Excuse the bad quality cause I literally held my phone up in the air to record the teevee after I was finally able to stop laughing at Dudley's neck movement.
3 more days until Christmas!
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Noteworthy: 12/21-22/2013
Good job:
Trevor Ariza with 27 points off of 5 threes in leading the Wiz to a road win over the Celtics.
Dwight Howard with 35 and 19 against Andre Drummond, perhaps, the only big man in the NBA that can match him athletically. Dwight got the win and the more impressive statline as the Rockets beat the Pistons in Detroit.
Andrew Bogut, after having an 18 board game against the Spurs, grabbed 20 against the Lakers on Saturday in the Warriors dominating home win.
The Bulls who beat the Cavs at home behind double figures from 6 different players. With their injury issues, this type of team effort is what the Bulls might need to get wins this season.
That guy Khris Middleton, who had his second 27 point game this month and the Bucks as they beat the Sixers despite double-doubles from Thad Young and Spencer Hawes.
Another great game from the combo guard lineup of Bledsoe and Dragic as they both had 20+ and they beat the Mavs at home .
Raptors, the whole team, cause they ended the Thunder's undefeated record at home on Sunday night.
This year's king of triple doubles is Lance Stephenson cause he registered another one tonight in the Pacers win over the Celtics. Plus he did a filthy move to put a Celtic on his backside (see below video)
Alexis Ajinca played in his first NBA game this season on Saturday after being signed as a free agent. He had 11 boards, which was more than Lamarcus Aldridge and Anthony Davis had in Portland's win over New Orleans. Good job, newbie Pelican.
Curren NBA Championship belt-holders, the Clippers did not trail once in Saturday's game against the Nugget. Things were closer against the T'wolves tonight. In fact, the Clippers looked like they had lost the belt when they were down 5 with a minute left to go. The Clippers did not give up, as they kept doing that quick basket and then foul thing until this happened.
If you're going to lose the ball, losing it in the backcourt while double-teamed is pretty much the worst. Tough minute a half for Kev Martin as he also basically threw an outlet pass to Darren Collison later in overtime.
Jared Dudley hadn't made a three all game up until this point. So if you're a T'wolves fan, this shot going down must have been a serious "c'mooooon man".
Bad times
The Knicks have the second most losses as the home team with 10 this season. I didn't watch the game (cause the game was on when I'm usually enjoyin my cereal), but my expectation of another Knicks home loss was correct.
Poor Courtney Lee
Celtics had won 7 in a row against the Wiz, but then that streak was ended when they loss at home to Washington on Saturday. Then tonight they got dominated when they had to go to Indiana and Courtney Lee fell on his butt trying to stay in front of Lance Stephenson.
Plus, Rondo said he's not gonna be back in January so i'm guessing the Celtics are watching this year's college basketball guys pretty closely.
Pretty well timed block
No Look
Alexis Ajinca played in his first NBA game this season on Saturday after being signed as a free agent. He had 11 boards, which was more than Lamarcus Aldridge and Anthony Davis had in Portland's win over New Orleans. Good job, newbie Pelican.
Curren NBA Championship belt-holders, the Clippers did not trail once in Saturday's game against the Nugget. Things were closer against the T'wolves tonight. In fact, the Clippers looked like they had lost the belt when they were down 5 with a minute left to go. The Clippers did not give up, as they kept doing that quick basket and then foul thing until this happened.
If you're going to lose the ball, losing it in the backcourt while double-teamed is pretty much the worst. Tough minute a half for Kev Martin as he also basically threw an outlet pass to Darren Collison later in overtime.
Jared Dudley hadn't made a three all game up until this point. So if you're a T'wolves fan, this shot going down must have been a serious "c'mooooon man".
Bad times
The Knicks have the second most losses as the home team with 10 this season. I didn't watch the game (cause the game was on when I'm usually enjoyin my cereal), but my expectation of another Knicks home loss was correct.
Poor Courtney Lee
Celtics had won 7 in a row against the Wiz, but then that streak was ended when they loss at home to Washington on Saturday. Then tonight they got dominated when they had to go to Indiana and Courtney Lee fell on his butt trying to stay in front of Lance Stephenson.
Plus, Rondo said he's not gonna be back in January so i'm guessing the Celtics are watching this year's college basketball guys pretty closely.
Pretty well timed block
No Look
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Video: What A Baseball Pass From Rajon Rondo Looks Like When It's Flying At You
Saw this video from celticsblog about their star point guard finally making his return to full-contact practices since injuring his knee last season.
While watching the Celtics scrimmage, I was completely caught off by this pass by Rajon Rondo to who I'm guessing is Jared Sullinger. Check out the videos over on their site and make your judgement about how well Rondo is moving and also get a serious scare about your nose getting squashed by a basketball.
While watching the Celtics scrimmage, I was completely caught off by this pass by Rajon Rondo to who I'm guessing is Jared Sullinger. Check out the videos over on their site and make your judgement about how well Rondo is moving and also get a serious scare about your nose getting squashed by a basketball.
Noteworthy: 12/20/2013
Nice Job:
Throwback game for Paul Pierce with 24 points, 10 rebounds, on 7 of 9 shooting with 4 three-pointers, but it was spoiled by Evan Turner's 29 and 10, including the game winnner...Great road win for the Raptors in Dallas, as all five of their starters scored 15 or more points. Despite the overtime loss, good game for Monta Ellis as he had his 2nd 20+ point 10+ assist game this season (in his career he has 21 of these type games). Pau put together a really nice night of 21 points 13 rebounds and 8 assists for the Lakers in their home win against the pretty good T'wolves. So basically, take your time Steve(s) and Kobe. Pau's got things perfectly under control.
Richard Jefferson showing that you still shouldn't give him the baseline and Brandon Knight had a really neat all-around game with 17 points 14 rebounds 8 assists and 0 turnovers. Can't forget about their other lanky Bucks teammate, John Henson, who threw down a really snappy putback dunk. Kyrie Irving had a huge scoring night of 39 points as did Kemba Walker with a season high of 34 points as both the Cavs and the Bobcats won beating the Bucks and Pistons. Demarcus Cousins led all scorers in the Kings/Heat game with 27 but the Kings lost by 19 so he probably wasn't shaking hands with anybody still.
Ball Fake of the Night:
Return:
Danny Granger played for the first time this season and he did look a bit rusty with those 5 turnovers. However, he did have a nice block on Dwight Howard.
On the subject of blocks, Gordon Hayward's hustle on this Demare Carroll fast break layup is a little Tayshaun Prince-ish or maybe just very Gordan Hayward-ish. Either way, dejavu.
Not the Worst Attempt At Taking A Charge:
Not bad because what else could you do if Lebron comes barreling down the lane at you? Definitely an addition to Ben's Mclemore's library of "Welcome to the NBA" moments categorized under "dangit".
Bummer
Gerald "Gets his lips to the rim" Green took 12 shots tonight all of which were threes. He made six of those shots which is a really impressive amount of three-pointers made but that stat also means there were no dunks to report on. Hence, the bummer subtitle.
Cheerful
In the first game of the season without Kobe since his return from achilles injury, the Lakers looked like they were having a lot of fun on the court. It didn't even look like they had lost their superstar shooting guard or their first-second-and third string point guards this season.
First a block by their gimpy backup-center which led to a dunk by the streaky but really good at dunking, Wesley Johnson
Now the T'wolves were the team to draft Wes Johnson so maybe tonight was a bit personal for him cause then he also brought Staples to their feet with this long jump dunk too.
Nick Young whose big smile is currently the banner on this blog, led the way for the Lakers with 25 points. As a review, some were really far three-point shots and one of them was™ this 360 spin on his follow through of a 4-point play opportunity.
Not to be left out, Pau also hit a pretty miraculous three tonight, which was the reason for the cute celebration between Nick and Pau that you can see at the head of this post.
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