I’m totally shook right now. I was struggling to come up with any kind of narrative for this description, so, on a whim, I went to basketball-reference to look up Bam Adebayo’s on-off stats. My assumption was that, since he’s a high-efficiency scorer who can pass and play defense, the Heat would struggle whenever he…
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Duncan Robinson 15 Points Full Highlights (11/16/2019)
DownToBuck is currently living the dream. What dream is that, you may ask? The dream of having made three highlight videos for players with the same last name from the same night of games. Alright, so that’s not a very good dream. I wouldn’t be, like, super disappointed if this confluence of events had never…
Read MoreFred VanVleet 24 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (11/16/2019)
Fred VanVleet needs to go to his local Walgreens (or whatever the Canadian equivalent is – it appears to be Shoppers Drug Mart), get his heinie right over to the gift card aisle, and pick out a tasteful thank you card with a cute elephant or other animal on it for purchase. Then, once the…
Read MoreTerance Mann 13 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (11/16/2019)
It’s getting hard for me to deal with all these different spellings of the name “Terrence”. There are now four different spellings all active in the NBA: “Terance” Mann (the protagonist of our story) “Terence” Davis “Terrance” Ferguson “Terrence” Ross (who possesses what I consider to be the “correct” spelling) You can see how this…
Read MoreDonte DiVincenzo 14 Points Full Highlights (11/16/2019)
Khris Middleton is going to be out for a few weeks with some mysterious leg ailment that’s actually just a cover for the fact that NBA investigators were on the cusp of finding out that he’s literally just a giant mutant ant-person. While Middleton’s handlers try to improve his human disguise so that he stops…
Read MoreAustin Rivers 19 Points Full Highlights (11/16/2019)
“Dear Diary, Things have been different since the Rockets traded Chris for Russell. When I found out that stupid baby Chris was going to play somewhere else, I was real happy. Chris was never any fun and coach Mike always said he was the starter even when I told him that I wanted to be…
Read MoreMitchell Robinson 17 Points/5 Dunks Full Highlights (11/16/2019)
The last play shown in this video is a demonstration of a few things. First, it’s a demonstration of the indomitable power of the human spirit. Mitchell Robinson obviously rolled his ankle or something, yet he gamely continues to play and even takes part in a pick-and-roll to get a dunk. He could have just…
Read MoreP.J. Washington 19 Points Full Highlights (11/16/2019)
P.J. Washington is a surprisingly dunk-prone player, with 23 dunks as of the time of this writing. He is more prone to dunk the basketball than pretty much anyone his size in the NBA; the only other comparable dunker is Jabari Parker (who has way more dunks, just another illustration of how much of a…
Read MoreKendrick Nunn 22 Points/2 Dunks Full Highlights (11/16/2019)
For the first three quarters of the game, as far as I can tell, the only thing that Kendrick Nunn did besides shoot (successfully or unsuccessfully) was grab a rebound and notch an assist (with no time left in the third). No turnovers, no free throws, no fouls, nothing except shots. I’ve always thought that…
Read MoreJoe Harris 22 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (11/16/2019)
Joe Harris is basically the same player he was last year. Same insane three-point percentage, same scoring, slightly fewer assists (before tonight, that is), same meager rebounding, nearly the same playing time. It’s actually rare to see a player be so consistent year-over-year. But if he’s just as good as he was last season, why…
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