Fred “Vleetwood Mac” VanVleet has alternately drawn the ire and the support of Raptors fans. When he’s playing well, and especially when Lowry is playing poorly, there are calls for him to get more minutes. When he’s playing badly and chucking up bricks, there are calls for him to be removed from the rotation and…
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Pascal Siakam Career High 33 Points Full Highlights (2/7/2019)
It’s official. Despite the agitations and protestations of Raptors fans the world over (actually, they’re mainly concentrated in Canada), Pascal Siakam is not an All-Star this year. Not even as a replacement. Letter-writing campaigns, Twitter brigades, in-person protests at the NBA headquarters, and hunger strikes undertaken while chained to a tree outside Adam Silver’s house…
Read MorePascal Siakam 28 Points Full Highlights (1/31/2019)
While Pascal Siakam was dominating the Bucks in the late third quarter/early fourth quarter, your pal DTB could be found curled up into a ball on the floor, weeping, while Japurri Purrker (my tubby little kitty) meowed at me because he was hungry. For those few minutes as the Raptors started coming back from their…
Read MoreDanny Green 22 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (1/25/2019)
In this description, I will hypothesize that Danny Green is a “winning player”, that is, a player whose presence on the court is so positive, taken as a whole, that whatever team he is on cannot help but win lots of game. Let’s got on to it! Here we go: Danny Green is a winning…
Read MorePascal Siakam 22 Points Full Highlights (1/25/2019)
Pascal “MIP But Replace the I with a V” Siakam’s late-game heroics were not enought to beat the Rockets. The Raptors came almost all the way back thanks to Siakam and the incredible boneheadedness of Eric Gordon, but you know who ruined it all for everybody? Kawhi Leonard. That last shot was the worst thing…
Read MoreFred VanVleet 19 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (1/22/2019)
Fred “Vleetwood Mac” VanVleet isn’t as good as last year, in terms of on-off numbers, but at least he’s still in the positives. Last year, the Raptors were good based on the strength of their bench, with VanVleet and Pascal Siakam leading the way. This year, they’re good because they have Danny Green and Kyle…
Read MoreDanny Green 24 Points/8 Threes Full Highlights (1/19/2018)
In the first year of Danny Green’s “real” NBA career, the 2011-12 season, the season-high for made threes by any player was 9. I’ll let you guess the three players who did that that season. I would’ve gotten one of them, one of the others I tried to repress the memory of because it happened…
Read MoreSerge Ibaka 22 Points Full Highlights (1/17/2019)
I would consider this a VINTAGE performance from Serge “Ibaka Gaijin” Ibaka. No free throws, no three-pointers, just dunks, hooks, and midrange jimbos. Eleven field goals made for twenty-two points, a mathematical cleanliness that is basketball’s analogue to the Golden Ratio. Ibaka even showed committment to the cause by being awarded two free throws, but…
Read MoreDelon Wright 17 Points Full Highlights (1/13/2019)
From my outside perspective, it seems like Raptors fans oscillate between who they want as their backup PG behind Kyle Lowry. One day it’s Fred VanVleet, the next it’s Delon Wright, the one after that it’s Lorenzo Brown (just kidding I know all Raptors fans hated that guy but the good news is that now…
Read MorePascal Siakam 24 Points Full Highlights (1/13/2019)
First off, I am fully aware that Pascal Siakam had nineteen rebounds in this game. They are not represented in the title of the video because they are not represented in the video itself. The NBA play-by-play videos will allow you to view all of his rebounds if that’s what is arousing to you. Secondly,…
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