Particularly great day of basketball for 7 foot guys and their jumpers. Spencer Hawes' game tieing three, Channing Frye hitting 5 threes in helping the Suns over the Bobcats, Sam Dalembert going 8 for 8 (although most of these were gimmes around the basket), oh and Spencer Hawes one-legged three at the buzzer. I had to say it again cause it was that nice. Here it is in slow-mo:
Pau Gasol had himself a nice night as well. Prior the game, Pau had pledged to donate 1k of every one of his points to the US Fund for UNICEF's relief efforts toward those affected by the typhoon in the Philippines. This basket was pretty sweet cause Pau had Andrew Bogut faked out of his sneakers.
Pau's last two points on the night were particularly nice too, as he swooshed a fallaway jumper in Bogut's eyeballs. People on twitter were getting kinda carried away saying that the shot looked like Kobe's but honestly, it was probably more like Marc Gasol's.
Confident: Paul George is playing really well right now. His trust in his jump shot is a little show-offy but it did make for a cool-looking vine vid.
Worst: One of is the worst part of watching sports is seeing the players you root for not being physically able to do what they are best at. Marc Gasol, Derrick Rose, Andre Iguodola all left their respective games last night with injuries. Terrible. Praying that their injuries are nothing serious.
Impact Players: The two hottest teams in the league right now have got to be the Pacers and the Blazers. The reason for these teams dominating this season is due to the growth of Lance Stephenson in Indiana and the play of Wesley Matthews in Portland.
Stephenson recorded his second triple-double of this season tallying 10 points 11 rebounds and 10 assists along with 4 steals and only 1 turnover. The Blazers have been winning behind the team's strength in knocking down the three point shot in bunches.
Leading the three point barrage this season has been guard Wesley Matthews. For the year, Wes is shooting a scorching 54% from the field and 50% from three point land. Matthews led the Blazers in their win over the Bulls last night with his 28 points and 4 threes.
Fact: Nick Young is the most entertaining player in the NBA when taking into account his on and off the court antics.
That's my opinion of course and hopefully I'll have the opportunity to show off the majority of my repository of photos and gifs involving Swaggy P. Here is a creative step-back three from last night:
Other: This kid is pretty excited to sit next to Rihanna at the Laker game...Amir Johnson shook ref Danny Crawford's hand after getting a technical for hanging on the rim...Marcin Gortat destroyed a towel.
It's funny how Pau has the dreams moves and dwight has him as a mentor/coach and still can't pull it off
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