Norman “Normal Powenn” Powell has been broken for roughly a year and a half. I don’t know what exactly happened to cause him to break, but whatever it was, it really broke him good. His second year in the league saw him play a large role on a good team, and it only seemed like…
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Serge Ibaka 25 Points Full Highlights (1/5/2019)
Serge Ibaka always torches the Bucks, and it always happens the same way: by him shooting a bunch of barely contested midrange jumpers. Especially this season, since the Bucks’ new defensive strategy is to basically let teams shoot as many of those as they want. Over time, I guess, the theory is that the Bucks’…
Read MoreFred VanVleet 21 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (1/5/2019)
It is as I feared: almost all of these assists are to Serge Ibaka, and none of them are to Kawhi Leonard. Why does Fred VanVleet hate Kawhi? It may not seem like he does, because there are no locker-room reports of fights involving or not involving punching, there are no attacks through the media,…
Read MorePascal Siakam Career High 30 Points Full Highlights (1/5/2019)
All the evidence is now pointing to Toronto’s “bench mob” from last year just being “Pascal Siakam the Great and his motley crew of garbage-suckers”. Because now that he’s graduated to being a legit starter, the bench can hardly do anything. Evidence: the bench scored 5 of the 123 points the Raptors scored this game….
Read MorePascal Siakam Career High 28 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2018)
Pascal “SICKam” Siakam was really cooking tonight. He didn’t overuse the spin moves, which is both comforting (in that he can score in ways other than spin moves) and disappointing (I wanna see spin moves, god damn it). After just setting a career-high a week ago with 26 points, he want ahead and surpassed that…
Read MorePascal Siakam 20 Points Full Highlights (12/30/2018)
For some reason, the Raptors TV people just love using really zoomed-in shots of Pascal Siakam for their broadcast. I thank them for that, because it makes my job of gathering potential thumbnail images much easier, but it’s also kinda weird. And they don’t seem to do it as much with other players, like it’s…
Read MorePascal Siakam Career High 26 Points Full Highlights (12/22/2018)
It’s really nice to see, on a night where Giannis Antetokounmpo really sucked, that there was another player doing the same sort of things and being really good. That player’s name? Pascal Siakam. Duh. Who did you think it was going to be? Joel Embiid? Faugh! That guy is good but he’s no Giannis/Siakam. Siakam…
Read MoreOG Anunoby 21 Points Full Highlights (12/21/2018)
Looks like we just found what OG Anunoby needs to be a successful player in the NBA: to be the starter. He started a majority of the games for Toronto last year, including all their playoff games. And he was good. Not great, but good. His raw stats didn’t do justice to how much he…
Read MoreDanny Green 19 Points Full Highlights (12/14/2018)
Danny Green is currently sitting at 9.9 points per game, just .1 points per game away from the magical milestone of ten points per game. I don’t know how anybody expects him to score fractions of a point given that the smallest denomination of points awarded in a standard-rules basketball contest is 1, but I’m…
Read MoreFred VanVleet 21 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (12/14/2018)
Kyle Lowry has been booty (both literally and figuratively) lately, so booty that the bootiness overwhelmed his body and forced him to sit out this game. Fred VanVleet has had his share of struggles, but he’s not the one getting paid big bucks to be the leader of the team and deciding to not shoot…
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