January 29, 2019 – DownToBuck

Malik Beasley 18 Points Full Highlights (1/28/2019)

When Malik Beasley came in the game late in the third quarter, the Nuggets were down by 20. When he left the game, at the end, the Nuggets were up by 3. Obviously, not all the credit for the huge comeback win goes to Beasley (some of it begrudgingly goes to Will Barton, and of…

Alex Len 19 Points Full Highlights (1/28/2019)

There are some teams in the league who just don’t have a point guard (or a system, in some cases) that allows bigmen to get free dunks whenever they want. The Hawks are not one of those teams. If you’re tall, have arms, and can catch a ball, you are allotted at a minimum one…

Trae Young 26 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (1/28/2019)

Trae Young might be one of the worst point guards in the league going off ESPN’s “real plus-minus” stat (a stat that is calculated through some combination of Ph.D.-level mathematics, alchemic sorcery, and hard drugs), but he does occasionally have a “good game” where he looks like a legitimate point guard who is legitimately good….

John Collins 22 Points Full Highlights (1/28/2019)

The writing on the wall is that John Collins won’t be an All-Star this season. He didn’t fare well in the fan voting (because Atlanta has no fans) and apparently the media and the players themselves hate him too. This is disappointing to me since I advocated so strongly for his cause; it’s like campaigning…

Kevon Looney 15 Points Full Highlights (1/28/2019)

Fifteen points is actually a career high for Kevon “Kevon Duront” Looney, but I didn’t note it in the title of the video. Why, you ask? Because it seems mean-spirited to announce to the world that this guy’s career high is only fifteen points, as if he is a scrubby scrubnugget dipped in scrubsauce who…

Shabazz Napier 20 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (1/28/2019)

Shabazz “Shabazzledazzle” is one of the biggest chuckers on the Nets, although you wouldn’t realize it when you look at the stats because his minutes are low and kind of sporadic. Only when you look at the roster’s scoring per 36 minutes does the trend become apparent: Napier (19.6) is just slightly behind the high-scoring…

Aron Baynes 16 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (1/28/2019)

Aron “Angry Australian Topknot Santa” Baynes is halfway through his seventh season in the league. Since he wasn’t a young rookie (entering the NBA at age 26 after spending his early twenties riding kangaroos around the Australian outback while yelling “crikey”), he’s a lot older than most players who are playing in their seventh season:…

Marcus Smart 21 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (1/28/2019)

Since Marcus Smart is now a 36% three-point shooter (a percentage that will go up after this game), I should stop being incredulous when the three-pointers he takes actually go through the net. In past seasons, it was a forgone conclusion that most of the three-pointers Smart chucked up there were not going to in….

Nikola Jokic 24 Points/1 Game-Winner Full Highlights (1/28/2019)

Calling Nikola Jokic’s hook shot with 28 seconds left in the game a “game-winner” is stretching my credibility a little thin, but you know what? It was kind of a game-winner in the sense that it put the Nuggets in the lead for good. Also, if I put the words “game-winner” in the title of…

Kevin Knox 19 Points Full Highlights (1/28/2019)

After much struggle to make heads or tails of the stats.nba.com user interface, I was finally able to coerce it into disgorging the stat that I was looking for. A stat which paints Kevin Knox in a very unfavorable light. Out of all players who have attempted fifty or more midrange field goals, Kevin Knox…