Not only is Derrick Favors’ 24 points in this game a season-high, it’s also a higher single-game total than he scored at any point in 2016-17 season. With that fact taken into account, it is fair to call this performance a VINTAGE D-FAVES performance. We haven’t seen him look this unstoppable down low since two…
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Joe Ingles 17 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (11/11/2017)
Let me again express wonderment at the fact that Joe Ingles AKA Jingles AKA Jinglin’ Joe AKA Slo-mo Joe AKA Sloppy Joe is not only an NBA player, but a valued contributor getting paid hella stacks. When I look at his flabby body, balding head, and pasty whiteness, it just doesn’t reconcile with what I…
Read MoreDonovan Mitchell 26 Points Full Highlights (11/11/2017)
Somehow, Donovan Mitchell has quickly and decisively established himself as the number one scoring option on the Jazz. That’s probably clue #1 that the Jazz aren’t going to match the lofty expectations they set after their playoff room last season. You could argue that Rodney Hood is the number one scoring option, but I don’t…
Read MoreDennis Smith Jr. 21 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (11/11/2017)
My vibe receptors can be overly sensitive sometimes. On occasion I will receive false or erroneous vibes. If I stand too close to my microwave while it’s cooking me a Hot Pocket, for example, any NBA player I see will give me Matt Carroll vibes. The nuclear-energy research facility a few blocks away gives me…
Read MoreWill Barton 26 Points Full Highlights (11/11/2017)
This is the first time in DownToBuck history where a player gets an assist as the commentator says with disgust “What a terrible pass!”. Congratulations Will Barton! You suck! Your crappy pass somehow resulted in an assist, the passing equivalent of banking in a three from the corner. Aside from that oddity, Barton had a…
Read MoreSkal Labissiere 19 Points Full Highlights (11/11/2017)
Another day, another vid with way too many free throws. Skal Labissiere hit 5 shots tonight, a fact secondary to the 9 of 10 he shot from the line. I even thought about not making this vid, but I did anyway, obviously, because you’re watching the fruits of my wretched labors. I made it because,…
Read MoreMarreese Speights 19 Points Full Highlights (11/11/2017)
At 0:35 of this video, behold: the anguished cry of a man who has nothing left to live for. Marreese Speights put on a show tonight in garbage time, abusing Juan Hernangomez even as the Magic suffered a fairly thorough defeat. He did this despite suffering a total loss of conatus after missing a free-throw…
Read MoreDamyean Dotson 14 Points Full Highlights (11/11/2017)
Rookies, understandably, are not always aware of the varied nuances of the NBA game. Not just the act of playing, but the mannerisms, the traditions, the unwritten rules. Damyean Dotson is a rookie for the Knicks, and it is painfully obvious. Someone get that man a savvy vet to teach him the ways of the…
Read MoreDejounte Murray 17 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (11/11/2017)
This is another one of those games where I’d be better off making a video called “San Antonio Spurs 51 Field Goals Full Highlights” instead of making a buhjillion individual highlight vids for all the scrubs that went off. Not calling Dejounte Murray a scrub. No way. I was referring more to Brandon Paul. Murray…
Read MoreT.J. Warren 35 Points Full Highlights (11/11/2017)
No jokes, no humor, no sarcasm, T.J. Warren is one of my favorite players in the league right now. The three-ball that I was expecting he’d develop hasn’t come through, but that doesn’t matter. Why shoot threes when you can step inside and make it rain from the midrange? Defenders aren’t expecting it these days….
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