This week’s biggest busts: Pelicans -6, Grizzlies -4, Wizards -4, This week’s biggest successes: Pacers +5, Trail Blazers +5, Clippers +4 1. Golden State Warriors (31-6, 2-1 this week) (last week: #1 [2-1] +0) The people of Georgia (the country, not the state, you ignorant mud-crawling moron) have come through in the clutch, voting Zaza…
Read MoreDay: January 8, 2017
Langston Galloway 20 Points Full Highlights (1/7/2017)
Question: will Langston Galloway, at any point in his career, shoot above 40% from the field for an entire season? He’s always been around the 39% mark, so it seems like he should be able to do it at least once as long as he’s not on a team that expects too much out of…
Read MoreTim Hardaway Jr. 22 Points Full Highlights (1/7/2017)
One of the rumors that emerged in the aftermath of the Kyle Korver trade was that Tim Hardaway Jr. was being dangled in trade offers. The expected return? A second-round pick. Remember, the Hawks traded him straight-up for their freshly-drafted first-rounder, Jerian Grant. Don’t try to tell me that Hardaway Jr.’s trade value has gone…
Read MoreDewayne Dedmon 15 Points Full Highlights (1/7/2017)
Dewayne Dedmon got a late start to his basketball career, not playing until halfway through high school because his crazy Jehovah’s Witness mom didn’t want him serving two masters (the coach being the “bad” master, and God being the “good” master). If he had started in elementary school like every other normal kid, would he…
Read MoreBrandon Jennings 17 Points Full Highlights (1/7/2017)
Brandon Jennings got ejected from this game with 21 seconds left to go, but it happened in the backcourt while everybody else was busy playing basketball in the frontcourt, so there was no good video angle for it. It wasn’t even really a fight, anyway. Joe Young must have said something to him and he…
Read MoreWill Barton 21 Points Full Highlights (1/7/2017)
Will Barton is quietly putting up 13 points per game this season for the Nuggets. Very quietly. Really, extremely, super quietly. I don’t think anyone outside of Denver has noticed, and possibly not even anyone inside of Denver. Even I just assumed he was under 10 ppg on the year, because I never hear ANYTHING…
Read MoreDoug McDermott 17 Points Full Highlights (1/7/2017)
I have harnessed the powers of YouTube to make it look like Doug McDermott had a good game, even though, by all measures except one, he didn’t. That one measure that makes him look kind of okay is the “clutchness” factor. McDermott, despite going 6 of 17 from the field, did hit a big three-pointer…
Read MoreMarcus Smart 22 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (1/7/2017)
For all his faults, Marcus Smart plays with heart. That’s cool. Sometimes that heart leads to him taking too many threes, or to assaulting a fan who merely wanted to say racist things to him. These things come with the Marcus Smart. Non-negotiable. You get the guy who can defend Anthony Davis passably (not shown,…
Read MoreDavis Bertans 21 Points Full Highlights (1/7/2017)
After much self-consultation, I have decided to amend DownToBuck’s new highlight-making policy. Instead of doing highlights of Lithuanian players exclusively, I will showcase both Lithuanian AND Latvian players. Rejoice, fans of David Bertans/Kristaps Porzingis! I have heard your pleas, but more pertinently, I don’t even really know if Lithuania and Latvia are different places or…
Read MoreMindaugas Kuzminskas 13 Points Full Highlights (1/7/2017)
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but as of last night, the stated goal of the DownToBuck media empire has changed. No longer is it my mission to showcase the unshowcased, to highlight the unhighlit. No, the new goal of DownToBuck is to highlight Lithuanian NBA players and Lithuanian NBA players only. I’ve seen the…
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