One may not think that free throws would be, on their own, an acceptable subject of an NBA highlight video. And if you had confronted me on the subject not two weeks ago, I would have agreed with that viewpoint. After all, my disdain for free throws is well-publicized. Frequently I will bemoan the fact…
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DTB’s Top 100 Hook Shots of the 2019-20 NBA Season (2019-20 Season Hookilation)
I sigh contentedly and lean back into the soft embrace of my desk chair, a chair whose sensual caress could never be matched by a woman. The editing process is complete for my video depicting the hundred best midrange jumpers of the 2019-20 NBA season, and it now eagerly consumes CPU cycles as it renders…
Read MoreDTB’s Top 100 Midrange Jumpers of the 2019-20 NBA Season (2019-20 Season Jumperilation)
The classic “Top 100 [x]” concept is familiar and comforting to the average NBA fan. By ranking something in such a straightforward way, order is brought to the jumbled chaos that is inherent in all sports analysis. However, under the prevailing paradigm, the variable [x] doesn’t have many possible values: “players”, “dunks”, “game-winners”, and “crossovers”…
Read MoreCaleb Martin 19 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2020)
Caleb Martin scored nineteen points on only four made shots in this game. He was 4-of-12 from the field (1-of-6 from three) but hit all eight of his free throws, leaving this video at a disgusting 2-1 free throw to bucket ratio. It was James Harden-esque, and, in DTB’s world, something being Harden-esque is never…
Read MoreWill Barton 23 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2020)
I’m casting around looking for positives in this whole “NBA is suspended because of COVID-19” thing, any positives at all, and I think I just came up with one: I won’t have to make Will Barton highlight videos again for a long time. It’s not that I dislike Barton as a player. I’m actually a…
Read MoreDevonte’ Graham 30 Points/8 Threes/6 Assists Full Highlights (3/11/2020)
It sort of seemed like Devonte’ Graham had recovered from the slump that he slumped into around the All-Star break. He had four straight twenty-point games culminating in this thirty-point performance where the Hornets came down from a twenty-point lead to easily beat the Heat, whose “hardworking culture” was no match for the Hornets’…uh…I don’t…
Read MoreBoban Marjanovic Career High 31 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2020)
An extremely tall, extremely naked man lay on the smooth marble floor of the Hall. He did not stir, for at that very moment, his consciousness was being transferred from his still-awake mortal body to this new clone, which was lying dormant until it was awakened by the first spark of intelligence sending electrical pulses…
Read MoreKendrick Nunn 24 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2020)
There’s always something nice about a tight, concise highlight video which is just buckets and no free throws (free throws are lame). My earliest videos from my now-deleted channel were often edited in a super-fast style but I’ve gotten away from that as I show more of a how play develops. Did I sell out?…
Read MoreRJ Barrett 26 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2020)
How unfair. Just as RJ Barrett gets on a roll, scoring in double digits twelve out of the last thirteen games and scoring 26 points (twenty of them in the second half + overtime) in this one, the NBA goes and postpones the season indefinitely. He was just starting to break out! The hopes of…
Read MoreDerrick Jones Jr. 23 Points/5 Dunks Full Highlights (3/11/2020)
The Miami Heat jumped out to a 40-22 lead over the Charlotte Hornets in the first quarter of this game, partially on the back of an uncharacteristic amount of offensive contribution from Derrick Jones Jr.: He scored thirteen points in the first eight minutes of play. His unreliable three-ball was falling, he had some sick…
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