Win or lose, the Celtics have learned something valuable in this series with the Bucks: Jaylen Brown is a premium grade-A certified without-a-doubt one-hundred percent confirmed beast. Serious playoff success may not be in the cards, even if they win the series (which wouldn’t surprise because the Bucks are hot gutter trash), but just imagine…
Read MoreJoe Ingles 21 Points Full Highlights (4/21/2018)
We currently live on a planet where a player with the physical profile of a flabby 40-year-old dad is top ten in the NBA in three-point makes for a season. Remember, we’re talking about the NBA here. You know, the best basketball league in the world. I fully expect a Joe Ingles-type player could be…
Read MoreRicky Rubio Triple Double 26 Pts/11 Rebs/10 Asts Full Highlights (4/21/2018)
“Hey DownToBuck,” Ricky says as he walks towards me from a great distance. “Ricky,” I murmur to myself, quietly enough that he can’t hear it, and I know this must be a dream because there is no circumstance in my waking life where I would get to see Ricky Rubio in person. I try to…
Read MoreDerrick Rose 17 Points Full Highlights (4/21/2018)
Derrick Rose, playing well against a heavily-favored opponent in the playoffs, helping his team get the W with fancy layups and big-time jumpers. What year is it? I need someone to tell me what year it is, because somehow I have traveled back in time a couple years and I need to get back to…
Read MoreJusuf Nurkic 18 Points Full Highlights (4/21/2018)
The season ends for Jusuf Nurkic and the Portland Trailblazers. A lot of stuff happened for them, but how much of it will be remembered even a year from now? Here’s my personal list, which is obviously skewed in favor of worse players and against “stars” (shade at Damian Lillard continues to be thrown). -Pat…
Read MoreJ.J. Redick 24 Points Full Highlights (4/21/2018)
I think J.J. Redick jumped higher than he ever has before on that rebound after Wade’s bricked free-throw. Watching it live, I thought for a frantic fraction of a second that he was going to put-back slam the miss. He was SOARING. He could totally have dunked that if he wanted to, even with his…
Read MoreAl-Farouq Aminu 27 Points Full Highlights (4/21/2018)
I said in my last Al-Farouq Aminu vid (just two days ago!), that Blazers fans were “Going to turn on Aminu once he scores four points in game four and the Blazers get swept out of the playoffs”. As you can see from the video title, Aminu scored way more than four points, and so…
Read MoreJrue Holiday Career High 41 Points/8 Assists Full Highlights (4/21/2018)
Remember, way back at the beginning of the season, when Justin Holiday was outscoring Jrue Holiday? Those were fun times. I think I even officially declared him the better brother. He was chucking up a storm, while Jrue was was slow out of the gate. Eventually, the Bulls decided that they didn’t really like Justin…
Read MoreKhris Middleton 23 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (4/20/2018)
Khris Middleton must be reading my descriptions, because he apparently has developed a level of distaste for layups (“LAME-ups”) which rivals my own distaste for layups (“LAME-ups”). Instead, he upped the quantity and difficulty of his midrange jumpshots (“Middrange Jimbos” [pronounced “Mid-d-range” with an extra D sound so that everybody knows you’re talking about Middleton’s…
Read MoreThon Maker 14 Points/5 Blocks Full Highlights (4/20/2018)
Okay, here’s the deal: I would trade literally any player from any team in exchange for Thon Maker. If it’s an NBA player and he’s still breathing and his brain still works, I will take him as long as it means Thon goes away. There’s some pesky thing called the “trade deadline” which supposedly prevents…
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