It was past midnight, and the park was quiet. Nick stood in front of the basketball hoop with a ball in his hands, but didn’t move. This was the first test. Had his months of hard work and strict adherence to the workout plan paid off? He would soon find out, and the thought made…
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Eric Gordon 22 Points Full Highlights (4/19/2017)
Here’s the narrative that ESPN wants you to swallow like a nasty child taking some foul-tasting medicine: Harden has teammates who are actually good shooters (Gordon, Anderson, Williams) while Westbrook doesn’t (Grant, Roberson, Oladipo), so that’s why the Rockets are up 2-0 over the Thunder right now. That’s the official narrative that the collective NBA…
Read MoreJaVale McGee 15 Points/4 Blocks Full Highlights (4/19/2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpotujwTbDo It’s too bad that Draymond Green is so adept at filling in at the center position, and it’s also too bad that Zaza Pachulia still exists and isn’t dead, because both those things are preventing JaVale McGee from getting as many minutes as we all want. He still has yet to play over twenty…
Read MoreDennis Schröder 23 Points Full Highlights (4/19/2017)
Listening to a Hawks-Wizards game commentated by the 76ers’ Mark Zumoff and the Nets’ Mike Fratello is basically the worst thing for my sanity ever. If it’s not the 76ers, I don’t want to hear Zumoff. I just don’t. He can say “turns garbage into gold” all he wants when Joel Embiid and Dario Saric…
Read MoreMarcin Gortat 14 Points/5 Blocks Full Highlights (4/19/2017)
Normally when I make a Marcin Gortat vid, it shows a lot of Gortat doing his own thing. Post moves. Or, at least, him making a few nice mini-jumpers. Not so in this video. He has one iso post-up, and one mini-jumper, and then he’s spoonfed by John Wall for the rest of his buckets….
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