December 10, 2017 – DownToBuck

Tyler Cavanaugh 14 Points Full Highlights (12/9/2017)

Tyler Cavanaugh is like the new Mike Muscala for the Hawks, except Mike Muscala is still on the team so there are actually two Mike Muscalas in Atlanta now. Cavanaugh can do all the normal Muscala things: he can shoot threes as long as the volume of shots isn’t too high, he can rebound at…

T.J. Warren 24 Points Full Highlights (12/9/2017)

DTB’s Fun* Fact** of the Day***: T.J. “Warren Peace” Warren is currently third in the league in two-point field goal attempts, behind Giannis Antetokounmpo (duh) and LaMarcus Aldridge (wishing that Kawhi would be injured forever). He is also fourth in the league in two-point makes, behind those two dudes plus some scrub named LeBron James….

Alec Burks 20 Points Full Highlights (12/9/2017)

Alec Burks is playing so well as of late that I might have to change my channel name, at least temporarily, to “DownToBurk”. If there wasn’t some rookie shooting guard who was stealing all his minutes, Burks would be the starter right now and he would probably be averaging 18 per game. Sadly for Burks…

Jordan Clarkson 22 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (12/9/2017)

OFFICIAL JORDAN CLARKSON PER-36 SCORING UPDATE: Jordan Clarkson is currently scoring 24.1 points per 36 minutes. In case you need a refresher course on ultra-advanced NBA analytics, per-36 stats are the best because it helps you compare players who play hella minutes to players who don’t play as hella minutes. Clarkson is 23rd on this…

David Nwaba 15 Points/3 Dunks Full Highlights (12/9/2017)

Does David Nwaba even have any traditional shooting guard skills or is he a big man trapped in a little man’s body? He’s not much of a passer from what I can see, he doesn’t orchestrate the offense, and he’s not much of a shooter despite the “shooting guard” label. His main selling points are…

Justise Winslow 15 Points Full Highlights (12/9/2017)

It’s games like this that remind me that I shouldn’t be so quick to give up on players, even when they play like total busts, as Justise Winslow did last season. His win-shares were negative last year, the team was 4-14 when he played, and his injury might have been a blessing in the skies…

Patty Mills 20 Points Full Highlights (12/9/2017)

Patty Mills is sort of the “Forgotten Australian” of the NBA; he’s been around for so long, filling his role so competently and blandly that Australians don’t even care about him anymore. Him and Andrew Bogut and David Andersen are like the OG Australian ballers of this generation, but a new generation has arrived, leaving…

Ben McLemore 17 Points/5 Threes Full Highlights (12/9/2017)

Ben McLemore boldly inserted himself into the immortal halls of basketball boneheadedness with a failed 360 dunk attempt in the second quarter of the Grizzlies’ game against the Raptors two days ago. A lot of people were quick to jump of McLemore for hotdogging in a game that was by no means over, and I…

Steven Adams 21 Points Full Highlights (12/9/2017)

Once again, the unassuming Kiwi Steven Adams, together with fellow foreigner Alex Abrines outplayed the Thunder’s so-called “big three” and led the Thunder to a win against the Grizzlies. Okay, it’s more like the Grizzlies totally choked away their big lead because Marc Gasol is calling people out like he’s taking attendance, but Adams also…

Otto Porter 27 Points Full Highlights (12/9/2017)

What I want out of Otto Porter, now that he has proven that he is a stud scoring machine at least some of the time, is some consistency on when he decides to be a scoring machine and when he decides not to be a scoring machine. Hint for Mr. Porter: he should be a…