Jeff Teague is back to where it all started: Atlanta, the place where he was voted an All-Star that one year because the Hawks were winning so many god-damn games and then they got swept by LeBron anyway. Am I remembering that right? Maybe they took one game off LeBron, but I don’t think so….
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Kevin Huerter 23 Points Full Highlights (2/3/2020)
Kevin “Kevin Huerant” Huerter convincingly beat his previous career-high in shots attempted, which was eighteen, by attempting 21 shots in this game. For a guy who’s not really known as a gunner, that’s a surprisingly large amount of shots. Maybe he had a bet with a teammate that he could shoot it twenty times. Or…
Read MoreKevin Huerter 20 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (2/1/2020)
Kevin “Butthuerter” Huerter was sizzling at the beginning of this game. Sizzling to the point that I expected one of either Dominique Wilkins or Bob Rathbun to allege that Huerter was “red hot”. But it never happened. Is that too obvious a quip to say out loud during the broadcast? Or did they never think…
Read MoreDamian Jones 14 Points/5 Dunks Full Highlights (1/30/2020)
Pass-first point guards combined with lob-catching big men are like a match made in heaven. Chris Paul + DeAndre Jordan, Russell Westbrook (not pass-first but still passes a lot because of ballhog tendencies) + Steven Adams, Andre Miller + JaVale McGee, James Harden + Clint Capela, all of these combos result in high-flying dunks for…
Read MoreVince Carter 14 Points Full Highlights (1/30/2020)
Whatever anti-aging remedies Vince Carter is using, I am willing to pay large amounts of money to get those same remedies sent to me so I can have them ready when the time comes for me to get old. Like all young people, I’ve always viewed “getting old” as some kind of far-off thing that…
Read MoreCam Reddish 18 Points Full Highlights (1/28/2020)
There would be more general excitement for Cam Reddish’s 14 fourth-quarter points (the same amount of points that Zion Williamson had in an ENTIRE GAME tonight, by the way), except for the fact that the Hawks were totally getting blown out while it happened. For some reason, people don’t look as favorably on performances like…
Read MoreKevin Huerter 18 Points Full Highlights (1/26/2020)
The slump that Kevin Huerter was in for the first two months of the season is behind us now. It’s in the past. It’s forgotten. After that worrying reversal in development, which defied the “young players will usually get better and not worse” paradigm, the reversal has been unreversed, and Huerter is now back on…
Read MoreDe’Andre Hunter 25 Points Full Highlights (1/26/2020)
If the NBA insists on having teams within in its 30-squad ranks that just straight-up suck, it definitely helps for them to be the high-scoring variety of suck. The Hawks, who are one of the very worst teams in the league, just dropped 152 points on the hardly-any-better Wizards, who scored 133. 152 somehow isn’t…
Read MoreCam Reddish 20 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
With this game, Cam Reddish has officially crawled out from the abyss of shooting below 30% on three-pointers (29.2%) onto the wide and verdant plain of shooting above 30% on three-pointers (30.5%). The abyss was a lonely and terrible place where his only companionship was other bigtime bricklayers like Jae Crowder, Brook Lopez, and Spencer…
Read MoreTaurean Prince 18 Points Full Highlights (1/23/2020)
Taurean Prince missed out on a twenty-point game by blowing a layup in the fourth quarter, leaving him with just eighteen points, a point total that would most definitely NOT receive a highlight video had my highlight-making schedule been more busy. The blown layup was disappointing from a highlight video perspective, but from a game…
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