While I was browsing through De’Andre Hunter’s basketball-reference profile, searching desperately for any scrap of statistical insight that I could puff out into a full-length video description, my eye happened to fall on his minutes per game this season: 31.2. Since he played 38 minutes tonight, maybe his average will go up to around 32…
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Dragan Bender 13 Points/4 Assists/3 Blocks Full Highlights (2/29/2020)
Tonight, the entire citizenry of Croatia, from stately Dubrovnik, crown of the sea, to glorious Zagreb, crown of the mountain valleys, was surely tuned in to watch this matchup between the Golden State Warriors and the Phoenix Suns. Representing Croatia for the Warriors was Dragan Bender; for the Suns, Dario Saric repped the beloved homeland…
Read MoreMychal Mulder 14 Points Full Highlights (2/29/2020)
It’s always exciting when I get to make a highlight video for a player whose existence is so cloaked in mystery that I don’t even know what they look like. I watch their first bucket with anticipation, for that gives me the chance to see them from the zoomed-out broadcast angle where their physical features…
Read MoreMitchell Robinson 23 Points/7 Dunks Full Highlights (2/29/2020)
Mitchell “Big Shot Mrob” Robinson just set a new career-high tonight by doing two things and two things only: -Catching lobs -Grabbing offensive rebounds and immediately going back up with the shot If that sounds rather limited to you, you’d be right. Certainly, most players who score 23 points will do so with more variety…
Read MoreJa Morant 27 Points/14 Assists Full Highlights (2/29/2020)
ESPN has been trying to stir up some debate or whatever by insinuating that Zion Williamson is in the convo for the ROTY of the Year award. I don’t think any reasonable person thinks that he is, but ESPN (and other media outlets of the same ilk) is in the business of driving engagement to…
Read MoreEric Paschall 25 Points Full Highlights (2/28/2020)
Eric Paschall basically spent this entire game making bitchmeat out of any player that the Suns tried to put on him. Whether through his outside shooting or his beefy inside game, multiple Suns players were victimized so thoroughly by Paschall that they probably have PTSD now. I almost got PTSD just watching it happen and…
Read MoreJames Johnson 17 Points Full Highlights (2/28/2020)
Behold: one of the sickest collections of layups you will ever see. So sick are they that I am forced to refrain my self-created term of LAMEups to refer to them. You know that they’re going to be good if even DownToBuck, hater of layups, thinks that they’re good enough to show in a highlight…
Read MoreChristian Wood 19 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (2/28/2020)
The Pistons, before this game, had not notched a victory in the post-Drummond era. The era, to this point, was marked by Christian Wood starting, and putting up huge numbers, but the Pistons losing anyway. That’s kind of been the question with Wood. He’s a fine player, but can he contribute to a winning team?…
Read MoreHarry Giles 16 Points/1 Fight Full Highlights (2/28/2020)
I have recently become an expert in the area of SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. I was reading some fluff piece about which jobs are booming right now, and it was lame (they didn’t even mention how much money you can make being an NBA highlights maker [please donate to my Patreon]), but I was…
Read MoreMarkelle Fultz 14 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (2/28/2020)
Markelle Fultz is averaging 5 assists per game, a really decent total for a guy who was left for dead by the 76ers, who are the best organization in the league for sure and definitely the best talent evaluators out of all teams. But before you get excited for all the dimes he’s dropping, remember:…
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