Dave Hardisty

Jabari's just at a point where he needed to see the ball go through the net.

And tonight it did.

No, not at all.

And in some ways, it was fitting that the young guys, most notably Jabari and Amin, picked up the slack for KD when KD's been picking up the slack for them for weeks.

Ime called them out after one of the Portland games for having to rely so much on a 37-year-old KD where he has to play 40 minutes a night.

And even the other night, it was nice to get the win over Minnesota, but KD had to go God mode to get that done over a Minnesota team that was without Anthony Edwards.

And Jabari's been at the forefront of those struggles, so for him to do the heavy lifting for a change, yeah, it's fitting because...

This is a three and four night stretch.

So KD, especially after doing what he did the other night, his tank was probably on empty a little bit.

So it was nice to see the other guys, the younger guys who should have a little more juice in these stretches with three games in four nights, pick up the slack for a change.

And to close the loop on Jabari, I pulled up his season long stats.

So after tonight where he scored a season high 32 points, I was sort of hoping that they'd let him get to 34, 35, which would have been a career

year high, but obviously they wanted to funnel the late game free throws to KD so that he could pass Dirk Kavitsky to get to sixth all time in NBA scoring.

I get it.

Nonetheless, it's a season high for Jabari, made seven three-pointers.

And so that raises his three-point shooting clip for the year back to 35 and a half.

His true shooting clip for the season is about 54 and a half.

And while it's not what it was two and a half weeks ago,

it's not that far off either.

And that's what I want to remind people.