January 9, 2020 – DownToBuck

Jaxson Hayes 14 Points/4 Blocks Full Highlights (1/8/2020)

Jaxson Assaults (Xylophone) Shots On Net Hair Assaults Your Eyes SomeoneGiveHimTheRookieOfTheYearAwardAlready

Thaddeus Young 18 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2020)

There was a fair amount of optimism for the Bulls heading into the season. It’s not like the fanbase was expecting a championship or anything, but the playoffs seemed like a reasonable goal. One of the reasons for that optimism: the acquisition of Thaddeus Young, glue-guy extraordinaire who has been a solid contributor on (mostly)…

Derrick Jones 18 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2020)

I might need to recalibrate my view of Derrick Jones. 18 points doesn’t seem like a whole lot of points for him, but in reality, it’s only 1 off his career-high 19, which he set last game without me exactly realizing that it was a career-high. For some reason I’ve got this image in my…

Alen Smailagic 10 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2020)

Mike Breen, listen man, I know it sucks having to commentate for the Warriors on ESPN while they’re mired in their worst season in a long time and playing lineups of players that nobody has ever heard of, but could you at least throw in a “BANG!” when Alen Smailagic hits a three to give…

Serge Ibaka 23 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2020)

Not shown in this video: Serge Ibaka committing an away-from-the-play foul on an inbound with seventeen seconds left and the Raptors only up by one. Terry Rozier splashed the free throw and the Hornets kept possession, basically guaranteeing that the game would at least go to overtime if not end in a Hornets victory. Ibaka’s…

Frank Ntilikina 16 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2020)

Frank Ntilkina has been hovering around an average of ten points per 36 minutes all three years he’s been in the league. This season, that puts him at 263 out of 287 players who meet the unknowable qualification criteria for appearing on basketball-reference’s per-36 scoring leaderboards (by the way, Kenrich Williams really sucks). Ntilkina’s shooting…

OG Anunoby 19 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2020)

OFFICIAL PLAYERS WHO GO BY THEIR INITIALS DRAFTED IN THE 2017 DRAFT POWER RANKINGS 1. OG Anunoby. Okay, fine, so “OG” aren’t really his initials. It’s short for Ogugua, which is a name that no American or Canadian could hope to pronounce. But he’s definitely the best player out of this short list of names….

Terry Rozier 27 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2020)

Terry “Tank Commander” Rozier completely neglected his duty at the end of this one, contributing nine points in the fourth quarter including a clutch free throw to tie the game and send it overtime, and then adding in seven more points in the overtime period. It was only at the very end of the game,…

Ben McLemore 18 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (1/8/2020)

Ben McLemore’s role on the Rockets is to stand outside the three-point line and wait to be passed the ball. Since the Rockets’ system is all about acquiring players who can do that exact thing (as their insufferable commentators remind us over and over and over…and over…until death seems like the preferred option to hearing…

Admiral Schofield 18 Points Full Highlights (1/8/2020)

I had been under the impression that Admiral Schofield, owner of the coolest name in the NBA, had been in the G-League for the past couple weeks. I hadn’t been noticing his name in box-scores, so it only made sense to me that he would be getting reps in the G-League with the Capital City…