January 25, 2019 – DownToBuck

Jerryd Bayless 16 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

Derrick Rose probably isn’t going to be an All-Star, but if he was, he’d be an All-Star who was getting outplayed by Jerryd Bayless. Which would be a huge indictment on the whole system, because Bayless shouldn’t be outplaying All-Stars. Under any circumstances. Don’t believe me about Rose getting outplayed? Here’s Rose’s last two games…

Elie Okobo 12 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

I have been noticing for a while that French people aren’t doing a good enough job of flocking to my videos and increasing my view counts. Other European countries do just fine, and France used to do a better job of it, but now it’s like they don’t even care about basketball. Evan Fournier? Apparently…

Seth Curry 17 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

Is it too late to get people into the three-point contest? Did they already announce the roster for that when I wasn’t paying attention? If there is still a chance to do so, I humbly submit Seth Curry for consideration. He’s shooting 48% on three-pointers this season, and while his volume of shots looks low,…

Trevor Ariza 27 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

I just happened to look at the stats and I noticed that Trevor Ariza, during his stint with the Wizards so far, is playing 38 minutes per game. That would be good for most minutes per game in the entire league it applied to the whole season; he would be ahead of Harden, Beal, and…

Tomas Satoransky 20 Points/10 Assists Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

“Trevor, you gotta help me out here.” Trevor Ariza looked mildly at his harried-looking teammate, Tomas Satoransky. “Help you with what?” “Getting this locker room under control like coach wants,” Tomas answered. “You’re a vet, don’t you have some kind of, I don’t know, some kind of veteran leadership skills that would stop everybody from…

Darius Miller 21 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

DTB’S OFFICIAL* FUN** FACT*** OF THE DAY****: Darius Miller has been a teammate of Anthony Davis since they were both in their rookie years. There’s a bit of a technicality there in that Miller was out of the league in the 15-16 and 16-17 seasons, but other than that, both players have played for the…

Dragan Bender 17 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

“Dear Diary, I struggle to believe it, but the young Croatian, Bender, has played passibly well in three consecutive games. In discussions with my predecessors, all are in agreement that this is the longest streak of decent play that he has had in his tragic, unsuccessful career to this point. There is a shared astonishment…

Jake Layman 20 Points/3 Dunks Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

I’ve mentioned it before, but it bears repeating now that the situation has grown extremely dire: while it’s great that Jake “Timberjake” Layman is emerging as a good basketball player after two years of complete, total, bottom-of-the-barrel scrubdom, it’s not so great that his minutes directly come at the expense of Nik Stauskas’ minutes. Stauskas…

Cheick Diallo 16 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

I bet when the NBA schedulemakers slapped this game onto the schedule, they had no idea that they would be setting up a momentous battle of the ages, a clash of rival players so pitched, so fevered, so ruthlessly violent, that NBA fans decades from now will speak of it in reverent tones. And the…

Jahlil Okafor 18 Points Full Highlights (1/24/2019)

Jahlil “Jah Rule” Okafor appeared to have a good game here. He was nine of twelve from the field, and he got those points opportunistically, rather than doing lumbering Al Jefferson impersonations all over the place. He also had eight rebounds (good) to go with zero assists, zero steals, and zero blocks (not so good,…