January 27, 2018 – DownToBuck

Jarrett Allen 12 Points/3 Dunks Full Highlights (1/26/2018)

You know, I’m a Bucks fan, but I would have been totally okay with Jarrett Allen dropping a twenty-burger on us, even if it meant we lost. Correction: I would only be okay with it if Allen dunked the ball six or more times. If he scored twenty points by way of layups (“LAME-ups”), then…

Denzel Valentine 16 Points Full Highlights (1/26/2018)

Zach “Stole Aaron Gordon’s Dunk Contest Trophy” LaVine is back in the Bulls lineup (with a sick 3-of-17 shooting display last night), but Denzel Valentine’s minutes didn’t see too much of a hit because Kris Dunn is out with something called a “cunt cushion”. While Dunn recovers from having his brain turned into cottage cheese,…

Domantas Sabonis 17 Points Full Highlights (1/26/2018)

Domantas Sabonis has already surpassed his field goal total from last season by a significant amount, and we’re only in the month of January. After making 192 field goals all of last season, he’s made 233 this season, in 400 fewer minutes of court time. This disparity seems too large to chalk up entirely to…

Jarell Martin 17 Points Full Highlights (1/26/2018)

The one and only time I got hyped for Jarell Martin was when he first appeared on my channel in March of 2016. At that time he represented the unknown: he had played sparingly in the first half of that season, inactive for large stretches and getting DNP’s even when he was on the active…

Taurean Prince 21 Points Full Highlights (1/26/2018)

Most teams in the NBA have a “big three” or something close to it. At a minimum they have a “big two”, meaning they have two players who are both part of the long-term plans of the team and have at least fringe All-Star potential. My entire life revolves me attempting to determine the “big…

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist 19 Points Full Highlights (1/26/2018)

Under my new definition of the word “bust”, which is “a player picked in the top five of the draft who never scores thirty or more points in a single game”, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist is a bust. Under many of the other competing definitions for the word “bust”, he remains a bust, but there are some…

Ed Davis 15 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (1/26/2018)

I guess I didn’t exactly realize that Ed Davis’ father was an NBA player until I looked at his basketball-reference page. So now I know that Terry Davis, who played ten seasons in the NBA, seems to have been mostly the same player as his son is, except one inch shorter. That’s cool. But don’t…

Ben Simmons 21 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (1/26/2018)

“Dear Mr. Simmons, Consider this letter to be official notification of your continued eligibility to appear on my YouTube channel. The All-Star teams having been revealed, and considering that you appear on neither team, I consider my position to be justified. My legal representation has advised me that your threats of a lawsuit are frivolous…

Josh Jackson 18 Points Full Highlights (1/26/2018)

I will maintain until my dying breath that putting “Los Suns” on a jersey isn’t the greatest way to celebrate Hispanic culture. I’ll go even further and say what I think straight up: it’s stupid. “Los Suns”. They could at least put the “Suns” part in Spanish also, it’s not like people aren’t going to…

Darius Miller 20 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (1/26/2018)

DeMarcus Cousins got in one final triple-double before his Achilles tendon snapped like an overstretched rubber band, and he has Darius “Driller” Miller to thank for it. If I was Miller, I wouldn’t send my get-well-soon basket of flowers and booze until Cousins sent me a similar basket as a token of his appreciation for…