https://youtu.be/O3iUcmMVT0A I thought I was done making highlight videos for games from the final night of the 2020-21 regular season, and then I remembered that I had somehow skipped over Damian Jones. God damn it. Nineteen is his season high, and it’s also just his fourth double-digit scoring game of the season (the other three…
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Paul Reed 17 Points Full Highlights (5/16/2021)
https://youtu.be/nPsv_HpkS4s With this video, I have now made a premium highlights package for each of the last three picks in last year’s draft: Paul Reed, Jalen Harris, and Sam Merrill. This is exactly the type of dorky thing I get excited for! Those dudes at the end of the draft, oft-mocked because of how cruddy…
Read MoreMarkus Howard 23 Points Full Highlights (5/16/2021)
https://youtu.be/dHBbTnAQxSA There just aren’t enough midgets in the NBA these days. Isaiah Thomas is gone (that 10-day with the Pelicans must not have gone so well), which really sucks, because not only was he was a midget, he was also actually a really good player. Since he regressed into sludge because of his injuries, there…
Read MoreKZ Okpala 17 Points Full Highlights (5/16/2021)
https://youtu.be/jM7vJ8FlDNA An extremely learned and respectable type of NBA fan might guess that the “KZ” initialism that makes up the first part of KZ Okpala’s name is somehow related to the great Obinna Ekezie. Certainly, if you were thinking that, I know think very highly of both you and your prodigious knowledge of NBA role-players…
Read MoreOnyeka Okongwu 21 Points Full Highlights (5/16/2021)
https://youtu.be/4O9o3comtPw There was a period of time, a few years ago, where DownToBuck was a noted critique of other highlight-makers’ uploads. I even had a separate channel called “DownToBuck’s Highlight Reviews” where I sat in my car and reviewed vids from highlight luminaries like DawkIns, Stylish80, GDFactoryClips, and dorell15. Never HouseOfHighlights, though. Those corporate stooges…
Read MoreNemanja Bjelica 21 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (5/16/2021)
https://youtu.be/fVL3Z8__SdQ I’m trying to figure out why the heck the Heat traded for Nemanja Bjelica if they aren’t even going to play him. Yeah, he played in this game, and he played in the game prior to this one, but before that? Eight straight DNP-CD’s. Then eleven minutes in a loss to the Bulls. And…
Read MorePrecious Achiuwa 23 Points Full Highlights (5/16/2021)
https://youtu.be/_QtKq96JG_8 Precious “Chiubacca” Achiuwa started off his rookie season with a rather sizable role on a Heat team that was just coming off a Finals appearance. Then, as the season progressed, his role got inexorably smaller, until the end of the season in April/May, where he was barely coming off the bench at all and…
Read MoreElijah Bryant 16 Points Bucks Debut Full Highlights (5/16/2021)
https://youtu.be/SEo2Vs1L9ns When a player by the name of Elijah Bryant showed up in the box-score, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who shouted “Who the frick is that?” while comically tossing my glass of soda pop over my shoulder in surprise. It’s fine, I should probably drink less soda anyway. But the question remains,…
Read MoreJordan Nwora Career High 34 Points Full Highlights (5/16/2021)
https://youtu.be/lR787ubADbg Jordan Nwora has looked good enough this season that I’ve begun to question the Bucks’ coaching staff’s collective wisdom on the decision to barely play him. Note that my doubt of Coach Bud and his cronies on this subject has been festering for some time, and I’m not just instinctively reacting to the fact…
Read MoreTyrese Maxey 30 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (5/16/2021)
https://youtu.be/Dg5BkkjFMjw So far this season, I have not gotten a lot of mileage out of my “Maxey Taxi” nickname for Tyrese Maxey. However, do not let the volume of nickname usage imply that I no longer harbor enthusiasm for this nickname. In truth, my enthusiasm for this nickname has never been higher. It is, frankly,…
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