Here’s the Dion Waiters/Celine Dion lowlight reel mashup you crave
It’s never fun to have a bad game. It’s even less fun to do it against your old team, and worse still when it happens on national TV. But having a bad game against your old team on national TV and then having your poor performance set to the theme song from a movie about a high-priced vessel crashing in the ocean? Everybody knows that’s the worst.
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Sorry, Dion Waiters. This one’s for boo.
Waiters wasn’t alone among Oklahoma City Thunder players in having a no good, very bad Sunday against the Cleveland Cavaliers; when you lose by 23 points on your home court, an awful lot has gone wrong in a lot of precincts, including, it seems, in the stands. But things seemed to go especially wrong for the fourth-year shooting guard on Sunday. He missed his first seven shots from the field, watched as his misses quickly went the other way and turned into transition opportunities for the Cavs, struggled defensively, botched a two-on-one feed for a sure layup by stutter-stepping and traveling on his way to the basket and even bricked a dunk.
While Waiters said after the game that he “ain’t worried about” the way he played Sunday and that “it’s going to come around,” it was still a day you’d figure he’d rather forget. Now, thanks to the application of Celine Dion’s Grammy/Academy Award/Golden Globe-winning megahit from the “Titanic” soundtrack, it — like Celine’s ticker — will go on. Waiters, Oklahoma City coach Billy Donovan and Thunder fans everywhere can only hope that Dion’s current slump — he’s just 3-for-20 from the field over his last three games — won’t follow suit.
The good news is that Waiters’ confidence in his own abilities suggests he’ll keep firing away, secure in the notion that this current cold snap could soon give way to another stretch like the one he managed last month, averaging 13.6 points on 49.1 percent shooting over a five-game span. Shooters shoot, buckets don’t lie, and all it takes is one good game to go from the gutter rat Kate Winslet lets freeze to the king of the world.
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