In the intervening hours between when Jordan McLaughlin had this performance and when I uploaded the video depicting the performance, a lot of weird stuff happened with the Timberwolves. The weirdest being the long-awaited departure of Andrew Wiggins. Witness in this video a few of his very last buckets (but not his absolute last, sadly)…
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Jalen Brunson 20 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (2/5/2020)
The hype that I am detecting (or, more accurately, not detecting) for Jalen Brunson is disturbingly low. There are people on the Mavericks other than Euros, people. You don’t have to be hyped only for Luka Doncic (Euro), Kristaps Porzingis (Euro), Dwight Powell (Euro), Ryan Broekoff (Euro), or J.J. Barea (Mexican Euro). I understand that…
Read MoreBrandon Clarke 18 Points Full Highlights (2/5/2020)
Man, the Grizzlies sure are winning a lot of games lately, aren’t they? I don’t think I realized how good they were doing, but with this win, they have crawled back to over .500 and are currently the 8th seed in the West. Haters may criticize their current strategy which will only lead to a…
Read MoreTyus Jones 19 Points Full Highlights (2/5/2020)
The dust has mostly settled after yet another chaotic trade deadline, one that featured some Wojnukes, a bunch of Wojbombs, and some Shamsretractions. Now that things are clearing up, I can say with about 80 percent confidence that Tyus Jones didn’t get traded. Even though you’d think the Timberwolves would want him back after they…
Read MoreDoug McDermott 19 Points Full Highlights (2/5/2020)
Doug McDermott has proudly worn the “Dougie McBuckets” moniker ever since his college days and maybe even before that (I’m too lazy to do research on the origins of the nickname). However, for most of his time in the NBA, the name “McBuckets” hasn’t accurately reflected his on-court production, because a nickname like that implies…
Read MoreChristian Wood 21 Points Full Highlights (2/5/2020)
This game and the one before it were the first games of the season where Christan Wood got over thirty minutes of on-court action. His stats weren’t as utterly outrageous as I would have hoped for (17/5/1 last game, 21/8/1 this game), but it does bolster my newly-formed hypothesis that if you emphasized Wood in…
Read MoreBam Adebayo 22 Points/5 Dunks/6 Assists Full Highlights (2/5/2020)
Now that Bam Adebayo is OFFICIALLY an All-Star, and therefore only has a week or so of eligibility left on my scrubs-only highlight channel, there’s not much time left to push my latest social media-driven agenda/viral hashtag creation: #BamAdebayoIsASerb I introduced this amazing new hashtag a few months ago in another video description and, honestly,…
Read MoreLandry Shamet 23 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (2/5/2020)
Landry “Shamwow” Shamet was not at all “Shamwow” in the first half of this game. He had three points and one assist when the buzzer sounded at the end of the second quarter. That’s not way out of line with his season production (he’s averaging 10 PPG per game and 2 APG per game on…
Read MoreJa Morant 21 Points Full Highlights (2/5/2020)
Interesting stat from the Grizzlies commentator (who I don’t remember the name of, the one who exclaims “BANGO!” every time his team makes a three, faithfully honoring the Bucks mascot): Ja Morant is second only to Giannis Antetokounmpo in made finger-rolls this season. I didn’t even know the NBA kept track of finger-roll stats. But…
Read MoreDerrick Jones Jr. Career High 25 Points/4 Dunks Full Highlights (2/5/2020)
Games happening right around the trade-deadline are second only two end-of-year scrubfests in terms of entertainment value. Lots of players get moved around, the players that get traded are obviously gone and the players traded for haven’t passed the physicals or whatever, so teams are forced into constricted lineups featuring players who don’t normally get…
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