This performance by Will Barton seems really good, great even, until you realize that his closest NBA comparison, Corey Brewer, once scored 51 in a game. Then, you start to wonder why Barton hasn’t done the same, and the only conclusion you can come to is that Barton is a worse player than Brewer, who…
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Nikola Jokic Triple Double 17 Pts/14 Rebs/10 Asts Full Highlights (3/16/2017)
Yes, I am aware that the boxscore and play-by-play credit Nikola Jokic with 11 assists. I wouldn’t make such a simple error (actually I would, you guys never notice if I’m missing an assist). Here’s the deal: his 11th assist occurred on a play where he didn’t touch the ball for the final 10 seconds…
Read MoreJamal Murray 22 Points/5 Threes Full Highlights (3/13/2017)
Whenever I see Jamal Murray have a good game it seems like he’s doing all his damage in the fourth quarter. Since he doesn’t have enough confidence from his coach yet to be a “closer”, I figure most of his points come in games that have already been decided one way or another, such as…
Read MoreNikola Jokic 18 Points/4 Assists Full Highlights (3/13/2017)
A “mere” eighteen points and four assists for Nikola “Jock Itch” Jokic is vaguely disappointing until you realize that he accumulated his stats in only 24 minutes of on-court action. This is because he dominated the Lakers so thoroughly that there was no reason to play him the whole game or even most of the…
Read MoreGary Harris 24 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2017)
The thing that blows my mind about Gary Harris is that he looked like a nothing his first season in the league. He shot 30% from the field and 20% from three. He got a consistent ten to twelve minutes per game in the second half of the season but utterly failed to do anything…
Read MoreNikola Jokic 20 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2017)
I’m sure you already know all about this, but I still think it’s totally bad-ass that Nikola Jokic did harness racing as a young person. It’s like horse racing, except instead of riding the beast yourself you put yourself in a little cart and get dragged behind the beast. I say it’s bad-ass because my…
Read MoreNikola Jokic 21 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (3/10/2017)
I keep seeing that Nikola Jokic was out with an illness, but no one is telling me what that illness IS. Was he almost dead? There are lots of different kinds of illnesses with lots of different effects. Was it a “it’s coming out of both ends and it won’t stop” deal or a “I’m…
Read MoreMason Plumlee 19 Points/5 Assists/1 Injury Full Highlights (3/8/2017)
Plumlee tried to emulate Nikola Jokic in this game, and he pretty much succeeded. He got five assists, which is an amount that we would expect Jokic to get. He scored nineteen points, which is an amount that would be a little bit low for Jokic, but still acceptable. He had ten rebounds, which is,…
Read MoreGary Harris Career High 26 Points Full Highlights (3/8/2017)
Gary Harris, with this game, has stepped boldly into a new era of his career: the era where he scores points so effortlessly that it doesn’t even seem like he’s scoring a ton of points but he actually is. I don’t think the Nuggets commentators even realized that he set a career-high in this game,…
Read MoreWilson Chandler Career High 36 Points Full Highlights (3/6/2017)
My campaign to have Wilson Chandler win the 6MOY award is ruined. Utterly ruined. I only had the best intentions when trying to present Chandler as the league’s most valuable player off the bench. Only the best intentions, but my carefully laid plans have been demolished by the selfish actions of haters. Hater act one:…
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