February 2018 – DownToBuck

Willie Cauley-Stein 17 Points Full Highlights (2/27/2018)

“B-b-b-but DEE TEE BEE!!!” You moan/yell in frustration at your computer. “Willie Cauley-Stein had seventeen points last game and eighteen points before that one! Why didn’t you make highlights then? WHY DO YOU HATE DOUBLE-YEW CEE ESS?” Here’s the scoop: when WCS scored eighteen against the Lakers two games ago, he was just 6-of-14 from…

Gary Harris 23 Points Full Highlights (2/27/2018)

Gary Harris was relatively clutch (if you ignore the fact that “clutchness” doesn’t exist as a long-term attribute) at the end of this game, hitting a three-pointer to leave the Nuggets down by one with fourteen seconds left. If this isn’t evidence that he should be shooting twenty shots per game in his quest to…

Tyrone Wallace 16 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (2/27/2018)

Basketball-reference lists Tyrone Wallace’s position as point guard. Is that true? I’ve gotten the strong impression that he’s definitely a shooting guard, but now that I think about it, I don’t know where that impression came from. Probably because of his height and the fact that he doesn’t usually get many assists. I certainly don’t…

Boban Marjanovic 18 Points Full Highlights (2/27/2018)

I might cause some uproar by saying this, but the various Balkan states have so much tension between each other that there’s no reason for the outrageous display of Serb-on-Serb violence shown in this video. Going into the game, I figured we wouldn’t see much of the Boban Marjanovic vs. Nikola Jokic matchup because Boban…

Caris LeVert 18 Points Full Highlights (2/27/2018)

I just read some sad news that Papa John’s is no longer the official pizza of the NFL. Now, you can make an argument that maybe the USA’s biggest sports league doesn’t need on official pizza, but I would make the counterargument that you are a pinko comsymp bastard who hates freedom and bald eagles….

Shabazz Napier 20 Points Full Highlights (2/27/2018)

Shabazz Napier was coming off an 0-for-10 effort the game before that ranked as one of the worst shooting performances of the year. I actually thought it might be THE worst, but I totally forgot about Stanley Johnson’s season-opening 0-for-13 brickfest. Among others. Still pretty bad for ShabazzleDazzle, but not incomprehensibly bad. If my channel…

Dario Saric 21 Points Full Highlights (2/27/2018)

Dario “Saricophagus” Saric’s passing ability, however great it is, has fallen by the wayside. Ben Simmons gets to do the passing now. Him and sometimes T.J. McConnell, but mostly Simmons. The team exists to make him and Embiid look good, basically (gotta justify the blatant multi-year tankjob), so that means not as much messing around…

D’Angelo Russell 25 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (2/27/2018)

At what point do we start using the b-word in reference to D’Angelo Russell? He was the second overall pick, and while he is averaging 15 ppg, which is pretty nice, his overall impact is suspect. You want someone a little better when you’re picking that high, I keep seeing revisionist history saying that Kwame…

Kyle Korver 18 Points Full Highlights (2/27/2018)

There’s likely a way to figure out how many triple-doubles LeBron James would have this season if Kyle Korver wasn’t around. I don’t know what that way would be, and I’m way too lazy to calculate it manually, so I’m going to use my preternatural powers of intuition to estimate the answer: zero. Zero triple-doubles…

George Hill 26 Points Full Highlights (2/27/2018)

Cavaliers fans pretended, right after the Cavs traded for him, to care about George Hill. This was, I think, the first time that a fanbase or even anyone at all had cared (or in this case, pretended to care) about him. It didn’t last long. I think Cavs fans hate him now, after his less…