This is the first time in DownToBuck history where a player gets an assist as the commentator says with disgust “What a terrible pass!”. Congratulations Will Barton! You suck! Your crappy pass somehow resulted in an assist, the passing equivalent of banking in a three from the corner. Aside from that oddity, Barton had a…
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Jamal Murray Career High 32 Points Full Highlights (11/11/2017)
I was really, really worried that Jamal Murray wouldn’t surpass his previous career high of 30 tonight. He tied it with like seven whole minutes to go in the THIRD quarter, and I was like “hell yeah 40 points here we go”. So sure was I of Murray’s oncoming 40-burger that I strapped myself into…
Read MoreEmmanuel Mudiay 21 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (11/9/2017)
Emmanuel “Negative Rookie Win-Shares” Mudiay has bumped up the quality of his play in his third season now that a certain Jameer Nelson isn’t hanging around, stealing minutes and ruining Mudiay’s career. If the Nuggets are going to be good this year, there’s no choice but for Mudiay to step it up, because he’s either…
Read MoreNikola Jokic Career High 41 Points Full Highlights (11/7/2017)
Nikola Jokic grimaced as his hold on the sheer rock face loosened. He had been climbing for what seemed like hours now and the day, which had started out so sunny and serene, had taken a turn. He had thought he felt the first few tentative drops of rain start to fall a few minutes…
Read MoreWill Barton 21 Points Full Highlights (11/4/2017)
The Daylight Savings Time switch always messes with me. For all you Euros out there, Daylight Savings Time is basically a mind-control scheme conceived by politicians who want to legislate the very concept of time itself. 2+2=5 and what have you. It’s bull poo, but if you want to be on time for things, you…
Read MoreJamal Murray 24 Points Full Highlights (11/1/2017)
Jamal Murray: BETTER or WORSE than Flip Murray? Let’s take a look at the facts: TEAM: Jamal Murray has played for just one team, the Nuggets. Flip Murray played for a bunch of different teams, eight by my count, probably because he wasn’t very good. ADVANTAGE: Jamal PPG: Jamal Murray is averaging 10.2 points per…
Read MoreJamal Murray 20 Points Full Highlights (10/30/2017)
Two good games in a row now for Jamal Murray. Wow! The pessimist in me (which is actually all of me) had left him for dead. Players who start off seasons slowly usually just get slower and slower until they’re playing 30 minutes a game and putting up goose eggs across the whole boxscore. Not…
Read MoreNikola Jokic 28 Points/6 Threes Full Highlights (10/30/2017)
I was all set to revel in the Knicks’ fanbase’s collective despair for blowing a game after letting a 20-point lead against the Nuggets dissolve in a matter of minutes. After they booed Porzingis on draft night, they deserve all the misery that the universe sees fit to fling their way. Alas, despite a gigantic…
Read MoreJamal Murray 26 Points Full Highlights (10/29/2017)
Jamal Murray missed the first 17 shots of his rookie season. He hasn’t been that bad so far to start the season, but he hasn’t been far off. He just finished up a stretch of 16 missed threes, and it’s not like he was making tons of other buckets/free throws to make up for it….
Read MoreNikola Jokic 21 Points Full Highlights (10/29/2017)
I was debating tonight which order to do highlights in, and I was gonna do Nikola Jokic but maybe not until later because he only had 21, but then I remembered that he hit a Dirk-style fadeaway right in the face of Timofey Mozgov’s contract and the priority for this vid jumped like 10 levels….
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