October 30, 2018 – DownToBuck

De’Aaron Fox 20 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (10/29/2018)

De’Aaron Fox: legit? He’s averaging 18 and 7 this year after a minorly disappointing rookie season. He’s shooting the ball well as long as it’s not a three or a free-throw. He’s leading his team to wins? Yeah, you could say that. I’m going to go with “legit” on this one, so legit that he’s…

Jamal Murray 23 Points Full Highlights (10/29/2018)

Jamal Murray needs to be taking/making way more three than he is right now. Only 10 in the first 6 games? I wasn’t calling this guy Maple Curry for no reason. There was a reason, and that reason was that he is the Canadian version of Stephen Curry. He can shoot it from anywhere, and…

Julius Randle 24 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (10/29/2018)

I know that Julius Randle’s career is just getting started, but it’s never too early to start thinking about how you’ll make money once the spigot of NBA checks dries up. And in Julius’ case, I have the perfect solution. Its essential essence can be distilled into three words: Orange. Julius. Empire. Think about it….

Frank Ntilikina 16 Points Full Highlights (10/29/2018)

Stephen Curry did us the favor of gracing us with a brand-new, never-heard-before nickname for Frank Ntilikina. It was creative, audacious, topical and relevant. Many other adjectives could be applied successfully to this wonderful new nickname creation. When I first heard it I was eager to start using it in my video descriptions. It spoke…

Brandon Ingram 24 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (10/29/2018)

I feel like I was misled in two fashions during the making of this video: First misleading thing: Brandon Ingram had three “blocks”, but, as my quotation marks indicate, the blockiness of these blocks is very much up for debate. The first one was sure, maybe a block, the second one was more a strip…

Josh Okogie 17 Points Full Highlights (10/29/2018)

With Josh Okogie’s nice performance against the Lakers (is LeBron or is LeBron not currently crying by himself while looking at pictures of the Cleveland skyline?), I feel fully justified in having prematurely assigned him the nickname “Okobe”. Elie Okobo does not get that nickname because Okogie had it first, even though Okobo had on-court…

Buddy Hield 23 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (10/29/2018)

Sometimes I almost feel like a naturalist making observations of wild animals when I’m chilling out with my 12-foot-tall 3D-printed naked Buddy Hield statue. Just like with animals, there’s not really a good way to figure out what’s going through his mind, so you have to guess based on his behaviors. And if he’s just…

Willie Cauley-Stein 26 Points Full Highlights (10/29/2018)

Kings fans have alleged in the past that Willie Cauley-Stein isn’t as focused on basketball as he should be. Looking at his physical appearance and plugging it into my mental database of stereotypes, I could definitely believe that. He just looks like the kind of guy who would be into a bunch of different hobbies…

Mike Muscala 14 Points Full Highlights (10/29/2018)

This was definitely a REVENGE GAME for Mike “Muscy Stench” Muscala. Sometime in the middle of the summer, the Hawks traded him in cold blood to the 76ers as part of the Carmelo Anthony trade that saw Melo join the Hawks for all of a day. Five years of loyal service to the Hawks franchise…

Mitchell Robinson 11 Points/4 Dunks Full Highlights (10/29/2018)

I bet if you compiled a list of all the starting centers for the Knicks in the last ten years it would be a really funny list. Good names would be on it like Tyson Chandler (unless that was longer than ten years ago, all sense of time has long departed), plus some funny ones…