February 15, 2018 – DownToBuck

Ian Mahinmi 17 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (2/14/2018)

Big shout-out goes to Ian Mahinmi for raising his free-throw percentage to a blistering 73 percent after being a sub-60 percent shooter the last few years. Everyone talks about Andre Drummond transforming into a way better player because of his improved foul shooting, but no one is speaking the same way about Mahinmi. Neither are…

Brandon Ingram 21 Points Full Highlights (2/14/2018)

Brandon Ingram stood at a fork in the road in his career. On one road, the sign read “Giannis Antetokounmpo”, the other, “Kevin Durant”. Ingram shrugged, remembered how messed up his jumpshot form was, and stepped confidently onto the Giannis path. For real though, those Durant comparisons were probably only based on how skinny he…

DeMarre Carroll 21 Points Full Highlights (2/14/2018)

I don’t know how the Nets commentators managed to sound so excited after DeMarre Carroll hit another three. For one thing, it’s only DeMarre Carroll, not even someone exciting. For another, they were playing the Pacers. I could list more reasons to not get excited, but it would take up a lot of space and…

Serge Ibaka 20 Points Full Highlights (2/14/2018)

Sergeballu LaMu Sayonga Loom Walahas Jonas Hugo Ibaka is the dude on the Raptors who least wants to pass the ball. They’ve been sharing it well lately, but Ibaka, he wants to SCORE, dammit. Same with C.J. Miles, which is a little more inexcusable. Ibaka, at least, is a bigman who usually gets the ball…

Julius Randle 20 Points Full Highlights (2/14/2018)

Somehow I got the idea that Julius Randle scored more points than this. I got to the end of the game, he only had 20, and I was like “what”, because I thought he had a few more than that. Oops. Not going to throw out all the work I did, though, so here you…

Jarell Martin 17 Points Full Highlights (2/14/2018)

Jarell Martin is trying to do things on offense this year. Things that he, maybe, shouldn’t be trying to do. Three-point things. Step-back things. Pull-up things. At the same time, why shouldn’t he be trying to expand his game? The Grizzlies are doing nothing right now, and the national spotlight is about as far from…

Donovan Mitchell 24 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (2/14/2018)

Okay, for real, if Donovan Mitchell is gonna win ROY of the Year then he needs to get more triple-doubles. Ben Simmons gets triple-doubles, and he’s gonna win if things don’t change right now. Problem is, Mitchell doesn’t have a game with more than 10 rebounds OR assists this season, but that’s okay. We can…

Tomas Satoransky 9 Points/11 Assists/3 Blocks Full Highlights (2/14/2018)

The Wizards have now won 7 out of the 9 games Tomas Satoransky has started since John Wall got injured. You cannot tell me that that is a coincidence. Or, you can, but I will laugh in your face because here’s the frickin’ dealio: Satoransky is better at playing winning basketball than Wall. Wall gets…

Ish Smith 22 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (2/14/2018)

I know this is a video about Ish Smith, I definitely know that because I’m the one who made it, but I would like to take this moment to complain about the lack of minutes for Henry Ellenson. Ellenson doesn’t get to play enough, as I already implied. The reason that he should get to…

James Johnson 22 Points Full Highlights (2/14/2018)

In doing research for this description, I found out that you can watch highlights of James Johnson scoring 20 points (against the Heat, I’m pretty sure that was the reason they gave him his current contract) as a rookie for the Bulls. He looks springy! Also the guy who uploaded it has a bunch of…