November 20, 2017 – DownToBuck

Spencer Dinwiddie 21 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (11/19/2017)

This video which you are about to subject yourself to might be my most egregiously non-highlight output to date. Out of the 29 separate clips which comprise the video, only four of them show Spencer “Din-Dins” Dinwiddie in the act of scoring a field goal. That’s a horrible ratio that sends the video from “moderately…

Kris Dunn 17 Points Full Highlights (11/19/2017)

The first step for any player looking to shed the “bust” label (let’s ignore for now the fact that calling a first-year player a bust is foolish, I prefer the term “disappointment”) is to start putting up stats. They don’t have to efficient stats, they don’t have to be stats that help teams win games,…

Julius Randle 24 Points Full Highlights (11/19/2017)

It’s still early in the season, but not too early where stats aren’t starting to reveal some truths about the league. The cream is rising to the top, as they say. For example, after tonight, Julius Randle is leading the league in my proprietary advance stat, TIP/36. For those who aren’t subscribed to the “DTB’s…

Myles Turner 25 Points/4 Blocks Full Highlights (11/19/2017)

This kind of performance by Myles Turner that makes me wonder why every team doesn’t just spam pick-and-pops until their arms fall off. In this vid, it looks unstoppable. That might be because of the Heat’s defensive scheme, or it might be because Whiteside doesn’t care about anything on defense if he can’t get a…

Wayne Ellington 21 Points/7 Threes Full Highlights (11/19/2017)

This is pretty much the perfect highlight vid. People in generations to come are going to be watching this one when they want to know what basketball was like in 2017 before the advent of anti-gravity shoes, 13-foot tall genetically-engineered players, and robotic referees with guns built into their arms. The subject, Wayne “Beef W”…

T.J. Warren 27 Points Full Highlights (11/19/2017)

I love T.J. “Warren Peace” Warren, I think he has one of the sweetest, smoothest games in the league, he’s really great, but man he makes a lot of layups. The overabundance of layups in his highlight vids makes up for the underabundance of free throws, so it evens out, but still. We know he…

Lonzo Ball Triple Double 11 Pts/11 Asts/16 Rebs Full Highlights (11/19/2017)

Lonzo Ball looks even more like a pizza now that he’s cut his hair. His head lost some of the triangular shape that his hair-poof provided, but now it looks more like a crust then ever. And you’ve still got the cheese (his skin), the tomato sauce (the pinkness that develops when he exerts himself),…

Allen Crabbe 25 Points Full Highlights (11/19/2017)

The Nets only needed about three or four more late triples from Allen Crabbe to beat the Warriors tonight. In the last minute. That’s enough time, I think. But the possession after Crabbe made his final three, he didn’t even get to shoot it. Spencer Dinwiddie (whose good three-point percentage this season is surely nothing…

Lauri Markkanen 26 Points Full Highlights (11/19/2017)

Lauri “Pyhä Paska” Markkanen just composed his magnum opus, a stirring symphony of post-up fadeaways, three-pointers and layups. To this point, it is his finest work, but I would be not surprised at all, in fact I am expecting, that he surpass it at some point this season. The instrumentation and melodic lines fall a…

Bojan Bogdanovic 26 Points Full Highlights (11/18/2017)

“Dear Father, How is life in the homeland? Good I hope. Tell Nana that I miss her greatly and will endeavor to visit her as soon as possible. It may be not be for a while, however; the NBA season is long, but with hardly a break. My responsibility to score the ball is greater…