Tag: Fred VanVleet

It was refreshing to hear Doris Burke mention at the end of this broadcast that Fred VanVleet is playing exactly how you’d expect a guy seeking out his next NBA contract to play. VanVleet has a legit chance to be 100% completely financially set for life if he just plays really good for this one…

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The Raptors commentators claimed that Fred VanVleet’s 7 three-pointers this game were a career-high. Now, let’s just get this out of the way before anyone gets the wrong idea here: they’re totally wrong. Because I DISTINCTLY remember a playoff game against the Bucks where he hit 10 threes in a Raptors victory. Don’t believe me?…

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I thought that with Kyle Lowry returning to the Raptors’ lineup, Fred VanVleet would take a break from ruining my life. I guess this is what I get for having even the flimsiest shred of optimism: VanVleet redoubling his efforts to ruin my life by having a surfeit of stat-stuffed performances. He did temporarily take…

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I have decided that, as long as Fred VanVleet’s field goal percentage is under 40%, I’m going to call him Fred VanBrick. Since 40% is the official demarcation line between being a decent shooter and being a poor shooter, I feel that this is a fair nickname. It callously ignores the fact that VanVleet is…

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The last a truly casual NBA fan will have seen of Fred VanVleet is him dominating the Bucks in the last half of their series before going on to help dominate the Warriors on his way to a championship. They will think that VanVleet is some sort of stud All-Star point guard, basically the Canadian…

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I thought that when Kyle Lowry came back, Fred VanVleet wasn’t supposed to play forty minutes per game anymore. But Nick Nurse has such a bone-on for this dude that he can’t bear to not start him, so FVV starts at the shooting guard position while Lowry starts at point guard. If Nurse doesn’t watch…

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Once Kyle Lowry comes back, which I assume has to happen at some point, I would suggest that Nick Nurse give Fred VanVleet a nice amount of games off. He only played 32 minutes tonight, probably a season-low for him (I’m too lazy to check [okay I checked and it’s only the fifth-lowest, but he…

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The only guy in the NBA playing more minutes per game than Fred VanVleet is Damian Lillard. There have been 452 players to log minutes so far this season, and VanVleet is outminuting them all save one. I choose to believe that him (and Pascal Siakam, who is also way up there) playing this much…

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Recently I think I insinuated that I didn’t want Kyle Lowry to come back and that I wanted Fred VanVleet to continue playing heavy minutes forever. That definitely seems like an opinion I would hold, but I write so much garbage in these video descriptions, often without actually thinking about the words that I’m typing,…

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The Orlando Magic aren’t all that good right now, which lessens the impact of this rematch from the first round of the playoffs last season. There wasn’t any “bad blood” that I could tell. If there was a rivalrous atmosphere sizzling in the arena, it wasn’t apparent from the television broadcast. From all outside appearances,…

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