Is it just me or is Elfrid Payton’s hairnado looking slightly less tornadic lately? I remember it expanding to monstrous proportions, but now it almost looks like a normal hairstyle that normal non-alien humans would willingly sculpt on their heads. Did he just walk into the barber shop and say “hey barber could you take…
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Mario Hezonja 21 Points Full Highlights (3/2/2016)
The version of Mario Hezonja that we have now is tentative, scared of making mistakes, and not shooting especially well, even for a rookie. What happened to that cocky Croatian kid from before the draft? The one who was ready to tear up the league and dunk all over everybody? Actually, I don’t need to…
Read MoreErsan Ilyasova 22 Points Full Highlights (3/1/2016)
Ersan Ilyasova and Scott Skiles have taken circuitous routes since Skiles’ coached Ilyasova in Milwaukee. Like them, the NBA and its assorted players and staff have taken similar winding roads, scattering themselves into configurations unimaginable just a few years ago. Now, as if by fate, Ilyaskiles are reunited in Orlando, ready to, if not take…
Read MoreNikola Vucevic 28 Points Full Highlights (2/28/2016)
Yesterday saw a clash of two of the league’s premiere offensive bigmen, Nikola Vucevic and Jahlil Okafor. Coincidentally, neither of them play very much defense, thus we were treated to a scoring exhibition with a final score of 130-116, quite impressive considering that neither the Magic nor the 76ers are considered powerhouse scoring teams. It’s…
Read MoreMario Hezonja 13 Points Full Highlights (2/28/2016)
Another case of “DownToBuck sees that such-and-so player has a good amount of points in the first quarter and gets way too excited, imagining point totals for said player that end up being laughably optimistic”. This keeps happening, but can I be blamed for wanting to see Mario Hezonja score 25 or even 30? I…
Read MoreAaron Gordon Career High 22 Points Full Highlights (2/28/2016)
Aaron Gordon showed us lots of stuff in this game. Lots of GOOD stuff. Pretty much his full arsenal of abilities was on display, so much so that it would be quicker to list the stuff he DIDN’T do: Pullup midrange jumpers Any midrange jumpers Free-throw line dunks Windmill dunks Dunks involving the mascot Everything…
Read MoreDewayne Dedmon 12 Points/4 Dunks Full Highlights (2/26/2016)
This twelve-point performance is of much higher quality than the other twelve-point game that Dewayne Dedmon had this season. The other one had eight free throws in it. That would have been a video where 66% of the points depicted would come from the charity stripe. Such a percentage is totally unacceptable for highlight purposes…
Read MoreAaron Gordon 17 Points/4 Dunks Full Highlights (2/26/2016)
It is important to note that, while Aaron Gordon did in fact have four dunks in this game, none of them were of the quality we have come to expect from him since he won (not lost) the dunk contest. However, he did hit a three, something that he did not do even one time…
Read MoreAaron Gordon 19 Points/2 Dunks Full Highlights (2/25/2016)
Wow, who knew? All it took for Aaron Gordon to become the player everyone expected was to be the winner (yes?) of the best dunk contest of the modern era. That’s all! If the Magic had known that, they would have had him in the dunk-off a lot sooner. Oh well. What’s done is done,…
Read MoreNikola Vucevic 35 Points Full Highlights (2/23/2016)
DownToBuck is revealed to be a liar once again. He is a carnival gamesman, peddling falsehoods and deceit as if they were candy and prizes. His word has as much value as a discarded banana peel; his tongue is cleft as a serpent’s. “So I am officially done making Vooch highlights until he scores forty….
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