January 15, 2020 – DownToBuck

Eric Gordon 23 Points Full Highlights (1/14/2020)

Eric Gordon takes his role on the Rockets very seriously. He knows that the goal of the Rockets’ system is to shoot as many three-pointers as possible, so what does he do? He goes out there and chucks threes. Even though he’s not shooting a great percentage this season (32%), he’s not going to let…

Jordan Poole 17 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (1/14/2020)

In the three-point era, out of players who attempted at least 250 field goals, only three players had a worse effective field goal percentage than Jordan Poole has this season: Kendall Gill (2000-01 Nets) Speedy Claxon (2006-07 Hawks) Nikoloz Tsktzhkitvstilivili (2002-03 Nuggets) If you raise the FGA to 500 (a number that Poole seems likely…

Dwight Powell 21 Points/0 Missed Field Goals Full Highlights (1/14/2020)

With reverence, I recover the sacred stone tablet from underneath my bed. Fashioned from a slab of solid, indestructible rock, this tablet serves as a record of all those in the recent past who have made many field goals in an NBA game without missing one. As I hold it, I feel the significance of…

Boban Marjanovic 13 Points Full Highlights (1/14/2020)

Boban Marjanovic attempted fourteen shots in this game. That’s the second-highest total of his career, well behind the eighteen that he attempted on April 7, 2017 while he was on the Pistons. Given that many shot attempts, this should have been a game for the ages. This should have been a game that was recorded…

Matthew Dellavedova 14 Points Full Highlights (1/14/2020)

I don’t know how much longer Matthew Dellavedova can possibly hang on in the league, but if he’s going to continue his career anywhere, Cleveland is the place. They still love him there, right? Or does he remind them too much of all the good times they had with LeBron? Well, I know if I…

Dillon Brooks 24 Points Full Highlights (1/14/2020)

I will listen to no more slander of Dillon Brooks. You can continue slandering him all you want, I can’t stop you since this is America and we have a thing called “free speech” (sorry Canadians you may not understand), but I am done paying attention. I will be over here enjoying his pure bucket-getting…

Ja Morant 26 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (1/14/2020)

Full title of this video: “Ja Morant 26 Points/8 Assists/1 Former MVP Emasculated Full Highlights (1/14/2020)”. In defiance of the full title of this video, the boxscore indicates that James Harden outscored Ja Morant this game. And it’s true: 41 is more than 26 if you follow all applicable laws of mathematics. But meaninglessly outscoring…

Cedi Osman 21 Points Full Highlights (1/14/2020)

I don’t know about you, but I personally don’t view Cedi Osman as the type of player who is so good that he should be sitting out the last quarter (or more) of a total blowout. He exited the game with 4 minutes left in the third and the Cavaliers down by 23 (they would’ve…

Darius Garland 14 Points/10 Assists Full Highlights (1/14/2020)

It may sound unbelievable now, but Collin Sexton did manage to get a 10-assist game in right before the end of his rookie year before turning into a full-on tunnel-vision chucker this season. I was getting all ready to prop up Darius Garland with sentences like “I bet Sexton never got 10 assists in a…

Bobby Portis 20 Points Full Highlights (1/14/2020)

Bobby Portis is one of those few players who just absolutely has no fans. At least, no fans who are willing to watch highlight videos of him on YouTube. I don’t know what kind of a person you would have to be to be a fan of a player but not want to watch a…