It’s been a long time since I really thought all that much about Wendell Carter Jr., occasionally he would slip in unbidden with his eyes all wide and I would get spooked, but other than those few times, he’s been absent from my awarness. He got injured in January, killing whatever meager hype he was…
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Bobby Portis 28 Points/2 Bangs Full Highlights (10/28/2019)
Man, if the Knicks faithful are so easily worked into a frenzy by a player of Bobby Portis’ caliber, imagine how much they’d be freaking out on a regular basis if they had someone like, oh, Kevin Durant or Kyrie Irving. It would be pandemonium every single night. I’m trying to kick Knicks fans while…
Read MoreJonathan Isaac Career High 24 Points Full Highlights (10/28/2019)
The path to a new career-high for a marginal offensive talent like Jonathan Isaac is surprisingly clear: shoot a bunch of threes, like really a whole bunch of them, and have a good amount of them go in. BOOM. Career high! That’s really all there is to it. Attention marginal offensive talents of the league:…
Read MoreChristian Wood 19 Points Full Highlights (10/28/2019)
You mean to tell me that THIS is the guy the Pistons cut Joe Johnson for? Harumph. That’s all I have to about this particular situation. HARUMPH. Screw it, we’re going two R’s here. HARRUMPH. Ice Cube is seething right now. For real though, keeping someone like Christian Wood on the roster makes way more…
Read MoreJustise Winslow 20 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (10/27/2019)
“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 MoreRodney 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…
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