January 3, 2019 – DownToBuck

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 25 Points Full Highlights (1/2/2019)

I was surprised to see the Lakers still got to play on national TV without LeBron doing his LeBronny things (checking his hairline, traveling, flopping, the usual). In the NFL, if a team like the Patriots doesn’t have a player like Tom Brady (remember, my football knowledge is at least a decade out of date,…

J.J. Redick 27 Points Full Highlights (1/2/2019)

I miss the days when every 76ers game was a new chance for some random 10-day contract player or other scrub/role-player to show out and have a career high. The days of Larry Drew II (Larry Drew’s crappy son) and Drew Gordon (Aaron Gordon’s crappy brother), the days of Furkan Aldemir and Tony Wroten. Hollis…

John Collins 21 Points/4 Threes Full Highlights (1/2/2019)

If John Collins is just gonna keep scoring 20 points seemingly every game like this, I’m gonna have to put some tighter restrictions on his highlights. Because right now, he’s getting a vid every game. When that starts happening, I know I need to either be more selective (maybe he has to score 22 now…

Joe Harris 21 Points Full Highlights (1/2/2019)

In a fair and just world, the three-point shootout over All-Star weekend would simply be the 8 best three-ballers in the league by percentage. No popularity contests, no meme Euro players unless they earned it, no Allen Iversons stinking it up, just the best of the best from the NBA. Right now, the top 8…

Jeff Green 22 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (1/2/2019)

I’ve mentioned it before, but we’re kinda running out of players from the 2007 draft (what I call the “Jeff Green Draft”). It’s not bad yet, but give it another year or two and it will be worse. Who really thinks that Jared Dudley or Jason Smith can keep getting contracts? Or Joakim Noah? Nick…

Elfrid Payton 25 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (1/2/2019)

You know, with that ridiculous hair precipice gone, it’s a lot easier for me to treat Elfrid Payton as a serious NBA player worthy of serious consideration and serious opinions. Back when he had that “poodle sucked through a vacuum” look going, I couldn’t take him seriously. Now my opinions of him, which were previously…

D’Angelo Russell 22 Points/13 Assists Full Highlights (1/2/2019)

This D’Angelo “Dan-Jello” Russell performance, of 22 points and 13 assists, is eerily similar to his performance on December 18th, 2018 against the Lakers. In that game (which was probably a REVENGE GAME, if we’re being honest here), D’Angelo again had 22 points and 13 assists. Crazy coincidence, right? Wait, it gets even crazier: he…

Jaren Jackson 26 Points Full Highlights (1/2/2019)

Two of the highest-profile Jacksons in the NBA met head-to-head tonight. One was a Jackson Junior, but I still think he counts as a Jackson for my purposes. The question is, which Jackson came out ahead? DTB will factually analyze the factual facts, using truth and logic, and at the end of this glorious process,…

Alex Len 24 Points/6 Dunks Full Highlights (1/2/2019)

Alex “Alyexsiyiiy” Len looks like a beast in this video. Do I think he is really a beast in real life? Not really. Replace the “ea” in “beast” with a “u” and you’d be getting closer to what I really think about him. But I can’t deny that he sort of totally made Thomas Bryant…

Seth Curry 25 Points Full Highlights (1/2/2019)

Seth Curry is learning from the GOAT2 (GOAT1 is Kareem and Curry can’t learn much from him unless he wants to do skyhooks from three). He already has an MVP brother who he can learn from, but some lessons he can’t help with. LeBron is proficient in other areas of the game that Stephen isn’t,…