I just want to reiterate my disappointment (seems to be a common theme lately, where are the players who are impressing me?) with Michael Beasley’s scoring after Porzingis got deaded. I thought for sure that he’d be a 20 points per night kind of guy after that, since he had been putting up some big…
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John Collins 21 Points Full Highlights (3/15/2018)
John Collins is one of the brighter spots, maybe the brightest, amidst the endless tapestry of black that is the Hawks’ season. He appears as a small bit of medium gray, nearly indetectible surrounded as he is by the void that consumes Atlanta. There is hope with Collins. There may be smaller amounts of hope…
Read MoreNikola Jokic Triple Double 23 Pts/12 Rebs/10 Asts Full Highlights (3/15/2018)
Adam Silver was in attendance tonight, doing his usual Q&A sesh with the home commentators. He got to see up close the phenom known as Nikola Jokic. He got to see a “triple-double”. I put that in quotes because I really have to take issue with some of the assists. It’s fine, when the comissioner…
Read MoreAl Jefferson 20 Points Full Highlights (3/15/2018)
I don’t really blame Jakob Poeltl for getting manhandled by Al Jefferson tonight. He’d probably never seen, much less defended against, a player with actual savvy post-moves. Maybe in practice Jonas Valanciunas tried that slow-ass jumper pumpfake on him, but that’s child’s play compared to what Jefferson was busting out against him. Jefferson is the…
Read MoreNikola Vucevic 22 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (3/14/2018)
Six times this season, a player has been one rebound and one assist shy of a triple-double, as Nikola Vucevic was with his 22/9/9 statline last night. Here are the five other players: Bradley Beal (39/9/9) Russell Westbrook (34/9/9) James Harden (28/9/9) Russell Westbrook (15/9/9) LeBron James (11/9/9) Vucevic maybe isn’t quite on the level…
Read MoreTerry Rozier 21 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (3/14/2018)
It seems like Celtics fans have turned on Marcus Smart in favor of their new point guard man-crush, Terry Rozier. Maybe because they don’t want to pay Smart a bunch of money this off-season only for him to continue to be an inefficient-scoring, overconfident-shooting defensive specialist. Maybe because Smart punched a framed painting and exploded…
Read MoreQuinn Cook 13 Points Full Highlights (3/14/2018)
Quinn Cook, in this game, gave you everything that Stephen Curry gives you, just in smaller quantities. He hit a three pointer (Steph Curry hits three pointers). He got an assist (Steph Curry gets assists). He fouled out in 27 minutes (this is one category where Cook actually exceeded Curry’s normal production). He took eleven…
Read MoreNick Young 18 Points Full Highlights (3/14/2018)
I know it’s sort of a cop-out to write a video description about the erroneous nicknames that basketball-references lists for various players, but, come on. “Bean Burrito”? Really? That’s Nick Young’s nickname? He’s a bean burrito? To their credit, they do list his real nickname, “Swaggy P”, before they list “Bean Burrito”, but that’s not…
Read MoreMarcus Morris 31 Points Full Highlights (3/14/2018)
This wasn’t exactly the Marcus/Markieff Morris battle I was hoping for. It was good, but what I really wanted was for them to cross team barriers, unite their forces, and start beating up a ref like he just insulted their mother (like in Semi-Pro). It was a longshot, because obviously neither one of them wants…
Read MoreWayne Ellington 22 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (3/14/2018)
Wayne Ellington really disappointed me in the three-point shootout. I was hyping him up to everyone who would listen (which was basically nobody but hey at least I was trying) and then he went out and pooped his pants in front of everybody. Anything less than a victory for the Waynemaker was unacceptable. Maybe if…
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