Ersan Ilyasova is one of the best charger-takers in the league. At least, he was with the Bucks. I’ve kind of lost track since then. But however good he was at setting his feet and letting people slam into him, he never crossed the fine line between that and flopping. You can argue that taking…
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Ersan Ilyasova 21 Points Full Highlights (11/5/2016)
You know what sucks? Yes, the 76ers lost this game despite heroic efforts by Ersan Ilyasova and Joel Embiid. That’s not what I’m talking about here, though. Yes, I have irreparably destroyed my once-pristine relationship with Jenniner. I don’t want to talk about it, who are you, my therapist? Yes, the Taco Bell nearest me…
Read MoreErsan Ilyasova 22 Points Full Highlights (3/1/2016)
Ersan Ilyasova and Scott Skiles have taken circuitous routes since Skiles’ coached Ilyasova in Milwaukee. Like them, the NBA and its assorted players and staff have taken similar winding roads, scattering themselves into configurations unimaginable just a few years ago. Now, as if by fate, Ilyaskiles are reunited in Orlando, ready to, if not take…
Read MoreErsan Ilyasova 16 Points Magic Debut Full Highlights (2/19/2016)
You stare at the video title in disbelief. If you are a Pistons fan, your disbelief is multiplied tenfold. “B-b-b-but DEE TEE BEE!” you yell at your computer screen, “Ersan Ilyasova scored more than sixteen at least a d-d-dozen times while on the Pistons and you rarely made highlight v-videos for him!” It’s true, my…
Read MoreErsan Ilyasova 19 Points Full Highlights (12/29/2015)
Watching Brandon Jennings pass the ball to Ersan Ilyasova for a three pointer brought back memories I thought permanently repressed. Years of Bucks fandom, rushing back into my mind like a river bursting through a dam. Images of Andrew Bogut, the screams of him mangling his arm, remembrances of drafting Joe Alexander, an apparition of…
Read MoreErsan Ilyasova 20 Points Full Highlights (12/12/2015)
I haven’t been watching the Pistons a whole heck of a lot lately. Brings back memories that I don’t want brought back, you know? I’d prefer to just pretend that Ersan Ilyasova just doesn’t exist. So if someone could tell me how the whole “replicate Dwight’s Magic by surrounding Andre Drummond with a bunch of…
Read MoreErsan Ilyasova 23 Points Full Highlights (12/2/2015)
As a Bucks fan, I am intimately familiar with Ersan Ilyasova’s hot/cold tendencies. However, it was rare for him to display both polarities of his game in one night. Usually he would be sorta-kinda hot for the whole game instead of doing all his damage in one quick burst. It was either that or just…
Read MoreErsan Ilyasova 20 Points Full Highlights (11/17/2015)
When I watch Ersan Ilyasova find success with the Pistons, I know I should be happy. My brain, proud bastion of logic and rationality, tells me this. I should be happy for his team, for all fans of good-quality NBA basketball, and, most importantly, for him. Instead, I feel nothing. When Ersan left for Detroit,…
Read MoreErsan Ilyasova 16 Points Pistons Debut Full Highlights (10/27/2015)
Huh. A lot of player movement this offseason, yeah? I guess it’s gonna take a while before I fully internalize the moves that have been made. Yup. Whole bunch of new faces, or rather, old faces with new unis. Players you thought would be with a team for their whole career, maybe, I don’t know,…
Read MoreErsan Ilyasova 21 Points Full Highlights (4/12/2015)
This was a bad time for Ersan Ilyasova to have a good game. Yeah, the Bucks are now in the playoffs in part because of it, but what good is being in the playoffs when your stretch-four won’t have any good games in it? Ersan typically performs well once for every 8 or so that…
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