Rudy Gay tried to shoot the messenger a few weeks ago, which makes sense, considering the fact that he's tried to shoot just about everything else this year.
The messenger, in this case, was a stat sheet, something the Toronto Raptors "star" banned from the locker room on account of its deleterious effects on team chemistry.
Per Mike Ganter of the Toronto Sun: "Gay sees the scoresheets as an unnecessary barrier to team unity or even a temptation to be more focused on what is best for the individual as opposed to what is best for the team."
Nice cover, Rudy. Everybody knows you're just sick of seeing your own ugly numbers.
The humor of the league's worst high-volume shooter wanting to exclude evidence of his inefficiency wasn't lost on the NBA community:
Michael Grange of Sportsnet.ca has recently piled on, damning Gay as "the $19-million shadow of superstar on the roster that is choking out the sun and making the rest of the team ill."
Harsh, huh?
The fact that so many fans and analysts are seeing Gay for what he really is could be viewed as a sign of the ra ...
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Article written by Grant Hughes
NBA Analytics, Not Stat Sheets, Are Rudy Gay’s Worst Enemy
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