Ersan Ilyasova and Scott Skiles have taken circuitous routes since Skiles’ coached Ilyasova in Milwaukee. Like them, the NBA and its assorted players and staff have taken similar winding roads, scattering themselves into configurations unimaginable just a few years ago. Now, as if by fate, Ilyaskiles are reunited in Orlando, ready to, if not take…
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C.J. McCollum 25 Points Full Highlights (3/1/2016)
In a fair and just world, these highlights would be “C.J. McCollum and Jimmer Fredette SICK Duel Highlights – 50 Points Combined!”. However, we live in a world that is forever shadowed by the specter of unfairness and injustice, so instead, you get plain old vanilla C.J. highlights. There was nothing stopping me, really, from…
Read MoreJabari Parker Career High 36 Points Full Highlights (2/29/2016)
Jabari Parker could finally relax. The locker room was empty now, cleared of the ceaseless questioning of the media personnel and his own congratulatory teammates. He reclined at his locker, glad to at last be able to soak in his career-high performance. He closed his eyes, replaying the off-the-glass alley-oop to Giannis over and over…
Read MoreEnes Kanter 23 Points Full Highlights (2/29/2016)
Behold: a new era of highlight-making where players are showcased objectively by displaying not only their made field goals, but their missed ones as well! DownToBuck strives for accuracy. And what could be more accurate than robotically compiling videos of players’ made buckets? It’s not like I was leaving any out to deceive people. But…
Read MoreDion Waiters 22 Points Full Highlights (2/29/2016)
Dion “BUCKETS DNT” Waiters is still doing the same Dion Waiters things that he was doing in Cleveland. It might seem like he’s doing better things than those old things he was doing, but he’s not really; it’s just that he has two superstars on his team, so a lot of the negative things he…
Read MoreJae Crowder 22 Points Full Highlights (2/29/2016)
Quick quiz: how severely was Jae Crowder underutilized in Dallas? a. Very underutilized; Rick Carlisle only knows how to utilize veteran players b. Somewhat underutilized c. He was properly utilized because he needed to develop d. He was overutilized and actually sucks e. He’s actually still being underutilized by Brad Stevens Leave your answer in…
Read MoreJamal Crawford 26 Points Full Highlights (2/29/2016)
I have wondered in the past if Jamal Crawford had it in him to hit the 20,000-points mark for his career, which, depending on your opinion of Tom Chambers, would make him the worst player ever to score that many. It seemed in doubt at the beginning of the season, with him looking like he…
Read MoreIsh Smith 25 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (2/29/2016)
When I saw that Jahlil Okafor was out, and I saw that Ish Smith had 7 assists, one thought immediately came to mind. “I bet he and Nerlens hooked up for so many lobs. SO MANY LOBS!” Jokes on me, right? I thought this Ish character was supposed to be a pure point guard. Turns…
Read MoreTrey Lyles 18 Points Full Highlights (2/29/2016)
There was a brief stretch there, in the middle of January, where Trey Lyles was getting some decent minutes and actually putting up decent games with them. The rest of the year has been him getting decent minutes and doing very little with them, or, more recently, getting very few minutes and and doing very…
Read MoreJustin Harper 9 Points/3 Threes Full Highlights (2/28/2016)
When I saw the name “Justin Harper” on a Pistons boxscore a few nights ago, I thought to myself, “Why does that name seem familiar?” After some intrepid internet sleuthing, I determined that Harper had indeed been in the NBA once before, all the way back in the 2011-12 season, when he played with the…
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