March 2018 – Page 21

Dwight Powell 20 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

Dwight Powell might have been the only player on the Mavericks who showed up against the Rockets last night. The Mavericks as a team scored 82, which isn’t the most pathetic thing ever (still pretty pathetic tee bee aitch), but almost a fourth of those came as a result of Dwight Powell and his elite…

Marcus Smart 20 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

It causes me physical pain when Marcus Smart has a good game in defiance of all the mean things I’ve written about him. Actual physical pain, akin to having your chest skewered with knives. Celtics fans will tell me all about his defense and that’s easy for me to ignore since there are no box-score…

Zaza Pachulia 15 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

I don’t know how Zaza “I hate Kawhi Leonard” Pachulia’s flat little jumpshots ever go in the rim, but he hit two of them last night and it’s actually been a staple of his limited offensive game for a long time. All I know is that whenever he would hoist one up when he was…

D’Angelo Russell 26 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

Is D’Angelo Russell a part of the Nets’ future yeah or nah? He’s around in Brooklyn for one more year and then they’ll decide if they want to pay him or not. Contracts confuse me, but I bet Brooklyn will have his Bird Rights (whatever those are) and will be able to pay him more…

Donovan Mitchell 27 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

It took a while for Donovan Mitchell to get going in this one, but once his did, it was over for the Pelicans. 25 points in the last 15 minutes of the game, wow, typed out like that it doesn’t seem that impressive. Oops. Watch the video. It will be impressive. I promise. So impressive…

Mike Muscala Career High 19 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

Mike “Musc Ox” Muscala is the longest tenured player with Atlanta, tied with Dennis Schroder at five years. It’s literally only him, Schroder, and Kent Bazemore that remain from that 60-win Hawks team. Talk about blowing it up! I, personally, would’ve probably kept Paul Millsap over him. Maybe Austin Daye as well. So what that…

Antonio Blakeney 14 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

The Bulls want to lose. We know that. They want to lose so bad that they’re willing to blatantly (so blatantly that Adam Silver had to tell them not to be so blatant) rest some of their better players for no reason other than to hurt their chances of winning. So why haven’t they played…

Nikola Jokic Triple Double 20 Pts/11 Rebs/10 Asts Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

This game had the feel of a “vintage” Nikola Jokic performance to me. The ratio of incredible highlight plays to pedestrian plays has been lower this year for him, which isn’t necessarily bad (no one remembers all those turnovers he had last year because he got too fancy), but it makes his highlights somewhat less…

Julius Randle Career High 36 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

Julius Randle has improved nicely every year he’s been in the league. Remember his rookie season? His legs were so weak that he could barely step on the court without them disintegrating! The amount of progress he had made since then is staggering. Just earlier this season the Lakers FO/coaching staff were openly hostile towards…

Ricky Rubio 30 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

Ricky Rubio has not yet even tasted the first sip of sweet playoff nectar in the NBA. This is his 7th season in the league; the only current players with more seasons without hitting the postseason are Omri Casspi (playoffs this year), DeMarcus Cousins (does it count if he’s injured) and Luke Babbitt (probably playoffs)….