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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Doug McDermott 23 Points Full Highlights (12/10/2017)
When you see Doug McDermott highlights, what kind of shots do you expect are contained therein? Don’t answer dunks. If you answered dunks, either you’ve never seen him play or you saw one highlight of him dunking and got really confused. However, if you answered layups, you’d be wrong, but also right, because this video…
Read MoreDoug McDermott 16 Points Full Highlights (11/20/2017)
Do the New York Knicks commentators even call Doug McDermott by his nickname “Doug McBuckets”? In the few Knicks games that I’ve watched, I don’t think I’ve ever heard McDermott referred to in that way. All I hear is Clyde Frazier saying “MacDermott” over and over because they want to play up his good-natured illiteracy…
Read MoreDoug McDermott 20 Points Full Highlights (11/7/2017)
The Knicks are winning games. I don’t know how they’re doing it, presumably some sort of witchcraft is involved, but it’s happening right now and we can’t ignore it. Eventually they’ll have to learn how to win games where they’re not down by a bajillion points in the fourth quarter, maybe by playing better in…
Read MoreDoug McDermott 21 Points Full Highlights (3/18/2017)
The Thunder traded for Doug McDermott to try and make up for their gigantic blunder of trading Ersan Ilyasova early in the season. I don’t know why they traded away one of their only outside shooting threats, but at least they saw the error of their ways and acquired a comparable white long-bomber. At least,…
Read MoreDoug McDermott 16 Points Full Highlights (2/28/2017)
There is no reason to discuss anything about or anyone on the Thunder unless it is as it relates to Russell Westbrook’s quest to average a triple-double. Has there ever been a team where one player so thoroughly dominates his team’s narrative? Even Jordan had Pippen. Westbrook has… Oladipo? And Doug “Dougie McThunderBuckets” McDermott. McDermott…
Read MoreDoug McDermott 20 Points Full Highlights (2/14/2017)
One of the major knocks on Doug McDermott coming out of his college were his obscenely low “stocks” (steals + blocks) numbers. 34 steals and 14 blocks over his four-year stint at Creighton. To go with his 3000+ points. Things haven’t changed. He’s been bad in those categories his whole time with the Bulls as…
Read MoreDoug McDermott Career High 31 Points Full Highlights (1/15/2017)
Doug McDermott woke up and immediately decided he had simply transferred from one dream into another. The place he was in had a very dreamlike quality about it; a marble hallway extending infinitely in both directions; a pervasive greyish mist; ivory pillars extending vaguely into the hazy sky; indistinct yellow torches lending diffuse orbs of…
Read MoreDoug McDermott 17 Points Full Highlights (1/7/2017)
I have harnessed the powers of YouTube to make it look like Doug McDermott had a good game, even though, by all measures except one, he didn’t. That one measure that makes him look kind of okay is the “clutchness” factor. McDermott, despite going 6 of 17 from the field, did hit a big three-pointer…
Read MoreDoug McDermott 17 Points Full Highlights (1/4/2017)
After spending several weeks in a confused daze after being violently and repeatedly concussed in late November, Doug McDermott has finally shaken off the inner cobwebs of his mind and is back on the court. He still doesn’t quite know where he is or who his teammates are, but his vision is clear enough to…
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