January 2015 – Page 7

Tyreke Evans 17 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (1/23/2015)

I relaxed in my basketball-shaped in-ground hot tub, enjoying the sublime duality of frigid winter air on my chest and steaming water on my lower half. Just as I was getting ready to indulge in some fine puffy Cheetos, my phone rang. A little bit irked, I pick it up and snapped, “DownToBuck here.” “Yo…

Nik Stauskas 11 Points Full Highlights (1/23/2015)

The way the Kings’ commentators were going on about Nik Stauskas’ confidence, I have to think that he’s currently in a pretty bad mental state. His recent DNP’s and the trade rumors swirling like a tempest around him can’t help. It also doesn’t help that every time he makes a shot they say something like…

Nikola Vucevic 34 Points Full Highlights (1/23/2015)

Another insane scoring game for Nikola Vucevic, another loss for the Magic. I can only imagine how bad Orlando would be if they didn’t have a 20-20 threat on the floor for the majority of the minutes. If I’m Jacque-Off Vaughn, at this point in the season I just would say screw it and let…

Dennis Schröder 13 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (1/23/2015)

The Hawks are a pretty good team, it seems. How many wins in a row is it now? It doesn’t matter. It feels weird to me, since the last time I watched a full Hawks game they lost by 30 to the Bucks. Every part of their team is integrated fully into a role, and…

Donatas Motiejunas 15 Points Full Highlights (1/23/2015)

The Rockets’ commentators mentioned in tonight’s game the “Greece-Lithuania connection”, referencing Kostas Papanikolaou finding Donatas Motiejunas for a pair of nice buckets. That made me wonder: how are relations between the two countries actually doing? Imagine my excitement when I found out that there is a whole Wikipedia article called “Greece-Lithuania relations”! Sometimes writing these…

K.J. McDaniels 14 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (1/23/2015)

KJ McDaniels made his way to the back of the team plane, where Luc Mbah a Moute sat in a row by himself, reading an ebook. He took a seat next to his teammate, and then looked at him expectantly. Luc had noticed KJ’s approach, and determined that it was not his own responsibility to…

Rudy Gobert 14 Points Full Highlights (1/22/2015)

Think about how many more blocks Rudy Gobert would have if scorekeepers around the league didn’t inexplicably hate his guts. I watched this game and I swear the Gobert Report had at least three or four blocks, in addition to single-handedly making everybody on the Bucks afraid to shoot in the paint. In the end,…

Avery Bradley 18 Points Full Highlights (1/22/2015)

18 points for Avery Bradley. Not very exciting, especially as said points were acquired in an Averyesque way: long two-point jumpers. The real gems here are the four (4!) primo dimes that he dished out, surely a season or even career high. I didn’t know he had this kind of passing ability in him, considering…

Isaiah Thomas 27 Points Full Highlights (1/21/2015)

Isaiah Thomas took short, careful steps into the nightclub. He was still a little unsteady on his new footwear, but even with his uneven gait, he felt more confident than ever before. “First time wearing heels?” snickered a woman who was sitting at the bar, having seen the eight-inch cardboard contraptions strapped to Isaiah’s feet….

Nikola Vucevic 26 Points Full Highlights (1/21/2015)

I’m trying to figure out how many points Nikola Vucevic would score if he was given the amount of touches, as, say, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Certainly, his efficiency would go down being the sole centerpiece of the offense, but that’s why you shoot more shots; so you can keep scoring points even while being less efficient….