Derrick Rose, playing well against a heavily-favored opponent in the playoffs, helping his team get the W with fancy layups and big-time jumpers. What year is it? I need someone to tell me what year it is, because somehow I have traveled back in time a couple years and I need to get back to…
Read MoreMonth: April 2018
Jusuf Nurkic 18 Points Full Highlights (4/21/2018)
The season ends for Jusuf Nurkic and the Portland Trailblazers. A lot of stuff happened for them, but how much of it will be remembered even a year from now? Here’s my personal list, which is obviously skewed in favor of worse players and against “stars” (shade at Damian Lillard continues to be thrown). -Pat…
Read MoreJ.J. Redick 24 Points Full Highlights (4/21/2018)
I think J.J. Redick jumped higher than he ever has before on that rebound after Wade’s bricked free-throw. Watching it live, I thought for a frantic fraction of a second that he was going to put-back slam the miss. He was SOARING. He could totally have dunked that if he wanted to, even with his…
Read MoreAl-Farouq Aminu 27 Points Full Highlights (4/21/2018)
I said in my last Al-Farouq Aminu vid (just two days ago!), that Blazers fans were “Going to turn on Aminu once he scores four points in game four and the Blazers get swept out of the playoffs”. As you can see from the video title, Aminu scored way more than four points, and so…
Read MoreJrue Holiday Career High 41 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (4/21/2018)
Remember, way back at the beginning of the season, when Justin Holiday was outscoring Jrue Holiday? Those were fun times. I think I even officially declared him the better brother. He was chucking up a storm, while Jrue was was slow out of the gate. Eventually, the Bulls decided that they didn’t really like Justin…
Read MoreKhris Middleton 23 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (4/20/2018)
Khris Middleton must be reading my descriptions, because he apparently has developed a level of distaste for layups (“LAME-ups”) which rivals my own distaste for layups (“LAME-ups”). Instead, he upped the quantity and difficulty of his midrange jumpshots (“Middrange Jimbos” [pronounced “Mid-d-range” with an extra D sound so that everybody knows you’re talking about Middleton’s…
Read MoreThon Maker 14 Points/5 Blocks Full Highlights (4/20/2018)
Okay, here’s the deal: I would trade literally any player from any team in exchange for Thon Maker. If it’s an NBA player and he’s still breathing and his brain still works, I will take him as long as it means Thon goes away. There’s some pesky thing called the “trade deadline” which supposedly prevents…
Read MoreMarcin Gortat 16 Points Full Highlights (4/20/2018)
What happened to Marcin Gortat this year? I only did one vid of him the whole year, even though he was one of only 8 players to start all 82 games for his team. There was no shortage of minutes for him, but there was a marked decrease in buckets. John Wall being out for…
Read MoreBojan Bogdanovic 30 Points/7 Threes Full Highlights (4/20/2018)
“Dear Father, I hope prosperity finds you well in the homeland. I know it is tough to only see me in the images in the newspaper, but I think of you and Baba every day. And Lucija, tell her again how I miss her, how my heart yearns for her smile. I would write to…
Read MoreAl-Farouq Aminu 21 Points Full Highlights (4/19/2018)
How unfair that one of the Blazers’ role-players actually decided to show up for this game, yet the Blazers still lost big to the Pelicans thanks to the combined efforts of Lameian Brickard C.J. McChuckbrick. Al-Farouq Aminu’s 21 point in this game is by far the most of any non-Lillard, non-McCollum Blazer in this series….
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