After several years of being a sub-40% field goal shooter, Robert Covington is apparently benefitting from no longer being the first, second, or even third option on his team this season, because he’s now shooting a neat 47% from the field. Even more impressive, his three-point percentage currently sits at sizzly 49% – that’s sizzlier…
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Robert Covington 29 Points/7 Threes Full Highlights (10/18/2017)
Lost in the resplendent glory of the 76ers young core of Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid, and Markelle Fultz is the knowledge of who remains their best player: Robert Covington. That’s right, I said it, and I’ll say it again too. Robert Covington. Robert Covington. Rob đź‘Ź Ert đź‘Ź Cov đź‘Ź Ing đź‘Ź Ton đź‘Ź. I…
Read MoreRobert Covington 24 Points Full Highlights (3/20/2017)
OFFICIAL DTB PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: While it may seem like Robert Covington is playing well this year, and in fact he probably is playing well this year, he is still not shooting over 40% from the field. Defense is great. Steals are great. Rebounds are great too. But so is efficient shooting, and Covington is…
Read MoreRobert Covington 24 Points Full Highlights (3/9/2017)
Not shown: Robert Covington’s inexplicable take foul with 12 seconds left in a tie game. He made up for it with the game-tying putback as time expired, but what the heck was he thinking? You’ve got to know which teams are in the penalty and which aren’t. Same deal with timeouts. Part of the game…
Read MoreRobert Covington 21 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (1/29/2017)
Robert Covington achieved something last night. It wasn’t quite a five by five, but it was close. It was…the fabled “scrub by five”! He had 21 points, 12 rebounds, and three each of assists, steals, and blocks. So, not only did he meet the official threshold of a scrub by five (getting at least two…
Read MoreRobert Covington 22 Points/1 Game-Winner Full Highlights (1/20/2017)
“Hey T.J., do you think she’s gonna finally notice me after I hit that game winner?” Robert Covington asked his teammate T.J. McConnell. T.J. squinted his eyes in confusion. “Who’s ‘she’?” “Ariana Grande, duh,” Robert answered, as if his secret undisclosed crush was widely-known public knowledge. “She probably saw my cool demeanor after it went…
Read MoreRobert Covington 26 Points Full Highlights (12/14/2016)
Robert Covington has lowkey been one of the worst minutes-receiving players in the league this year. He had previously been heralded as one of the rare successes of Sam Hinkie’s (R.I.P. in peace) “cycle as many scrubs through the roster as possible and maybe some of the will be good if we force-feed them minutes”…
Read MoreRobert Covington 23 Points/5 Threes Full Highlights (11/9/2016)
Robert Covington is who comes up when you type “slow start” into the Googles. Check out these three-point shooting lines from the first few games of the season: 0 of 4, 0 of 5, 2 of 8, 1 of 9. Those lines are pretty awful, awful enough where you could make a case that if…
Read MoreRobert Covington 24 Points Full Highlights (4/12/2016)
Robert Covington is shooting a shade over seven threes per game this season. Only a few players can claim to surpass that number, and they all make sense: Curry, Thompson, Harden, and Lillard. Kyle Lowry and Paul George are pretty close. However, over his last seven games, Covington has shot the following amounts of threes:…
Read MoreRobert Covington Career High 30 Points Full Highlights (4/8/2016)
OFFICIAL NBA FOREHEAD WRINKLES POWER RANKINGS 1. Robert Covington 2. Uh… Devin Booker? 3. I don’t even know I just thought it would be funny to point out how expressive Robert Covington’s forehead wrinkles are and I didn’t really think this whole thing through and I just wanted people to laugh and have fun at…
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