October 2018 – DownToBuck

Dwyane Wade 19 Points Full Highlights (10/30/2018)

Early returns on this season are that Dwyane Wade can shoot threes now. That’s good news now that he’s not as athletic as he once was; drives to the basket are both harder to accomplish and more hazardous to his health once he gets near the rim. Wade has always been a poor three-point shooter…

Jusuf Nurkic 22 Points Full Highlights (10/30/2018)

“Hello friend Meyers.” Looking up from his phone, Meyers Leonard regarded his teammate Jusuf Nurkic with narrowed, suspicious eyes. “Hey Nurk.” “I wanting to talk to you about minutes situation,” Jusuf said, knowing that this question would almost certainly provoke an emotional response from Meyers. “What’s there to talk about?” Meyers asked. “There’s not enough…

Collin Sexton 17 Points Full Highlights (10/30/2018)

OFFICIAL DTB DISCLAIMER: Collin Sexton made just four field goals to score his 17 points. Eight free throws were used to make up the difference. As you and I both know, field goals are way more interesting to watch than free throws, so the end result is a video which is not as compelling as…

Buddy Hield 25 Points Full Highlights (10/30/2018)

I’m looking at Buddy Hield’s basketball-reference page and I’m seeing that he’s started all 8 games this season after barely starting that many all of last season. It seems clear to me that Buddy should have been the starter last year as well, but I’m struggling to remember who was starting in his place at…

Tony Parker 24 Points/11 Assists Full Highlights (10/30/2018)

Basketball-wise, I don’t care that Tony Parker is on the Hornets now. There’s no sentimentality or anything for me seeing him in a new uni. What is a problem, though, is that he totally messed up the aesthetic-ness of his basketball-reference page. Looking at his career, there’s like 15 rows in a row that start…

Danilo Gallinari 27 Points Full Highlights (10/30/2018)

I don’t know why I think Danilo Gallinari is way older than he is. I guess because he’s been in the league for a decade now, but he’s only 30 years old. Every year I think it’s going to be the last year where he’s good, and that he’ll come into the season totally unable…

Jonas Valanciunas 23 Points Full Highlights (10/30/2018)

In a theoretical playoff matchup with Philly, I really like Jonas Valanciunas’ theoretical ability to deal with Joel Embiid’s theoretical post game. He’s got a beeficity to him that a lot of centers these days don’t have. Sure, guarding him on the perimeter is a whole different story, but who even cares if Embiid splashes…

Kevin Huerter 13 Points/1 Dunk Full Highlights (10/30/2018)

Kevin “That Other Hawks Rookie” Huerter was a dude that I wanted the Bucks to target in the draft. Last year that dude was Jarrett Allen, and see how right I was about that one? Keep in mind that I’m pretty much the world’s worst prospect evaluator, barely ahead of Ryan McDonough. The fact that…

Cedi Osman 20 Points Full Highlights (10/30/2018)

I admit, I said some things that I now regret after Cedi Osman’s first two games this season. Everyone was feeling all excited, Cavs fans were delirious with joy, and I got swept up in the hype. I believe I declared Osman the official second banana to Kevin Love. Whoops! As Treebeard said, “don’t be…

Malik Monk 20 Points Full Highlights (10/30/2018)

Do you ever wonder to yourself, while trying to get to sleep at night, what it would look like if someone took Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis and put them into the same body? I think about it. I think about it a lot. And last night, while I was thinking about it, it came…