Tag: Jonas Valanciunas

Long-term, or even short-term, subscribers to my channel will know that I am obsessed with creating nicknames for players. If a player doesn’t have a nickname, or I deem their current nickname to be inadequate for whatever reason, I don’t rest until a new nickname is created. “Lithuanian Lightning” is a decent nickname for Valanciunas,…

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Jonas Valanciunas already had 20 points less than halfway through the second quarter tonight but, jaded as I am by years of various coaches blatantly mismanaging him, I did not have even a single vision of him scoring 40 enter my mind. Under normal circumstances, where a player has not been cruelly marginalized for their…

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21 points is all well and good for Jonas Valanciunas, that’s a nice point total for him these days. What I’m concerned about is the “4” I see for him in the rebounds column of the boxscore. Four? Rebounds? During the whole game? Okay, so not the whole game, because he only played 27 minutes,…

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Jonas Valanciunas is back on track! People will say he was struggling, and maybe the stats suggest he was struggling, as he had three games of 6, 8, and 6 points all in a row, but it wasn’t him struggling. Trust me on this. It was just a continuation of the trend of him being…

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I am sick and tired of this new narrative (being pushed by the simpletons at ESPN, no doubt) that Jonas Valanciunas is “struggling”. No. He’s not struggling. What is happening, and this has been happening his whole career so no one should be surprised, is that he is being held down by incompetent and racist…

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Jonas Valanciunas has been kind of dominating lately. He was apparently so sick (I know that feeling, gotta watch out with that seafood from the iffy-looking Chinese place) the last two games that he couldn’t play, and was still feeling a little woozy in this one. It didn’t matter. His recent statlines: 30 points, 16…

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Jonas Valanciunas was the reason the Grizzlies were within 2 points with 6 minutes left in the game. Everyone else was throwing up bricks, and he was helpfully grabbing those bricks and placing them gently in the bucket so that two points could be scored. After that point, though, he stopped scoring or even shooting,…

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“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” That’s what my grandma said to me one time, and I thought it was really profound and I was like “damn, Gram-Gram’s got some wisdom in that wrinkly head”. But it turns out she didn’t even make up the saying. I guess it was too…

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Based on last year’s performances, I was all set for the Grizzlies this year to be the Valanciunas-Caboclo-Morant show. Is that a big three? As things currently stand, no, that’s not a big three, but it definitely should be if Taylor Jenkins would allow it to happen. A big three such as that would entice…

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Try as I might, I can’t find a way to blame Dwane Casey for Jonas Valanciunas’ lack of production this season. He was a convenient scapegoat during all those years Valanciunas was in Toronto, enabling Valanciunas fans to direct their frustrations towards an external source rather than an internal source. Plus, it was just blatantly…

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