Tag: Full-ilation

Or: “DownToBuck’s Favorite Part” You thought the players in part III were scrubs? They’re like goddamn All-Stars in comparison to the barely-in-the-league scrubnuggets that comprise this video from start to finish (with a few notable exceptions). I will admit some of these players are new to me, and if you can honestly say that all…

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Or: “[Scrubbiness Intensifies]” Part III of this series features a lot of players who casual fans have never heard of, or have only ever heard of in an ironic context. Many of the players here were only inconsistently part of their team’s regular rotation. However, true DTB acolytes will recognize all these players because almost…

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Or: “Eh, These Guys are Okay” Part II of my series of every NBA player’s first made field goal in the 2018-19 season already presents a noticeable dropoff from part I. However, if you were paying attention, you would have known this was going to happen. After all, Justin Holiday was in Part I, and…

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Or: “Actually Good NBA Players” The beginning of the 2019-20 season is nigh. With it, a new, eager crop of players joins the league, replacing the old crop that was too garbagey or too old to continue playing in the league. The promise of new stars and new superteams is alluring. However, the 2018-19 season…

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Or: “From the Abyss of Scrubs there is No Escape” The part you’ve been waiting for. The part I’ve been waiting for. The end of the journey. Part 4. This part features the absolute lowest bottom-dwellers of the NBA, the ones for whom each made shot is a discrete event in their memory. These are…

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Or: “Scrubbiness Intensifies” I don’t mean to imply that the players depicted in part three of this four-part epic journey through the catacombs of the NBA are “scrubs”. A few of them are, but what I meant was that the players in this part are definitely on a lower tier than the players in part…

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Or: “A Dreadful Hodgepodge of Mediocre Role-Players” Part two of my series chronicling every NBA player’s first basket is a slightly dispiriting affair: it starts with role-players who already kinda suck, and it doesn’t really get better. Not much worse, either. You knew this was coming after E’Twaun Moore appeared in the first half of…

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Or: “The Players You Think of When You Think ‘NBA Players’” We are gathered here on the day of the start of the 2018-19 NBA preseason, excited to see what is in store. But first, it is time to close the book on the 2017-18 season with what hopefully will become a time-honored tradition: a…

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This is what you’ve been waiting for. The scrubbiest scrubs in the NBA, making shots. Every player shown in this video made 55 field goals or less. Hell yeah. 0:09 – I’m not sure Jeff Withey even touched this ball. 0:52 – This is the first, but not the last, player in the video where…

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Part three of my full-ilation is subtitled “entering the void of lesser talent” because we’ve gotten to the point where some of these guys can’t even be called “role players” anymore. Diehard DTB adherents should recognize these dudes, but casual peasants might be confused by some of the names. That’s okay. You’re free to leave…

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