Why is it that JaVale McGee is playing very well now that the Lakers have nothing to play for? There’s no reason that all these lobs from LeBron and Rondo couldn’t have been happening with this amount of regularity earlier in the season, back when each win meant a better chance of making the playoffs….
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Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 29 Points Full Highlights (3/26/2019)
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is coming alive! Despite that exclamation point, I’m not that excited, and you shouldn’t be either. Any good performances by Lakers players at this point are just the random twitches of the dead Lakers corpse. 29 points by KCP does nothing, it does less than nothing, to salve the burning disappointment of this…
Read MoreJonathan Isaac 19 Points Full Highlights (3/26/2019)
This contest between the Orlando Magic and the Miami Heat had playoff IMPLICATIONS. The result of this game would IMPLY which of the teams would be more likely to make the playoffs. IMPLICITLY. This Magic team is unseasoned when it comes to games of this magnitude; the only guy on their roster who has ever…
Read MoreCollin Sexton 24 Points Full Highlights (3/26/2019)
Collin Sexton in March: 23/3/3 on 52% shooting and 47% from three. Just think about that for a moment. For a guy who, at the beginning of the season, was drawing ire from his teammates (mostly J.R. Smith and Rodney Hood probably) for “not knowing how to play basketball”, those are sick numbers. They’re sick…
Read MoreDario Saric 18 Points Full Highlights (3/26/2019)
When I first glanced over the box-score for the Timberwolves/Clippers game, my eye lingered over Dario Saric’s statline: 18 points, 5 assists. Not a fantastic line, but pretty decent for Saric considering his reduced role on the Wolves compared to the Sixers. I filed the small scrap of knowledge away for future reference. My brain…
Read MoreTrae Young 33 Points/12 Assists Full Highlights (3/26/2019)
Attention Atlanta Hawks front office people and coaching staff people: it is now time for you to shut down Trae Young for the season. With him at the helm and playing well, you have won entirely too many games. The tank not only has gone off the beaten path, but the treads have fallen out…
Read MoreNorman Powell 20 Points Full Highlights (3/26/2019)
It seems like the Raptors always have somebody on their roster who’s underperforming. Way back when, it was Andrea Bargnani and Rudy Gay. Two seasons ago it was DeMarre Carroll. And maybe Jared Sullinger too (I don’t feel like looking up the timing of that big fat disaster). Last season it was our man Norman…
Read MoreDion Waiters 26 Points Full Highlights (3/26/2019)
With thirty seconds left in the game and the Heat down by eight, Dion Waiters decided to put the team on his back and score exactly eight points in the remaining thirty seconds. Unfortunately for the Heat’s winning chances (and playoff chances), they had to play foulball in between Waiters’ late-game makes, so they ended…
Read MoreLuka Doncic Triple Double 28 Pts/12 Rebs/12 Asts Full Highlights (3/26/2019)
When you factor this game’s attempts into account, Luka Doncic is schooting 22% from three in the month of March. This is on eight attempts per game. Coincidentally, Doncic was 0-of-8 from three in this four-point loss to the Kings. What could the explanation be for his exceptionally cold shooting lately? -Taco bell addiction which…
Read MoreChristian Wood Career High 23 Points/6 Blocks Full Highlights (3/26/2019)
Sigh… the Bucks give up on another promising young player. Shades of Tobias Harris (but not Thon Maker). They had this guy, this “Christian Wood” for months and months, and aside from a token attempt to get him going early, he rode the pine for nearly that entire time. When he’d go down to the…
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