Tag: Alex Abrines

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….

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Hopefully this game goes a fair way towards rehabilitating Alex Abrines’ reputation with Thunder fans. I don’t think they were very happy with his performance so far this year. At all. He scored 29 points total in the 6 games before this, and when you combine that with all the losing… yeah. And it’s not…

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Astute viewers may notice that this video abruptly ends after the conclusion of the second quarter. That is not an error. Alex Abrines scored 16 points in the first half, then decided he was done for the night, not done as in literally not playing, but done as in not going to shoot to score…

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I understand that the “start Alex Abrines” experiment didn’t go so well earlier in the season, but the Thunder won two out of the five games where he got the start, so it’s not like it was the most disastrous thing either. Now the Thunder have started Terrance Ferguson for the last four games, and…

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The Thunder narrowly avoided yet another disheartening loss to a bad team thanks in large part to Alex Abrines’ pair of overtime triples. It’s almost like someone other than a member of the “big three” is allowed to shoot the ball! Not only was he super clutch, but in what might be a first for…

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The Thunder are a superteam now. A superteam of superfriends where Alex Abrines gets to not be included along with almost everyone else on his team. I can’t be the only one who misses the old Westbrook one-man-show, can I? For one thing, it meant more touches for Abrines who now finds his touches somewhat…

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There is nothing more cringeworthy (besides the word “cringeworthy” itself) than NBA commentators celebrating made baskets by international players with foreign-language commentary/exaggerated accents. Nothing. It’s horrible. Every single time. The Nuggets dudes are the worst about this, but other commentators do it to. Please stop. I’m begging you. “Sí sí sí sí señor!” wails the…

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Alex Abrines might be a top ten rookie this year. That’s pretty crazy when you think about it but then it actually becomes less crazy the more you think about it because you remember how bad this last draft class was. Here’s a complete list of rookie’s who have been undoubtedly better than Abrines this…

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It’s probably not a wise move for Alex Abrines to start copying Anthony Morrow’s shooting motion. Yeah, Morrow is a great shooter, and Abrines could take some tips from him, but there’s a reason no other NBA players use his “don’t bring the ball below your shoulders” shot form. It’s just too unnatural. The human…

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So, I was looking up where Alex Abrines was born, because I was secretly hoping to make this description about the Basque separatist movement. So I found out that he’s not from that area of Spain, which was too bad, and he’s also not from that other part of Spain that also wants to be…

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