Tag: Lauri Markkanen

The commentators in this game couldn’t stop talking about how Lauri Markkanen had “returned” and how his “stroke” was “back”. The mystical codeword “February” was invoked multiple times. So I checked the stats, and they do seem to indicate that Markkanen played much better than in February than he has so far in March. In…

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I’m still coming down off the high of Trae Young’s 49-point game, but I’m going to try to write something coherent here for Lauri Markkanen, who had a very good game in his own right, AND got the victory (although, like Porter, he mostly disappeared during the overtime periods except for the fourth and final…

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Alright, your pal DTB is gonna get on his soapbox a little bit here. Hear me out. I wasn’t a big fan of the jersey patches when they first came out. I honestly thought I would hate them more than I did, but just because I’m not filled with complete hatred every time I look…

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We already know that Lauri Markkanen is a very good shooter. I don’t want to use the word “elite” just yet, simply because Markkanen hasn’t been in the league long enough to earn “elite” status, but I do want to allude to his eliteness. So I’m going with “very good” for now. But what about…

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If you consider free throws to be a type of jumper, and you should, because there isn’t anyone I see in the league trying to lay up their foul shots, then all 25 of Lauri Markkanen’s points against the Magic were scored by way of the jumpshot. Note that I’m counting his first two running…

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Before you get all mad at me for not including Lauri Markkanen’s eighteen rebounds in the title of this video, let me remind you that eighteen rebounds is not even Markkanen’s highest rebounding total this season. He got nineteen in a game once. So this isn’t even exciting. My heart rate is not elevated at…

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Normally I would be getting on Lauri Markkanen’s case for making a layup with two seconds left in a game that was obviously going to be a loss. Not because of any feeble argument about “sportsmanship” (a concept which does not encompass whining about players playing until the end of the game), but because I…

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Thirteen free throws is by far the career high for Lauri Markkanen in that stat. His previous career highs were seven attempts and six makes; Markkanen nearly doubled those totals by making all thirteen of his attempts in this game. Usually, career-highs in a stat are something to be celebrated, but there is nothing more…

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You could tell, watching this game, that Stacey King was starting to lose it. When things are going bad for the Bulls, he gets antsy and starts saying weird things. Case in point: with the Bulls down by double-digits to the Hawks (who are not a good team), he suggested, multiple times, that Lauri Markkanen…

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Lauri “The Markksman” Markkanen would have had a fair-to-good chance of beating his career high of 33 if he had been allowed to play more than one minute in the fourth quarter of this game. He only needed six more points after scoring 27 in the first three periods and, at points, looking unstoppable while…

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