Nothing pisses me off more than home commentators chuckling patronizingly when one of their lesser skilled players does good things. The Spurs commentators did it last year with Boban Marjanovic, and it’s happening again with the Mavs and Salah Mejri. Just because he’s somewhat awkward looking and doesn’t usually score more than a handful of…
Read MoreKentavious Caldwell-Pope Career High 38 Points/8 Threes Full Highlights (2/1/2017)
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope may have choked away his chance at a 40-burger by missing two free throws near the end of the game, but that doesn’t mean we can’t still be super impressed. I mean, we should be thinking about the 38 points he DID score rather than the two he didn’t. Unless you’re me, in…
Read MoreNorman Powell 18 Points Full Highlights (1/31/2017)
Are the Raptors the most stacked team ever when it comes to having guards who can dunk? Peep this: -DeMar DeRozan: well-known, prolific dunker who owns last year’s top dunk -Terrence Ross: his career has been disappointing, except for the dunking part, where he has a proclivity for windmills (or, as the Raptors announcer calls…
Read MoreJonas Valanciunas 20 Points Full Highlights (1/31/2017)
It’s pop quiz time! I hope you’ve been watching your Raptors games and been taking good notes because this one is a doozy. Question 1: whose fault is it that Jonas Valanciunas struggled during the Raptors’ losing streak? a) DeMar DeRozan b) Dwayne Casey c) Kyle Lowry d) Jonas Valanciunas Question 2: since it is…
Read MoreWilson Chandler 26 Points Full Highlights (1/31/2017)
Wilson Chandler’s campaign for sixth man of the year, which seemed so promising early in the season, has come entirely off the rails. The reason is twofold: he was the starter for a stretch of games, and he hasn’t been scoring that well in the month of January. Lou Williams might be getting close to…
Read MoreMarkieff Morris 24 Points Full Highlights (1/31/2017)
The Wizards have been on an absolute tear lately, and most of the credit is going to go Bradley Beal and John Wall. Deservedly so. They are tearing it up. But if you look closely at Washington’s play over the last few contests, you will see that Markieff Morris actually deserves as much if not…
Read MoreD’Angelo Russell 22 Points/10 Assists Full Highlights (1/31/2017)
This is a milestone for D’Angelo Russell: his first game with double-digit assists. If humans evolved to have four fingers on each hand instead of five, or counted the spaces between their five fingers instead of the fingers themselves, he’d have gotten double-digit assists a couple times by now. But that’s neither here nor there….
Read MoreIvica Zubac 17 Points Full Highlights (1/31/2017)
The tanking is complete. The Lakers have assembled a CORE, which means that no more tanking is required. For one, this CORE consists of Ivica Zubac, obviously. He is the first part of the CORE. One only needs to look at his recent performances to come to this conclusion. The second CORE part is D’Angelo…
Read MoreWilly Hernangomez 15 Points Full Highlights (1/31/2017)
We’d be looking at a 20-point game for Guillermo Hernangomez if he didn’t blow a bunch of stuff at the rim. 20-point games for foreign rookies is pretty much my wet dream when it comes to making highlights. Thanks a lot Willy. All you had to do was reach up and put the ball in…
Read MoreRyan Anderson 25 Points Full Highlights (1/31/2017)
For some reason, the hype that Kyle Korver gets does not extend to Ryan Anderson even a little bit. Come on people. They’re both white American males who can shoot the three ball. They’re basically the same player except Anderson can still do other stuff (especially pump-fakes) and Korver can’t. Basically, if this vid showed…
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