Royce “Shaquilee” O’Neale competently manned the starting shooting guard spot last night as Donovan Mitchell got moved fully to the point guard role. That’s great. I love it when rookies play unexpectedly large roles for their team, especially when the rookie is undrafted. The only problem is, Alec Burks is getting completely marginalized. Burks played…
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Royce O’Neale 13 Points Full Highlights (2/5/2018)
If there’s one lesson that I’ve recently learned, it’s that I shouldn’t avoid making a highlight video for a player just because they had a significantly better performance the game before. In this case, Royce O’Neale scored eighteen points a game ago, by far his best game as a pro, and those eighteen points make…
Read MoreRoyce O’Neale 18 Points Full Highlights (2/3/2018)
Royce “Shaquillee” O’Neale is already 24? So what was he doing between not getting drafted and randomly appearing on the Jazz opening night roster? Sitting around on a couch in his mom’s basement and jacking it to Japanese cartoons? Because that’s what I was doing between the ages of 21 and 24. I looked it…
Read MoreRoyce O’Neale 11 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (12/4/2017)
I am officially retracting an earlier statement I made which compared Royce O’Neale to John Salmons. That was a dumb comparison. Obviously Salmons would never record six assists in a single game. In making that comparison I was preoccupied with the fact that Salmons and O’Neale have similar looking faces and facial hair. I apologize…
Read MoreRoyce O’Neale 11 Points Full Highlights (11/28/2017)
A few disorganized thoughts on Royce O’Neale because I don’t have enough material on O’Neale to compose several paragraphs of organized narrative about him: -I thought his last name was pronounced “Oh-Neely” but both commentators here steadfastly called him “Oh-neel” like he’s Shaq’s son or something. So I went and found an interview where O’Neale…
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