Reminder to the Grizzlies commentators: exclamations of “jėga”, which means “strength” in Lithuanian, should be reserved for when Jonas Valanciunas does something on the court that displays his strength. If the word is misused, it will lose its meaning and viewers will think that it just means “good” or “beast” or something. I have gone…
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Jonas Valanciunas 21 Points Full Highlights (1/10/2020)
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,…
Read MoreDillon Brooks 22 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (1/10/2020)
You know how a lot of teams have a “big three” which consists of their three best players? It’s such a common concept that it’s wormed its way into front offices, where suit-wearking executives feverishly scribble on whiteboards in conference rooms, trying to figure out ways to improve their team’s “big three” or ways to…
Read MoreJaren Jackson Jr. 24 Points Full Highlights (1/10/2020)
I need to come up with a big list of players who I will be really mad if they don’t get invited to the three-point shootout over All-Star weekend. So far I have two definite people on the list: -Jaren Jackson Jr. -Tyler Herro The NBA has to realize that, in this modern of age…
Read MoreJa Morant 22 Points/14 Assists Full Highlights (1/10/2020)
We are just about halfway through the season already. I swear it was just a few days ago that things were tipping off, but I’m looking at the amount of vids that I’ve done already, and even though I have literally no memory of most of them (you mean to tell me that I’ve made…
Read MoreJaren Jackson Jr. 21 Points Full Highlights (1/7/2020)
Everyone’s thinking it, so let’s just put it out there: Jaren Jackson Jr. should be in the three-point shootout. Remember, the first and arguably only priority of the All-Star weekend three point contest is entertainment. It’s not meant to determine who the best shooter is. It’s not meant to showcase the best shooters by percentage….
Read MoreDillon Brooks 28 Points Full Highlights (1/7/2020)
Dillon “Dellin Brooker”* Brooks is what they call a “walking bucket”. At least in some games. Lots of games, he takes some shots, makes a few of them, and that’s that. But once in a while, he has a game where he makes tough shot after tough shot and you wonder how a player like…
Read MoreJa Morant 25 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (1/7/2020)
Ja Morant is a great rookie, by far the best out of all the 2019 draftees right now. And he’ll probably remain by far the best even after a certain Fatty McWaddle makes his return from whatever fat-related ailment is currently sidelining him. The ROTY of the Year award is his to lose, but he’s…
Read MoreJonas Valanciunas 30 Points Full Highlights (1/5/2020)
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…
Read MoreDillon Brooks 22 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (1/4/2020)
Darn it! I thought for sure that Dillon Brooks would be leading the ‘Zlies in total field goals attempted, but when I went to check, he’s in second place. He’s attempted 460, while Jaren Jackson Jr. (total chucker by the way) has taken 470. There goes my whole narrative. I had a whole narrative of…
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