Much to my dismay, and to the dismay of all true Bucks fans, Pat “Connaughtations” “Patty Ice” Connaughton has largely fallen out of the Bucks rotation, despite being the funnest player on the Bucks roster. Supposedly Sterling Brown has gotten a lot better and has taken a bunch of his minutes (I’m not really seeing…
Read MoreMonth: January 2019
Cedi Osman 26 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (1/29/2019)
It’s great that Cedi Osman spent a bunch of time this summer working out with LeBron James and learning all his secrets. You can totally tell that he’s absorbed some of that LeBron mojo and unleashed it on unsuspecting teams this season. But there’s also a problem with spending too much time with LeBron. Tell…
Read MoreMalik Beasley 18 Points Full Highlights (1/28/2019)
When Malik Beasley came in the game late in the third quarter, the Nuggets were down by 20. When he left the game, at the end, the Nuggets were up by 3. Obviously, not all the credit for the huge comeback win goes to Beasley (some of it begrudgingly goes to Will Barton, and of…
Read MoreAlex Len 19 Points Full Highlights (1/28/2019)
There are some teams in the league who just don’t have a point guard (or a system, in some cases) that allows bigmen to get free dunks whenever they want. The Hawks are not one of those teams. If you’re tall, have arms, and can catch a ball, you are allotted at a minimum one…
Read MoreTrae Young 26 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (1/28/2019)
Trae Young might be one of the worst point guards in the league going off ESPN’s “real plus-minus” stat (a stat that is calculated through some combination of Ph.D.-level mathematics, alchemic sorcery, and hard drugs), but he does occasionally have a “good game” where he looks like a legitimate point guard who is legitimately good….
Read MoreJohn Collins 22 Points Full Highlights (1/28/2019)
The writing on the wall is that John Collins won’t be an All-Star this season. He didn’t fare well in the fan voting (because Atlanta has no fans) and apparently the media and the players themselves hate him too. This is disappointing to me since I advocated so strongly for his cause; it’s like campaigning…
Read MoreKevon Looney 15 Points Full Highlights (1/28/2019)
Fifteen points is actually a career high for Kevon “Kevon Duront” Looney, but I didn’t note it in the title of the video. Why, you ask? Because it seems mean-spirited to announce to the world that this guy’s career high is only fifteen points, as if he is a scrubby scrubnugget dipped in scrubsauce who…
Read MoreShabazz Napier 20 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (1/28/2019)
Shabazz “Shabazzledazzle” is one of the biggest chuckers on the Nets, although you wouldn’t realize it when you look at the stats because his minutes are low and kind of sporadic. Only when you look at the roster’s scoring per 36 minutes does the trend become apparent: Napier (19.6) is just slightly behind the high-scoring…
Read MoreAron Baynes 16 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (1/28/2019)
Aron “Angry Australian Topknot Santa” Baynes is halfway through his seventh season in the league. Since he wasn’t a young rookie (entering the NBA at age 26 after spending his early twenties riding kangaroos around the Australian outback while yelling “crikey”), he’s a lot older than most players who are playing in their seventh season:…
Read MoreMarcus Smart 21 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (1/28/2019)
Since Marcus Smart is now a 36% three-point shooter (a percentage that will go up after this game), I should stop being incredulous when the three-pointers he takes actually go through the net. In past seasons, it was a forgone conclusion that most of the three-pointers Smart chucked up there were not going to in….
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