“Where did you say we were again?” Shai Gilgeous-Alexander asked. “Romania,” Chris Paul answered. He didn’t blame his young teammate for being unable to distinguish the landscape of one Eastern European country from that of another. Even the impressive castle that loomed in front of them was not distinctly “Romanian” in any way. It looked…
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Bam Adebayo All 145 Dunks Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Dunkilation)
Bam Adebayo is a pretty good dunker. He’s not an insane acrobat like his teammate Derrick Jones Jr., but he can get up when he wants to, and, as you can see from this video, “when he wants to” is fairly often. Since his reputation as a dunk machine is pretty well established at this…
Read MoreDamian Lillard All 226 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2019-20 Three-ilation Part II)
“This isn’t gonna work. At all.” J.J. Hickson was standing in front of the mirror in the locker room, alternating his gaze between his own reflection and the picture of LaMarcus Aldridge that was up on his phone. “Our faces are totally different. There’s no way that I trick Neil into thinking I’m LaMarcus.” “I…
Read MoreDamian Lillard All 226 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2019-20 Three-ilation Part I)
Damian Lillard sat, waiting, in one of the many conference rooms that could be found in the office building where the Blazers’ front office was located. He had a meeting scheduled with Neil Olshey, the Blazers’ general manager, and he wasn’t looking forward to it. His previous encounters with the executive had been…strange, to put…
Read MoreJaVale McGee All 109 Dunks Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Dunkilation)
JaVale McGee stepped out of the taxi and, after collecting his luggage from the trunk, gave the driver a sizable tip. In one of the carriers, a trio of restless penguins stared out at the unfamiliar surroundings with distrust, then back to JaVale, as if demanding an answer to their silent question, “where are we?”….
Read MoreLonnie Walker All 116 Field Goals Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Bucketilation)
Lonnie Walker IV is, as far as I can tell, the player on the Spurs who is most beloved by Spurs fans. While every other player on the team ranges from completely reviled (Bryn Forbes) to begrudgingly tolerated (LaMarcus Aldridge) to fondly accepted (Dejounte Murray), none of them enjoy the universal fan support that Walker…
Read MoreShai Gilgeous-Alexander All 66 Midrange Jumpers Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Jumperilation)
This video was supposed to contain more than 66 midrange jumpers. While 66 is a fine total for a young up-and-coming scorer like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, it’s not enough for me, a self-professed midrange fetishist who is powerless to control his perverse urges for midrange jimbos. A quick peek at SGA’s shot chart this season shows…
Read MoreMitchell Robinson All 183 Dunks Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Dunkilation)
Mitchell Robinson hesitantly approached the unmarked, but sturdy looking, door. He knew that behind that door waited the owner of the New York Knicks. Every previous trip he had made to this office had ended very strangely, and he had no reason to believe that this occasion would be any different. He had half a…
Read MoreDzanan Musa All 50 Field Goals Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Bucketilation)
If there’s one thing that you should know about DownToBuck, it’s that he loves pandering to the citizens of the Balkan states. If it was once part of Yugoslavia, you can bet your bottom dollar (or your bottom dinar/kuna/mark/lek/euro) that I’m going to make videos of the players from that country no matter how good…
Read MoreBoban Marjanovic All 96 Field Goals Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Bucketilation)
King Marjanovic sat at the high throne of his kingdom and relished the feeling of power that was always present in him, even when he wasn’t actively exercising that power by sentencing disobedient subjects to death in the dungeons or raising an army to wage war on one of the lesser states nearby. In the…
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