Andre Drummond got so badly outplayed by Brook Lopez that I actually felt bad for him. Hearing those boos from his own fans as he got subbed out after another bad play made me sad. Yeah, he wasn’t really trying and he was throwing up the most garbage shots ever and Lopez was cooking him,…
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Torrey Craig 18 Points Full Highlights (4/20/2019)
My genius new viral hashtag, #TorreyCraigIsWelsh , has not taken off nearly as well as I’d have hoped. As of this writing, there is only one use of it on Twitter (thanks to the Twitter user whose name is, somewhat cryptically, just “matt”). For such a perfectly-formulated hashtag to see such levels of underutilization is…
Read MoreNikola Jokic 29 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (4/20/2019)
Nikola Jokic exited the Whataburger with a bag of fast-food cheeseburgers in his left hand and a large coke in the other hand. In general, fast food didn’t compare to his favorite burger joints in Denver, but it was a suitable substitute. His brain briefly registered a pang of guilt as it occurred to him…
Read MoreJarrett Allen 21 Points Full Highlights (4/20/2019)
Jarrett Allen has, overall, struggled to contain Joel Embiid this series. There’s no getting around it. He’s good, but he’s still a stick figure, and Embiid probably weighs twice as much as him. However, there are two bits of good news here: Bit of good news #1: Allen dropped in 21 points of his own…
Read MoreCaris LeVert 25 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (4/20/2019)
This game represents the rebirth of the LeVert/Allen connection. Last season, if Caris LeVert had a game with a lot of assists, it seemed like it was always nonstop lobs to Jarrett Allen for monster whammers. This season, I haven’t noticed their connection as much, probably because LeVert was injured for a good chunk of…
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