https://youtu.be/ttfMvz3XRrE When you sit down and think about it, I mean really think about it, not just moderately ponder, but really use all of your brainpower to analyze the whole situation, it’s kinda wild how the Thunder went from having a whole bunch of surefire HOF studs to having nothing but random raw players and…
Read MoreMonth: April 2021
Jalen McDaniels Career High 21 Points Full Highlights (4/7/2021)
https://youtu.be/1gbZy_zJW7U This is not only Jalen McDaniel’s career high in the NBA (and probably college, as well as high school, I’m too lazy to check, but you might have to go back to him dominating 5-foot tall midgets as an unnaturally tall middle-schooler to find a time he scored this many points), this is his…
Read MoreMo Bamba 19 Points Full Highlights (4/7/2021)
https://youtu.be/qQ1JHSIAGt0 Nikola Vucevic is now out of Orlando, and, finally, for the first time ever, Mo Bamba is being properly prioritized in the rotation. With few feasible big men on the roster, there really isn’t any choice for coach Clifford, but, still, it’s nice that Bamba is getting the type of consistent role that he…
Read MoreT.J. McConnell 19 Points/15 Assists Full Highlights (4/7/2021)
https://youtu.be/IDWzORxPsJg Sometimes plebs need to be put in their place. This is one of those times. It’s been a while since I reminded my loyal viewership of the fact that I pay real-life American dollars to subscribe to the analytical service Stathead, and that I’m a superior basketball fan to my viewers because of that…
Read MoreAleksej Pokusevski 25 Points/7 Threes Full Highlights (4/7/2021)
https://youtu.be/4qs8erzPNVM Aleksej Pokusevski is quickly becoming my new “channel mascot”, a position previously occupied by such basketball visionaries as Nikola Jokic, Alexis Ajinca, and Ersan Ilyasova (notice a trend here?). I guess it’s a stretch to call Ajinca a channel mascot, but I love him, god damn it, and if I want him to be…
Read MoreGrayson Allen 30 Points Full Highlights (4/7/2021)
https://youtu.be/hRw17Mnj12U During his years playing for Duke at the college level, and perhaps to a lesser extent also during his NBA career, Grayson Allen has gained a reputation. An UNSAVORY reputation. A reputation as a quote-unquote dirty player. How much of this reputation was earned due to unsportsmanlike acts on the court (involving the entanglement…
Read MoreSaddiq Bey 25 Points Full Highlights (4/6/2021)
https://youtu.be/07f3sxW-j6s With seven minutes to go in the third quarter of this game, Saddiq Bey had already scored his 25th point. Splashing triple after triple while trying (and failing) to keep his team competitive with a vastly superior Nuggets squad, he was well on pace to reach, and probably surpass, his season-high of thirty points….
Read MoreDorian Finney-Smith 23 Points Full Highlights (4/5/2021)
https://youtu.be/s40z5TuAELs Dorian Finney-Smith AKA DFS AKA Distributed File System is like the best-case scenario for a guy who you pick up on a whim to play on your Summer League team. He’s an adequate, if low-volume, scorer, and he’s a plus defender. Teams are constantly combing Europe, the G-League, and Summer League for guys who…
Read MoreAleksej Pokusevski 19 Points Full Highlights (4/5/2021)
https://youtu.be/sRDzevzBwTM The verdict is clear on Aleksej “The Slender Serb” Pokusevski: he’s got real basketball talent, but he’s too thin. He’s got a lot of the skilly but even more of the skinny. Basically, he looks like a bulimic praying mantis, and bulimic praying mantises don’t make for durable NBA players. He’s gotta bulk up….
Read MoreIsaiah Hartenstein 16 Points Full Highlights (4/5/2021)
https://youtu.be/KGo5Wi0r5bo There was a brief, glorious moment of time where Isaiah Hartenstein was the only man standing between the Houston Rockets and a wholehearted embrace of the concept of “small ball”. In that time period, he had some nice scoring games in rapid succession, and it seemed like the Rockets would continue to use him…
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