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Even when he has a crappy game, it’s still an awesome game.
Purdue held Blake Griffin to 5-for-14 shooting in the Preseason NIT, but it wasn’t enough. Griffin’s 21 boards — as well as the season-low 18 points he mustered — helped lead Oklahoma to an 87-82 win.
Griffin had been shooting 75.4 percent coming into the game, but his poor percentage game vs. the Boilermakers doesn’t change the fact that he’s following in the footsteps of Kevin Durant and Michael Beasley from the past two years as big men putting up ridiculous numbers.
Griffin’s averages so far this year are just about double what he did last year as a freshman.
He’s this year’s beast.
But a beast nonetheless.
Oh: plus he’s 6-10 and a jacked 250 lbs.
Someone’s gonna make him the No. 1 pick in next summer’s NBA Draft.
Well, that is, if they don’t take Ricky Rubio first.
