Noteworthy: 11/17/2013

Fun:

The demar derozan/rudy gay combo may not be providing lots of wins, but the Raps are entetaining as heck and competing to the final buzzer.

a really nice part of that highlight is Kyle Lowry flying by and smoothly transitioning from put-back attempt to celebration fist-pump.

Heads up Jodie Meeks...

Say what you will about Jennings not being a true point guard, but he sure throws a solid full-speed backboard alley-oop.

Freakin' bad:  None of the Kings starters had more than 9 points, 5 rebounds or 3 assists.

Fantastic:  Jordan Hill was going up against a formidable front court of the Pistons with Josh Smith, Monroe and Andre Drummond.  Hill has been playing like an all star and last night may have been his best game yet, as he logged a career high with 27 points and 17 rebounds.

Also, Steve Blake dished out 16 assists and the Lakeshow won.  So keep throwing your streetball oops, Detroit, our former-backup point guard and former-backup power foward lit you up tonight.

This pass from a Grizzly Gasol

Other:  Jodie Meeks celebrated a three last night by skipping back on defense with his mouth open and directly skyward; I cannot find a photo of this, so if you see it, please direct me to it...As of tonight, Tim Duncan and Ray Allen are tied for 21st on the career points all-time leaderboard...D'antoni probably kidding about Kobe in practice.

Noteworthy: 11/16/2013

Rough night for the following:  Pacers, cause they were down by 25 at the half to the Bulls; not the best way to lose their first game of the season.

Glenn Rice Jr, cause he got a reminder of how good Kyrie Irving is at dribbling

(h/t to Hardwood Paroxysm))

For both JR Smith (3-18 from the field, 1-9 from the three) and the Knicks (1-5 record playing at Home after tonight's loss to the Hawks)



Nice one, guys:
3 Timberwolves scored 20+ tonight: KLove, KevMartin, and Nikola Pekovic (no combination of first&last name currently cleverly available).

Westbrook and Durant combined for at least 50 points for the 3rd game in a row but the big story was Serge Ibaka's 20 boards.

Chris Paul now has 10 consecutive games of 10+ points and 10+ assists to start the season tying John Stockton for the second most total in NBA history.

Nice Try, Ty: Lawson with a really nice 28 and 17 but Denver didn't have the lead even once as they loss in Houston to the Rockets.

Good to have you back: Ryan Anderson, made his season debut, and showed he can still shoot the rock, hitting 6 out of 10 threes, 10 of 14 total and racking up 26 points.

Other: After their overtime win tonight, I'm guessing that testy team meeting the Cavs had actually worked..Looks like Kobe is back at practice...Carmelo describing the Knicks season so far..Lamar Odom may be back in the NBA soon...in case you thought that Lebron stopped doing those chasedown blocks, he hasn't.

Homan League: Week in Review 11/10 - 11/16

(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A review of action in the fantasy basketball league dubbed "Homan League".   May include free agent pick-ups, trades, DNP's because someone forgot to set their lineup for the early morning Pacific time game.  Also other shenanigans worth mentioning in the fantasy league.  All opinions are exactly that, opinions. So don't take them too personally, and they are mostly mine.

Hotness:

Busy week in the NBA as teams like Atlanta, Memphis, Minnesota, Toronto and Utah all played 4 games while a team like Phoenix only played 2 games.  As a result, guys like Al Horford, Mike Conley, Ricky Rubio, Demar Derozan, Rudy Gay, and Gordon Hayward were more valuable than guys with similar production numbers because they played in more games (TEAM(s): Mark Cuban, League Champion, Adam Silver, David Stern, Jae's Dazzling Team, Just Jrue It)

  

Jeremy Lin hit a career high 9 three pointers but also dished out 12 assists that game.  On the year, he's shooting 52%, 47%, 80% (FG%,3PT%, FT%). Marc Gasol put up an 18-8-8-3-3 (pts, reb, ast, stl, blk) game but has been most valuable for his outstanding FT% (86.4%) and low turnover rate (1.1) .  Derrick Favors has been much more consistent this week with his best game coming against a Duncan-less Spur team in which he had 20 pts, 18 boards, 3 steals and 3 blocks. (TEAM(s): Jae's Dazzling Team, S7venbyVII, Clipper Nation)

Some really good single game efforts from role players such as Danny Green's 24 points, 10 rebounds, 6 three effort Jordan Hill's 21 and 11 against the Pelicans or his next game of 18 and 15 against the Nuggets.  The biggest surprise has got to be 76er, James Anderson's 36 point effort on 12-16 shooting and 6 threes made in the OT win against the Rockets. (TEAM(s): Swagger, kobeking, Jae's Dazzling Team)

New Additions:

Steve Blake (TEAM: kobeking):  After getting picked up on Monday, Blake had some impressive efforts of back-to-back-to-back games of 10+ assists.  He's not shooting too well from the field, but he's hitting a blistering 47% from three and has a 1:4 turnover to assist ratio.

Andrea Bargnani (TEAM: Clipper Nation): Technically picked up last week, but this pickup has really paid off this week as Bargs has averaged 20 pts this past week, and also grabbing more than 6 rebounds in that stretch.  Finally looking like he's comfortable in NY's system so hopefully the Knicks don't go ahead and pick up more front-court help that could push him out of the lineup.

J.J. Hickson(TEAM: Pres(i)ton): After JaVale went down, Hickson was picked up and his 10-9 (pts - reb) average has been a nice replacement for McGee.  

Woops-y:
Looks like there were some roster mistakes as David Lee was benched and guys like Tyreke Evans, Cory Brewer and Jamal Crawford were not played and they all had above-average games this week.  Most definitely the reason why of JJ's team is probably going to lose big to Jae's Dazzling Team. (TEAM: Sasquatch)

Made the theoretical right decision in starting George Hill over Jodie Meeks and maybe more debatable right decision in playing Shawn Marion over Jared Sullinger.  The results were the complete opposite as Sullinger put up 26 and 8 while Jodie Meeks had his best game of the season knocking down 5 threes and racking up 25 points. (TEAM: Adam Silver)

Some serious bad luck with guys missing games such as Dion Waiters with some unknown sickness, Josh McRoberts's personal reasons, and both Trevor Ariza and Brandon Knight's bad right hamstrings.  If I wasn't so illogically attached to these guys, you would think I'd drop them since they aren't producing much anyways  (TEAM: Just Jrue It)

Noteworthy: 11/15/2013

Way to go: Roy hibbert just missed a triple double by 2 blocks...Josh Smith had 5 steals and 4 blocks..Lebron had 39 on 14-18 shooting and Joe Johnson went length of the court for this floater game-winner.



Never mind that 3 weeks ago we thought that a game between the Nets would be a blowout and Joe Johnson actually was shooting terribly going 5-18 until that last bucket.

Lance Stephenson being Lance Stephenson



if you missed the Antoine Walker-like shimmy he did, watch it again.

Wannabe:  Lebron doing the Dirk against Dirk's team.

Wow:

Woopsy:



Other: Kings fans are really good at being loud...