“Dear Jimmy, Congratulations on the new baby. I’m sure you’ll be a great daddy. Take off as much time as you need. Your newborn child is not why I am writing this letter, however. This letter is being written, as David Stern would say, for “basketball reasons.” I’ll state it bluntly. We don’t want you…
Read MoreDay: October 28, 2019
Rodney Hood 20 Points Full Highlights (10/27/2019)
The season may have just started, but DownToBuck is already in peak midseason form. Rodney Hood scoring 20 points? That’s perfect. An absolutely perfect DTB-style performance, captured absolutely perfectly by DTB. No rust here, folks. Just buckets. Does it matter that no one is going to watch this video? Of course not. The point of…
Read MoreCody Zeller 19 Points/1 Injury Full Highlights (10/27/2019)
It’s taken a long time, but I’m finally ready to admit that Cody Zeller may (not “is”, but “may”) be better than Tyler Zeller. I’ve been on the “Tyler is way better than Cody” wagon for as long as both of them have been in the league, but now I am finally stepping off. Regretfully….
Read MoreMiles Bridges 23 Points Full Highlights (10/27/2019)
As far as I can tell, the Hornets are building around Miles Bridges. I might be overstating things, but he is their main attraction at this point (don’t believe all the misdirection around Terry Rozier, they know he sucks just as well as everyone else). I openly wondered in my last description for him what…
Read MoreDillon Brooks 21 Points Full Highlights (10/27/2019)
It’s fun to hear a commentator say stuff to the effect of “it’s better when he lets the game come to him” or “this is the Dillon Brooks we need to see, taking it to the rim” and then said player goes and starts taking and making a whole bunch of swaggy jumpers, directly contradicting…
Read MoreCaris LeVert 27 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (10/27/2019)
With Kevin Durant (hard to remember that he actually signed with the Nets, I know) sidelined indefinitely, it is up to Caris “Baby Durant” LeVert to surpass his nickname and play not only like a 6-month old version of Durant, but like the actual fully-grown version of Durant. Or at least the college version. There…
Read MoreJa Morant 30 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (10/27/2019)
The Grit n’ Grind era of Memphis basketball is over (although Jae Crowder seems like he would fit in that era), and you know what? I’m not even feeling that sad about its demise. As much as everyone likes to pretend that they like low-scoring defensive basketball games, the truth is that they don’t. The…
Read MoreKendrick Nunn 25 Points Full Highlights (10/27/2019)
A trend I’ve noticed while looking at high-scoring seasons by unexpected players is that if they happen to score a lot of points in their first few games, that will be the catalyst to keep up the scoring for the rest of the year. And in seasons where they don’t score as much, it’s because…
Read MoreDuncan Robinson Career High 21 Points Full Highlights (10/27/2019)
And here I thought that the only reason the Heat were giving Duncan Robinson actual minutes was to piss of Dion Waiters. That’s undoubtedly part of the reason, but an equivalent part of the reason is that he can actually score the ball. So it turns out that if Waiters gets really aggressive and starts…
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