February 12, 2017 – DownToBuck

DTB’s Official NBA Power Rankings (Week 15)

This week’s biggest busts: Pacers -4, Bucks -3, Hawks -2, Hornets -2, Magic -2 This week’s biggest successes: Kings +4, Raptors +3, Mavericks +2, Lakers +2 1. Golden State Warriors (46-8, 3-0 this week) (last week: #1 [3-1] +0) Draymond Green became the first player to ever record a triple-double without scoring ten points. That’s…

Jamal Murray 16 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2017)

Jamal Murray scored all of his sixteen points in the fourth quarter. The game was already pretty much over by the fourth quarter so it was essentially a “hey rookie let’s see if you can chuck us back into this game” scenario. It didn’t really work, as the Nuggets’ fourth-quarter lineup didn’t gain much ground…

Nerlens Noel 19 Points/5 Dunks Full Highlights (2/11/2017)

I expect better from the Sixers broadcast. Nerlens Noel had multiple sick dunks in this game but replays for many of them were absent, as far as I could tell. How am I supposed to determine how sick a dunk really is unless I have multiple up-close, slow-mo replays of the dunk from every possible…

Dario Saric 19 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2017)

“I do not trust this American food,” Dario Saric sniffed, sitting at a table in a cramped, crowded restaurant with two of his teammates. “This place is dirty and loud. It is not a place where one could ever expect to enjoy a decent meal.” “C’mon man, cheesesteaks are, like, the only thing you can…

JaVale McGee 16 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2017)

It may get tiresome for you guys to hear me to petition coaches to give their scrubs/role-players more minutes over and over again. But I can’t help it! My end goal is to see a whole league full of nothing but marginal players putting up big games. As far as I know, there is no…

Gerald Green 16 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2017)

This game by Gerald Green brings me back to his days in Phoenix; just a whole bunch of horrible shots that somehow go in. None of the dunks though. If that first sentence got you hyped for dunks, I’m sorry. There are no dunks in this vid. No dunks, but the two really iffy three-pointers…

Mirza Teletovic 19 Points/5 Threes Full Highlights (2/11/2017)

The Bucks are simply way more fun to watch when Mirza Teletovic is taking and making swaggy triples. This year, his performances have tended more towards the “taking” and not so much the “making”. Watching him attempt swaggy triples is also kind of fun, more fun that the usual player, but the funness goes way…

Nicolas Batum 25 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (2/11/2017)

The NBA, earlier in the season, reached “Peak Nicolas”, where there were three separate dudes named Nicolas plying their trade for the association. Add in the four “Nikola”s, and I’m thinking what happened to dudes just named “Nick”? Nick Collison doesn’t count (too old). This is America, this isn’t some other heathen country, this is…

Nicolas Brussino 10 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2017)

Is this the next Golden Age of Argentine Basketball? The Nicolas Bros, Brussino and Laprovittola? Humph. Laprovittola has already been waived, and Brussino… well, 10 points for him is a start. But if he wants to be taken seriously, he has start dropping 30 like Walter Herrmann used to do. Don’t think I’m hating. I’m…

Tyler Ulis 13 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (2/11/2017)

Tyler Ulis got more minutes than Brandon Knight tonight, who was once almost an All-Star with the Bucks. Ulis also got more minutes than Eric Bledsoe, who apparently needed rest so bad that he had to sit out the whole game. Not to mention more minutes than Ronnie Price who… that guy is still in…