Pascal Siakam took 10 shots tonight, making 7 of them. A nice performance overall, good for 16 points. But the 3 he missed? All three-pointers, bringing his percentage down to a ludicrous 14 percent on over 2 attempts per game. Is this game evidence enough that he should stick to things inside the arc? He’s…
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Fred VanVleet Career High 22 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (1/11/2018)
The Raptors bench, led once again by Fred “Vleet of Voot” VanVleet regained tonight some of the mojo they had lost, and at the perfect time. Against the Cavaliers feat. LeBron James. On national TV. The Cavaliers ended up getting embarrassed on the strength of the Raptors’ reserves, with VanVleet just one of many who…
Read MoreJonas Valanciunas 21 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2018)
The 20 and 10 game. The hallmark of a good performance by a center in the NBA. The best among them average that during a whole season. Jonas Valanciunas does not get the opportunity to average that much. Unless you use the 20 minutes he plays per night and the 10 fingers Dwane Casey uses…
Read MoreTerence Davis 23 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (1/8/2018)
Everyone’s stepping up for the Raptors now. Except for Stanley Johnson, who might be irreparably broken. Everyone else though, they know that their team is suffering some injury problems and are ready and willing to play big minutes and put up big numbers. That’s how you know an organization is good: when their role-players actually…
Read MoreSerge Ibaka 21 Points Full Highlights (1/5/2018)
Serge “Ibaka Gaijin” Ibaka is currently having his second-most efficient scoring season ever, behind 2012-13 season with the Thunder where they got swept in the second round by the Grizzlies. When you think about it that way, it’s totally fine for him to not be the same stud defender in years past: why would he…
Read MoreJonas Valanciunas 20 Points/1 Quarter Full Highlights (1/5/2018)
Making this video caused me severe anguish. I already watched Jonas Valanciunas dominate the Bucks’ collection of scrubigs (that’s scrub bigs for you foreigners out there) to the tune of 20 points in one frickin’ quarter. It was bad live, but it was even worse having to watch it closely enough to edit together this…
Read MoreDelon Wright Career High 25 Points Full Highlights (1/3/2018)
25 points, 13 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals, 1 block. Those are prime Olajuwon numbers right there. For real. Who on the Raptors could possibly accumulate those statistical units in a single game? Ibaka? Too old. DeRozan? Can’t rebound. Caboclo? Yeah, if he turned into the next Giannis like Masai so desperately wanted. Delon Wright?…
Read MoreC.J. Miles 20 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (12/27/2017)
For some reason, the Raptors commentators were really obsessed with having C.J. Miles receive and shoot the ball. Maybe they were frustrated with DeRozan’s 0-of-3 or Lowry’s 2-of-7 from three, but it’s not like Miles didn’t attempt enough three-pointers; he took twelve of them, the most of any Raptors player this season. Or maybe they…
Read MoreDelon Wright 14 Points Full Highlights (12/23/2017)
As a special Christmas gift in addition to Delon Wright scoring 14 points, you get to hear Raptors commentator Jack Armstrong’s rendition of three classic holiday carols! If you’re anything like me, your mind goes straight into a state of annoyance as soon as any of them are heard, but it’s a little better when…
Read MoreSerge Ibaka 24 Points/4 Dunks Full Highlights (12/20/2017)
My plan for the description was to grandstand about Serge “Ibaka Gaijin” Ibaka’s devolution from a powerful, physical, defensive-minded player into a soft, Euro-esque jumpshooting ninny who is basically Andrea Bargnani 2.0 for the Raptors. Then I made the actual highlight video and I witnessed Ibaka convert four separate dunks, all of them thrown down…
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