Here you are, losers. Your desired Trae Young debut highlights. I could be making way better vids of way better players, but here I am, wasting time on this bust. Yeah, he’s already a bust. I’m tired of waiting a season or two before deciding that players haven’t lived up to their draft slot. I…
Read MoreJeff Teague 27 Points Full Highlights (10/17/2018)
I’m just going to go ahead and guess that Jeff Teague’s 27-point performance against the Spurs has not yet been uploaded by any other highlight channel. In an age of NBA highlights where vids are available as soon as the game is over from multiple sources, no one gives a whit about Jeff Teague. Hold…
Read MoreTrevor Ariza 21 Points/7 Assists Suns Debut Full Highlights (10/17/2018)
I was skeptical of the Suns’ decision to pay aging-vet-role-player Trevor Ariza 15 million (with an M) dollars this season just so he could take minutes away from whatever fringy prospects they would have on the roster. It was only a one-year deal so it wouldn’t hurt them too much in the long term, but…
Read MoreAaron Gordon 26 Points Full Highlights (10/17/2018)
“Summer League Aaron Gordon” is a figure which has attained legendary, almost mythical status in my mind. Summer League Aaron Gordon (or SLAG, since I’m too lazy to type out all those words) was a player who could hit jumpshots from anywhere on the floor with smoothness and poise that “Regular Season Aaron Gordon” (RSAG)…
Read MoreDe’Aaron Fox 21 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (10/17/2018)
I just want to remind everybody that De’Aaron Fox had negative win-shares last season. If you’re new to my channel, you should get used to my obsession with win-shares (since they almost always correspond perfectly with my gut feeling about a player), and if you’re a DTB old-timer, I’m sorry that you have to listen…
Read MoreTim Hardaway Jr. 31 Points Full Highlights (10/17/2018)
There will undoubtedly be some outraged Knicks fan in the comments of this video informing me that Tim Hardaway Jr. also had five assists in this game and why aren’t the assists being shown? I would like to address this future commenter directly. I didn’t include the assists because nobody wants to watch THJ pass…
Read MoreDeandre Ayton 18 Points/6 Assists Suns Debut Full Highlights (10/17/2018)
Deandre Ayton lounged in his locker after his strong opening-night performance. Teammates and trainers were occasionally dropping by to give him high-fives, which he received in between sips of Gatorade. But there was something missing. What was it? In the adjacent locker, Trevor Ariza noticed his teammate just staring off into space. “I know what…
Read MoreJulius Randle 25 Points Pelicans Debut Full Highlights (10/17/2018)
I’m still stuck in the mindset of “Julius Randle isn’t actually that good”. It’s partly because of his lumpy ugly face which I want to punch, partly because he used to not actually be that good, and partly because I never think any Lakers-drafted player is any good. When the Pelicans signed him, I immediately…
Read MoreNikola Mirotic 30 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (10/17/2018)
A whole offseason of speculation about whether the Pelicans would be any good without Rajon Rondo (seriously when did the narrative change on that dude because I missed it) looks a whole lot stupider with this decisive opening-night victory over the Rockets. Yes, I know it’s only 1 game. But my eyes tell me a…
Read MoreJoe Ingles 22 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (10/17/2018)
Given how good the Jazz looked and how utterly inept the Kings looked in preseason action, I was estimating that this would be a 50-point blowout in Utah’s favor. It wasn’t. What happened tonight? The Kings are bad. They have nothing but bad players on their roster, don’t @ me. The Jazz were coming off…
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