Miami Heat – DownToBuck

Dewayne Dedmon 19 Points Full Highlights (5/24/2021)

https://youtu.be/KuMFQMt7i0U Here’s a fun fact for you: Dewayne Dedmon was the Heat’s leading scorer last night. In a playoff game. Outscoring Jimmy Butler (ten points), Bam Adebayo (sixteen points), and Tyler Herro (four points). Playoff teams who feature players like Dewayne Dedmon as prominent scorers are not going to see much success. He wasn’t even…

KZ Okpala 17 Points Full Highlights (5/16/2021)

https://youtu.be/jM7vJ8FlDNA An extremely learned and respectable type of NBA fan might guess that the “KZ” initialism that makes up the first part of KZ Okpala’s name is somehow related to the great Obinna Ekezie. Certainly, if you were thinking that, I know think very highly of both you and your prodigious knowledge of NBA role-players…

Nemanja Bjelica 21 Points/6 Assists Full Highlights (5/16/2021)

https://youtu.be/fVL3Z8__SdQ I’m trying to figure out why the heck the Heat traded for Nemanja Bjelica if they aren’t even going to play him. Yeah, he played in this game, and he played in the game prior to this one, but before that? Eight straight DNP-CD’s. Then eleven minutes in a loss to the Bulls. And…

Precious Achiuwa 23 Points Full Highlights (5/16/2021)

https://youtu.be/_QtKq96JG_8 Precious “Chiubacca” Achiuwa started off his rookie season with a rather sizable role on a Heat team that was just coming off a Finals appearance. Then, as the season progressed, his role got inexorably smaller, until the end of the season in April/May, where he was barely coming off the bench at all and…

Dewayne Dedmon 18 Points Full Highlights (4/28/2021)

https://youtu.be/d_YF-86CekE For a brief period of time, just two seasons, Dewayne “Judge Dedd” Dedmon was a stretch-five. He wasn’t a particularly prominent stretch-five, but the 2018-19 season saw him shoot 38% from deep, so I would say that he was a very effective stretch five even if most casual fans had no idea who he…

Kendrick Nunn 27 Points Full Highlights (2/20/2021)

https://youtu.be/FOi9PW-Ij-k The Heat are not having a good time this year. Yeah, they won this particular game against the Lakers, which might represent some sort of a turning point, maybe, so there’s slightly more optimism hanging around the team than there was yesterday, but it’s only one win. We’ve had a third of a season’s…

Max Strus 21 Points Full Highlights (2/11/2021)

https://youtu.be/EXu47a2aqPs DTB’S FUN NBA FACT OF THE DAY: Max Strus scored 21 points in this game without accumulating any other counting stats. He had no assists, no rebounds, no steals, and no blocks. And here’s the real fun part: 21 is the most any player has scored this season while getting zeroes across the rest…

Max Strus Career High 19 Points Full Highlights (2/1/2021)

https://youtu.be/Qdf7J8Hl5N0 I was saying Max Strus’ last name wrong this entire time and that fact is greatly upsetting to me. Who knew it was “stroose”? I was saying “struss”. And when I say “saying”, I mean “thinking”, because I don’t have any occasion to say his name (none of my IRL acquaintances share my passion…

Kendrick Nunn 28 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights (1/20/2021)

https://youtu.be/7rt4mrDpuGk If Kendrick Nunn doesn’t watch out, he’s going to become one of those players who peaked in his rookie year (Geoff Petrie waves while cradling the tattered remains of his knee ligaments in his arms and sobbing). That’s a better outcome than peaking in your first ever game, like Michael Carter-Williams and Bruno Caboclo,…

Gabe Vincent Career High 24 Points Full Highlights (1/12/2021)

https://youtu.be/TaaDwfpFvKY The NBA’s insistence to continue play in the face of increasing COVID cases is is quickly proving to be a double-edged sword. OFFICIAL SWORD EDGE #1: Players are getting COVID, which isn’t good, and more of them are also having to quarantine themselves due to COVID exposure, which is no fun unless you’re a…