Denver Nuggets – DownToBuck

Monte Morris 22 Points/9 Assists Full Highlights (6/3/2021)

https://youtu.be/l2psuyKP9DY Two must-win (using the term loosely here, but I’ve got a narrative to weave, dammit) playoff games, two big performances in a row for Monte Morris. He wasn’t the most valuable player on his team those games, since Nikola Jokic was on the court and doing his usual Jokic things, but after looking at…

Monte Morris Career High 28 Points Full Highlights (6/1/2021)

https://youtu.be/E_lBZQeoH34 At some point, while no one was paying attention, Monte Morris became the best Morris in the NBA. He doesn’t have much competition, since the only other Morrises are Marcus and Markieff, but those dudes were definitely way better than Monte for a long time. So what happened? The answer is simple: Monte Morris…

Austin Rivers 21 Points Full Highlights (5/27/2021)

https://youtu.be/xRuKiYgq2Ww “Dear Diary, Today before the game Coach Malone said we have to be locked in and play hard. When he said locked in I got really scared that he would lock me in a closet since sometimes that’s what Daddy would do to me when I was being a bad boy. I tried really…

Markus Howard 23 Points Full Highlights (5/16/2021)

https://youtu.be/dHBbTnAQxSA There just aren’t enough midgets in the NBA these days. Isaiah Thomas is gone (that 10-day with the Pelicans must not have gone so well), which really sucks, because not only was he was a midget, he was also actually a really good player. Since he regressed into sludge because of his injuries, there…

Markus Howard 20 Points Full Highlights (5/14/2021)

https://youtu.be/ASEhm0me_NM Watching Markus Howard drop twenty points on the Pistons makes me realize a few things: 1. Being a short man in the NBA is really tough. Defenders are too tall and it’s hard to even get a shot off, whether it’s a layup or a jumper. But all attempts at introducing a basketball league…

Vlatko Cancar 14 Points Full Highlights (5/13/2021)

https://youtu.be/nGao2ykQy18 Astute observers will note that Vlatko Cancar’s total of fourteen points, while quite impressive for a player of his low caliber, is a full two points below my current MPT (Minimum Points Threshold) of sixteen. The MPT is supposed to provide a hard limit past which I will never make or upload a highlight…

Austin Rivers 25 Points Full Highlights (5/5/2021)

https://youtu.be/gyjtWadVQa8 “Dear Diary, Being an NBA player is hard and scary. Playing basketball is the easy part, but I don’t get why teams always trade me. I told Dad that teams shouldn’t trade me because I’m good at basketball, but he said Austin sometimes teams have to make trades to improve their cap situation. I…

Facundo Campazzo 19 Points/10 Assists Full Highlights (4/28/2021)

https://youtu.be/AjeZkrTfP6U The Nuggets’ commentary team has a long history of trying to incorporate phrases from other languages into their broadcast. If there’s a foreign player on the roster, you can bet that you’ll be hearing a catchphrase said in that player’s native tongue. I remember this most clearly with Danilo Gallinari and his time in…

P.J. Dozier Career High 23 Points/3 Dunks Full Highlights (4/24/2021)

https://youtu.be/4c_vZ97pDvQ P.J. Dozier played two games in his rookie season with the Thunder, and then six games in his second season with the Celtics. Not a lot of players start off their career playing an extremely minimal, bordering on nonexistent, role for two separate teams and then manage to stick around for very long past…

R.J. Hampton 16 Points Full Highlights (4/4/2021)

https://youtu.be/m4zCM781K70 I like to think that I have a pretty good memory for things like this, so you should be willing to take my words at face value when I make the following assertion: The lineup that the Orlando Magic have trotted out for the past few games is a top-five worst-ever midseason lineup. Note…