February 12, 2019 – DownToBuck

Monte Morris 17 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (2/11/2019)

Well, the trade deadline has come and gone, and the Nuggets didn’t make any major roster shakeups. Paul Millsap is still there, and so is Jamal Murray, and so is Gary Harris, so my grand plan to have all three of those guys traded to the Pelicans for Anthony Davis will have to be shelved…

Cody Zeller 18 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2019)

I think the thing that annoys me most about Cody Zeller is that, pre-draft, he projected as somebody who would generate exciting highlight videos. Nobody used those exact words of course, but the implication was that he would be a skilled, versatile scorer. If you’re a skilled, versatile scorer, your highlight videos are going to…

Patrick McCaw 13 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2019)

Patrick “Contract Negotiations” McCaw is, at this point, way more notable for his strange contract situation than any of his on-court exploits. Right now, I am 100% too lazy to look up the relevant deets on his dispute with the Warriors, but I can give a brief synopsis that is very likely to be misleading…

Gerald Green 19 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2019)

I think that, just for one game, Gerald Green should get to statpad like James Harden did at the end of this one. In case you haven’t been paying attention to the NBA for the past two months, Harden is on an extended streak of games where he’s scored thirty or more. Harden was at…

Trevor Ariza 23 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2019)

Someone needs to ask Trevor Ariza where he found the Fountain of Youth, because he’s obviously been taking huge swigs from it the whole time he’s been with the ‘Zards, and I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of Spanish conquistadors who would really like to know its whereabouts. It might be too late for Juan…

Nikola Jokic 23 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2019)

The second clip in this video contains what is, in my view, the worst Eurostep ever. As a person from Europe, Nikola Jokic was brought into this world with the innate ability to do Eurosteps, but I think his instincts got corrupted a little bit because this one was really awkward (and also probably a…

Allen Crabbe 22 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2019)

Well, I like Allen Crabbe. I don’t care if anyone else does. In fact, it’s better that no one else does, so that I can have this Crabbe Feast all to myself. While everyone else is falling all over themselves trying to get a nibble of one of James Harden’s pubes, I’ll be over here…

Marquese Chriss 14 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2019)

Marquese “Chriss Angel” Chriss was 1-for-15 from three with the Rockets. That was part of the reason everyone was so down on him, because on the Rockets, if you can’t hit your threes, you’re basically a useless bum who sucks and will never ever be useful to D’Antoni in any sense. Now, in his three…

Jake Layman 17 Points/4 Blocks Full Highlights (2/11/2019)

There are a lot of candidates for the MIP Improved Player award this season, but one name that I haven’t heard yet in the convo: Jake Layman. His raw stats might not be as impressive at first glance as some of these other dudes, but that’s a matter of looking at things the wrong way….

Malik Beasley 23 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2019)

During the leadup to the trade deadline, where rumors and speculation were flying around like so many cursed bats, I heard a rumor that disturbed me. As the kids would say, I was “shook”. This rumor involved the Nuggets trading Gary Harris. Now, I am not quite as #hypedforgaryharris as I used to be, that’s…