Here’s an interesting philosophical question: if a player makes a nice move to score but everybody knows it’s a travel, should a replay be shown of that move? On one hand, the move looked cool and the refs didn’t call anything, so it was a “legit” basketball play. On the other hand, travelling violations should…
Read MoreDay: March 24, 2019
Maxi Kleber 16 Points Full Highlights (3/23/2019)
I can only imagine how salty the Warriors commentators were during this game. Well, “only” is wrong, because I could just load up the other version of the game and find out firsthand how salty they were. That would be easy, but I just want to imagine the saltiness. What if it’s not as salty…
Read MoreReggie Jackson 24 Points Full Highlights (3/23/2019)
Reggie Jackson subbed into this game with four and a half minutes left in the fourth quarter, with the Pistons up by 6. He promptly bricked a shot, the Pistons only made one bucket the rest of the game, and they lost by 5. Jackson is unfairly made the scapegoat for many of Detroit’s woes…
Read MoreTaurean Prince 23 Points Full Highlights (3/23/2019)
As a fan of a (newly) good team, I am beginning to understand why fans of good teams are so hostile to other good teams. These are new feelings for me, having never experienced a Bucks squad anything above the threshold of “pretty okay”. But now, I wish nothing but ill on the Celtics and…
Read MoreBam Adebayo 16 Points/8 Assists/4 Blocks Full Highlights (3/23/2019)
Now this is the kind of stat-stuffing performance I was unreasonably expecting regularly from Bam Adebayo this season. Truthfully, I let his Summer League performances distort my expectations, a rookie mistake. What am I, some kind of casual who things that Summer League means anything? I, as a season vet of watching role-players, should know…
Read MoreAl-Farouq Aminu 22 Points Full Highlights (3/23/2019)
I previously came up with a term for a concept that had long gone termless, and that term applies very well to Al-Farouq Aminu’s performance against the Pistons. The term is “blibbum”, and it’s a neologism for a clutch shot that isn’t a game-winner. Now, you might say, “why create a whole new word to…
Read MoreJonas Valanciunas 20 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (3/23/2019)
I don’t care if he “impacts winning” or “defends” or whatever other apologetic (not the “sorry” kind of apologetic but the “theology” kind of apologetic) crud Raptors fans want to spew in my face, but Marc Gasol just isn’t impressing me as much as Jonas Valanciunas now that they’ve switched teams. Their roles are different,…
Read MoreJeff Green 25 Points Full Highlights (3/23/2019)
The ‘Zards are totally out of the playoff hunt, if you thought that maybe, since the East is so bad, that they were still in it, nope. Not even close. It definitely feels like they have a better record than 30-44 (maybe not to ‘Zards fans), but they don’t, and even with a bunch of…
Read MoreTrae Young 32 Points/11 Assists/1 Game-Winner Full Highlights (3/23/2019)
Lately, I’ve been lamenting the fact that so much of my precious highlight-making time is spent making overly long Trae Young highlight videos. I have privately and publicly wished for him to get benched as the end of the season draws near for “rest”, simply so I am not burdened by his presence on my…
Read MoreBuddy Hield 25 Points/7 Threes Full Highlights (3/23/2019)
Yesterday, I told Buddy (my twelve-foot-tall 3D-printed purple plastic naked sentient statue of Buddy Hield that I mistakenly ordered from a custom 3D-printing place over a year ago) that he should invent his own cryptocurrency. The reason I told him to do that is so that we can do a “soft test” of his custom-designed…
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