Tag: Fred VanVleet

Apparently Fred “Vleetwood Mac” VanVleet is a good enough player where he doesn’t get to play in fourth quarter of blowouts. Congratulations on the promotion, man! It was not too long ago where he wouldn’t play EXCEPT in the fourth quarter of blowouts, so to be cheering from the bench while your team’s scrub unit…

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Fred “Vleetwood Mac” VanVleet has alternately drawn the ire and the support of Raptors fans. When he’s playing well, and especially when Lowry is playing poorly, there are calls for him to get more minutes. When he’s playing badly and chucking up bricks, there are calls for him to be removed from the rotation and…

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Fred “Vleetwood Mac” VanVleet isn’t as good as last year, in terms of on-off numbers, but at least he’s still in the positives. Last year, the Raptors were good based on the strength of their bench, with VanVleet and Pascal Siakam leading the way. This year, they’re good because they have Danny Green and Kyle…

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It is as I feared: almost all of these assists are to Serge Ibaka, and none of them are to Kawhi Leonard. Why does Fred VanVleet hate Kawhi? It may not seem like he does, because there are no locker-room reports of fights involving or not involving punching, there are no attacks through the media,…

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Kyle Lowry has been booty (both literally and figuratively) lately, so booty that the bootiness overwhelmed his body and forced him to sit out this game. Fred VanVleet has had his share of struggles, but he’s not the one getting paid big bucks to be the leader of the team and deciding to not shoot…

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The big story of tonight’s Raptors-Bucks matchup is that Kyle Lowry scored no points, continuing his steadfast commitment to not scoring the basketball anymore. The smaller story of tonight’s Raptors-Bucks matchup is that it turns out that the Raptors’ bench mob from last year was actually just Pascal Siakam being a beast and now that…

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Fred “Vleet of Voot” VanVleet was weirdly amazing last year for the Raptors. He had sick advanced stats despite just okay regular stats, and every bench unit he was on crushed the competition. I don’t want to say that he was untouchable for Raptors fans, but let’s just say I have an archive of screenshotted…

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Fred “Vleet of Voot” VanVleet got his first career start against the Bulls and promptly had his best game of the season. This begs the question: has VanVleet been held back by being shoehorned into the “bench mob” role this entire time? This game, in addition to showing us that VanVleet is a more than…

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The Bench Mob is back! It hasn’t been impacting things like it was last season, when it was a key component of the Raptors successful season that culminated in… getting swept by LeBron. But forget about that part. Regular season success is way more fun to think about, and their collection of odd-but-somehow-tightly-fitting semi-scrubs accounted…

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I need to write an app or something (or have someone else write it for me) that automatically subtracts points scored in the last however many minutes in blowout games from player point totals in the NBA boxscores. I need to do this because I am sick, and I am tired, of embarking on what…

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