Serge Ibaka – DownToBuck

Serge Ibaka 18 Points Full Highlights (9/5/2020)

Has Serge “Ibaka Gaijin” Ibaka low-key been one of the best players on the Raptors during their in-progress playoff run? I’m looking at the stats, and I’m looking at the eye-test (a process which involves me searching my cranial archives for plays I remember Ibaka making in these games), and the only conclusion I can…

Serge Ibaka 27 Points Full Highlights (8/23/2020)

Serge “Ibaka Gaijin” Ibaka this game: 27 points, 13-of-14 from the field, 2 blocks, 20 minutes of on-court action, 28 minutes of lounging around on the bench thinking about who he’ll have guest on his next YouTube video. Ibaka is a matchup problem even against teams with depth. Against a team like the Nets, who…

Serge Ibaka 20 Points Full Highlights (8/21/2020)

Serge Ibaka gained some amount of notoriety a little while ago by starting to wear scarves. You, know, just scarves. The neck thing. Out and about. Am I total moron here? How is notoriety the result of wearing scarves? Even if they’re really big and brightly-colored scarves? Was it some kind of situation where Ibaka…

Serge Ibaka 22 Points Full Highlights (8/17/2020)

I have yet to watch an episode of Serge Ibaka’s cooking show. That’s not a brag, I’m just pointing out that the culinary experimentations depicted in his webseries are of lesser interest to me than his frightening ability to hid a midrange jumper anywhere at any time (as long as “anywhere” is somewhere between the…

Serge Ibaka 27 Points Full Highlights (3/9/2020)

Since I wore myself out writing some other descriptions tonight, I present to you my latest low-effort drivel disguised as semi-serious journalism: OFFICIAL FAMILY-FRIENDLY EUPHEMISMS FOR SERGE IBAKA’S “THINGY” POWER RANKINGS: 1. “Thingy” 2. “Pants Python” 3. “Sweatpants Snake” 4. “The Congolese Crusher” 5. “(Not-So-)Little Serge” 6. “The Pipe” 7. “Meat” [POWER GAP] 9001. “Cockle-Doodle-Doo”…

Serge Ibaka 28 Points Full Highlights (2/12/2020)

Despite Serge Ibaka’s heroic 28-point performance (a performance that featured more points than ANY he had during his time in OKC, by the way), the Raptors lost, ending their winning streak at 15 games. Good. I’m going to sound like a butthurt Bucks fan, and maybe I am a little butthurt, but they (and their…

Serge Ibaka 22 Points Full Highlights (2/7/2020)

Serge Ibaka, in his 11th season, is putting up more PPG per game than he ever has. It feels like he should be super old at this point, but he’s only 30, so the fact that he is scoring at a career-high rate is not wholly surprising. 30 is still considered by most to be…

Serge Ibaka 30 Points Full Highlights (2/5/2020)

Since I feel that it will be brought up in the comment section of this video, I will once offer up my personal philosophy surrounding the concept of a “game winner”. Given that most users of the internet struggle to extract meaning from text in paragraph format, I will reformat my philosophy as a list…

Serge Ibaka 21 Points Full Highlights (1/31/2020)

Serge Ibaka made NBA history in this game by apparently becoming the first player to make 500 three-pointers in their career while also blocking 1,500 shots. That combo of skills has been so rare over the history of the NBA that no other player had done it even though those aren’t world-beating numbers when taken…

Serge Ibaka 26 Points Full Highlights (1/30/2020)

After tonight’s 26-point performance, Serge Ibaka is officially averaging the most points he ever has in his career. 15.2, beating out the 15.1 he had in the 2013-14 season as well as the 15.0 he had last year. He’s been in the league for over a decade, and someone with his longevity averaging a career-high…