Tag: Nemanja Bjelica

When I saw “7” in the assists column next to Nemanja Bjelica’s name, I didn’t know what to expect. I did have a hunch, though: that all of his assists would be lame perimeter passes to Karl-Anthony Towns for jumpers. That’s what happens with these non-assisting tweener forwards. They get a bunch of assists, and…

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I can’t take TNT broadcasts anymore. I can’t take it when they have their normal commentators, and I can’t take it when they have that “Players Only” jackoff sesh. Newsflash: joking about how to pronounce foreign names is no longer cool. It may have been cool when not half the league was of Euro origin,…

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Why does Timberwolves coach Tom Thibodeau hate Nemanja Bjelica? More importantly, why does he hate the country of Serbia and all its people? Bjelica is shooting career-high percentages right now, he’s basically a perfect stretch four, and he’s in his prime, yet he only gets fifteen minutes per game. I get that Taj Gibson is…

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Nemanja “Buhjellicka” Bjelica, coming into this game, was the best three-point shooter in the league. According to stats, obviously. Not, you know, the actual best three-point shooter in the league. Only a really insane Serbophile would believe that. Bjelica was 4 of 5, 80 percent, tied with Jamal Crawford and Mario Hezonja for tops among…

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Sorry Serbians, but this might have to count as my designated Serbian-player highlight of the day, since Nikola Jokic only had 18 points. Dislike this video if you want, as a show of disapproval for my decision, but I can’t do highlights of EVERY Jokic performance. Besides, he’s getting to be kind of a good…

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Walt Frazier has ruined me forever with regards to Nemanja Bjelica. Watching a Knicks-Timberwolves game, I heard Frazier pronounce Bjelica’s name phonetically: something like “Buh-jell-ick-a”. It was laughable in its incorrectness, but now that pronunciation has stuck with me, and I can no longer see his name without thinking in my head “buhjellicka”. Buhjellicka has…

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We all suspected it at the time, but now our thoughts are confirmed: Nemanja Bjelica’s 24 point outburst a few weeks ago was nothing more than a mirage, a random aligning of the planets to produce a far above average scoring output. It wasn’t an indicator of Nemanja turning a corner, or getting more confident,…

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Does Nemanja Bjelica ever look happy? Like, ever? You’d think that these career-high 24 points would be reason to at least smile even a little bit. But no. Just the same semi-sad but mostly blank expression. Maybe he heard the Minnesota commentators ragging on him for not being a very good power forward and got…

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Ever since I failed to do Nemanja Bjelica highlights that one time early last season where he had 17, I’ve been doing vids of this dude every chance I get. I have to make amends somehow, right? Even though I fully understand that all the Belly vids in the world can’t bring back the one…

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One of my greatest regrets is never compiling Nemanja Nedovic highlights. Well, maybe “regret” isn’t the right word, since Nedovic never had a performance even close to being worthy of my channel. I guess the right way to put it would be: I was hyped to do Nemanja Nedovic highlights, but he sucked, so I…

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