March 12, 2018 – DownToBuck

Joe Ingles 20 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

Unlike past Joe Ingles videos, which were deficient in the amount of jingling contained in their runtime, I have determined that this video contains adequate amounts of jingling. A player with the nickname “Jinglin’ Joe” is obligated by social norms to provide jingles, and in this case, the jingles were definitely provided. The video evidence…

Bobby Portis 21 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

Bobby “Crazy Eyes” Portis: a legit stretch four? Question mark? I would say, yeah, he totally is a legit stretch four. Legitimately. He’s only shooting 34% on three-pointers, but that’s legit enough where teams have to guard him at that distance. They can’t just let him shoot those shots. Or they could, if they’re tanking…

Dwight Powell 20 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

Dwight Powell might have been the only player on the Mavericks who showed up against the Rockets last night. The Mavericks as a team scored 82, which isn’t the most pathetic thing ever (still pretty pathetic tee bee aitch), but almost a fourth of those came as a result of Dwight Powell and his elite…

Marcus Smart 20 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

It causes me physical pain when Marcus Smart has a good game in defiance of all the mean things I’ve written about him. Actual physical pain, akin to having your chest skewered with knives. Celtics fans will tell me all about his defense and that’s easy for me to ignore since there are no box-score…

Zaza Pachulia 15 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

I don’t know how Zaza “I hate Kawhi Leonard” Pachulia’s flat little jumpshots ever go in the rim, but he hit two of them last night and it’s actually been a staple of his limited offensive game for a long time. All I know is that whenever he would hoist one up when he was…

D’Angelo Russell 26 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

Is D’Angelo Russell a part of the Nets’ future yeah or nah? He’s around in Brooklyn for one more year and then they’ll decide if they want to pay him or not. Contracts confuse me, but I bet Brooklyn will have his Bird Rights (whatever those are) and will be able to pay him more…

Donovan Mitchell 27 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

It took a while for Donovan Mitchell to get going in this one, but once his did, it was over for the Pelicans. 25 points in the last 15 minutes of the game, wow, typed out like that it doesn’t seem that impressive. Oops. Watch the video. It will be impressive. I promise. So impressive…

Mike Muscala Career High 19 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

Mike “Musc Ox” Muscala is the longest tenured player with Atlanta, tied with Dennis Schroder at five years. It’s literally only him, Schroder, and Kent Bazemore that remain from that 60-win Hawks team. Talk about blowing it up! I, personally, would’ve probably kept Paul Millsap over him. Maybe Austin Daye as well. So what that…

Antonio Blakeney 14 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

The Bulls want to lose. We know that. They want to lose so bad that they’re willing to blatantly (so blatantly that Adam Silver had to tell them not to be so blatant) rest some of their better players for no reason other than to hurt their chances of winning. So why haven’t they played…

Nikola Jokic Triple Double 20 Pts/11 Rebs/10 Asts Full Highlights (3/11/2018)

This game had the feel of a “vintage” Nikola Jokic performance to me. The ratio of incredible highlight plays to pedestrian plays has been lower this year for him, which isn’t necessarily bad (no one remembers all those turnovers he had last year because he got too fancy), but it makes his highlights somewhat less…