Sure, you got very wet, but look on the bright side, Brandon Knight. At least your entry to the crowd, shown above thanks to our friends from the Yahoo! Sports Minute , was more graceful than Blake Griffin's . Howard Fendrich of The Associated Press called Knight's fourth-quarter launch "the aesthetic highlight" of the Pistons' 79-77 road win over the Washington Wizards on Tuesday night. That tells you a little bit about the quality of play in a game that saw the two teams post significantly-sub-Charlotte Bobcats rates of offensive efficiency , miss 94 of 154 field-goal attempts (including 23 of 30 three-point attempts) and combine for more turnovers (34) than assists (33). In that context, a rookie knocking over like 7 billion electrolytes while trying to save a possession seems like not only a pretty representative moment, but also something of a pinnacle. More from Fendrich: Knight upended a jug of energy drink and about a dozen paper cups Monday night, spraying himself and some seated teammates. Play was delayed for a bit while Knight toweled off — and some of the evening's most enthusiastic applause came in response to overhead video-board replays of his valiant and athletic effort. "I just got up drenched," Knight said. "I felt like I was sweating a lot." [...] "Brandon's hustle play was a momentum-changing play. Guy took a shower during the game, and that doesn't happen a lot," Frank said. "I thought that really pumped our guys up." And it didn't come at the expense of an injury for the rookie point guard out of Kentucky — Knight got drenched, but was none the worse for wear. Covering the game in D.C., PistonPowered blogger Dan Feldman writes that Knight "couldn't remember a save attempt quite like this one," but that he had one abiding principal in his dive. "You just don't want to clip nothing to make you fall on your face," Knight said. Words to live by.

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