January 20, 2019 – DownToBuck

James Ennis 18 Points Full Highlights (1/19/2019)

Watching the present iteration of the Rockets is almost comical. Teams have decided that they are willing to let the Rockets’ role-players shoot wide open threes rather than let Harden do what he wants. Some of those role-players, like James Nunnally, what the heck is he doing out there, aren’t capable of making those teams…

Eric Gordon 30 Points Full Highlights (1/19/2019)

Eric Gordon ROBBED (remember, typing things in all caps is how to get people to pay attention to your work) James Harden of a 50-burger by selfishly hogging all the foulball free throws at the end of the game. Who would you want shooting those game-sealing gimmes? The meatball whose only accomplishment in the game…

Bismack Biyombo 11 Points/5 Blocks Full Highlights (1/19/2019)

Did we ever figure out if Bismack Biyombo was actually the age he said he was when he was drafted? Because I remember there were some murmurings that he wasn’t actually 18 during that Nike showcase game or whatever where he blocked a ton of shots. Maybe he was 19. Or 20! I think the…

Ivan Rabb 13 Points Full Highlights (1/19/2019)

Going into this, I expected the bulk of Ivan Rabb’s contributions in this game to come during the incredible amount of Danny Green-induced garbage time. Imagine my surprise when he actually did some things in the first quarter! Things must be really wonky in Memphis if they’re trotting out Rabb so early in the game…

Kevin Huerter 18 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (1/19/2019)

There is a growing amount of hype surrounding Kevin Huerter. A lot of this is because of physical appearance. White people generate slightly more excitement than the average player (“great white hope syndrome”), but the red hair is what really gets people going. Can you think of a single ginger NBA-baller who wasn’t ironically/legitimately adored…

Danny Green 24 Points/8 Threes Full Highlights (1/19/2018)

In the first year of Danny Green’s “real” NBA career, the 2011-12 season, the season-high for made threes by any player was 9. I’ll let you guess the three players who did that that season. I would’ve gotten one of them, one of the others I tried to repress the memory of because it happened…

Bobby Portis 21 Points Full Highlights (1/19/2019)

The Bulls are 2-13 in contests where Bobby Portis ignores the orders of the entire coaching staff screaming at him and inserts himself into the game. When he doesn’t do that, and instead sits blithely on the bench in a painkiller-induced reverie, they’re… 8-23. So, not even that much better. I don’t know what point…

Kyle Kuzma 32 Points Full Highlights (1/19/2019)

New rule: when an NBA player scores more than 16 points in a first quarter and doesn’t end up with 40 for the game, they get sent back down to the G-League immediately at the conclusion of the game. While they’re there, they’re getting real G-League checks, barely any money at all, while the money…

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

Luke Kennard only needed to look to the opposing bench to find the player who he should be trying to emulate. No, it’s not Kosta Koufos, even though Kennard is trying to emulate Koufos’ cataclysmic hair loss. I’m talking about Buddy Hield here. Kennard and Hield are similar players. Both are shooting guards who are…

Kelly Oubre 24 Points Full Highlights (1/19/2019)

Devin Booker walked up to Kelly Oubre’s locker and pointed at the terrarium that was on the shelf. “You keeping pets in here now, too?” Kelly Oubre sighed. “Devin, just when I think that you could not get any more ignorant, a statement leaves your mouth whose complete inanity surpasses even my lowest expectations for…