Shaun Livingston glanced around the team plane anxiously. It seemed like everybody was asleep, but somebody with their head down with their headphones on could just be trying to focus on the next game. Even if that were the case, there was no better time for Shaun to undertake his plan, here at two in…
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Salah Mejri 12 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (4/18/2016)
If I’m Steven Adams on the receiving end of unintelligible trash talk from Salah Mejri, I just call him a Jafa (doesn’t matter that Mejri is from a place called Jendouba and not Auckland) in response and be done with it. There are some battles you just can’t win, and I’m sure a back-and-forth smack-talk…
Read MoreJonas Valanciunas 23 Points Full Highlights (4/18/2016)
Attention Raptors fans/Lithuanians: you were not alone in your assumption, formed at halftime, that Jonas Valanciunas would score 40 tonight. DownToBuck thought the same, incapable as he is of understanding that first-half performances don’t indicate much about second-half performances. Jonas looked unstoppable out there in the first half. The post touches he was promised were…
Read MoreGerald Henderson 16 Points Full Highlights (4/17/2016)
Gerald Henderson answered the call from GM Neil Olshey, silently wondering if something weird was going to happen. “Hey Neil. What’s up?” “Can you come to my office? We need to talk about playoffs, and specifically, about how the team needs your leadership,” Neil said. Relieved that the topic of discussion was not related even…
Read MoreVince Carter 16 Points Full Highlights (4/17/2016)
The NBA has really dropped the ball hard on this one. I don’t know if balls have ever dropped harder. There is STILL no word from the NBA on whether they are currently compiling, with their multitudinous resources, a compilation of all of Vince Carter’s dunks starting from his very first game. A Vince Carter…
Read MoreNicolas Batum 24 Points Full Highlights (4/17/2016)
YAWN. Wake me up when the second round starts. All these blowouts are making DownToBuck one sleepy highlight-maker. And these aren’t even the good kind of blowouts, the kind where a scrub or two go off for 20 points. These are the bad kind, where everyone sucks equally and no highlights need to be done…
Read MoreLuol Deng 31 Points Full Highlights (4/17/2016)
I’m really sorry for all those times that I said the Heat were done earlier in the season. That was stupid of me to say and I really feel bad about it. To be fair to me, though, who could have anticipated that Luol “The Man from Sudan” Deng (listen up basketball-reference you know I…
Read MoreKentavious Caldwell-Pope 21 Points Full Highlights (4/17/2016)
Damn. I really wanted the Pistons to win this game, to show up the hastily-assembled big three of the Cavaliers with a sound display of team play reminiscent of the last Pistons championship team. They didn’t, though, and now we are left with yet another reminder that superstars triumph in almost all scenarios. Oh well….
Read MoreSerge Ibaka 17 Points Full Highlights (4/16/2016)
If you want a metaphor for what the Thunder did to the Mavericks last night, you have to look no further than that one picture of Serge Ibaka wearing pants that aren’t quite totally opaque. That thing in his pants? He just gave it to the Mavericks. Hard. And it’s not his iPhone. I’m not…
Read MoreKent Bazemore 23 Points Full Highlights (4/16/2016)
DeMarre Carroll points tonight: 6 Kent Bazemore points tonight: 23 Pretty damning, right? Those who thought that the Hawks would lose a step without role-player extraordinaire DeMarre Carroll did not anticipate the ease with which Kent Bazemore would step into his spot. The above point totals are not only an indicator of Kent’s superiority, but…
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