I spent some time this summer working on nicknames for all the rookies who I thought were going to be good enough to earn nicknames. That included Marvin Bagley. I should’ve written them down instead of just thinking about them because I’m pretty sure I came up with a really sweet one for Bagley and…
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Willie Cauley-Stein 23 Points Full Highlights (10/17/2018)
All this excitement for the Kings’ two young bigmen, Bagley and Giles, and they come out in the first game of the season and do almost nothing. Meanwhile, Willie Cauley-Stein, who is hated by all Kings fans for reasons that are unknown to me (is it because he looks like an old Jewish grandma in…
Read MoreDe’Aaron Fox 21 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (10/17/2018)
I just want to remind everybody that De’Aaron Fox had negative win-shares last season. If you’re new to my channel, you should get used to my obsession with win-shares (since they almost always correspond perfectly with my gut feeling about a player), and if you’re a DTB old-timer, I’m sorry that you have to listen…
Read MoreNemanja Bjelica 18 Points Kings Debut Full Highlights (10/17/2018)
I imagine that every single person, besides Serbs who watched him in Europe, who views this highlight video will come away impressed/stunned by the types of shots Nemanja Bjelica was making. I saw a lot of him in Minnesota, and he had maybe 1.5 performances during all those years there where he did the stuff…
Read MoreBogdan Bogdanovic All 129 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2017-18 Season Three-ilation)
Bogdan Bogdanovic exited the restaurant feeling somewhat disquieted. His food had been good and the service impeccable, but there had been a pair of besuited men sitting at a faraway table who had spent their entire meal just staring at him. It made Bogdan wonder if there was some distant family member in Serbia who…
Read MoreWillie Cauley-Stein All 133 Dunks Full Highlights (2017-18 Season Dunkilation)
Willie Cauley-Stein was sitting on his living-room couch engaging in one of his favorite pastimes: browsing basketball-reference on his iPad while stoned. The stats were just so much more interesting, even funny on occasion, when read under the influence of marijuana. It was especially fun to go back to the box-scores of past games he…
Read MoreJack Cooley 10 Points Full Highlights (4/11/2018)
In traditional DownToBuck fashion, I’ve saved the worst for last. The absolute worst. You are looking at, right now, the most awful highlight video I’ve made this season. You can look at all 2184 of my other videos (well most of them got deleted but just trust me on this), and you won’t find one…
Read MoreWillie Cauley-Stein 22 Points Full Highlights (4/11/2018)
If Jerry Reynolds retiring means that we have to hear Doug Christie with regularity on Kings broadcasts, that’s not going to be okay. I get the Reynolds is getting up there in years, but that doesn’t mean he has to stop now. Just when the Kings are on the cusp of a breakthrough? He had…
Read MoreDe’Aaron Fox 21 Points/7 Assists Full Highlights (4/9/2018)
I don’t know exactly how win-shares get calculated or even what they are. I reference them all the time but I am ignorant of their true nature. And here I will reference them once again: unless De’Aaron Fox puts up a 50/20/20 game in the season closer, he will end the season with negative win-shares….
Read MoreWillie Cauley-Stein 25 Points Full Highlights (4/9/2018)
If you want a real trip, go look up a picture of Willie Cauley-Stein’s grandparents. I can’t imagine a pair of people less likely to create, even distantly, an athletic freakazoid like WCS. For one thing, they are very white looking. Not going to assume their race or anything though. And what’s up with his…
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