Kenneth Faried 21 Points Full Highlights (1, 25, 2019)

In a development that is surprising no one except for Kenny Atkinson, Kenneth Faried is thriving in Houston. All they needed was a big body to run around and dunk things, and that s exactly what they got. A match made in heaven. Faried is who he is at this point, since I don t truly believe that he s going to be taking and making a bunch of threes even under D Antoni, but the Rockets don t need him to be something else. They need him to be something resembling Clint Capela. Which he was tonight, putting up 21 points (with a bunch of dunks) and 14 rebounds (many of them offensive) with 2 blocks. That s a Capelaesque statline if I ve ever seen one. That said, it s a shame that Harden chose this game to not utterly blow everyone s minds with yet another 50point effort. The ESPN viewers don t watch games to see someone like Faried score 21 or someone like P. J. Tucker score 18. They might be superficially entertained by Faried s highflying acrobatics, but what really leaves an impression on their simple minds