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…
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JaVale 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….
Read MoreRobin Lopez 18 Points Full Highlights (4/18/2017)
The Bulls, despite me (and their entire fanbase) never shutting up about how much they sucked throughout the year, are somehow up 2-0 on the top-seeded Boston Celtics. This is as baffling to me as I’m sure it is for you. I mean, I saw them quit halfway through the season. I saw it with…
Read MorePaul Zipser 16 Points Full Highlights (4/18/2017)
I have discarded my old nickname for Paul Zipser, “The Zipper”. It was not a relevant nickname, because he basically doesn’t have any zipper-like attributes. He’s not especially fast (a zipper could be one who zips around really quickly), he doesn’t play especially great defense (a zipper could be a guy who zips people up),…
Read MorePatrick Beverley 21 Points Full Highlights (4/16/2017)
“So this is how you prepare for the game, huh?” Trevor Ariza asked his teammate Pat Beverley, as the former observed the latter sitting in a corner of the locker room, hunched over a notebook. “I’m releasing my emotions through the power of charcoal drawings,” Pat answered. “It helps me stay focused.” Trevor’s eyebrows went…
Read MoreAndre Roberson 18 Points Full Highlights (4/16/2017)
For perhaps the second or third time in his career, Andre Roberson successfully made a team pay for leaving him open behind the three-point line. James Harden often doesn’t play defense, but in this video I’m pretty sure it was a strategic lack of defense on Roberson, not a lazy lack of defense like he…
Read MoreBobby Portis 19 Points Full Highlights (4/16/2017)
Bobby Portis was the reason the Bulls were victorious tonight. Bobby Portis won his team a playoff game. His first ever playoff game, and he, well, he didn’t exactly put his team on his back, but where would they have been without all his long jumpers? You can point to other players (player) on his…
Read MoreMarkieff Morris 21 Points/4 Blocks Full Highlights (4/16/2017)
How many poster dunks would it take before people started caring about Markieff Morris? Not just caring about him for one game or for one series; caring about him into next season. He had two this game, and I don’t think that was even enough for people to remember his existence immediately after the game…
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