https://youtu.be/bEuzrQFLS8U The Thunder are done trying to win games. What they did last year was fun and all, but even a maximization of the potential on that particular roster was unlikely to result in anything more than a second-round exit before the rotting corpse and gigantic contract of Chris Paul dragged them back into the…
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Dejounte Murray 26 Points Full Highlights (1/29/2021)
https://youtu.be/KUZvSfiWz8I There was a time, in the distant past, where I thought that Dejounte Murray was a better player than Jamal Murray. This was during the 2016-17 season, when they were both rookies, probably around the time when Dejounte scored 24 and Jamal was busy putting up endless single-digit scoring games. Was I right to…
Read MoreDoug McDermott 28 Points Full Highlights (1/27/2021)
https://youtu.be/5l3WuV_esVs SPOILERT ALERT: there are just way too many layups in this video. Let’s just get that out of the way right now, before you click on a video that you might come to regret clicking on. I do not want the sacred halls of DownToBuck’s Archivium* to be a place of regret. Normally when…
Read MoreJames Wiseman 25 Points Full Highlights (1/27/2021)
https://youtu.be/J9BfZsrdL_Q Anthony Edwards versus James Wiseman. The number 1 pick versus the number 2 pick. The player who was, by virtue of his draft placement, deemed to be the one most likely to succeed against the rigors of the NBA game versus just some random dude who was drafted only because the number 1 guy…
Read MoreNorman Powell 26 Points Full Highlights (1/27/2021)
https://youtu.be/bp2YoQ57oUc Add this one to the vast and ever-growing list of “Norman Powell Hates the Bucks” games. And you can add it to the very top of the list, because this is the most points that Powell has ever scored against the team that kinda-sorta drafted him and then immediately traded him for Greivis Vasquez…
Read MoreAnthony Edwards 25 Points Full Highlights (1/27/2021)
https://youtu.be/-DBf4_2BQM4 Amid the barren, frigid wastelands that constitute the geography of Minnesota, there isn’t ever much hope to be found, either in basketball or in any other facet of life. The average Minnesotan subsists on a diet of tater tot casserole, Lutheranism, and “snow tea” (which is just melted snow with pine needles added). It’s…
Read MoreRoyce O’Neale Career High 20 Points Full Highlights (1/26/2021)
https://youtu.be/LxKhpgkvVCc With my newfound determination not to waste my own time by uploading subpar highlight videos to my channel, I thought I had forever left behind unexciting performances like Royce O’Neale scoring twenty. You’re probably looking at this video with slack-jawed confusion, and not the wide-eyed wonder that other highlight videos provoke in you. Trust…
Read MoreDelon Wright Career High 28 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (1/26/2021)
https://youtu.be/RKIxUfElQhA It seems like forever ago that Delon Wright formed part of the Raptors’ feared “bench mob” with…who were the other players who comprised that mob, again? It was, like, Fred VanVleet, and Norman Powell, and maybe Andrea Bargnani or something. Yeah. I bet Andrea Bargnani was involved. That would be preferable to having somebody…
Read MoreAnfernee Simons 26 Points Full Highlights (1/25/2021)
https://youtu.be/H8moZ48MAsA The Blazers’ injury situation is completely out of control. Unlike other teams with reduced rosters, who are simply struggling with COVID protocol, the Blazers are legitimately banged up, and, even worse, the injuries are centered on their starters. Walking into their locker room is like walking into a geriatric ward that was hit with…
Read MoreCole Anthony 21 Points Full Highlights (1/25/2021)
https://youtu.be/rAYpNK5IG7k (I will attempt to write this video description while ably skirting around the fact that Cole Anthony’s hair totally looks like a lampshade.) Being a Magic fan is pain. It’s been pain since Dwight left. The only good things that ever happened to Magic fans are miraculous game 1 wins against top-seeded Raptors and…
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