This week’s biggest busts: Pelicans -6, Celtics -2, Clippers -2, Pistons -2 This week’s biggest successes: Raptors +3, Rockets +2, Kings +2, Mavericks +2, Trail Blazers +2, Magic +2 1. Golden State Warriors (49-9, 2-0 this week) (last week: #1 [1-1] +0) This gimmick power rankings starts with a non-gimmick: the Golden State Warriors have…
Read MoreDay: February 26, 2017
Dorian Finney-Smith 12 Points Full Highlights (2/25/2017)
Dorian Finney-Smith is pretty good for being named after a musical mode. I’m not an expert music theorist, but a Dorian mode scale is apparently just a natural minor scale except the sixth note is sharp. It’s also just the white notes on a piano keyboard if you start from D and go up to…
Read MoreJames Jones 14 Points Full Highlights (2/25/2017)
“Yo, James.” James Jones looked up from tying his shoes. “Hey LeBron.” “You gotta step it up tonight, man,” LeBron said. “I’m not playing so it’s gotta be you. All you. YGSIU.” He pronounced this as ‘igg-cee-you’. “You gotta step it up.” James was a little bit put off by LeBron’s attempts at motivational speaking,…
Read MoreRondae Hollis-Jefferson 16 Points Full Highlights (2/25/2017)
It seems to me, from my limited viewing of Rondae Hollis-Jefferson’s game, that RHJ’s main skill is his ability to go coast-to-coast and Euro-step into bad situations where he has to shoot a crazy shot. Sometimes he gets lucky and the shot goes in or he gets fouled by a defender who wasn’t expecting the…
Read MoreBen McLemore 18 Points Full Highlights (2/25/2017)
Now is the time for Ben McLemore to start doing some stuff. The Kings are feeling a lack of stuff-doers after they traded their leading stuff-doer, DeMarcus Cousins, who did a lot of stuff for them. McLemore has been not as good as hoped this year, but maybe we can hope that it was just…
Read MoreDion Waiters 22 Points Full Highlights (2/25/2017)
Come on Miami. You’re supposed to be tanking. Why are you winning all these games? You were in such a good position for a top pick, second worst record in the league, this draft is loaded, all you had to do was ride it out and keep losing. I guess there’s not much to be…
Read MoreAaron Gordon 18 Points/4 Dunks Full Highlights (2/25/2017)
I didn’t watch the dunk contest this year. In fact, I haven’t even seen any of the dunks from it, and I don’t intend to. The easiest way not to get disappointed by something is to not even expose yourself to the thing that will potentially cause disappointment. It’s working great so far. I don’t…
Read MoreDario Saric 19 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (2/25/2017)
Make that 7 straight good games for Dario Saric in a row, all of them better than basically any performance he had prior. I’m getting a little suspicious. I don’t want to cast aspersions where aspersions should not be cast, but I’m thinking steroids. Bam. Right there. There has to be some reason, right? Fine,…
Read MoreFrank Kaminsky 23 Points Full Highlights (2/25/2017)
At what point did it start being okay for Frank Kaminsky (the third, but first in my heart) to take all these shots? This is the second game out of the latest five where he’s been the Hornets’ leading shot-attempter, and he’s been second behind Kemba Walker in the other ones. Remember, this dude is…
Read MoreTerrence Ross 24 Points Full Highlights (2/25/2017)
Terrence Ross didn’t have a great debut for the Magic. I don’t want to say I panicked, but… I panicked. Hard. I was pretty much yelling at my TV, telling it that Masai Ujiri pulled off another unbelievable trade and Ross was broken forever and that Dwight Howard was never coming back, no, not ever….
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