It really felt like Dion Waiters, after blocking Lou Williams twice and then hitting a three to bring the Heat within three with 30 seconds left, that we were going to see a vintage “Waiters Island” performance. The Clippers would mess up, the Heat would get the ball back, and Waiters would swing his huge…
Read MoreMonth: January 2020
Kelly Olynyk 19 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
The incredible redundancy created by having Kelly Olynyk and Meyers Leonard on the same team finally caught up to one of them, as Olynyk has seen his minutes drop precipitously all the way into DNP-CD territory in the last month. He’s seen a bit of an increase the last few games, but even so, his…
Read MoreTyler Herro 19 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
Tyler Herro played a lot of minutes tonight. Even with Dion Waiters alive and willing to shoot shots (he sucks but it was kind of cool to seem him come in and immediately hit some swaggy threes like he’d never left), Herro was in the game for 40 minutes. Most teams now recognize the value…
Read MoreLandry Shamet 22 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
6 assists is the high for Landry Shamet as a Clipper. That may seem like a lot for a player like him, but it’s easy to forget, after the 76ers turned him into a pure shooter, that he did a lot of ball-handling in college. He averaged a bit over 5 assists per game in…
Read MoreDoug McDermott 24 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
One of the knocks on Doug McDermott coming out of college were his ludicrously low “stocks” (steals and blocks) numbers. Someone did some analysis and determined that players with so few of those defensive stats basically never turn into good NBA players. I guess the thinking is, if you can’t get your hand on the…
Read MoreDamyean Dotson 21 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
Damyean Dotson 21 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2020) It would have been so sweet for the Knicks to beat the Raptors in this game. They led for good chunks of the game, but couldn’t quite hang on, losing 106-112. Since the Knicks are a bad team and the Raptors are a good team, it would have…
Read MoreMichael Porter Jr. 15 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
OFFICIAL DTB DISCLAIMER: Michael Porter Jr. didn’t even have a good game. He needed fifteen shots to get his fifteen points, going 5-of-15 from the field. This highlight video might make it look like he was some kind of shot-making savant who was a walking bucket from the time he checked into the game until…
Read MoreDillon Brooks 27 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
Before this game, Dillon Brooks was scoring an even twenty PPG per game in the month of January, and his monthly PPG totals have been on an upward trajectory since the start of the season. For all I know, he’ll average 26 PPG per game for the month of February, and then, what about March…
Read MoreDario Saric 20 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
What kind of situation would Dario Saric have to be in where European fans would stop complaining that he’s being mis- or under-utilized? Note that I’m not saying he isn’t being under-utilized in Phoenix. It seems to me that he’s not being used to his full potential right now. But it seems like that, even…
Read MoreEric Gordon 27 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
I guess this is what Eric Gordon is on the Rockets for. If James Harden is playing like a collection of pubes (a bigger collection of pubes than the one attached to his chin), then Eric Gordon can theoretically step in and replace 50% of Harden’s production and 33% of Harden’s playmaking. I say “theoretically”…
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