October 2018 – Page 14

Rodney McGruder 19 Points Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

I understand that Rodney McGruder is only getting the minutes he’s getting (35 MPG through the first three games of the season) due to the absence of a certain man who possesses and arm made out of solid gold, but I would say that he’s shown that he deserves those minutes with his high standard…

Kyle O’Quinn 16 Points/2 Blocks Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

Kyle “Irish Black Santa” O’Quinn: is he the next Lavoy “My Boy” Allen for the Pacers? I’m not very good at coming up with player comparisons (my excuse is that I know too many players and it’s too much information to sift through), but I feel like this one isn’t the worst one I’ve ever…

Jayson Tatum 24 Points Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

I feel like the Celtics should have beaten the Knicks by more than just two points. The Celtics are a team chock-full of star power, whereas the Knicks are a team chock-full of…well, they’re not chock-full of star power, that’s for sure. Jayson Tatum did his part to bring the Celtics the victory, but what…

JaVale McGee 16 Points/5 Blocks Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

This video features not just one but TWO jumpshots from JaVale McGee. Not only where they real-life honest-to-god jumpshots, but they were pretty much turnaround jumpshots. For a guy who has been considered nothing but a dunk factory for his entire time in the NBA, that’s not only a good omen for his development; that’s…

Derrick Rose 28 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

Derrick Rose wandered a garden which he had never seen before. Where was he? How did he get here? It looked nice enough, with well-trimmed hedges around its perimeter, paths paved by flagstones winding through its wide array of botany, and an ornate fountain at its center. But there appeared to be no entrance or…

Jamal Murray 26 Points Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

I would never have made this highlight video if I had known that almost a fifth of Jamal Murray’s points came off of technical free throws. Those are, indubitably (heh heh), the lamest type of points in all of basketball. Their runtime is short, but their impact on a highlight video is large. Too many,…

Bryn Forbes 17 Points Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

I have what some may call an irrational appreciation for Bryn Forbes. He’s just a small mediocre shooter without any other notable attributes, you say. And you may be right. But he holds a special place in my heart because he reminds of love cruelly wrested. He reminds me of Rashad Vaughn. Vaughn, who is…

J.J. Redick 31 Points/8 Threes Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

J.J. Redick is one of those rare players who seemingly just keeps getting better. Or if not better, not measurably worse. Aside from that forgotten stint in Milwaukee (worse big three ever, Redick Ellis Jennings), he’s been on the upswing his whole career. It’s easier when you start off as slow as he did, so…

Evan Fournier 31 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

The best Orlando Magic-related thing to happen all summer was Evan Fournier tweeting a picture of his newly restored hairline with the text “@KingJames hit me up bro”. It’s risky, as a role-player of Fournier’s caliber, to diss a superstar (and by extension, his army of nuthuggers) over a non-basketball attribute, but I thought it…

Nikola Vucevic Triple Double 27 Pts/13 Rebs/12 Asts Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being “not wanting to disrupt the flow of time at all” and 10 being “mad desire to manipulate temporal reality”, how much does Nikola Vucevic want to make a time machine so he can go to some period of NBA history where his 27/13/12 triple-double is…