“You got permission to bring a blowtorch in here?” Lifting up his facemask, Kawhi Leonard regarded his teammate Paul George with a blank expression. “You think Ballmer’s gonna say no when I ask him for something?” “I guess not,” Paul replied. He looked around the Clippers’ weight room, which had had all its weight machines…
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Reggie Jackson 26 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (4/9/2020)
https://youtu.be/wmn5ZutjFTo There is a very real possibility that when all is said and done, when the fat lady has sung (am I still allowed to use that turn of phrase in 2021????? please don’t cancel me), Reggie Jackson will have been the starting point guard on a championship team. I can hear the wails and…
Read MoreIvica Zubac 17 Points Full Highlights (3/5/2020)
I had been getting tired of how the Rockets were being so widely praised for their “bold” and “revolutionary” (more like “cold” and “devolutionary”) strategy of not even pretending to have any true bigmen on the court. I understand that it’s fun to see something new in the NBA, but it’s easy to have gimmicky…
Read MoreLandry Shamet 19 Points Full Highlights (2/13/2020)
It would have been neat if Landry Shamet’s clutch game-tying three near the end of the first overtime period had given the Clippers the strength to dominate the second OT to come away with the win. You’d think that the jubilation at being given another chance to win the game would have resulted in a…
Read MoreLandry Shamet 19 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2020)
Patty Mills attained a notable statline tonight, scoring 20 points while record 0 each of rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks. That kind of nothing-but-scoring performance always captures my heart, because scoring is the whole point of the game and the other things don’t excite me very much. I call it “pulling a Snell”. Landry Shamet…
Read MoreAmir Coffey 10 Points Full Highlights (2/9/2020)
Prior to this game and my making of this highlight video, the only thing I knew about Amir Coffey was that he played for the Clippers. I also sort of knew what he looked like. I had never gotten a clear look at him, but I knew he was moderately tall and that he was…um…lighter…
Read MoreLandry Shamet 23 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (2/5/2020)
Landry “Shamwow” Shamet was not at all “Shamwow” in the first half of this game. He had three points and one assist when the buzzer sounded at the end of the second quarter. That’s not way out of line with his season production (he’s averaging 10 PPG per game and 2 APG per game on…
Read MoreLandry Shamet 19 Points Full Highlights (1/26/2020)
There were some rumors recently of discord in the Clippers’ locker room due to the team underperforming. These were just rumors, and unsubstantiated rumors at that, but it’s not hard to imagine that the players could be a bit frustrated with each other if there’s a perceived lack of teamwork among them. All I’m saying…
Read MoreLandry Shamet 22 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
6 assists is the high for Landry Shamet as a Clipper. That may seem like a lot for a player like him, but it’s easy to forget, after the 76ers turned him into a pure shooter, that he did a lot of ball-handling in college. He averaged a bit over 5 assists per game in…
Read MoreLandry Shamet 18 Points Full Highlights (1/21/2020)
Whose idea was it to only schedule one game for a whole night? Was there something else going on where the NBA didn’t want to compete? Was the Super Bowl happening without me being aware of it? Because here’s the deal: when there are no games, there are no highlights. Straight up. The correlation between…
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