https://youtu.be/Jl17YI2xAas
I can’t even remember the amount of Laker player videos I’ve made this season. It might be zero. Scrolling down their roster, all their good players are disqualified from my channel for one reason or another, leaving only underwhelming role-players like Markieff Morris, Alex Caruso, and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. The role-players on the Lakers are even more marginalized than the role-players on other teams, leaving precious little opportunity to make highlight videos featuring them.
Since Lakers fans are spoiled rotten by their huge amount of championship rings and the endless procession of super-duper-stars that choose them in free agency, I don’t even feel bad about ignoring them or their players. They have enough good things in life. They don’t need to add “DownToBuck highlight videos” to that pile of good things. In fact, I’ve purposely gone out of my way to antagonize them on many occasions, since any small measure of torment that they feel brings them infinitesimally closer to the lifelong torment of a Kings or Bucks fan. The torment of other human beings is the only thing that gives me life these days.
Well, the drought is over, and I’m throwing Laker fans a bone. Thanks to a blowout win over the Warriors, Talen Horton-Tucker achieved career highs in both points and rebounds. Finally, a Lakers scrub does something worth paying attention to! Even better, he’s the youngest and most exciting player on the roster (sorry Kostas, you’re a bum forever destined to be used as Giannis bait). Unlike all the other random young benchwarmers that have cycled through the Lakers’ roster over the years, most of which have failed to pan out (Ryan Kelly waves hello), I have a feeling that THT will be a pretty good player in this league. And that’s the only nice thing I’ll say about the Lakers, or anybody on the Lakers roster, for the next ten to twelve months.