January 2, 2019 – DownToBuck

Derrick Favors 21 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2019)

Derrick Favors’ reign as “best Derrick person” in the NBA has come to a sad end this year. He’s still good, actually he’s better than ever if you look at advanced stats, but Derrick Rose has captured everyone’s hearts with his inspired play and 50-point game tears. I thought I saw some tears leaking out…

Bogdan Bogdanovic 19 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2019)

Bogdan Bogdanovic was pretty bad most of this game outside of one stretch during the fourth quarter (and the very butt-end of the third). Luckily for you, you don’t have to relive all the bricks and turnovers, because I have prepared for you something special: a video containing only the good things that he did,…

Kevin Knox 18 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2019)

New Years’s resolution for Kevin Knox: turn all these sick first-quarter performances into sick full-game performances. There’s probably some stats out there that illustrate his hot starts more exactly, but I’m feeling like, right now, he’s scoring roughly 90 percent of his points in the opening 12 minutes of games. If that was indeed his…

Malik Beasley 21 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2019)

This game is why I reserve editorial discretion when it comes to showing assists or not. Malik Beasley had 5 of them, which is a lot, right? Normally, I would show that many for a player like him. But these, my friends, were the worst assists EVER. Not in the sense that they were bad…

Jae Crowder Career High 30 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2019)

The good news for Jae Crowder is he scored a career-high 30 points. That’s great! The bad news is that he (by virtue of being on the Utah Jazz) let Kawhi Leonard score also a career-high 45. Weighing the two performances in my mind, it’s clear that Crowder’s is better, if only because a player…

Pascal Siakam Career High 28 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2018)

Pascal “SICKam” Siakam was really cooking tonight. He didn’t overuse the spin moves, which is both comforting (in that he can score in ways other than spin moves) and disappointing (I wanna see spin moves, god damn it). After just setting a career-high a week ago with 26 points, he want ahead and surpassed that…

Buddy Hield 28 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2018)

The aftermath of my nighttime zoo excursion with Buddy, my 12-foot-tall sentient naked purple 3D-printed purple plastic statue of Buddy Hield, that had the stated goal of petting the cute goats but ended with Buddy killing five different dudes, was overall easy to deal with. That’s because I adopted an “I did nothing wrong” mantra,…

Luke Kornet 19 Points Full Highlights (1/1/2019)

Luke “The Korndog” Kornet continues to make certain other Turkish centers on the Knicks obsolete by being an elite three-point threat. Sure, his rebounding is absolutely pathetic compared to Kanter, and his presence inside is practically non-existent, but he’s probably at least on par with Kanter on the defensive end so it’s just a matter…

Jusuf Nurkic 5 by 5 (24 Pts, 23 Rebs, 7 Asts, 5 Stls, 5 Blks) Full Highlights (1/1/2019)

“Yo, is something up with Jusuf?” asked Evan Turner to Meyers Leonard in the locker room before the game. He stood in front of Jusuf and waved his arms, but there was no reaction from the seven-foot Bosnian, who was staring straight ahead with a vacant look in his eyes. “He’s getting in the zone,”…

Nikola Jokic Triple Double 19 Pts/14 Rebs/15 Asts Full Highlights (1/1/2019)

Nikola Jokic just set back Serbo-Turk relations a couple centuries with the way he abused Enes Kanter tonight. I feel like I should double-check my historical facts to see if the Ottoman Empire ever abused Serbia or if Serbia ever abused the Ottomans or if they were even enemies at all or if they had…