Just nine more points, and Jamal Murray would have averaged ten points per game on the year. He would have joined elite company in terms of 2016 draftees who did the same: Buddy Hield and Malcolm Brogdon. That’s actually not very elite company but it is when compared to the rest of the scrubbusts (that’s…
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Pat Connaughton Career High 19 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (4/12/2017)
If you were in possession of a time machine, and used your time machine to go back to the end of last season, a season where Pat Connaughton had scored one point per game on 26% shooting, and told me that that same dude would one day put up a 19/7/7 statline in the NBA,…
Read MoreShabazz Napier 25 Points Full Highlights (4/12/2017)
LeBron must be sitting somewhere in Ohio, smirking at the box-scores on his phone and thinking, “I told everybody this guy can play”. Remember, the sole reason Shabazz Napier was drafted by the Heat in 2014 was because LeBron tweeted about him, and the Heat wanted LeBron to be happy. It was a classic case…
Read MorePaul Zipser Career High 21 Points/5 Threes Full Highlights (4/12/2017)
Paul “The Zipper” Zipser will never live up to his nickname, which could either mean “a guy who’s fast” or “a guy who locks people up with his defense”. Speed can’t be taught and Zipser doesn’t have it; defense CAN be taught, but players with his attributes (okay you made me say it he’s WHITE…
Read MoreNorman Powell 25 Points Full Highlights (4/12/2017)
One of the Raptor’s commentators (I think it’s Jack Armstrong) spent the entire broadcast hinting that Norman Powell should get lots of minutes in the playoffs at the expense of DeMarre Carroll’s minutes. I never heard him specifically say “Carroll shouldn’t play as much”, in fact I never even heard him say the name “DeMarre…
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