The last time Dwight Buycks was on my channel, back at the end of the 2014-15 season, he was sporting a dyed mohawk type thing and crossing the heck out of Gary Harris. Now Gary Harris is a beast, but back then he kinda sucked, looking worse than Buycks at that point. How the tables have turned! Buycks is back in the league, at least, after a stint in China. I thought we’d never see him again!
When I saw that Reggie Jackson was going to be out for awhile, I knew that we were going to start seeing some real action for Buycks. Ish Smith can’t play all 48, after all, and I don’t think they even have another player who could conceivably play point.
Buycks didn’t do much in his limited minutes prior to this, but now he has shown up and shown the world that he was at least somewhat worthy of all the hype that was lumped on him like five years ago. Man, there was a lot of hype, like, way more than I felt was necessary. There must have been some reason for it, but that was so long ago, I’m going to just focus on what he did tonight. 14 points. 4 assists. Not a career high, but pretty good for a guy I thought was going to average 30 in China forever!