November 7, 2018 – DownToBuck

Wesley Matthews 22 Points Full Highlights (11/6/2018)

It’s interesting that Wes Matthews is having, by far, the highest-scoring season of his Mavericks tenure while also shooting at the best efficiency of that same tenure. It’s inarguable that this is the best Matthews has played, from a raw stats perspective, since his Blazers days. Usually when I say “inarguable”, I’m being facetious or…

Luka Doncic 23 Points Full Highlights (11/6/2018)

The scoring is already here for Luka Doncic. Not what all the haters were expecting, him averaging 20 (if you haven’t noticed I’m obsessed with the concept of people averaging 20), but there it is. But where’s the assisting? Where’s the passing wizardry? We get a few good dimes a game, but he’s got almost…

Marvin Williams 20 Points Full Highlights (11/6/2018)

Did Marvin “W-Marv” Williams ever have fans? He doesn’t now, I know that for sure, and he hasn’t for the whole time of been making highlights, but what about before then? Like when he was a sophomore putting up 13 a game. Where there people on the W-Marv hype train, convinced that he was rebounding…

Brook Lopez 22 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (11/6/2018)

If Brook Lopez is even slightly open behind the arc and he has the ball, that shot is going up. Every time. Literally every time. Usually when I say “literally” I don’t mean it. This time I do. I defy you to find even one clip of him passing up a three this season. You…

Jeremy Lin 19 Points Full Highlights (11/6/2018)

I guess I can put away for now the obituary/eulogy I had written up for Jeremy Lin. I saw how poorly he started off the season, and knowing that he was coming off a bad injury, I thought that was it for him. That his minutes would slowly dwindle to nothing and he’d be out…

Caris LeVert 26 Points Full Highlights (11/6/2018)

We are a full half of a quarter of the way through the 2018-19 season (the greatest NBA season ever by my reckoning), and Caris LeVert is averaging over 20 points per game. I’ve looked everywhere, on the Nets roster, under my desk, inside of his psyche, down the road, up the hill, in the…

Trae Young 18 Points/10 Assists Full Highlights (11/6/2018)

Trae Young’s been playing way better to start the year than I anticipated. I’ve said this before. He just doesn’t have the look of a player who can come in and, if not dominate, at least be competent right away. Only problem is, he’s not making any threes. That’s the whole reason I watch Hawks…

Damyean Dotson 18 Points Full Highlights (11/5/2018)

The Knicks shook up their starting lineup a few games ago, and now it consists only of young, potential-y players (besides Vonleh, who will never be anything more than what he is right now). Tonight, it was Trier, Ntilikina, Robinson, Vonleh, and Damyean Dotson. That’s the kind of lineup that gets me excited. Buh-bye, Lance…

Allonzo Trier 21 Points Full Highlights (11/5/2018)

Normally the prospect of Allonzo Trier scoring 21 points would send him rocketing up my priority list, but not this time. Why? Too many free-throws. 9 of them. That’s why you’re getting this vid 12 hours after the game ended instead of right after. Now, on to more pressing matters. Trier’s on a two-way contract,…

Reggie Jackson 25 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (11/5/2018)

You can tell by the commentary at the end of this video: the Pistons commentators are fully aware that Reggie Jackson has sucked for the better part of the last three seasons, and they’re desperate for the return of “vintage” Reggie Jackson, whatever that is. And you can see why they would be so wistful…