I feel bad for Nuggets fans, but not because of any basketball-related reason. Well, it’s kind of basketball-related, but it’s more DownToBuck-related. I feel bad for them because this is only the third Nuggets video I’ve made this season. Nuggets fans became accustomed to spending a lot of time on my channel thanks to the…
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Langston Galloway 19 Points Full Highlights (11/8/2019)
If present trends continue, Langston Galloway will end the season with a FG% above 40%. That will be the first time in his career that he’s shot above 40% for an entire season. By that measure, he’s having a career year right now and nobody cares. There’s still a lot of games left to go,…
Read MoreNorman Powell 18 Points Full Highlights (11/8/2019)
Since we know for a fact that Norman Powell plays best when he’s facing off against the Bucks, the team that traded him for the trash bag full of used diapers that was Greivis Vasquez, I have a bold new plan to ensure that Powell can play to his maximum potential: After every game, trade…
Read MoreKevin Huerter 17 Points Full Highlights (11/8/2019)
It surprises me that, during the full minute-plus runtime of this video, the word “confidence” (or its derivatives, like “confident” or “confidently”) was not uttered even one time. I think. I don’t listen to the commentary as closely as I should when I make these things, so it’s possible that somebody uttered it while I…
Read MoreTristan Thompson 21 Points Full Highlights (11/8/2019)
I have had to make way too many Tristan Thompson highlight videos to start the season. This is the fourth one and we’re only seven games into the season; for comparison, I made just five of them all of last season (including playoffs [LOL (lots of laughs [the Cavaliers didn’t make the playoffs that’s why…
Read MoreThomas Bryant 23 Points/5 Dunks Full Highlights (11/8/2019)
Thomas Bryant has regressed slightly from last year to this year when it comes to his three-point shooting. After going 0/3 from the threezone last night in an otherwise efficient scoring night, Bryant is shooting below 30% from three. That’s still better than so-called stretch five Brook Lopez is shooting currently (god damn it god…
Read MoreT.J. McConnell 17 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (11/8/2019)
I’m thinking really hard, absolutely stretching my brain to its limits, I even put my head in my absurdly overclocked microwave-within-a-microwave and set the timer to 10 minutes to try and help my recall ability, but I can’t think of a time that T.J. McConnell took over a game with his scoring. I’ve seen a…
Read MoreSpencer Dinwiddie 34 Points Full Highlights (11/8/2019)
This is the old Spencer Dinwiddie. Last year’s version of Dinwiddie, the year before that’s version of Dinwiddie. The Dinwiddie who took and made tons of Curry-range threes, the Dinwiddie who took over games. The Dinwiddie who teamed up with D’Angelo Russell to form an unorthodox but fearsome PG duo. I thought the old Dinwiddie…
Read MoreDarius Garland 15 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (11/8/2019)
Fun fact: coming into this game, Darius Garland had the worst Win Shares of any NBA player, at -0.6. If you had asked me who held that dubious distinction, I would’ve probably answered either Marco Belinelli (who is NOT a spicy meatball right now) or Eric Gordon (who looks like a regular, non-spicy meatball all…
Read MoreRui Hachimura 21 Points Full Highlights (11/8/2019)
Aside from all the reasons to be hyped for Rui Hachimura, I am perhaps most hyped because there now appears to be a young NBA player who is willing to make a living in the midrange, analytics be damned. Carmelo Anthony used to be that player, then he started shooting threes, then he got so…
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