Noteworthy: 12/4/2013

Postponed:

Due to some pretty smokey reasons, the game in mexico city between the Spurs and the T'wolves was called off and rescheduled.

Rundown of the Games That Weren't Postponed:
Paul Millsap led the Hawks in points, boards and assists and pump fakes that really tricked DeAndre Jordan as the Hawks beat the Clipps in Atlanta.

Rockets lose to the Suns and Aaron Brooks almost got his 3rd block of the season on Jumpin' Gerald Green.  Too bad those haters a.k.a., refs, called it off, but i'm still counting it in my book.  And by book i mean blog, and by blog I'm referring to the sentence I just wrote on this post.

Lefty to Lefty to Lefty
Brandon Jennings played his first game back in Milwaukee since he left the Bucks and showed off the chemistry between him and the other southpaws on his team.


Casual:
Not to be left out, the righty center, Andre Drummond also had his fair share of highlights. Drummond, for the 3rd game in a row, had more than 18 rebounds (19 total) while Greg Monroe also grabbed 17 boards as the Pistons beat the Bucks. 

Changing it Up
After getting teased by Brent Barry on NBA TV for making 7 threes but having no assists in his previous triple OT game, Ryan Anderson really stuck it to Barry by only making 1 three BUT dishing out 1 assist and being pretty fierce on the boards (13 rebounds) to help the Pelicans beat the Mavericks last night.

21/21
Not like slightly off perfect vision, but like the amount of rebounds and career highs for Tristan Thompson and Al Farique Aminu.  Besides copying each other in rebounds, they also both only had 1 assist and recorded a total of 3 other things (steals for Aminu and blocks for Thompson).

Longhorn Battle
Former U of T guys, Kevin Durant and Lamarcus Aldridge played each other last night.  Not a great game from their #0 wearing sidekicks, Lillard and Westbrook, but L.A. and Lillard came out on top in the end.  Not the best game ever for KD as he had no assists and no defense on this last play which put the Thunder away for good.



Other:  A new kobe and messi commercial involving some selfies (thanks and happy birthday to my kobe-loving bro, Ryan, for facebooking this to me)....it was also the birthday of Martell Webster, who Gortat calls 'sexual chocolate', so here is Gortat, or as Webster cals him, 'sexual white chocolate', and some reporters singing  happy birthday to the aforementioned sexual chocolate.  Conclusion, if you join the wizards, you just instantly produce blogging gold.

Video: Cj Watson Locked in the Restroom

Just the idea that backup point guard CJ Watson was locked in the teeny tiny restroom on the Pacers team bus was enough to have me quite tickled.  Thanks goodness for instagram, although the clip is pretty short and really dark and blurry, cause now I know for what a frightened nba point guard and his concerned power forward and center might sound like.

Greg Stiesma With A Christmas Tree

Bout that time to get all your Christmas decorations up, guys.  Here's the Pelicans injured back-up center loading up his truck with what looks like a 6 footer.  Besides an encouragement to get your twinkle lights and blow-up Snowman set up, this picture also serves as a notice that people still bleach their hair in 2013.  A very informationally diverse photo.

21 days until Christmas, everybody!

Noteworthy: 12/3/2013

So much of everything:
Arron Afflalo, Vic Oladipo and Glenn Davis all played 50+ minutes with Afflalo hitting 5 threes for 43 points.  Glenn Davis had 33 including the three that pushed the game into overtime.

For the Sixers, they had three guys with 20 including Michael Carter-Williams, Thad Young (25 and 12) and Evan Turner's seven threes and three clutch free throws to force the game into double overtime.

For the two hottest rookies so far this season, oh you know they just each had themselves a triple double (26-12-10 for Carter-Williams and 26-10-10 for Oladipo).

Game ended up going to the last second with the Sixers pulling out a one-point win and ending this really really stats-filled game.

Crazy Two Points
The Thunder won by two against the Kings.  One of those baskets was this crazy fling by Reggie Jackson

Lots of highlights

Nets fans should probably turn away now as a pair of plays below showing the Nets on the wrong end of a highlight.  The game was close going into the third quarter but the Nuggets went on a 25 to 5 run in that quarter and ended up beating the Nets in Brooklyn.

Timofy Mosgov grabbed 20 boards against two of the better post players in the NBA in Brook Lopez and KG.

It wasn't just the post players getting abused by the Nuggets.  Check out Tomike Shengalia completely getting lost after the Randy Foye cross:

and also ty lawson reminding us that he is quuuuuick


Not a good week for hands
So Anthony Davis broke his left hand on Sunday, and the Nets made it known yesterday that Paul Pierce also fractured his hand. Tonight Michael Kidd-Gilchrist fractured his hand.  Nate Robinson took a hard fall on his right side which was bad enough to cause him to take his free throws left-handed.  Rest of the league, please protect your paws please.

Pick-pocketed
Down 7 with 2 minutes to go, Bron had a fast break layout stripped by Brandon Jennings and the game put too far out of reach for the Heat.  Here's that sequence:


Replacements
For the Grizzlies, Kosta Koufos had 14 points, 12 boards and 2 blocks and his front-court partner Ed Davis had 21 points, 12 boards and also 2 blocks.  Almost makes you forget that they actually have two all-star front court players that are out with injuries.  Not as good of a time for the Suns as none of their starters topped 11 points and Goran Dragic's recent hot streak seems to have sputtered to a stop as he was just plain hot-headed getting teed up with Eric Bledsoe in their loss at Memphis.

Kings were without Demarcus Cousins but Kings played this one close and Cousins' polar opposite in physical size, Isaiah Thomas put on a show scoring 20 in the fourth quarter and earning a big hug from his coach, Mike Malone as the Kings lost a close one by two points to the Thunder.

Milwaukee lost to the Celtics in Boston in a game where we saw two rare occurances including a one-handed over the backboard fadeaway.


and also Gerald Wallace dunking like its 2003.

McRoberts Making A Nice Move
Although he's now in a Luke Walton-type playmaker role with the Bobcats, cool to see Josh McBob still doing them dunkeroos like he's back at Duke.



Yeah, You Blew It
Up 16 at the end of the 3rd quarter, the Raptors were outscored by 27 (42 to 15) in the fourth quarter and if you're doing the math, that means they lost by 9 to the Warriors.

Other: Kemba Walker dancing like every other NBA player has over the past year or so...