https://youtu.be/0XULKeApuoY Another NBA season comes and goes with Boban Marjanovic being used completely incorrectly for basically the entire year. This game, which saw the Mavericks get eliminated by the Clippers, was Boban’s most productive game from a pure bucketage perspective; seven FGM eclipsed his previous season-high of six. It was also his third-highest scoring game…
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Dwight Powell 25 Points Full Highlights (4/24/2021)
https://youtu.be/4T7ymSI6DS4 Dwight Powell hasn’t been as good this season as he has been in the past. It would be extremely easy to blame his regression on the Achilles injury he suffered last season. I can easily imagine the so-called “experts” at ESPN claiming such a thing. But DownToBuck is not content with superficial explanations like…
Read MoreDorian Finney-Smith 23 Points Full Highlights (4/5/2021)
https://youtu.be/s40z5TuAELs Dorian Finney-Smith AKA DFS AKA Distributed File System is like the best-case scenario for a guy who you pick up on a whim to play on your Summer League team. He’s an adequate, if low-volume, scorer, and he’s a plus defender. Teams are constantly combing Europe, the G-League, and Summer League for guys who…
Read MoreJalen Brunson 26 Points Full Highlights (3/11/2021)
https://youtu.be/g043dWhCvPA While the Thunder were tantalizing their fans with glimpses of the future, what with Aleksej Pokusevski being the next Nikola Jokic, Theo Maledon being the next Tony Parker, and Al Horford being the next Tito Horford, the Mavericks were showcasing… Josh Richardson, who isn’t the next anybody, and Jalen Brunson, who is maybe the…
Read MoreTrey Burke 29 Points Full Highlights (1/9/2021)
https://youtu.be/KL0Rbm0sMNs In case you’ve gotten a bit big-headed in the past few months and need to be reminded of your (lowly) place in this world, I just want to put it out there that I am currently paying real-life money for a subscription to Stathead, which is basketball-reference’s advanced statistical service. What better way to…
Read MoreJalen Brunson 31 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (1/3/2021)
https://youtu.be/Pf3tB-LRAU0 I was mentally preparing to write the tale of how Jalen Brunson was welcomed into the Hall of the Thirty Point Scorers by none other than Carlos Delfino, but there was a small fragment of memory residing deep in the furthest, most disused corner of my brain: had Brunson previously scored thirty in his…
Read MoreDorian Finney-Smith 16 Points Full Highlights (8/30/2020)
As I write this, all members of the Mavericks organization (including players) are getting kicked out of their hotel rooms and being forced to board buses that will drive them all the way back to Dallas. Their belongings, no matter in what state they are, packed or unpacked, are being thrown out of those same…
Read MoreTim Hardaway Jr. 21 Points Full Highlights (8/23/2020)
While Luka Doncic hit the game-winner in this one, and Trey Burke plopped in 25 points to help the Mavericks get the dub, let us not forget the overlooked, but considerable, contributions that Tim Hardaway Jr., uh, contributed in this game: -Giving a rousing pregame speech which used the “F word” over one hundred times…
Read MoreTrey Burke 25 Points Full Highlights (8/23/2020)
Mavericks fans and 76ers fans are in very different headspaces right now. And the thing that ties them together is Trey Burke. Mavericks fans just watched their team, the major underdog in the series, take a second game off a championship-contending (???) Clippers squad featuring true superstars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George (LOL). Luka Doncic…
Read MoreTim Hardaway Jr. 22 Points Full Highlights (8/21/2020)
Luka Doncic left this game in the fourth quarter with an ankle injury. The camera strategically placed in the tunnel to the locker rooms showed him hopping away from the trainers as fast as he could on one leg, which showed his grit and determination, but it also showed that his ankle wasn’t feeling too…
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