Pat “Irish Kobe” Connaughton (sorry Johnny O’Bryant I’m temporarily repurposing your nickname) may be one of the least stat-prone players in the league. Like a white Tony Snell. Just kind of out there, sometimes shooting threes, sometimes not, acting as a 5th man who doesn’t necessarily need or even want the ball. Still, he’s a…
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Kris Dunn 22 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2018)
It is time to get mad at NBA referees. Just like the last time this happened, and the time before that, and all the times to come. If we get mad, something will happen. It hasn’t yet, but it will. We just have to get really, really mad at NBA referees and let them know…
Read MoreEvan Turner 22 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (1/1/2018)
Evan Turner is getting paid SO MUCH MONEY. Holy damn. Blazers fans are already acutely aware of this fact, and maybe everyone else is as well, but I’m still surprised every time I look at Portland’s cap situation. What were they thinking with that? He was fine in Boston, maybe edging towards “good”, but did…
Read MoreAl-Farouq Aminu 24 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2018)
It’s easy to forget that Al-Farouq Aminu was a top-10 pick once upon a time. I guess in a way he still is. There were reasons for why he was drafted that high, real reasons that were really reached by real NBA GMs. Those reasons are gone now. One of them might have been “defense”,…
Read MoreLauri Markkanen 19 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2018)
Attention: the move at 0:10 of this video is one of the sickest rookie plays of the year. So smooth, so under control, and we didn’t even get a replay of it. That’s one bad thing about these new timeout rules: not as much time for sick replays! I wanted several angles of Lauri Markkanen…
Read MoreThon Maker 16 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2018)
For one of the few (only?) times this season, Thon Maker did a significant amount of positive stuff on the court, enough to outweigh the negatives. He could have had even more points if he could catch a pass in any sort of traffic, but I’m going to take the handful of three-pointers and the…
Read MoreJarrett Allen 16 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2018)
I just finished up my dunks of the month video for December, really great vid by the way, you should check it out, anyway, the most important thing that I learned from that video was this: Jarrett Allen really loves getting dunked on. It must be a fetish or something for him, because he was…
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