It wasn’t long ago Markquis Nowell gave us one of the best highlights of March Madness. But he also has a lowlight of NBA Summer League.
Nowell, who pulled off an elite alley-oop pass for Kansas State while talking trash to Hall of Fame guard Isiah Thomas during the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, is an exciting young player. As an undrafted free agent, Nowell signed a two-way deal with the Raptors.
Although he has played well as a distributor for Toronto as one of the leaders in total assists among all rookies in NBA 2K24 Summer League, Nowell has struggled with finding an efficient jumper.
So it was particularly shocking to see him try something like this:
Markquis Nowell tried it 😅 pic.twitter.com/0ImAzg0GTX
— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) July 12, 2023
This would have rocked so much if it went in and, yeah, he would have looked like Stephen Curry.
The guard instead looked a bit more like Nick Young, unfortunately, celebrating a 3-pointer on a brick. That’s meme material and you never want to become meme material this early in your career!
Nowell is shooting 4-of-14 (28.6 percent) on 3-pointers for the Raptors and is shooting less than 30.0 percent overall from the field in Las Vegas. So maybe the timing wasn’t right to try to emulate Curry, even if we have to admire the confidence it took for him to try.
