When Monta Ellis fouled out of Monday night’s game against the Indiana Pacers, he had a career-high 45 points, and there was more than six minutes left in the game.
The Warriors were down by 15 points at one point and Ellis put them on his back — scoring 13 points in the third quarter and netting the first seven points of the fourth quarter — before a charging call took him out of the game.
He was on fire, he couldn’t be stopped.
Already peaking at his career-high with half of a quarter to go, Ellis would have scored well over 50 points if it wasn’t for the tacky call on an offensive foul. The Warriors wound up blowing out the Pacers after their 41-point fourth quarter outburst, 126-107. Ellis was the only player to break the 40-point mark in the game, the Pacers’ Danny Granger only scored 22 points, I thought he was a lock to blow up in this one.
Since the Warriors seem to be shopping Ellis and have no gameplan to ever make a player their franchise guy, here’s a sample of his resume from last night for GM’s around the league.
