Donte DiVincenzo 22 Points Full Highlights (4/8/2021)

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After blowing a bunch of mid-first-round picks on busts and disappointments, it's nice to see that the Bucks have seemingly hit on one of their draft choices in Donte DiVincenzo. DiVincenzo isn't a star, and doesn't seem to have star potential residing in his loins (blasphemy, I know), but he is a solid starter, and when you're picking at #17, that's really all you hope for. The Bucks kind of screwed themselves over by failing to draft serviceable talent to put around Giannis, but it could be worse. In a slightly alternate universe, they might have drafted Zhaire Smith (who went #16) instead of DiVincenzo, for example. And it wouldn't even be a surprise because the Bucks have shown that they can't be trusted with a pick in that range.

I mean, the three-year poopoo parade of Rashad Vaughn, Thon Maker, and D.J. Wilson is just brutal. Two dudes straight-up out of the league (Vaughn and Maker), and one dude who could very well be out of the league after this season (Wilson). It's one thing to draft a player who disappoints, but it's another thing entirely to consistently draft dudes in the first round who aren't even NBA-caliber. I wasn't yet an NBA fan when the whole Joe Alexander thing went down, but I'm sort of getting those vibes from the Bucks' recent draft history. And that makes me upset.

As I said before, DiVincenzo being a starting-caliber player is a huge victory for a Bucks front office that has shown time and time again that they can't draft their way out of a paper bag. Their scouting department consists of a fat middle-aged dude wearing a ratty Packers sweatshirt who watches misleadingly-edited mixtapes on YouTube while belching, but sometimes a fat belching dude can be correct by accident, as is the case with DiVincenzo, and the surprising amount of Bucks' second-rounders who have turned out decently (see: Malcolm Brogdon, Doron Lamb, Johnny O'Bryant, Damir Markota).

I just realized I went this whole description without meaningfully talking about the content of this highlight video, so here you go: Donte DiVincenzo drops 22 points (with 6-of-10 three-point shooting) but the short-handed Bucks fall apart in the fourth quarter and lose while I purposely refuse to watch in order to keep my blood pressure at reasonable levels.

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