May 2021 – DownToBuck

Bryn Forbes 22 Points/7 Threes Full Highlights (5/29/2021)

https://youtu.be/iIdptOM4IxM I’m sure everybody has already seen this fun statistical tidbit, but I’m sharing it with you anyway because I was so tickled by it: Jimmy Butler scored 58 points in this series. Bryn Forbes scored 60. I am deriving an unreasonable amount of joy from this. Bryn Forbes is just a role-player. Jimmy Butler,…

Brook Lopez 25 Points Full Highlights (5/29/2021)

https://youtu.be/4ML_u4o5jKk For some reason, while watching this game, I was getting the impression that Brook Lopez was playing poorly. There were a number of occasions where his lumbering around in the paint, trying to set up his shot rather than just putting it up, caused him to lose the ball. He also picked up his…

Tristan Thompson 19 Points Full Highlights (5/28/2021)

https://youtu.be/6uLkkz3hyaM When I said in my last Celtics video description “Just remove Thompson from the lineup entirely”, that was me being sarcastic and making a totally nonsensical suggestion to be funny. It was definitely NOT because I thought a center rotation of Robert Williams and Luke Kornet would be preferable to having Tristan Thompson get…

Austin Rivers 21 Points Full Highlights (5/27/2021)

https://youtu.be/xRuKiYgq2Ww “Dear Diary, Today before the game Coach Malone said we have to be locked in and play hard. When he said locked in I got really scared that he would lock me in a closet since sometimes that’s what Daddy would do to me when I was being a bad boy. I tried really…

Cameron Payne 19 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (5/25/2021)

https://youtu.be/pa-fSdiNruM Cameron Payne ensured that his name would be written upon the sacred pages of NBA lore by getting ejected from the first game of this series. The infraction? Pushing Alex Caruso after a rebound for no discernible reason. Keep in mind that the NBA lore book is a gigantic tome filled with uninteresting minutia….

Joe Harris 25 Points Full Highlights (5/25/2021)

https://youtu.be/HXjixm-GLQ4 Early in this game, there was a stretch of about a minute and a half (broken up by a timeout) where Joe Harris scored eleven points and got two steals. I usually avoid hyperbole, but Harris basically put the game away right there. Six minutes to go in the first quarter, and the Nets…

Dewayne Dedmon 19 Points Full Highlights (5/24/2021)

https://youtu.be/KuMFQMt7i0U Here’s a fun fact for you: Dewayne Dedmon was the Heat’s leading scorer last night. In a playoff game. Outscoring Jimmy Butler (ten points), Bam Adebayo (sixteen points), and Tyler Herro (four points). Playoff teams who feature players like Dewayne Dedmon as prominent scorers are not going to see much success. He wasn’t even…

Bryn Forbes 22 Points Full Highlights (5/24/2021)

https://youtu.be/auoC3fiULYg I am of such weak mental constitution that I’m almost too anxious to watch Bucks playoff games. Especially when it seems like they’re overmatched. Last season, I barely watched any of their 1-4 series loss to the Heat, and my mental health was better off for it. I didn’t need Jae Crowder ruining my…

Robert Williams 11 Points/9 Blocks Full Highlights (5/22/2021)

https://youtu.be/fxKf3UYSEto The Boston Celtics looked pretty good to start this game. It felt a bit unsustainable, in the face of the Nets and their ill-fitting-but-they’re-so-good-it-doesn’t-actually-matter big-three, but there were big chunks of this game where a Celtics victory seemed totally feasible. But it didn’t happen, and I know the reason why: They didn’t play Jabari…

Daniel Gafford 15 Points/5 Blocks Full Highlights (5/20/2021)

https://youtu.be/Ptw5z8urhLk Daniel Gafford went from not really playing on the Bulls (who are, it should be noted, a WORSE team than the ‘Zards) to being one of the most vital role-players on a ‘Zards team that won fifteen out of their final nineteen games and have now sneaked into the playoffs. I don’t consume very…