January 22, 2019 – DownToBuck

Landry Shamet 18 Points Full Highlights (1/21/2019)

Landry Shamet averaged 5 assists per game in his final season at Wichita State. That’s… a lot of assists! I am absolutely surprised by that figure, because right now he’s doing hardly any playmaking. For comparison, Chris Paul averaged only 6.6 in his final college season. That’s not even a whole lot more, and Paul…

Kenneth Faried 13 Points Rockets Debut Full Highlights (1/21/2019)

Surprise, surprise. Kenneth Faried gets actual minutes, and he produces. Take notes, Kennocoachingability Atkinsdiet. You give Faried the chance to get on the court, and he immediately starts grabbing balls and putting them in holes, hair flopping wildly behind him. I don’t really know why he didn’t get minutes on the Nets, maybe it was…

Trevor Ariza 20 Points Full Highlights (1/21/2019)

Trevor Ariza’s 14.7 scoring average with the Wizards is approaching the career-best 14.9 he averaged with Houston nearly a decade ago. No, this isn’t a leadup to a big paragraph about how he’s now too good for my channel. I wish that were the case, but it’s not. What I’m trying to say is, he’s…

Ivica Zubac 18 Points Full Highlights (1/22/2019)

Would Ivica Zubac be a voted-in All Star if he had been playing this well the entire season instead of just the last few games? I’m thinking yes, and you know what, that yes would be positively RESOUNDING. Remember, he plays for the team with a fanbase that faithfully voted for the husk of Kobe…

Jahlil Okafor 20 Points/3 Dunks Full Highlights (1/21/2019)

I really wanted to enjoy these Jahlil Okafor highlights. I really, honestly, truly did. But I can’t. It’s not Okafor’s fault in any way. He played the same way that he did in Philadelphia, a style which was somehow aesthetic, clumsy, powerful, skilled, plodding, and polished, all combined into one unholy morass. The basketball part…

Trae Young 21 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (1/21/2019)

Here’s a thought experiment for you: is Dewayne Dedmon a BETTER three-point shooter than Trae Young? I’ll give you their respective shooting stats so you don’t have to look it up yourself. Trae Young: 0/3 this game, 69/239 (28.9%) for the season Dewayne Dedmon: 5/7 this game, 42/110 (38.1%) for the season Keep in mind…

Evan Fournier 29 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (1/21/2019)

I’m going to let you in on a little secret. You might think that your precious, beloved DTB is above selling out to multi-national corporations for monetary gain. You might think that journalistic ethics stand between his furtherment of the scrub cause and the relentless pursuit of straight up raw cash. I’m telling you right…

Joe Harris 19 Points Full Highlights (1/21/2019)

This is the sixth game this season that Joe Harris has scored nineteen points. What’s his problem, anyway? Does he not realize that twenty points is way better than nineteen, due to twenty being in the “twenties” and nineteen being in the “teens”? Is he too stupid to know how math works? Does he not…

Jusuf Nurkic 22 Points/7 Assists/6 Blocks Full Highlights (1/21/2019)

If Jusuf “Nurk Dowitzki” Nurkic had managed to do anything in the fourth quarter other than commit four fouls and get an assist, he might have had a quadruple-double. By my count (which is hastily done and could be off by as much as two hundred in either direction), he only needed three rebounds, four…

Jalen Brunson 16 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (1/21/2019)

After the untimely death of one Jose Juan “J.J.” Barea, the more casual members of the NBA fandom may have wondered to themselves “who on the Mavs roster could possibly step in to fill the small-statured, but big-hearted hole that Barea’s departure has left in the team?” However, the more erudite NBA fan will have…