January 15, 2016 – DownToBuck

Darrell Arthur 18 Points Full Highlights (1/15/2016)

When I saw the Nuggets were beating the Heat by sixteen at the half, I thought to myself “makes sense since the Heat suck now, good job Nuggets,” and then moved on with my life. Imagine my surprise when I saw that the Nuggets had lost by three! I didn’t have a drink in my…

Khris Middleton 26 Points Full Highlights (1/15/2016)

I fear I may have saturated the market for Khris Middleton videos. Nobody watches them anymore even though he’s making a compelling case for being a top five SG in the league. It’s like people don’t even realize that when you click on a Khris Middleton video, you’re going to get a whole bunch of…

Dion Waiters 20 Points Full Highlights (1/15/2016)

If you’re watching this video because you want to see ill-advised stepback twenty-footers, I recommend that you look elsewhere, because this video only has one such shot. However, if you’re watching this video because you want to see ill-advised drives to the hoop punctuated by yelled “and-ONE!”s, then this is the video for you, my…

DeJuan Blair 12 Points Full Highlights (1/15/2016)

DeJuan “No ACLs” Blair was pretty much written off by yours truly around the halfway point of last season. I actually went back through my notes from that time and it turns out that I actually wrote down the words “That’s it for DeJuan Blair. He has no knees.” This scrawled sentence was located in…

Nicolas Batum 25 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (1/15/2016)

Nicolas Batum stepped out of the Barcelona airport with a single goal in mind. The address of his target had already been acquired. He hailed a taxi, and when he slipped into the backseat of the cab, he handed the driver a small slip of paper with the address written on it. Nic was not…

Cameron Payne 14 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (1/15/2016)

Cameron Payne’s last name makes it way too easy to come up with nicknames for him. Like, it’s not even fun. I wrote down about thirty of them and didn’t even break a sweat. Rather than share with you any insights I have about Cameron Payne’s game or style of play (here’s a hint: I…

Marcus Smart Triple Double 10 pts/11 asts/11 rebs Full Highlights (1/15/2015)

If Marcus Smart was LeBron James or Russell Westbrook, the NBA would take a look at this triple-double. But he isn’t, and they won’t, so it’s all good. All the assists are, at least, instances where he passed the ball (unlike that Giannis trip-dub). There was an offensive rebound that was kind of iffy, where,…

Andrew Wiggins 25 Points Full Highlights (1/15/2016)

At what point do I say “enough is enough”? Andrew Wiggins has gotten to be a pretty good player, despite being a first overall pick playing for the Timberwolves (awwww yeah low-key dis on Anthony Bennett!). Scoring-wise, at least. Over 20 points per game for any prospect in their second year is damn good. The…

Kelly Olynyk 21 Points Full Highlights (1/15/2016)

I was getting a little antsy for a while there. Game after game, night after night, Kelly Olynyk trotting out onto the court with his hair styled as a “man-bun”. Here’s DTB’s “Style Tip of the Day”: if you don’t have a super-rugged looking beard, you can’t pull off a man-bun. You just can’t. It’s…

Frank Kaminsky 18 Points Full Highlights (1/15/2016)

For the full Frank Kaminsky experience, I suggest watching this video of him scoring 18 followed by watching the video I just made of Ryan Anderson scoring 32. Such an arrangement of highlights will provide the best of both worlds for Frank; him doing about as much scoring as we could have hoped for this…