I have been staring at Nick Young's box score, on and off, for the last couple of hours. Numbers are supposed to help us understand players, their performances, and their contributions and deficiencies. But to look at Nick Young's stats from the Clippers' Monday-night victory over the Thunder and say, simply, that he had zero assists, would be like saying Jack Kerouac's On the Road is a story about a guy who needs a lift. There's so much more to it than that.