The expansion of Willie Cauley-Stein’s game over the first half of the season has now taken him into the deepest of the deep: beyond the three-point arc. He is beyond saving. Once you go all the way back, you never go back. He had actually hit another three before this, but since I didn’t make…
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Avery Bradley 26 Points Full Highlights (1/13/2018)
Avery Bradley was brought in to the Pistons to elevate them to some sort of new level. Maybe it worked: the Pistons are, indeed, better than last year. I don’t know how much of that minor improvement he is responsible for, but he at least has not tanked the entire operation. Or, thought of another…
Read MoreOG Anunoby 17 Points/3 Dunks Full Highlights (1/13/2018)
OG Anunoby: already better than Robert Archibald, the other Brit who played for the Raptors? Yes. Very clearly. I actually was not aware of Archibald’s existence until I looked up all the Britain-born people who ever played in the NBA. He once scored 6 for the Raptors, to go with 4 assists acting basically as…
Read MoreJarrett Allen 16 Points Full Highlights (1/13/2018)
It’s somewhat perverse, don’t you think, that the Nets TV people showed replays of the two field goals Jarrett Allen’s afro scored that weren’t dunks, but didn’t show any for the four that were dunks. It’s cool that he can do things other than dunk, especially when he’s launching threes, but he dunks so ferociously…
Read MoreDe’Aaron Fox 17 Points/10 Assists Full Highlights (1/13/2018)
Normally I come down hard on rookies whose advanced stats aren’t very good. Especially if everyone seems to think that they are good. Not so with De’Aaron Fox. By all traditional/untraditional metrics he isn’t doing well this season, but for some reason I still like him. I think it’s because he started the season off…
Read MoreDavis Bertans 18 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (1/13/2018)
A Davis Bertans three-ilation would be just about the wettest thing ever, I think. So many of his triples rip twine hard after soaring like 100 feet into the air. I was going to create such a video for last season before things beyond my control put a stop to it, but I plan to…
Read MoreDennis Smith Jr. 23 Points Full Highlights (1/13/2018)
Can’t we just call him “Dennis Smith”? I hate this “Jr.” thing. Unlike with someone like Kelly Oubre or Larry Nance, I don’t think I’ve ever heard him referred to without that extra title. And unlike Nance, his dad wasn’t in the NBA so there’s no chance of confusion. It’s not a big deal, but…
Read MoreNikola Jokic 23 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (1/13/2018)
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ JOKIC TAKE MY ENERGY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Nikola Jokic is struggling right now. He’s still good, great on some nights, but other nights it’s just not there. I don’t know what the exact problem is, but I know that if we all focus on directing our energy towards him, his…
Read MoreDarius Miller 16 Points Full Highlights (1/12/2018)
Darius Miller was pretty spicy there for a stretch of the season from early November to early December. He was regularly putting up double-digit points and getting as many as two or three rebounds per contest. For a player of D-Mill’s caliber, who was out of the league for two years, that’s good enough to…
Read MoreAl-Farouq Aminu 19 Points Full Highlights (1/12/2018)
Al-Farouq Aminu always looks like a hobo. His nickname is “chief” but no African chief would be so undignified in their appearance. They would either have a real beard, or they would keep a close shave. They wouldn’t have a patchy hobo beard that looks like it was the result of two weeks’ neglect +…
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