The Thunder commentators’ mention of Juan Carlos Navarro being Alex Abrines’ favorite shooter while growing up got me to thinking about how sweet a Navarro three-ilation would’ve been (he made 156 in his only NBA season) and how it sucks that the NBA isn’t opening up its vast game archives for the betterment of humanity….
Read MoreKyle Korver 14 Points Jazz Debut Full Highlights (11/30/2018)
I don’t think I’m alone in having the impression that Kyle Korver was really good for the Jazz during his first stint with them. Where did this come from? Because he wasn’t. I mean, he was, percentage-wise (because he stopped shooting threes to get the record, I’m not going to let people forget about this),…
Read MoreJaren Jackson Career High 36 Points Full Highlights (11/30/2018)
It’s funny, the Memphis commentators had the distinct tone of “let’s wrap up this game with some statistical tidbits because there’s no way we’re going to win this one” which switched right into “frenzied excitement due to the un-freaking-believable nature of the happenings occurring before our eyes” as Jaren Jackson hit a three while getting…
Read MoreWendell Carter 28 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (11/30/2018)
The Bulls are still early in their tanking experiment (which, if the follow the Kings model, will go on indefinitely), but it’s never too early to try and identify pieces which need to be retained at any reasonable cost, and pieces that are disposable. The important pieces are part of the CORE. The non-important pieces…
Read MoreShai Gilgeous-Alexander 17 Points Full Highlights (11/29/2018)
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander started this game hot. He had eleven points in the first quarter and he was poised to crush his previous career high of nineteen points. I even wrote in my diary “SGA is going to score twenty. I feel it.” Those are the literal words from my literal diary. And then SGA only…
Read MoreMontrezl Harrell 24 Points Full Highlights (11/29/2018)
Now that everybody realizes that Montrezl “Vzncouver” Harrell is good (really really good), I would like to remind them that I’ve known that Harrell has been good (really really good) for the past two seasons. I’ve been making his highlights for a long time. I discovered him first. When he was off everybody’s radars, he…
Read MoreMarvin Bagley 18 Points Full Highlights (11/29/2018)
I get uneasy when Marvin Bagley does those running hook shots off of post-ups. Those are the kinds of shots that marginal big men take because they’re too weak to take their defender to BBQ town. Very few “good” players take that shot with any regularity. I’m guessing that Bagley takes those shots because he…
Read MoreBogdan Bogdanovic Career High 26 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (11/29/2018)
The idea has jokingly been suggested to create a Serbian Superteam in Sacramento (SSS) by somehow adding additional Serbs to the existing Serb core that is already on the Kings (Bogdan Bogdanovic and Nemanja Bjelica). But with the Kings hosting the Clippers last night, a team who has two of their own Serbs on the…
Read MoreJonas Jerebko 20 Points Full Highlights (11/29/2018)
It didn’t feel like much while watching it (yeah, I watched this game just to see the Warriors lose, you got a problem with that?), but Jonas Jerebko’s 20 points tonight falls only 2 short of a career high. He’s been a pretty good role-player for literally a whole decade, and his career high is…
Read MorePascal Siakam Career High 26 Points Full Highlights (11/29/2018)
I was so, so wrong about Pascal “Cameroonian Joel Embiid” Siakam. I didn’t go out and say straight up that he sucked (well maybe I did), but I certainly critized him for not being able to shoot as well as displayed a general lack of enthusiasm for him. I probably wasn’t even way off base;…
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