People aren’t ragging hard enough on James Harden these days for his bad defense. Just because he’s not as blatant about not trying doesn’t mean he should get a pass. Watch this video. Actually I just counted it up and Tobias Harris only toasted him three times, a bunch of the others were Ariza and…
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Dwight Buycks Career High 22 Points Full Highlights (3/15/2018)
Tonight, Dwight Buycks returned to the scene of past triumphs, to Denver, the location where, if you can remember way back in April of 2015, he shredded the ankles of Gary Harris so bad that Harris fell right on his heinie and had to watch him hit a triple. Harris suffered yet another ankle injury…
Read MoreJamal Murray 26 Points Full Highlights (3/15/2018)
Okay. This “Blue Arrow” nickname for Jamal Murray just isn’t working out. I don’t care if he likes it or not. The Nuggets don’t wear blue normally, for one thing. That’s the first problem. The other problem is that it doesn’t make sense. “Arrow”? If anything, he’s the bow, and the basketball is the arrow….
Read MoreNicolas Batum Triple Double 10 Pts/10 Rebs/16 Asts Full Highlights (3/15/2018)
This is the most assists by a player in a Hornets uni since Kemba Walker somehow also got 16 back in 2014 even though he doesn’t really want to pass the ball as a general rule. Also of note: Raymond Felton got 19 for the Bobcats once, and Brevin Knight got 20. That last one…
Read MoreMichael Beasley 24 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (3/15/2018)
I just want to reiterate my disappointment (seems to be a common theme lately, where are the players who are impressing me?) with Michael Beasley’s scoring after Porzingis got deaded. I thought for sure that he’d be a 20 points per night kind of guy after that, since he had been putting up some big…
Read MoreJohn Collins 21 Points Full Highlights (3/15/2018)
John Collins is one of the brighter spots, maybe the brightest, amidst the endless tapestry of black that is the Hawks’ season. He appears as a small bit of medium gray, nearly indetectible surrounded as he is by the void that consumes Atlanta. There is hope with Collins. There may be smaller amounts of hope…
Read MoreNikola Jokic Triple Double 23 Pts/12 Rebs/10 Asts Full Highlights (3/15/2018)
Adam Silver was in attendance tonight, doing his usual Q&A sesh with the home commentators. He got to see up close the phenom known as Nikola Jokic. He got to see a “triple-double”. I put that in quotes because I really have to take issue with some of the assists. It’s fine, when the comissioner…
Read MoreAl Jefferson 20 Points Full Highlights (3/15/2018)
I don’t really blame Jakob Poeltl for getting manhandled by Al Jefferson tonight. He’d probably never seen, much less defended against, a player with actual savvy post-moves. Maybe in practice Jonas Valanciunas tried that slow-ass jumper pumpfake on him, but that’s child’s play compared to what Jefferson was busting out against him. Jefferson is the…
Read MoreNikola Vucevic 22 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (3/14/2018)
Six times this season, a player has been one rebound and one assist shy of a triple-double, as Nikola Vucevic was with his 22/9/9 statline last night. Here are the five other players: Bradley Beal (39/9/9) Russell Westbrook (34/9/9) James Harden (28/9/9) Russell Westbrook (15/9/9) LeBron James (11/9/9) Vucevic maybe isn’t quite on the level…
Read MoreTerry Rozier 21 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (3/14/2018)
It seems like Celtics fans have turned on Marcus Smart in favor of their new point guard man-crush, Terry Rozier. Maybe because they don’t want to pay Smart a bunch of money this off-season only for him to continue to be an inefficient-scoring, overconfident-shooting defensive specialist. Maybe because Smart punched a framed painting and exploded…
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