I figure that, just like people have sexual fetishes, people also have “highlights fetishes” which dictate what kind of highlight videos they enjoy watching. Some people like to watch smooth scorers, some people like to watch lockdown defenders, some people like to watch gritty hustle players, some people like to watch three-point specialists, etc., etc. Just because I personally might not share a particular fetish doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t make videos catering to that fetish. We don’t kink-shame in the NBA highlights community.
Unless you’re into weird stuff like defense and rebounds. DownToBuck does not care about defense and will never care about defense. You sicko.
I say all this because Tristan Thompson’s highlight videos are just about the last thing I would watch if I was ever in the mood to watch NBA highlights on YouTube (I rarely am in that mood because I spend so much time looking at highlights in the course of running my channel). Thompson’s scoring game is not “smooth” or “pretty” or any other positive adjective. His hook shots rarely go straight in the basket. Everything he does looks like he doesn’t have full control over his arms. He would rather outwork you than out-finesse you. But you can’t argue with success, and right now Thompson is having a lot of it. He’s attempting the most shots per game in his career, by far, and his efficiency has only taken a small hit (and much of that efficiency hit is because of his regression at the free-throw line).
So, if watching a hustle scorer with little in the way of conventional scoring ability is your fetish, this is the video that you’ll want to pull up surreptitiously on your phone at two in the morning when everybody else is asleep. What you do with yourself while you watch this video is none of my business.