December 14, 2017 – DownToBuck

Serge Ibaka 21 Points Full Highlights (12/13/2017)

This is probably the last video I’ll be able to upload. Net Neutrality has been repealed, and I just got a letter from my ISP that says I have to pay 50 dollars for each vid I want to put on YouTube. I know, right? Ridiculous. Obviously, I’m not going to be able to pay…

Tyler Ulis 16 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (12/13/2017)

Tyler Ulis hasn’t been having the monster games we were seeing from him at the end of last season. The Suns aren’t as blatantly tanking, which could be a factor, but it’s not like he’s having to fight off better players for minutes. He just hasn’t been good this year. Good news is that he…

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist 18 Points/3 Jumpshots Full Highlights (12/13/2017)

Are jumpshots a part of Michael Kidd-Gilchrist’s game now? I’m looking at his shot chart and comparing it to previous years, and the results are inconclusive. Maybe he’s shooting a few more this year? It’s easy to think of him as an around-the-rim-only player, but players his size are basically forced to take at least…

Andrew Harrison 20 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (12/13/2017)

Let’s be real here. You can’t expect a team that starts Andrew “32% shooting” Harrison to win any games, especially if the best players he gets to play with is a discontented, low-effort Marc Gasol and whoever the other good player who played for the Grizzlies in this game was. Maybe JaMychal Green. That’s just…

Steven Adams 23 Points Full Highlights (12/13/2017)

We’re going to play the “explicitly enumerate the statlines of all the Thunder starters” game in the description because that’s always the most fun game there is. Russell “Chucksell Statpadbrook” Westbrook: 10 points, 3/17 FG, 17 statpadded rebounds, 12 assists Carmelo “Career in Shambles” Anthony: 12 points, 4/14 FG, 5 rebounds, 0 assists Paul “Traitor”…

Aron Baynes 17 Points Full Highlights (12/13/2017)

Aron Baynes AKA The Baynes Bus AKA Masturbaynestion AKA The Big Baynger AKA All of Australia pretty much took advantage of the defensive woes of his similarly-pigmented counterpart, Mason Plumlee, this entire game. If people weren’t finding him on pick and rolls for mammoth dunks or less mammoth layups (“LAMEups”), he would space out and…

Jaylen Brown 26 Points Full Highlights (12/13/2017)

Jaylen Brown is slumping. Not badly, but noticeably. We all knew it was going to happen, somewhere in the back of our minds, but we didn’t want it to happen. We wanted so badly for him to come out of nowhere (as far out of nowhere as a high first-round pick can come from) and…

Wayne Ellington 24 Points/7 Threes Full Highlights (12/13/2017)

I just got done making a vid for Troy Daniels scoring 32 with 7 threes, and I’m struck by how similar he is to Wayne “Beef W” Ellington. Ellington maybe isn’t as inconsistent, but they are both the “shoot 10 threes per 36 minutes and do nothing else” kind of player. My favorite kind of…

Jamal Murray 28 Points Full Highlights (12/13/2017)

Jamal Murray is the fifth best free-throw shooter in the league right now, and he showed off his sick talents at the stripe by going a perfect 6-for-6. Free-throw shooting is an underrated part of basketball; think of how much better Shaq would have been if he could hit those freebies. Think of how many…

Donovan Mitchell 32 Points Full Highlights (12/13/2017)

Last season was great, but it would have been a lot better if we could have somehow transported Donovan Mitchell into that rookie class. I didn’t fully realize it at the time, but last year’s rookie class was lame as heck aside from Embiid who didn’t play that much. If Mitchell had been there, I…