October 21, 2018 – DownToBuck

Dwight Powell 19 Points Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

Dwight Powell AKA Dwight Power is currently leading the league in field goal percentage at a robust 80%. That obviously won’t continue, because no high-volume player has ever shot 80% from the field (even 70% is exceedingly rare), but I’m sure his FG% will remain high due to the continued excision of the jumpshot from…

Allonzo Trier 15 Points Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

Okay. So now we know that the fifteen points Allonzo Trier scored in his rookie debut were not a fluke. A fluke would not happen twice. That would contradict the very definition of a “fluke”. We can say with relative certainty that Trier is a player who is easily capable of scoring fifteen non-flukey points…

Cameron Payne 17 Points Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

The bad news for Chicago Bulls fans is that their team is going to be bad this year. The good news is that Jerian Grant isn’t around anymore so they don’t have to worry about whether they hate him or Cameron Payne more for being totally incapable of running a functioning NBA offense. Now the…

Joe Harris 19 Points/5 Threes Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

I gotta be honest, from one bro to another bro: Joe Harris, your beard looks like trash. You look like that part of Anchorman were a fallen-from-grace Ron Burgundy has become a hobo, except you don’t have droplets of milk in your beard. I understand that it’s petty to rag on NBA players about their…

Rodney McGruder 19 Points Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

I understand that Rodney McGruder is only getting the minutes he’s getting (35 MPG through the first three games of the season) due to the absence of a certain man who possesses and arm made out of solid gold, but I would say that he’s shown that he deserves those minutes with his high standard…

Kyle O’Quinn 16 Points/2 Blocks Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

Kyle “Irish Black Santa” O’Quinn: is he the next Lavoy “My Boy” Allen for the Pacers? I’m not very good at coming up with player comparisons (my excuse is that I know too many players and it’s too much information to sift through), but I feel like this one isn’t the worst one I’ve ever…

Jayson Tatum 24 Points Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

I feel like the Celtics should have beaten the Knicks by more than just two points. The Celtics are a team chock-full of star power, whereas the Knicks are a team chock-full of…well, they’re not chock-full of star power, that’s for sure. Jayson Tatum did his part to bring the Celtics the victory, but what…

JaVale McGee 16 Points/5 Blocks Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

This video features not just one but TWO jumpshots from JaVale McGee. Not only where they real-life honest-to-god jumpshots, but they were pretty much turnaround jumpshots. For a guy who has been considered nothing but a dunk factory for his entire time in the NBA, that’s not only a good omen for his development; that’s…

Derrick Rose 28 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

Derrick Rose wandered a garden which he had never seen before. Where was he? How did he get here? It looked nice enough, with well-trimmed hedges around its perimeter, paths paved by flagstones winding through its wide array of botany, and an ornate fountain at its center. But there appeared to be no entrance or…

Jamal Murray 26 Points Full Highlights (10/20/2018)

I would never have made this highlight video if I had known that almost a fifth of Jamal Murray’s points came off of technical free throws. Those are, indubitably (heh heh), the lamest type of points in all of basketball. Their runtime is short, but their impact on a highlight video is large. Too many,…