a bucket by Brook Lopez (see here for what I think of him), Lopez rejects a shot by Baby, only to watch Sheldoon grab the ball, take it to the rim, and convert a three-point-play, the old-fashioned way. GIVE IT TO ME BIG SHELDEN!
Very next sequence, Nets score and proceed to apply full-court pressure, leaving Sheldoon alone. The inbounds goes to Williams, who dribbles the ball across court without incident. Before the game comes to a finish, Shelden grabs two more rebounds, cans two from the stripe, and draws yet another foul on Yi.
Not bad for garbage time in a meaningless game. Butter Bean's stock just plummeted.
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