January 12, 2019 – DownToBuck

Derrick Rose 21 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (1/11/2019)

It’s likely that I’ve advanced this opinion before, but I don’t care: the Minnesota Timberwolves need to wear these black/purple jerseys more often. They’re, as the kids say these days, “dank”. They make everybody look good in a dark retro synthwave type of way. The bright green jerseys also need to be worn more often…

Mike Muscala 16 Points Full Highlights (1/11/2019)

Mike “Muscy Stench” Muscala was rudely jammed into the starting lineup in the absence of Joel Embiid, who was out with a sore ankle. I don’t want to freak anyone out here, but the Achilles is kind of near the ankle, and the fact that the whole area was sore is very concerning to me….

Marcus Derrickson 10 Points Full Highlights (1/11/2019)

This is it. This right here. Forget about all the other crappy vids I’ve made for this night of games, this is the one that you should watch. This is the essence of DownToBuck. The point is to highlight the un-highlighted, to honor scrubdom. Marcus Derrickson isn’t a good NBA player (but probably a great…

Jordan Bell 13 Points/4 Jumpers Full Highlights (1/11/2019)

The Bulls received a lot of criticism for trading the second-round pick that became Jordan Bell for straight-up cash. Remember when the Nets (of New Jersey) traded Kyle Korver for a copy machine? This is like that, except with the 3.5 million that the Bulls got, they could buy many, many thousands of copy machines….

Royce O’Neale 17 Points Full Highlights (1/11/2019)

Royce “John Salmons 2.0” O’Neale had two games of this caliber in the playoffs last year. All the way back in early May, if you can remember back that far. He was even the leading scorer for the Jazz in one of them (the Jazz did not win that game against the Rockets). Those were…

Trevor Ariza 20 Points Full Highlights (1/11/2019)

I hold no particular animus towards Trevor Ariza for breaking out of his three-game, 0-for-15 from three shooting slump against the Bucks. If I had actually been watching this game, maybe things would be different, but I wasn’t. And even I was, in the end, the fault lies with the Bucks for leaving him wide…

T.J. McConnell 16 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (1/11/2019)

It must be kind of cruddy to be the best midrange shooter in a league where the majority of fans think midrange shots are stupid and dumb and inefficient. Here’s the deal, stats nerds who haven’t even seen, much less touched, an unclothed female heinie: those shots are only inefficient if it’s not T.J. McConnell…

Emmanuel Mudiay 21 Points Full Highlights (1/11/2019)

Whose idea was it to put this Knicks versus Pacers game on ESPN? I know, I know, you don’t want to show the same few teams over and over again, not every game should be Warriors versus Rockets, you want to show the entire league even if they’re not that good or exciting. But this…

Dewayne Dedmon 19 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (1/11/2019)

If Dewayne “Judge Dedd” Dedmon had gotten a triple-double this game, it would have ranked as one of the unlikelist triple-doubles of the season. Actually, scratch that. It would have been the undisputed least-likely triple-double of the season, ahead of Kyle Anderson’s by a significant amount because Dedmon isn’t known as a passer. As it…

Domantas Sabonis 22 Points Full Highlights (1/11/2019)

I was all ready to go with a theme for this video description: how Domantas Sabonis completely dominated Enes Kanter because Kanter can’t handle somebody with the size and skill near the basket that Sabonis possesses. That narrative went out the window when it became apparent to me while compiling this video that Kanter didn’t…