November 26, 2019 – DownToBuck

Luke Kennard 20 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (11/25/2019)

I just want to say that I’m super glad that there aren’t HD professional-quality cameras filming at pick up games. Not because I suck at basketball (I don’t), but because I for sure make the most ridiculous faces while playing and I don’t want a hypothetical audience to see that. The other dudes on the…

Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk 12 Points Full Highlights (11/25/2019)

It’s not much, but 12 points does tie a career high for Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, so here you go. 12 points, 4 threes, and the video cuts out right before you get to see Markelle Fultz hit him in the face with an elbow before the referees review the play for approximately 30 minutes. Mykhailiuk has…

Brandon Clarke 17 Points Full Highlights (11/25/2019)

Brandon Clarke is leading all 2019 draftees in the enigmatic and impenetrable stat known as “Win Shares”. If you want more details on what a “Win Share” is, I urge you to find someone who isn’t me to talk to, because I don’t have any. All I know is that it’s a stat, it’s on…

Georges Niang 13 Points Full Highlights (11/25/2019)

We are now in year four of the “Georges Niang Experiment”, which is an effort by me to foster the creation of new and exciting art by using a neural network hosted on my spare highlight rig to create randomly generated music, seeded with images of Georges Niang. It’s been streaming live on YouTube under…

Bam Adebayo 21 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (11/25/2019)

Most people would agree that Bam Adebayo has been more valuable to the Heat than Hassan Whiteside ever was in his later years with the team. I’ve taken the liberty of putting together a list to make their stark differences even starker: THINGS THAT HASSAN WHITESIDE DID THAT BAM ADEBAYO DOES NOT DO: -Not try…

Bruno Fernando 13 Points Full Highlights (11/25/2019)

DownToBuck presents himself as the ultimate collection of NBA knowledge, a veritable walking encyclopedia on all matters of the league. His expertise and wisdom are unimpeachable. His reputation of devotion to factual accuracy is widely-known and widely-respected. So it may come as a disappointment to some of you out there, but I totally thought Bruno…

Glenn Robinson III Career High 25 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (11/25/2019)

Glenn Robinson knew he was dreaming because, in this particular dream, his shoes were made out of popsicle sticks. Not only did he not own any pairs of shoes fashioned from such an unusual material, but such shoes would be uncomfortable and unwieldy in real life. However, in the dream, they were just fine, so…

Ky Bowman Career High 24 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (11/25/2019)

I don’t understand contracts much if at all. The only thing I know about them is that’s how players get paid. Otherwise, anything related to the CBA is scary and foreign to me. When people start talking about “cap space” or “exceptions”, my eyes glaze over and I nod like I know what they’re talking…

Ja Morant 19 Points/10 Assists Full Highlights (11/25/2019)

It’s unlikely that the NBA will go back and look at this “double-double” performance from Ja Morant, since they really only care about the veracity of assists when it comes to triple-doubles. They have no respect for the quality of stats that their scorekeepers generate, and that’s fine. As long as the point totals are…

Wesley Matthews 19 Points Full Highlights (11/25/2019)

I’ve been fairly pleased with the acquisition of Wesley Matthews by the Bucks, but just for fun, check out some of these statlines: 0 points, 1 rebound, 0 assists, 0 steals, 0 blocks, 18 minutes 0 points, 0 rebounds, 0 assists, 1 steal, 0 blocks, 20 minutes 0 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist, 1 steal,…