April 13, 2016 – Page 2

Ben McLemore 24 Points Full Highlights (4/13/2016)

Ben McLemore hype has officially dwindled down to nearly zero. Coach Karl apparently liked him enough to start him but not enough to give him enough minutes. Or did Karl like him just fine and the reason McLemore didn’t get as much playing time this year was because he was stinking it up? Either way,…

Bojan Bogdanovic 29 Points Full Highlights (4/13/2016)

The Nets season mercifully comes to an end, without any injuries to key players and with a cool 29-burger from Bojangles, but their arduous journey back to relevance has only just begun. Will they be any better next year? Will they be somehow worse? What about two years from now? Can they attract any free…

James Ennis 28 Points Full Highlights (4/13/2016)

This game and the 29-point game that preceded basically guarantee that James Ennis will be in the NBA in some capacity next season. And I’m not talking just Summer League. Or just a preseason roster. I’m talking about opening-night rosters. He’ll be the thirteenth man somewhere without a doubt. I can state this with confidence…

Kobe Bryant 60 Points/1 Retirement/1 Final Game Full Highlights (4/13/2016)

The final buzzer sounded. Kobe looked out towards the roaring fans, feeling gratitude towards them even as an unfamiliar feeling of emptiness started to grow in his chest. He felt as if his identity as a basketball player had been stripped away. Looked at in that context, the relentless cheering could be interpreted as mocking….

Justin Holiday Career High 29 Points Full Highlights (4/13/2016)

After much deliberation, I have come up with the following offseason plan for the Bulls: Trade everyone except for Derrick Rose (no one will take his contract or his knees) and Justin Holiday (self-explanatory after tonight). Start over with those two as a core or, more accurately, Holiday as the core and Rose as towel-waver…

Omer Asik Career High 24 Points Full Highlights (4/13/2016)

Forget all the other stuff you may have heard about tonight. This is the REAL most amazing scoring performance of the night, a night that now belongs to OMER ASIK. Asik’s struggles at getting the ball to go into the whole have been well-covered this season. Despite having the confidence of the coaches, starting 63…

Nikola Mirotic 32 Points/7 Threes Full Highlights (4/13/2016)

What do the Bulls do this offseason? They were supposed to be, if not contenders, at least a strong playoff team. But now their season is over. Granted, there were at least a few bright spots, and they don’t need to demolish the whole thing and start over from scratch. That would be reactionary. But…

Boban Marjanovic Career High 22 Points Full Highlights (4/13/2016)

The Spurs blew their load too early. They played Boban Marjanovic way too much during the regular season; It’s likely too late for them to unleash him as their secret weapon during the playoffs… Or is it? I don’t want to divulge everything right now, since I am currently employed as a playoffs consultant for…

Jordan McRae Career High 36 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (4/13/2016)

Never before has one of my own highlight videos been made so thoroughly obsolete. Jordan McRae scoring 36 (THIRTY FRICKIN SIX, HOLY DUMB DICKS) along with 7 assists (WHO CARES) makes my earlier vid showing his 12 and 4 look like garbage. Total garbage. I might as well delete that video at this point, because…

Norman Powell Career High 30 Points Full Highlights (4/13/2016)

Ha! DownToBuck is vindicated! Norman Powell set a then-career-high total with 27 points just five days ago. Guess who didn’t do highlights? That’s right: DawkIns, and GD, and (most notably) DownToBuck. I can’t speak for those other two channels, but I figured that 14 free throws to go with only 5 made buckets would make…