April 2017 – Page 9

Nikola Jokic 29 Points/8 Assists/5 Blocks Full Highlights (4/12/2017)

The Nuggets’ locker room was somber, with little of the joking and laughter that had characterized the space for the past months. One by one, Nuggets players were coming and going to pick up their last remaining possessions from their lockers. They all knew that some would be on different teams next year, that the…

Bruno Caboclo 11 Points Full Highlights (4/12/2017)

With this performance, officially, with official officiality, Bruno Caboclo has avoided peaking in his first NBA game, the dreaded “MCW-itis”. Cast your mind back, way back, and remember how hyped you were when Caboclo checked into a game for the first time, and how your hyped reached previously unseen levels as he quickly threw down…

David Nwaba 14 Points Full Highlights (4/11/2017)

The eye-test is telling me that David Nwaba won’t be rejoining the Lakers next season. Athletic guards who can’t really shoot (someone please sign D.J. Stephens please please) always face an uphill battle when it comes to sticking in the NBA. There will always be more players in his mold that they can try out;…

Gorgui Dieng 19 Points Full Highlights (4/11/2017)

How do the words “Gorgui Dieng 82-game starter” sound to you? Pretty darn good, right? Here’s the deal: all the Timberwolves have to do in their last game is start Gorgui Dieng at PG or one of the other four positions and that sentence will become reality. It’ll be like that time Alonzo Gee started…

Marquese Chriss 22 Points/5 Dunks Full Highlights (4/11/2017)

How do the words “Marquese Chriss 82-game starter” sound to you? Pretty darn good, right? Here’s the deal: if the Suns had realized that they sucked balls right at the start of the season instead of eight games in, Chriss would have not only played in every game, but started every game. So, we instead…

Domantas Sabonis 19 Points Full Highlights (4/11/2017)

Remember when Domantas Sabonis started out the season as one of the best three-point shooters in the league? I don’t pay attention to college basketball so I naively thought he might be able to sustain those unsustainable numbers. Instead, he slammed his face right into the rookie wall, and as he stumbled away from it…

Georgios Papagiannis 13 Points/1 Fight Full Highlights (4/11/2017)

“THIS IS VERY SOFT PLAYER” Georgios Papagiannis took his father’s words to heart when he bodied up Dragan Bender near the end of the first quarter. Knowing that the player he was posting up was a very soft player, he aggressively established position, only to get into a minor scuffle with said soft player. And,…

Tyler Ulis 27 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (4/11/2017)

That’s it. It’s all over. The Suns finish with a 24-58 record, the worst in the West. There are some positives to take away from the situation, though: Tyler Ulis looks like a decent starter going forward. T.J. Warren is the next M.J. except he’s bigger. Marquese Chriss wasn’t a bust. Those are all positives….

Ty Lawson Triple Double 22 Pts/12 Asts/11 Rebs Full Highlights (4/11/2017)

I’m extremely surprised that this is the first triple-double of Ty Lawson’s career. He averaged 15 and 10 a couple years ago on the Nuggets (the year before his career totally derailed); normally players averaging double-digit points and assists are gonna statpad their way to at least a few 10-rebound games. All it takes usually…

Cheick Diallo 19 Points Full Highlights (4/11/2017)

Discount Diallo Cheick! The Malian Mauler! The innumerable question marks that so adorned my perception of his last 19-point performance have been reduced to only a few: ???? ?? ? Unlike last time, all the way back in December, this one we could have seen coming at least a little bit. This is April NBA….