December 2018 – Page 16

Buddy Hield 28 Points Full Highlights (12/16/2018)

I was standing there in the middle of the zoo parking lot, surrounded by five men who were equipped with various types of firearms. I couldn’t see them very clearly; it was still nighttime and the parking lot was poorly lit. About fifty feet away I could see the moving van that would have been…

Myles Turner 24 Points Full Highlights (12/16/2018)

Myles Turner has had three twenty-point games in his past four outings after not scoring above that mark even once at any point during the rest of the season. His field goal attempts are also way up. Somebody must have told him, “Myles, it’s nice that you want to defer to your teammates, but you’re…

De’Aaron Fox 28 Points Full Highlights (12/16/2018)

Here’s a pro-tip if you’re feeling down: search for pictures of tarsiers on the internet. Let me repeat it because phrasing is important: on the internet, search for pictures of tarsiers. I doubt you will find many pictures of tarsiers sitting down at a tarsier-sized computer or using their little tarsier-sized mobile phone and looking…

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 25 Points Full Highlights (12/16/2018)

Don’t worry, Lakers fans: Kentavious Caldwell-Pope looks like he’s having a bad season, but he’s actually just the same old KCP that he always has been (which has never been all that great), only getting fewer minutes. So there’s no reason to be upset at him for demanding a trade. He just wants more minutes…

Cedi Osman 18 Points Full Highlights (12/16/2018)

I am still upset over being so thoroughly fooled by Cedi Osman’s first two games this season of 17 and 22 points. I was convinced he had turned some sort of corner, turned into some sort of second option behind Kevin Love, and that we were seeing a Turkish legend being born right before our…

Jared Dudley 16 Points Full Highlights (12/16/2018)

Somehow, the Nets are finding room in their rotation to give Jared Dudley 20 minutes per game. Maybe that’s why they’re not a good team this year? Because they’re giving a starting job (recently revoked) and a bunch of playing time to a do-nothing chubby vet? Savvy vetness can carry you a long way in…

Nikola Jokic 26 Points Full Highlights (12/16/2018)

This is the kind of game that helps build narratives. On a game-to-game basis, narratives aren’t important, but they sure as heck are when talking about a player’s legacy, or when discussing certain candidates for certain awards. The stage was set: top two teams by record in the league, led by two sorta-MVP-candidate-ish players, Nikola…

Dewayne Dedmon Career High 24 Points/5 Threes Full Highlights (12/16/2018)

Is it bad that I don’t remember much, if anything, from Dewayne Dedmon’s two years with the Orlando Magic? I probably made a bunch of videos for him (now deleted, but I have backups) from that time period, but the contents of those videos are a mystery to me. Sometimes I think my memory for…

John Collins 29 Points Full Highlights (12/16/2018)

Hawks commentator Dominique Wilkins implored his team to get John Collins the ball more a bunch of times just in the parts of the game that are shown in the video. I wonder how many more times he said it that we missed. Probably every possession where Collins didn’t touch the rock. I would guess…

Luka Doncic 28 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (12/16/2018)

We’re in game two of the Luka Doncic/Dirk Nowitzki experiment, and I still haven’t seen a single completed lob between the two of them. I’m not picky. I would accept either a Doncic-to-Nowitzki alley-oop connection, or a Nowitzki-to-Doncic alley-oop connection. Is that so much to ask? But not only have I not seen any lobs…