Denver Nuggets – Page 29

Gary Harris Career High 36 Points Full Highlights (1/3/2018)

If you score 20 in the first quarter and 28 in the first half, it is not, I repeat NOT acceptable to finish the game with under 40 points. I’ve been a big proponent of Gary Harris these past few years, and this is how he repays me? By scoring 36 when he could’ve easily…

Jamal Murray 31 Points Full Highlights (12/30/2017)

There was a time, early last year, when I considered Jamal Murray and Dejounte Murray to be roughly equivalent players, and I actually confused them for each other a couple times. Go ahead and laugh. They both started off so slowly, I had no way of determining their talent levels. That’s the only way I…

Will Barton 28 Points Full Highlights (12/27/2017)

Will Barton has been in a bit of slump scoring the ball lately, but has tried to even things out by dropping more dimes than ever. That’s an admirable effort, but the impression I get from Nuggets fans is that he simply has too much ball time for how good he is. I can imagine…

Trey Lyles 23 Points Full Highlights (12/27/2017)

Trey Lyles is good now? He sucked so bad last year that I thought this year was a mirage for a while, but now I can’t deny the truth: Trey Lyles is good now. How he became good is anybody’s guess, if you care, my guess is that he had a box containing his jumpshot…

Nikola Jokic 22 Points Full Highlights (12/27/2017)

The commentators mentioned something during this game that I hadn’t realized about Nikola Jokic, but totally matched up with what I’ve seen from him this year: he’s not taking as many of those short midrange push-shot things! We demand more push-shot things from short midrange! Instead, he’s taking a bunch of threes. He’s, dare I…

Jamal Murray 22 Points Full Highlights (12/26/2017)

Jamal “Maple Curry” Murray is shooting over 50 percent from three this month. He’s at the point now where, if he’s open and launching from deep, I think it’s going to go in and it’s a surprise if it doesn’t. The only other player like that in the league for me is Tony Snell. Elite…

Nikola Jokic 18 Points Full Highlights (12/23/2017)

This isn’t a lot of points for Nikola Jokic, maybe not enough for a whole highlight vid, but I prefer to use the “FGM”, or field goals made, column of the boxscore instead of points when determining such things. He made 9 shots tonight, his fourth-most made shots of the season, accounting perfectly for his…

Nikola Jokic 27 Points Full Highlights (12/22/2017)

Nikola Jokic walked into the locker room early, just as he did every road game. He found that the spartan accommodations of the visitor’s lockers got him into the right frame of mind better than anything. He saw the locker hastily marked “Jokic” and walked over, preparing his playlist of his favorite Borislav Mitic songs,…

Nikola Jokic 22 Points Full Highlights (12/20/2017)

The great thing about YouTube highlights is they can make anyone look good. Think about how much net positivty has been gained by people choosing to watch highlights instead of full games. An NBA fan nowadays can go a whole season without seeing even one bad play from their favorite player if they choose. Some…

Jamal Murray 30 Points Full Highlights (12/20/2017)

Jamal “The Kitchener Utensil” Murray leads all 2016 draftees in total points. I don’t know if that’s a surprising stat or not; I’m leading towards not, because that draft all had crappy rookie seasons, or were injured, or won ROY while not impressing anybody with their scoring ability. It’s still impressive though. Someone has to…