February 4, 2020 – Page 2

Cody Martin 13 Points/2 Dunks Full Highlights (2/3/2020)

Cody Martin is playing a role for the Hornets. Not a very big role, and sometimes he doesn’t get to play at all, but he often gets 20-ish minutes to go out there and do whatever it is that he does. Defense? Probably. Scoring? Eh. 13 points being a season-high in 36 games played tells…

Bam Adebayo 18 Points/11 Assists Full Highlights (2/3/2020)

Bam Adebayo did it. He was selected to the All-Star game, and even if he gets catastrophically injured between now and the All-Star break (by the way, I am not superstitious at all and you shouldn’t be either) and doesn’t actually play in the game, that selection will always be there adorning his career. “Bam…

Glenn Robinson III 22 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (2/3/2020)

Just like Alec Burks had a showcase game by scoring thirty points against a non-defense-playing ‘Zards squad, Glenn Robinson III (GRIII [“greeeeeee”]) also had a showcase game against that same ‘Zards squad, dropping 22 points and 7 assists. All around the league, GM’s are refreshing the DownToBuck YouTube channel so they can see the highlights…

Dennis Smith Jr. 15 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (2/3/2020)

This is just the second “good” game from Dennis Smith Jr. this season, and that’s with my bar for a “good” game adjusted to be much lower for him that it is for many other young players of his pedigree. Maybe we’ll look back on this game as the beginning of DSJ’s redemption tour, or…

Bogdan Bogdanovic 23 Points Full Highlights (2/3/2020)

This is a strangely unsatisfying Bogdan Bogdanovic highlight video. He scored 23 points, which was second the second highest point total in the game for all players, but he only made five shots. Nine free throws (out of eleven attempts) provided the rest of the pointage. When there are more free throws than field goals,…

Kevin Huerter 23 Points Full Highlights (2/3/2020)

Kevin “Kevin Huerant” Huerter convincingly beat his previous career-high in shots attempted, which was eighteen, by attempting 21 shots in this game. For a guy who’s not really known as a gunner, that’s a surprisingly large amount of shots. Maybe he had a bet with a teammate that he could shoot it twenty times. Or…

Tim Hardaway Jr. 25 Points Full Highlights (2/3/2020)

Tim Hardaway Jr. had five assists in this game. That is, nominally, a total of assists sufficient to force me to include them in this highlight video. But here’s the thing: tonight is shaping up to be an especially brutal night when it comes to role-players having large amounts of assists. My near future and…

Jonas Valanciunas 26 Points/5 Dunks/4 Blocks Full Highlights (2/3/2020)

Jonas Valanciunas definitely has a future as an actor. That’s not to say that he doesn’t also have a future as a basketball player, because he obviously does, but I’m talking about after his playing days are over. He’s got the combination of imposing presence, barbaric character, and understated handsomeness that make him a perfect…

Marcus Morris 26 Points Full Highlights (2/3/2020)

I just did some intrepid internet sleuthing and discovered a disturbing fact: at 19.5 PPG per game, Marcus Morris is the highest-scoring player who is still being featured on my channel. The 33 players above him in the PPG per game leaderboards have either been kicked to the curb earlier in my highlighting career or…

Davis Bertans 19 Points Full Highlights (2/3/2020)

I’ve lost track: has the roster for the three-point shootout been finalized yet? I know some dudes have definitely been OFFICIALLY confirmed for the contest, but it doesn’t seem like enough dudes have been named to round out the roster. Unless I haven’t been paying attention and all the names have been announced while I’m…