October 27, 2018 – DownToBuck

Caris LeVert 21 Points Full Highlights (10/26/2018)

Full disclosure: Caris LeVert needed 23 shot attempts to score 21 points. That’s full-on Jordan Crawford territory. If there was any justice in this world, I would not have made this video. I would have looked at LeVert’s statline, which looks good on the surface, and discarded it once the true nature of his inefficiency…

Buddy Hield 22 Points Full Highlights (10/26/2018)

After the last update on my walking, talking, 3D-printed purple naked Buddy Hield statue, I realized that I didn’t go into as much depth into our zoo trip as I probably should have. It’s a fun story. So here it is. — From our night walks I figured out that Buddy was really into animals…

Kelly Oubre 22 Points Full Highlights (10/26/2018)

Kelly Oubre was sitting in his locker, hunched over a notebook. The pen in his hand scribbled furiously, writing notes, then crossing them out and writing new ones over the top. Dwight Howard happened to walk by. “Hey, what’s that?” he asked. “Notes for your next novel?” Shaking his head, Kelly didn’t even look up….

Nemanja Bjelica 26 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (10/26/2018)

“Dear Diary, Things are going very badly here in Minnesota. Every passing day brings me closer to the termination of my employment. The relationship between coaching and ownership, always a strained one, is irreparable at this point. My locker room is in shambles, my players hate each other, the fans hate me, and we’re not…

Carmelo Anthony 24 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (10/26/2018)

If you thought my first Carmelo Anthony vid was some sort of super early April Fool’s Day prank, think again, because this is how it’s going to be from now on. Back-to-back 20-point games for him lead me to question whether he’s really as washed as I thought he was, but for now, he’s absolutely…

Shabazz Napier 16 Points Full Highlights (10/26/2018)

Shabazz Napier’s signing with the Nets somehow escaped my notice. I probably heard about it when it happened, but when it happened was probably when everything else was happening and WojBombs were dropping from the sky like raindrops. Coming into tonight, I definitely knew he was in the league, and I knew he wasn’t in…

D’Angelo Russell 24 Points Full Highlights (10/26/2018)

Everyone’s going to want to talk about D’Angelo Russell’s game-losing turnover with 7 seconds left, but what about all the other good stuff that he did? The turnover was bad, but it was only one play, one play out of hundreds in the game. Let’s not overreact. Here are the good things that Russell did…

Frank Ntilikina 17 Points Full Highlights (10/26/2018)

This is the kind of game that you can build off of if you’re the Knicks. Sure, they ended up getting blown out in the end (and it will pay off when Durant decides to join them this offseason), but they were close for a big part of the game, and a big part of…

Tony Parker 18 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (10/26/2018)

Unlike a lot of people, I’m not finding it especially jarring to see Tony Parker in something other than a Spurs jersey. To be honest, I was never that big on the Spurs, or Tony Parker, because they/he were too good and I really prefer the middling teams over the championship contenders. My nascent NBA…

Montrezl Harrell Career High 30 Points Full Highlights (10/26/2018)

Montrezl “Cznzdz” Harrell is straight-up stealing minutes from Boban Marjanovic and I’m not even mad. He’s also stealing minutes from Marcin Gortat who is stunningly irrelevant this season. Maybe “stealing” isn’t the right word. “Earning”, more like. He’s earning minutes because he offers a decent fraction of Marjanovic production (and way surpassing Gortat production) while…