November 3, 2018 – DownToBuck

Joe Harris 18 Points Full Highlights (11/2/2018)

If there’s one thing I love about the NBA, it’s how buttmad the fanbases of “good” teams get when they lose to “bad” teams. Observing the profanity-sprinkled meltdowns of the collective is satisfying in the same way those “Russian Winter Car Crash” compilation videos are. Even better is if the meltdown includes calls for management…

Shelvin Mack 19 Points Full Highlights (11/2/2018)

I just spent the last fifteen minutes frantically searching the Googs for phrases like “Do I have Alzheimer’s” and “early onset dementia” and “Alzheimer’s symptoms”. Now, thanks to all that Googling, I’m fairly convinced that I have the ‘Zheimers, and while I won’t let this be the end of DownToBuck, I’m sort of dreading the…

Mitchell Robinson 13 Points/3 Dunks Full Highlights (11/2/2018)

OFFICIAL 2018 DRAFTEES POWER RANKINGS (USING PER-48 WIN-SHARES [BEST STAT EVER]): 1. Robert Williams (.343, doesn’t count) 1. Mitchell Robinson (.205) 2. Deandre Ayton (.168) 3. Troy Brown (.161, also doesn’t count) 3. Hamidou Diallo (.141) 4. Jaren Jackson (.140) 5. Donte DiVincenso (.134) [POWER GAP] 9001. De’Anthony Melton (-.249) As you can see, by…

Isaiah Canaan 19 Points Full Highlights (11/2/2018)

Now seems like a good time to remind people that Isaiah Canaan was 15th in total made three-pointers in the 2015-16 season. He would’ve been higher, but he sat out the last few as the 76ers were in the deepest throes of tanking. To reiterate: Canaan, who is just a guy, was one of the…

Jerami Grant Career High 22 Points Full Highlights (11/2/2018)

I just want to shout out the Wizards commentator (I forget his name) who managed to acknowledge Jerami Grant’s career-high (he didn’t mention that part) 22 points while being overcome with smothering melancholy. That takes inner power. Normally he just sits in silence when things are going really wrong, as they have been for the…

Carmelo Anthony 29 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (11/2/2018)

Maybe I jumped the gun on banishing Carmelo Anthony to my channel (is banishing even something you can do to something? or only away from?), because this is the third video I’ve had to make for him. Did he even have a game this good at any point last year. I wasn’t paying much attention,…

Ricky Rubio 22 Points/11 Assists Full Highlights (11/2/2018)

The thing with Ricky Rubio is that his flat-ass jumpers never feel sustainable. They go in often enough, I guess, but do you ever see him put one up and think “oh yeah that’s definitely going in”? No. So when he has a good stretch of gametime where he’s line-driving them into the hole, you…

Dorian Finney-Smith Career High 19 Points Full Highlights (11/2/2018)

There doesn’t seem to be much hope around the league that Dorian Finney-Smith will ever be anything more than he is right now: an athletic small forward who doesn’t do a whole lot on the court or fill that stat sheet. I think defense is his calling card (plus the hustle that goes along with…

Dennis Smith Jr. 23 Points Full Highlights (11/2/2018)

I’m just noticing a heretofore un-noticed hitch in Dennis Smith Jr.’s free throw shooting motion. It’s almost like Chuck Hayes, obviously not as bad, but he sort of pauses and turns his wrist a little bit right before he lets it go. Has he always done this? Am I just being dumb for not realizing…

Luka Doncic 18 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (11/2/2018)

I was promised Luka Doncic to Dirk Nowitzki alley-oops. Right at the beginning of the season, Mark Cuban went on TV and said in front of everyone “At least once in every Mavericks game this season, Luka Doncic will throw the ball high into the air towards the basket but instead of trying to make…