https://youtu.be/4T7ymSI6DS4 Dwight Powell hasn’t been as good this season as he has been in the past. It would be extremely easy to blame his regression on the Achilles injury he suffered last season. I can easily imagine the so-called “experts” at ESPN claiming such a thing. But DownToBuck is not content with superficial explanations like…
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Anthony Lamb Career High 21 Points Full Highlights (4/24/2021)
https://youtu.be/s1N1LeKOxg4 Sometimes you look at a guy’s college stats and think “how did this dude ever make it to the NBA”. With one-and-dones, the college stats aren’t as important, likely everyone knew they were an NBA-caliber talent anyway. But these four-year players, that’s a long time to get an accurate read on them. Greg Stiemsma…
Read MoreD.J. Wilson Career High 25 Points Full Highlights (4/24/2021)
https://youtu.be/PsbwChdH6vs I waited three whole seasons (and part of a fourth) for D.J. Wilson to do something like this, and I never got it. “This” and “It” being the fabled “Actually Good Game” (AGG), a title assigned to a performance where the player in question actually had a good game. Not just an “okay game”…
Read MoreIsaiah Roby 18 Points Full Highlights (4/23/2021)
https://youtu.be/uEEKNewsSGE Did last year’s Thunder team even really exist? It feels so weird to me that there was this random transitional period that occurred after Russell Westbrook left but before the Thunder fully embraced the tank. Like, if they had just tried to keep all those pieces in place, maybe they could’ve been something other…
Read MorePayton Pritchard 22 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (4/23/2021)
https://youtu.be/ye_58xNQEuc This video ostensibly depicts Payton Pritchard, and I’ll get to him in a bit, but what I really want to say is that I’m super happy that Jabari Parker is back playing real minutes for a real team (insert Celtics joke here DON’T FORGET). I wish it would have been the Bucks that signed…
Read MoreKentavious Caldwell-Pope 29 Points Full Highlights (4/22/2021)
https://youtu.be/MaVPNWxbtq8 I just want everybody to know that I have a day off from work today, and my day off is being RUINED by Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and his annoying tendency to score amounts of points which qualify him for highlight videos. There are a million other things I’d rather be doing with my time right…
Read MoreDevin Cannady 17 Points Full Highlights (4/22/2021)
https://youtu.be/BtbLmY8wkVU Since I know that NBA players can’t resist watching highlight videos of themselves, ESPECIALLY players who are on the fringes of the league and don’t get a large amount of media attention, I’m about 90% confident that Devin Cannady himself will watch this highlight video at some point. Whether or not he’ll bother reading…
Read MoreBobby Portis 23 Points Full Highlights (4/22/2021)
https://youtu.be/M5GYO3fl7b0 The Bucks showed a graphic during the telecast which alleged that Bobby Portis was fifth in the league in three-point percentage. Maybe I’m just not as good a fan as I used to be, because I didn’t realize that Portis was close to the league leaderboard for 3P% at all. I knew he was…
Read MoreDaniel Gafford 19 Points/3 Blocks Full Highlights (4/21/2021)
https://youtu.be/jBkvXuDVClE Daniel Gafford and Russell Westbrook is like a match made in basketball heaven. Westbrook gets somebody to feed for easy baskets, and Gafford gets a point guard who will feed him easy baskets. Not only that, but Westbrook will hog the ball so that Gafford doesn’t ever feel pressured to shoot a shot that…
Read MoreNaz Reid 24 Points Full Highlights (4/21/2021)
https://youtu.be/NXZQCF_GHT4 There was a time when I considered Naz “Big Nazty” Reid to be the second coming of Jeff Adrien. I know that, for a lot of you, that comparison lacks any meaning at all because you don’t know who Jeff Adrien is. And I also know that, for a different segment of my viewership,…
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