Tag: Nikola Vucevic

Watch the clock at the 0:52 point of this video. Notice how it’s not ticking down the seconds even though the ball is obviously in play? It was that way for about thirty seconds of game time and I don’t know why nobody did anything to fix it. I mean, it’s plainly obvious to me…

Six times this season, a player has been one rebound and one assist shy of a triple-double, as Nikola Vucevic was with his 22/9/9 statline last night. Here are the five other players: Bradley Beal (39/9/9) Russell Westbrook (34/9/9) James Harden (28/9/9) Russell Westbrook (15/9/9) LeBron James (11/9/9) Vucevic maybe isn’t quite on the level…

Before you get all excited and sweaty about this “good game” from Nikola Vucevic, remember that he let Brook Lopez drop 27 on him, and sent him to the line for the game-winning free throws with less than a second remaining. He also held Lopez to 0 rebounds, but that’s more of a “Lopez literally…

I always sort of thought that a midrange jumper-ilation for Nikola Vucevic would be cool, but it seems like the time for that has passed: this year, only thirty percent of his field goals are from the ten feet to three-point range, whereas two years ago, that number was closer to fifty percent. I could…

Nikola Vucevic has now played three straight games, almost 100 minutes of playing time, without shooting a free throw. He has taken 54 shots in that time frame. How is that even possible? I’m freaking out right now. This guy must be the most contact-averse player in the whole league. Right up there with E’Twaun…

It’s really amazing how consistently Nikola Vucevic manages to shoot no free throws. He’s the least free-throw-prone center in the league, by far, and he proved it again tonight. He took 20 shots, to go with a big old goose egg in the FTA column. If he feels like there’s too much contact while he’s…

This was a, dare I say it, Jokic-esque performance by Nikola Vucevic tonight? It even had the same general quality of assists that Jokic gets in his triple doubles: some nice passes for cutters, and a few where the only reason they got the assist is because of a generous scorekeeper. Doesn’t matter. Vucci Mane…

If I had to rank NBA players based on nothing but how sweet their highlights are to watch, Nikola Vucevic would definitely be way up there. The amount of buckets he scores relative to how long his vids are is better than anybody. He doesn’t mess around with the other parts of highlightable basketball. He…

I don’t exactly know how player-specific fandom works in eastern Europe, but somehow Nikola Vucevic drew the short straw and ended up with exactly zero fans. While Nikola Jokic (who is averaging FEWER points than the other Nikola) receives bags and bags full of fan correspondence every day, Vucevic has to be content with one…