Dec. 18: Josh Dizzy Makes Me Giddey

Night for Rooks in the COVID Ravaged Association

Rookie growing pains, they say. Lurking On Lunches. LOL. We good on this very front because Josh Giddey comes from Aussie Land and that means he comes from a GROWN-ASS-MEN league and so he’s far from your casual freshman. That’s why he’s thrived even on a dose of fewer than 30 NBA games to his name. Peep at last night’s outcome in the Tanking Thunder victory over the Clips to enlighten your brain and know all you need to.

Dizzy Giddey needed all of just 32 minutes on the court to dump a near-trip-dub on LA to the tune of 8 pops (no treys), 18 (!) boards, and 10 dimes. The kid attempted 14 shots and went 4-for-them as he was absolutely inoperant in forcing the D to foul him he had to eat a solid no-freebies-allowed bunch of crow. Also: four turnovers on the day. But again: THE N.E.A.R. TR*FECTA has all of us drooling on Koala Josh.

And yes, Giddey was sublime, but seemingly every baby baller out there in Cade Cunningham, Scottie Barnes, Franz Wagner, David Duke, and Jonathan Kuminga just to name a few brought all of the Habanero $auce on another Saturday Night. The L is in good hands, folks, rest easy.

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— Shout out Freddy VanVleet-O and teammate Scottie for combining for a ridiculous 48 pops on just 33 minutes of playing time (each) in a surprising W over Golden State. FVV with the silly 27-7-12-3-1 packed line to which he added 6 treys shooting 52.9% on his 17 FGA, and going **perfect** from the charity stripe. Best of all: no TOs. Barnesy dropped a not-so-r**kish 21-8-6 line going 7-for-12 from the field and 5-for-7 on free throws.

— Brad Beal led the day on the scoring department and cut the loaf on 37 slices of bread. Nobody shot more rocks than Beal (24) other than Donovan Mitchell’s 25 FGA… against the Wiz yesterday. Beal was good-not-great at everything else with 5 rebounds and 7 dimes, but he topped DoMi at everything and hit 9-of-10 free-throw attempts while logging a ridiculous 36% usage rate.

— Of course, I can’t let the chance slip so here’s today’s most important thing: KEMBA WALKER came back for the Knicks and New York lost one. Kemba, who had missed the last 10 games with several cases of DNP-Thibs reasons, played 37 minutes against the Beantown Boys to help (we’re assuming the lottery-tank is on, maybe?) NY to another defeat. The Knicks were good to go 3-7 without Kemba around, and are now 0-1 after welcoming the point back. All systems check.

— Josh Richardson you’ve at least heard of, right? But Jordan Nwora you have M*S D*F not if you’re a casual, which if you are thanks for reading us at the BBNL. Nwora played 42 (!) minutes for the Bucks yesterday in a day they were missing all of Bobby, Giannis, Donte, and Wesley (COVID crap) and put up a ridiculous and season-high 28-11-4 dub-dub to go with 4 triples among his 11-for-21 shooting outcome from the field.

— Speaking of Milly Bucks, it was a pleasure to find DMC DeMarcus Cuisines starting at the C, playing 27 bulky-for-an-oldie minutes, and bending the paint-packed Cleveland for a caloric 12-12-1-5-1 stuffed-turkey night.

— On the opposite side of the age spectrum, David Duke got an 18-14 dub-dub for the BKN. Is it time to put KD and James on the block, even more with Kyrie returning asap? Tonight, on ESPN.

— Luke Kennard gets to live another day after somehow cooking himself 27 chicken wings to the tune of 7 treys to go with 7 boards, 3 dimes, and a steal right there to spare. This is probably the Luke Kennard LA thought they were signing back in the day, only it’s not been the case more often than not. Ugh.

— Sad day for Pascal Siakam 0.5 O.G. Anunoby as he could only finish the game against the Warriors with 7 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists, and a steal shooting a paltry 37% on a low 8 FGA and going one-for-two from the charity stripe.

— Kuzma with a very Kuz game doing a little bit of everything (8-3-1-2-1) but also not a lot of anything. He gets a little pass because he has only played three games after returning from a COVID quarantine and a short protocols-spell starting last week. The minutes have gone down from 33 to 27 and then 24 yesterday, so we’ll keep an eye on what’s poppin’ with the Dr*p Kuz.

— I don’t know why I haven’t turned Woj/Shams notifications off. You get 20 of them a day, and 19 are about players hitting the protocols with the remaining one announcing some sort of ESPN story covering some of that stuff in a selfish self-plug. Through Saturday, pretty much everybody is molly-screwed by the new rampant Omicron COVID variant and nobody is seemingly escaping it, sadly. Durant, Irving, Mobley, Marcus Morris, Siakam, etc, etc… are just the latest fools to enter the protocols but the NBA keeps operations up and isn’t expected to throw a one/two-week hiatus any time soon. We’ll see how that pays off…

— Paul George keeps missing games with an injured right elbow, Derrick Rose’s right ankle (sore) opened the door for Kemba, Isaiah Hartenstein twisted his left ankle… and UNIBR*W DAVIS will miss a month (at least) while recovering from the knee sprain he suffered against the Minny Wolves two nights ago. Uh, oh, Lake fans. Look like someone is going to go through a little rough set of games to close the not-so-fantastic 2021 calendar year, huh?

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