March 27, 2019 – DownToBuck

Dwight Powell 21 Points/4 Blocks Full Highlights (3/26/2019)

Okay, I just for my last Maxi Kleber video made a list of possible Dirk replacements for the Mavs, in the event that Dirk retires which I absolutely do not believe but that’s neither here nor there. So I made a big list, but I forgot one of the most promising Dirk-esque players on Dallas’…

Maxi Kleber 17 Points Full Highlights (3/26/2019)

Dirk Nowitzki is supposedly retiring. Supposedly. He hasn’t said he’s doing so yet, just implied it, but everyone seems to think that this is it for him because he keeps getting standing ovations at every arena he visits. So let’s just say, for the sake of example, that he is retiring. Wow! Great career, yada…

Wayne Selden 20 Points Full Highlights (3/26/2019)

Here’s the thing: I legitimately LIKE Wayne Selden. Despite his negative win-shares (which I can easily dismiss as a fluke even though I revere win-shares above all other stats), there’s something about his game that just draws me to him. And it’s not just his sexy, expressive eyes, either. Yes, when his sensual gaze locks…

JaVale McGee 20 Points/8 Dunks/4 Blocks Full Highlights (3/26/2019)

Why is it that JaVale McGee is playing very well now that the Lakers have nothing to play for? There’s no reason that all these lobs from LeBron and Rondo couldn’t have been happening with this amount of regularity earlier in the season, back when each win meant a better chance of making the playoffs….

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope 29 Points Full Highlights (3/26/2019)

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is coming alive! Despite that exclamation point, I’m not that excited, and you shouldn’t be either. Any good performances by Lakers players at this point are just the random twitches of the dead Lakers corpse. 29 points by KCP does nothing, it does less than nothing, to salve the burning disappointment of this…

Jonathan Isaac 19 Points Full Highlights (3/26/2019)

This contest between the Orlando Magic and the Miami Heat had playoff IMPLICATIONS. The result of this game would IMPLY which of the teams would be more likely to make the playoffs. IMPLICITLY. This Magic team is unseasoned when it comes to games of this magnitude; the only guy on their roster who has ever…

Collin Sexton 24 Points Full Highlights (3/26/2019)

Collin Sexton in March: 23/3/3 on 52% shooting and 47% from three. Just think about that for a moment. For a guy who, at the beginning of the season, was drawing ire from his teammates (mostly J.R. Smith and Rodney Hood probably) for “not knowing how to play basketball”, those are sick numbers. They’re sick…

Dario Saric 18 Points Full Highlights (3/26/2019)

When I first glanced over the box-score for the Timberwolves/Clippers game, my eye lingered over Dario Saric’s statline: 18 points, 5 assists. Not a fantastic line, but pretty decent for Saric considering his reduced role on the Wolves compared to the Sixers. I filed the small scrap of knowledge away for future reference. My brain…

Trae Young 33 Points/12 Assists Full Highlights (3/26/2019)

Attention Atlanta Hawks front office people and coaching staff people: it is now time for you to shut down Trae Young for the season. With him at the helm and playing well, you have won entirely too many games. The tank not only has gone off the beaten path, but the treads have fallen out…

Norman Powell 20 Points Full Highlights (3/26/2019)

It seems like the Raptors always have somebody on their roster who’s underperforming. Way back when, it was Andrea Bargnani and Rudy Gay. Two seasons ago it was DeMarre Carroll. And maybe Jared Sullinger too (I don’t feel like looking up the timing of that big fat disaster). Last season it was our man Norman…