The Oklahoma City Thunder have a long and storied history of underwhelming shooting guards that are constantly scapegoated by fans because they don’t score enough points. Andre Roberson is one from more recent times, but there’s also basketball non-luminaries like Thabo Sefolosha, Daequan Cook, Alex Abrines, and Corey Brewer in that dubious lineage. Basically, the…
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Kyle Kuzma 32 Points/7 Threes Full Highlights (1/17/2019)
Imagine how mad LeBron would be if, in addition to Brandon Ingram and Lonzo Ball being underwhelming components of the Lakers’ young core, Kyle Kuzma where also an underwhelming component of the core. He would probably demand a trade to the Pacers so he could win uncontested championships in the East with little to no…
Read MoreIvica Zubac 26 Points Full Highlights (1/17/2019)
The hard-fought battle between centers of marginal quality continues on in Lakerland. After a string of games where he was only getting pity minutes from Luke Walton, Ivica “Zu Tycoon” Zubac played so well in this one that Walton had no choice but to give him 28 minutes. That, predictably, cut into Tyson Chandler’s minutes,…
Read MoreLuke Kornet 16 Points Full Highlights (1/17/2019)
There were thousands of Londoners watching the first quarter of this game, seeing Luke “Korndog” Kornet get super hot from long distance, and thinking to themselves, “What would it take for a British national to be as good at basketball as Luke Kornet is?” They’ve already suffered through the NBA non-factor that was Joel Freeland,…
Read MoreThaddeus Young 27 Points Full Highlights (1/17/2019)
Thaddeus Young was the only player who kept the Pacers afloat in their game against the 76ers. And when I say “afloat”, I mean, he was the one who prevented a blowout loss from turning into an even bigger blowout loss. Check out these shooting numbers from his teammates, who are allegedly NBA players: Victor…
Read MoreMikal Bridges 15 Points Full Highlights (1/17/2019)
Everybody makes life choices that they regret. Regret is probably the one thing that makes humans human, not like that fact makes me feel any better about my poor life choices. The poor life choice in question is my decision to not make a Mikal Bridges fifteen-point highlight video immediately after making a Miles Bridges…
Read MoreSerge Ibaka 22 Points Full Highlights (1/17/2019)
I would consider this a VINTAGE performance from Serge “Ibaka Gaijin” Ibaka. No free throws, no three-pointers, just dunks, hooks, and midrange jimbos. Eleven field goals made for twenty-two points, a mathematical cleanliness that is basketball’s analogue to the Golden Ratio. Ibaka even showed committment to the cause by being awarded two free throws, but…
Read MoreLauri Markkanen 27 Points Full Highlights (1/17/2019)
Lauri “The Markksman” Markkanen would have had a fair-to-good chance of beating his career high of 33 if he had been allowed to play more than one minute in the fourth quarter of this game. He only needed six more points after scoring 27 in the first three periods and, at points, looking unstoppable while…
Read MoreBuddy Hield 24 Points Full Highlights (1/17/2019)
The media coverage has died down a bit since me and Buddy (who is not the real Buddy Hield, but a 12-foot-tall purple plastic 3D-printed naked replica of him who has somehow gained sentience) killed a bunch of people in the middle of the night in a zoo parking lot. I didn’t actually kill anybody…
Read MoreMiles Bridges 15 Points/2 Dunks Full Highlights (1/17/2019)
Behold: Miles Bridges’ first three-pointer in almost a month! He started off surprisingly good from deep, with an early 3-of-3-from-3 performance allowing him to keep a good percentage for a long time because of his low volume. Lately, though, he’s been bricking. Which is what everyone thought he was going to do as a rookie…
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