Okay, everyone’s been saying it for a month now, but we’re super serious this time: Nikola Jokic has to step up. Right now. Before, it wasn’t so urgent, because the Nuggets still had most of their players, but the injuries are really piling up. Jokic is the last above-average starting player remaining besides Jamal Murray…
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Malik Beasley 19 Points Full Highlights (12/8/2018)
Now’s the time when Malik Beasley needs to step up. With the unusually large number of injuries the Nuggets are dealing with right now, he’s suddenly become one of their main guys instead of the near-afterthought that he was for the first quarter of the season. It’s easy for me to tell him he needs…
Read MoreNikola Jokic 24 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (12/8/2018)
Nikola Jokic had five 20-point performances in the first seven games of the season. Since then, in the 19 games after that? Six. That’s more than five, which means that my point isn’t as hard-hitting as it could be, but still. I’m sounding like a broken record, but we need more Jokic buckets. He hasn’t…
Read MoreJamal Murray 31 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (12/5/2018)
The top two assist-getters on the Nuggets are a flabby center and Jamal Murray. The flabby center gets way more, but I always think of Murray as more of the “shooty” kind of guard. Not the “passy” kind. But he’s averaging almost five assists per game this season. Who says the “Jamal Murray at point…
Read MoreJamal Murray 21 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (12/3/2018)
Jamal Murray continues to suffer karmic retribution for that last-second three he took in a won game while trying to get 50. The universe totally pays attention to that stuff, and when it sees you don’t play according to its rules, it alters physics slightly to mess you up. It can do that, why couldn’t…
Read MoreNikola Jokic Triple Double 23 Pts/11 Rebs/15 Asts Full Highlights (12/3/2018)
I had some serious doubts about continuing to highlight Nikola Jokic on this channel (a channel ostensibly for the advancement of the role-player cause), because he was already at 19 points per game last year and I figured he would just go up from there. Little did I know that he would stage a little…
Read MoreMonte Morris 16 Points Full Highlights (11/30/2018)
Monte Morris: top five backup PG in the league? I could go through and make a list of all the backup point guards in the league, then rank them, but that’s a lot of effort just for one video description, so I won’t bother with that. Instead, I’ll just think about the various backup point…
Read MoreGary Harris 27 Points Full Highlights (11/30/2018)
I was excited (one could even say…hyped) for Gary Harris to take the next step this season and turn himself into a true star in this league. Instead, he’s scoring the same PPG as last season, on way lower efficiency but higher volume (to make up for the lowered efficiency). He’s still a hella good…
Read MoreMalik Beasley Career High 20 Points Full Highlights (11/27/2018)
Shown in the thumbnail: the disdain that Malik Beasley has for all the bandwagon Laker fans infesting every away arena in the country. Not shown in the thumbnail: Michael Beasley getting his bench-sore heinie totally kicked by the superior Beasley. I really want to use this description space as my own personal soapbox to denounce…
Read MoreJamal Murray 22 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (11/24/2018)
A very Jokic-esque statline for Jamal Murray tonight: 22 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists. Except for the whole points part. Nowadays Jokic would never score that many, he’s too busy doing his thing to bother with the buckets part of the game. I’m still feeling residual hype from Murray’s 48-point game, but reserves are running…
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