I already hold an odd form of nostalgia for this past offseason’s Summer League and preseason, when you couldn’t walk five steps without hearing yet another Lakers fanperson extolling the virtues of the Lakers rookies, of Kyle Kuzma and Lonzo Ball. Grand proclamations of glory flooding social media, previously unwatched basketball becoming must-see TV. There…
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Julius Randle 26 Points Full Highlights (3/13/2018)
The Lakers have been playing like a fringe playoff team ever since Julius Randle got inserted into the starting line up (coincidence???? MAYBE), but it’s way too late for them to think about making the playoffs. What they should be thinking about instead is making it to .500 for the season so Laker fans can…
Read MoreKyle Kuzma 26 Points Full Highlights (3/13/2018)
Since Kuzma hasn’t appeared on my channel recently and I don’t normally ignore players for no good reason, I sort of figured that he was experiencing some kind of prolonged, month-long slumpy-wump. So I went and checked his game logs only to find that, of course, I was right (I always am); this is only…
Read MoreJulius Randle Career High 36 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (3/11/2018)
Julius Randle has improved nicely every year he’s been in the league. Remember his rookie season? His legs were so weak that he could barely step on the court without them disintegrating! The amount of progress he had made since then is staggering. Just earlier this season the Lakers FO/coaching staff were openly hostile towards…
Read MoreBrook Lopez 29 Points Full Highlights (3/9/2018)
Brook Lopez grabbed 5 rebounds tonight! I didn’t show them, because I don’t show rebounds as a matter of principle (they are the lamest of the five major stat categories), but you do get to see one as part of a dunk. Obviously, I’m bringing this up because he didn’t have any rebounds last game,…
Read MoreBrook Lopez 27 Points/0 Rebounds Full Highlights (3/7/2018)
The title of this video is not a joke. Brook Lopez, who is 7 feet tall and capable of jumping at least a little bit, played 34 minutes, scored 27 points, but failed to grab even a single rebound. This is because he can only grab a rebound if a.) it comes right to him…
Read MoreJulius Randle 25 Points Full Highlights (3/3/2018)
So Julius Randle averaged 19/9/4 in the month of February on 59% shooting. Those are approaching prime Blake Griffin numbers (or if you want to dig deeper into Clippers history, prime Elton Brand numbers). If Randle averaged those numbers for a whole season he would be an undisputed top five power forward in the league….
Read MoreLonzo Ball 18 Points/11 Assists/6 Threes Full Highlights (3/3/2018)
Real talk incoming: I preferred Lonzo Ball when his poofy hair combined with his pockmarked face to make him look like a slice of pepperoni pizza. Generally speaking, the more an NBA player looks like a food item, the more I like them. Ball, sadly, no longer looks like any type of food. He looks…
Read MoreBrandon Ingram 21 Points/6 Assists/3 Blocks Full Highlights (2/26/2018)
Let me remind you that if Brandon Ingram’s last name was actually DeIngram, you could rearrange the letters in DeIngram and come up with the word “midrange”. This is not an accident. When we see Ingram make one of his baby-giraffe-looking pull-up midrange jimbos, it’s happening because he’s supposed to. It’s his role in the…
Read MoreKentavious Caldwell-Pope 34 Points/8 Threes Full Highlights (2/24/2018)
Lakers fans are finding out first-hand the operating methods of one Kentavious “I Was In Such Trouble With The Law That I Couldn’t Play Games Outside The State Of California But For Some Reason The NBA Community At Large Hardly Noticed” Caldwell-Pope. Namely, that he likes to be the streakiest player in the league. As…
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