August 9, 2020 – DownToBuck

Dorian Finney-Smith Career High 27 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (8/8/2020)

Nine out of Dorian Finney-Smith’s ten buckets in this game were assisted by Luka Doncic. Not saying that to denigrate Finney-Smith here, just saying that to illustrate the fact that were it not for Finney-Smith’s hot shooting, Doncic’s monster triple-double would be just a regular triple-double with a lot of points. I hope Doncic ordered…

Brook Lopez 34 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (8/8/2020)

Brook Lopez’s career-long quest for a 40-burger continues. I swear I remembered him having one with the Nets, but I might have been thinking of the time Nikola Vucevic dropped 40 on him, because basketball-reference indicates that his career-high is 39. My memory is failing me at an ever-increasing rate. DownToBuck’s Internetip (that’s a portmanteau…

Quinn Cook 21 Points Full Highlights (8/8/2020)

I still remember where I was when I found out that LeBron James was joining forces with some of the other stars in the league to form a superteam in Los Angeles. I was in my apartment, sitting in front of the computer, because that’s where I’ve been for at least 90% of my life….

Jerami Grant 21 Points Full Highlights (8/8/2020)

For a good chunk of this season, Jerami Grant was unequivocally the better of the two Grant brothers (the other being Jerian Grant, in case you forgot about him). The reason his betterness was unequivocal was because he was on a roster and Jerian wasn’t. Even if Jerami had only averaged 0.3 PPG on -50%…

Joe Ingles 11 Points/13 Assists Full Highlights (8/8/2020)

Jinglin’ Joe Ingles did his best John Stockton impression in this game, regularly feeding his teammates for clutch late-game buckets that kept the Nuggets nervous throughout the fourth quarter plus the two overtime periods. In the end, however, the Nuggets pulled out the victory. They were jingled for sure, but not jingled enough to actually…

Michael Porter Jr. 23 Points Full Highlights (8/8/2020)

The good news: Michael Porter Jr. continued his run of high-scoring games with 23 points in a double-overtime Nuggets win over the Jazz. The bad news: Michael Porter Jr. was 7-of-18 from the field, 1-of-8 from three, and spent significant chunks of the game not scoring any points. The entire first half elapsed without him…

Jevon Carter 20 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (8/8/2020)

OFFICIAL DTB REMINDER: Jevon Carter once scored 32 points in an NBA game. In the final game of the 2018-19 season, his 32-point explosion against a Curry-less Warriors team raised his season field goal percentage all the way up from 27% to 30%. While you would never consider him a high-level scorer at the NBA…

Duncan Robinson 25 Points Full Highlights (8/8/2020)

First off: I am seriously SUPER sorry that I didn’t include Duncan Robinson’s career-high two blocks in this video. Actually, that’s not exactly accurate. I MIGHT be sorry about that, but I don’t know how good they were. They could have been (and very likely were) lame strip-blocks. What I’m really sorry about is that…

Tyler Herro 25 Points/10 Assists Full Highlights (8/8/2020)

The Heat didn’t have Goran Dragic available for this game. They also didn’t have Jimmy “You Need Me, You Can’t Win Without Me” Butler available for this game. So who was going to handle the ball for the Heat in this game? You’re watching a highlight video for Tyler Herro, so obviously the answer to…

Landry Shamet 19 Points Full Highlights (8/8/2020)

For most players, a jump in production between seasons one and two is expected. The NBA is hard for a rookie to adjust to, but an off-season of refined workout techniques and a year of NBA games under one’s belt means that the second year is supposed to be significantly easier than the first. And…