It will take a lot to get me off the Doug McDermott bandwagon. How could a Jimmer Fredette with actual NBA size not be a productive player? That is my reasoning, and maybe it’s super flawed, I don’t care, until he’s washed up and playing for peanuts in the Philippines I will maintain that he…
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Dennis Smith Jr. 18 Points/11 Assists Full Highlights (3/6/2018)
Official 2017-18 Rookie of the Year Watch, March 6th Edition: Ben Simmons: 16 points, 13 assists, but his team was playing the Hornets so it’s not like those stats mean anything. Donovan Mitchell: didn’t play. Dennis Smith Jr.: 18 points, 11 assists, and the Mavericks needed all of those statisticals to beat the heavily-favored Nuggets….
Read MoreYogi Ferrell 24 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (3/6/2018)
The shine from that nationally-televised 9-three performance Yogi Ferrell had last year has finally faded away, I think. He has, to this point, not come close to replicating it, and there’s only so many low double-digit performances an excited viewing public can take before they say “You know what, we’re done with you, say, have…
Read MoreDirk Nowitzki 23 Points Full Highlights (3/4/2018)
It’s a sad time to be living in when Dirk Nowitzki’s season high in points is just 23, considering that he played seven straight seasons where he averaged 23 points per game or more. Then again, it’s also a happy time to be living in when 39-year-old Dirk Nowitzki can continue to give us vintage…
Read MoreDennis Smith Jr. 23 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (3/4/2018)
The most exciting thing about this video, to me, is that it shows definitively that Nerlens Noel is alive and ready to catch lobs. As a card-carrying member of the Nerlens Noel fanclub and certified conductor of the Nerlens Noel hype-train, this season has been a huge disappointment for me. But I’ll wait until Noel…
Read MoreDirk Nowitzki 18 Points/5 Threes Full Highlights (3/2/2018)
Dirk Nowitzki is having the best three-point shooting season of his career. If that tidbit was too obscure for you, here’s another one: he’s really old. Those two facts are an unusual combo in the NBA. There was a point in his career, right around when I really started caring about the NBA, that he…
Read MoreDennis Smith Jr. 25 Points Full Highlights (3/2/2018)
Dennis Smith Jr. can still win ROTY of the year. Don’t give up hope, Smithsonians Jr.! I’ve been doing some research on past winners and what the voters want to see in a candidate, and I’ve figured out what he needs to do win: – One word: statpadding. I think every prior ROTY winner was…
Read MoreDwight Powell 21 Points/7 Dunks Full Highlights (2/28/2018)
Before tonight’s dunking festival, Dwight Powell was 25th in the league in completed jammeroonis. He made 7 more tonight, so he’ll probably be top 20 by the time the stats update. But that is still unacceptable. Powell has proven that if you throw it somewhere in the vicinity of the rim, he’ll go up and…
Read MoreJ.J. Barea 19 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (2/26/2018)
After Mark Cuban got fined a significant amount of money for straight-up saying that the Mavs have tanked/will be tanking, you know he’s gonna take steps to make it look like he’s not doing the exact thing he said he was doing. And that means winning some games. As much as it hurts the placement…
Read MoreDoug McDermott 15 Points Full Highlights (2/26/2018)
I really love the idea of Doug McDermott. I was led astray by his predraft workout video, but even in a vacuum he just looks like a good NBA player. He looks great until you actually watch him play. His shortcomings soon become very apparent, but you know what, I don’t care. And I bet…
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