January 2019 – Page 10

Trevor Ariza 27 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

I just happened to look at the stats and I noticed that Trevor Ariza, during his stint with the Wizards so far, is playing 38 minutes per game. That would be good for most minutes per game in the entire league it applied to the whole season; he would be ahead of Harden, Beal, and…

Tomas Satoransky 20 Points/10 Assists Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

“Trevor, you gotta help me out here.” Trevor Ariza looked mildly at his harried-looking teammate, Tomas Satoransky. “Help you with what?” “Getting this locker room under control like coach wants,” Tomas answered. “You’re a vet, don’t you have some kind of, I don’t know, some kind of veteran leadership skills that would stop everybody from…

Darius Miller 21 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

DTB’S OFFICIAL* FUN** FACT*** OF THE DAY****: Darius Miller has been a teammate of Anthony Davis since they were both in their rookie years. There’s a bit of a technicality there in that Miller was out of the league in the 15-16 and 16-17 seasons, but other than that, both players have played for the…

Dragan Bender 17 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

“Dear Diary, I struggle to believe it, but the young Croatian, Bender, has played passibly well in three consecutive games. In discussions with my predecessors, all are in agreement that this is the longest streak of decent play that he has had in his tragic, unsuccessful career to this point. There is a shared astonishment…

Jake Layman 20 Points/3 Dunks Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

I’ve mentioned it before, but it bears repeating now that the situation has grown extremely dire: while it’s great that Jake “Timberjake” Layman is emerging as a good basketball player after two years of complete, total, bottom-of-the-barrel scrubdom, it’s not so great that his minutes directly come at the expense of Nik Stauskas’ minutes. Stauskas…

Cheick Diallo 16 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

I bet when the NBA schedulemakers slapped this game onto the schedule, they had no idea that they would be setting up a momentous battle of the ages, a clash of rival players so pitched, so fevered, so ruthlessly violent, that NBA fans decades from now will speak of it in reverent tones. And the…

Jahlil Okafor 18 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

Jahlil “Jah Rule” Okafor appeared to have a good game here. He was nine of twelve from the field, and he got those points opportunistically, rather than doing lumbering Al Jefferson impersonations all over the place. He also had eight rebounds (good) to go with zero assists, zero steals, and zero blocks (not so good,…

Thaddeus Young 23 Points Full Highlights (1/23/2019)

Big props to Thaddeus Young for managing to hit a clutch lead-extending shot (we need a catchy term like “buzzer-beater” or “game-winner” to represent that kind of shot, this is a big failure of the English language) with 10 seconds left despite the torrent of tears obscuring his vision. He had seen his teammate Victor…

Mitchell Robinson 12 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (1/23/2019)

The Knicks have discovered the strategy to stop James Harden: put the guy with a freakish wingspan on him, and bait him into taking a flaccid stepback three. This works best if Harden has already taken a bajillion shots and is super tired, so he doesn’t feel like driving or even elevating on his triple…

Spencer Dinwiddie 29 Points Full Highlights (1/23/2019)

I haven’t yet heard any murmurings about Spencer Dinwiddie being a candidate for 6MOY of the Year this season. As always, that doesn’t mean that the murmurings aren’t there, but if they are, they must be pretty soft, because I’m hearing all sorts of murmurings all the time. It’s actually quite annoying, I’ll just be…