Everybody knows what the next step in the evolution of Bam Adebayo’s game is: jumpers. He can do everything else, there is literally nowhere else for his game to go. Sure, he could maybe, like, refine his post moves or something, or work on running pick-and-rolls, but those are minor things. Jumpers are a major…
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Duncan Robinson 21 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (1/27/2020)
Is anybody else feeling really heartened by the fact that Duncan Robinson turned from an on-the-fringes scrublord who couldn’t get into games into a vital cog on one of the top teams in the East in the span of one off-season, solely on the basis of his shooting? Maybe I’m alone in feeling this way,…
Read MoreBam Adebayo 18 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
Four Miami Heat highlight videos in a row. They didn’t even win the game! If I was really serious about cutting my workload, I’d institute a new policy: if your team doesn’t win, you don’t get a video. Why should we be glorifying statistically impressive performances in losses? There’s only one stat that matters: the…
Read MoreDion Waiters 14 Points/1 Return Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
It really felt like Dion Waiters, after blocking Lou Williams twice and then hitting a three to bring the Heat within three with 30 seconds left, that we were going to see a vintage “Waiters Island” performance. The Clippers would mess up, the Heat would get the ball back, and Waiters would swing his huge…
Read MoreKelly Olynyk 19 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
The incredible redundancy created by having Kelly Olynyk and Meyers Leonard on the same team finally caught up to one of them, as Olynyk has seen his minutes drop precipitously all the way into DNP-CD territory in the last month. He’s seen a bit of an increase the last few games, but even so, his…
Read MoreTyler Herro 19 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2020)
Tyler Herro played a lot of minutes tonight. Even with Dion Waiters alive and willing to shoot shots (he sucks but it was kind of cool to seem him come in and immediately hit some swaggy threes like he’d never left), Herro was in the game for 40 minutes. Most teams now recognize the value…
Read MoreTyler Herro 25 Points/7 Threes Full Highlights (1/22/2020)
Tyler Herro has been slumping a bit in the past month and, as a fellow white male from Wisconsin, that makes me sad. In fact, I believe that his slump has caused me to personally slump in my own pickup games, but I will take ownership of my own inability to hit shots rather than…
Read MoreKendrick Nunn 25 Points Full Highlights (1/20/2020)
Heat commentary-man John Crotty (who sucks by the way – GIVE ME BACK TONY FIORENTINO YOU COWARDS) alleged in this game that Kendrick Nunn “[had] milk in his veins”. And now I’m sitting here wondering if that’s a good thing, to have milk running through one’s veins. Crotty obviously thought that this was a good…
Read MoreJames Johnson 22 Points Full Highlights (1/20/2020)
OFFICIAL PREFERRED IN-GAME SNACKS OF JAMES JOHNSON POWER RANKINGS 1. Mozzarella sticks smuggled by a friendly fan from the concession stand 2. A carton of melted strawberry ice cream stashed in warm-up pants 3. Candy from the candy bucket on the scorer’s table (consumed in fistfuls without removing the wrappers first) 4. One chicken strip…
Read MoreBam Adebayo 21 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (1/17/2020)
If Bam Adebayo wants more triple-doubles (and you know he does), he’s going to have to study some more game film of Nikola Jokic. If he doesn’t want to bother the Heat’s video personnel with such a request (word might travel through the grape vine that he isn’t 100 percent confident in his abilities), I…
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