August 2020 – Page 2

Eric Gordon 23 Points Full Highlights (8/24/2020)

Eric Gordon, prior to tonight, had not been a good shooter in the Rockets-Thunder series. At all. 4-of-26 from three? According to my math (which is actually just me hitting random buttons in Windows’ built-in calculator while sobbing), that’s 15%. That is straight up booty. Not only is that straight up booty, that is straight…

Danuel House 21 Points Full Highlights (8/24/2020)

Some buzzer-beaters echo through history, their buzzer-beateriness having ramifications on the fortunes of teams even decades after the ball swished through the net. These are the shots that are replayed again and again, each time causing viewers to think: “What if? What if that shot hadn’t gone in?” These are the shots that you point…

Markelle Fultz 15 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (8/24/2020)

I just can’t pass up opportunities to make Sixers’ fans’ lives even more dismal than they already are after the Celtics swept them right out of the playoffs and right out of The Bubb. That’s why now is a perfect time to note that Markelle Fultz would have been a useful addition to the Sixers’…

Jordan Clarkson 24 Points Full Highlights (8/23/2020)

After this win, which puts them up 3-1 in the series, it’s looking likely that the Jazz will advance to the next round of the ‘offs. I admit, I did not see this coming. There’s been weird stuff going on with them all season, from Mike Conley metaphorically disappearing to Rudy Gobert getting the whole…

Matt Thomas 12 Points Full Highlights (8/23/2020)

I don’t think anybody actually realized it, but it was the battle of the Thomases this game, with the Raptors’ Matt Thomas going up against… Wait, you actually thought I was gonna tell you which Thomas represented the Nets in this battle? Not so fast. I’m turning this into a quiz. I’m going to make…

Serge Ibaka 27 Points Full Highlights (8/23/2020)

Serge “Ibaka Gaijin” Ibaka this game: 27 points, 13-of-14 from the field, 2 blocks, 20 minutes of on-court action, 28 minutes of lounging around on the bench thinking about who he’ll have guest on his next YouTube video. Ibaka is a matchup problem even against teams with depth. Against a team like the Nets, who…

Norman Powell 29 Points Full Highlights (8/23/2020)

With this game, Norman Powell raised his shooting percentage in the Raptors’ first-round series against the Nets to a blistering 60.5%. That’s pretty nuts for a guard-sized player, and that’s EVEN MORE NUTS for a player who has been deemed unworthy of a starting role on his team. He also averaged 17.5 PPG per game…

Tim Hardaway Jr. 21 Points Full Highlights (8/23/2020)

While Luka Doncic hit the game-winner in this one, and Trey Burke plopped in 25 points to help the Mavericks get the dub, let us not forget the overlooked, but considerable, contributions that Tim Hardaway Jr., uh, contributed in this game: -Giving a rousing pregame speech which used the “F word” over one hundred times…

Trey Burke 25 Points Full Highlights (8/23/2020)

Mavericks fans and 76ers fans are in very different headspaces right now. And the thing that ties them together is Trey Burke. Mavericks fans just watched their team, the major underdog in the series, take a second game off a championship-contending (???) Clippers squad featuring true superstars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George (LOL). Luka Doncic…

Jeff Green 22 Points Full Highlights (8/22/2020)

Jeff Green: the Rockets’ second-best player in this series? Yeah, he is, and it’s not really close at all. He’s averaging like 20 PPG for the series, on 60% shooting from the field and 50% from three. Meanwhile, the only other guy who has a legit claim to the title, Eric Gordon, just went 8-for-24…