January 9, 2018 – DownToBuck

Avery Bradley 24 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (1/8/2018)

Is Avery Bradley porking out a little bit? That thumbnail makes him look like Sean May (who’s still only 33 btw) 0.7 for real. Is that why he’s been so bad this season? Because he’s fat now? I admit I don’t watch a ton of Pistons games and when I do it’s just to watch…

Gary Harris 22 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2018)

Aside from that pair of 36-point games, Gary Harris hasn’t really been scoring bucketloads of buckets this season. He’s really good at getting 20 points or so, but 25? Forget about it. I said before the season that if he wasn’t scoring 24 or more, I wasn’t doing a vid. I have broken that promise…

Taurean Prince 20 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2018)

Taurean Prince was the 12th overall pick? I just kind of assumed he was one of those late first-rounders or early second-rounders who ended up being unexpectedly solid. 12th overall? That’s where good players get selected. Luckily, Prince is well on his way to “good” status, but now I’m not surprised about it like I…

Sterling Brown 11 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2018)

I die a little bit more inside every time Jason Terry gets put into a game. He was fine last year, could still do some things, but this year, it’s just not happening for him. He can’t score and he definitely can’t defend. All he can do is try and get the crowd hyped up…

Denzel Valentine 19 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (1/8/2018)

Denzel Valentine is shooting almost 40% from the three-point line, but I don’t feel like there’s much buzz around him being a “good” three-point shooter. Maybe it’s because we’re living in an era where a player can conceivably shoot 45% from three on high volume, or maybe it’s because Denzel has yet to have a…

Kris Dunn 19 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (1/8/2018)

Kris “The Dunnwich Horror” Dunn is playing so well right now that it’s easy to forget that he actually played like total garbage his rookie year, even though he had a long college career and was supposed to come into the league further along in his development than his draftmates. Every time I watch him…

Tobias Harris 25 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2018)

Yes. This is what DownToBuck wants. Tobias Harris being assertive and making sure everybody knows that he is the main option on the Pistons. Not Reggie Jackson. Not Andre Drummond. Definitely not Avery Bradley. It’s Tobes. Tobes is the main option. When he steps on the court, it should be “Tobes Time” and there should…

E’Twaun Moore 23 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2018)

OFFICIAL GUARDS WHO PLAY MORE THAN FIFTEEN MINUTES PER GAME SORTED BY FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE POWER RANKINGS 1. JaKarr Sampson (59.1%) [what the hell, I guess I should have put a game restriction on this list since he’s only played in six of them] 2. E’Twaun Moore (54.6%) [I honestly thought he would be first,…

Trey Lyles 21 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2018)

A Paul Millsap trade has gotta be in the works, right? I’m trying not to overreact to Trey Lyles’ emergence as a potent scoring force at the power forward position, but I can’t really stop myself once I get going. The thing is, Millsap’s on the wrong side of thirty (32 to be exact), he’s…

De’Aaron Fox 11 Points/10 Assists Full Highlights (1/8/2018)

When I first caught a glimpse of De’Aaron Fox in this game, I didn’t quite realize who I was looking at. What happened to his big poofy hair thing? Wait, don’t answer that. I know what happened to the poofy hair thing: it got turned into braids. Braids parted down the middle. I’m not going…