January 2017 – Page 31

Aaron Gordon 22 Points Full Highlights (1/2/2017)

I feel like Aaron Gordon should be dunking the ball way more often than he is. He had 71 bigtime slammy-whams last year, slammy-whams which were chronicled in a dunkilation at the end of the season. That was a decent amount of jammage, but it was marginally disappointing considering the caliber of dunker that he…

Buddy Hield 20 Points Full Highlights (1/2/2017)

How has the collective Internet populace not yet come up with the nickname “Butt Buddy” for Buddy Hield? I shouldn’t have to be the one to come up with this kind of stuff. It’s so obvious! It seems like whenever I start gaining a small amount of appreciation for what the Internet is capable of,…

Wayne Ellington 18 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2017)

Wayne “Beef W” Ellington is having a career year. You might not have noticed because a career year for Wayne Ellington is not of the same caliber as a career year for a DeMar DeRozan or a James Harden. But the Waynemaker is averaging career highs across the board: points (12.4), field goal percentage (43.8%),…

Thomas Robinson 12 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2017)

If we just forget everything about “draft position” and “nba readiness coming out of college” that we currently associate with Thomas Robinson, and instead just view him as a rebounding specialist like Reggie Evans, we can see that Robinson does indeed have a place in the league. As a 10th or 12th man who sucks…

Myles Turner 23 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2017)

It’s a new year, and with a new year comes new opportunities for Myles Turner to be ignored in favor of more hypeable young players even though he is better than most of them. I can only do so much with my video descriptions when it comes to apportioning hype to the proper players in…

Nick Young 26 Points/7 Threes Full Highlights (1/1/2017)

Normally when a team with Nick Young on it sucks, Nick Young is a primary reason for the suckage. It’s been such a constant pattern throughout his career that I don’t think anyone would have expected to be broken. Here we are. The Lakers, after a decent start to the season, suck. Bad. I don’t…

D’Angelo Russell 28 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (1/1/2017)

I don’t even know what “He ain’t even stretch doe” means. Does it mean anything? Did it mean anything before D’Angelo Russell said it, or did it gain meaning when it first saw the light of day? “Doooooooooooooe” I need to keep up with this kind of crap better. How can I be expected to…

James Johnson 20 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2017)

Welcome to tonight’s episode of “Classic Scrubuzzerbeaters with DownToBuck”. I’m your host, DownToBuck. The subject of tonight’s episode is James Johnson’s forgotten game-winning three-pointer on December 28, 2012. Johnson was on the Kings at that point in his career, a team he was only on for one season. He kind of was sucking that season,…

Kris Dunn 11 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (1/1/2017)

I am still waiting for Kris Dunn to supplant Ricky Rubio as the Timberwolves’ starting point guard. That is what I was told would happen. I was told that Ricky was redundant. I was told that Ricky should be traded and Dunn should start right away. I was told that Dunn would complete Minnesota’s young…

Reggie Jackson 27 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2017)

Pistons players held a team-only meeting to discuss Reggie Jackson’s return to the lineup and their subsequent stagnation as a team. That much we know. What we don’t know is what exactly happened during said meeting. I side with Reggie on this one, though. I mean, if his teammates simply accepted the clear fact that…