NBA Games Recap 3/22/09
There were 7 games played out in the NBA last night, all of which produced nothing in the way of excitement. Still it’s better to cling to the small traces of excitement that were found last night so we’ll start there:
The only game of real note that wasn’t an upset on the cards was the match-up between Houston and San Antonio in San Antonio. The Rockets went there hoping to beat the 2nd placed Spurs and in the process leapfrog them into 2nd place and the lead of the South West Division. Houston, who’ve had many injury problems recently (not least the loss of Tracy McGrady to surgery that will see him out of the post-season), produced a performance worthy of the 2nd seed in the Western Conference. Always reliable Yao Ming passed to Luis Scola underneath the basket for an easy lay-up with just over 10 seconds left to cap an 87-85 road win to put them a slim half game in front of the Spurs.
Other games include Miami going into Detroit and beating the on again off again Pistons 101-96 with the help of Dwayne Wade, who dropped a nice 39 points. This game was level going into the 4th quarter before Miami decided to put Detroit to bed and swished 34 points. Detroit are one game behind .500 now and looking over their shoulders again. They could really use some help from the Washington Wizards, who are playing the 8th placed Chicago Bulls tonight. If Chicago win there will only be 1 and a half games between them. Scary.
Minnesota can be forgiven for wanting the season to end quickly, like the 6 other sub .400 teams in the West. This is possibly why they lost to the rapidly improving Oklahoma City Thunder, who have gone a respectable 5-5 in their last 10 games. Well it’s respectable when compared to the other 5 aforementioned teams who’ve gone 4-6, 2-8, 2-8, 2-8, 2-8 in their last 10. Kevin Durant carried the Thunder like usual, this time posting up 30 points, apart from him only Jeff Green’s contribution of 17 stands out. Minnesota head coach Kevin McHale seemed to realise halfway through this game that he’d got his team selection wrong which is probably why the majority of the ‘Wolves points came from their bench including a double double from point forward Craig Smith (19-10rebounds).
The Toronto Raptors easily saw off the poor L.A Clippers, who are another one of the aforementioned 6 really bad Western Conference teams. Incidentally Toronto are one of the two teams in the East that have absolutely nothing to play for. They managed to beat the Clippers by 24 points so it’s not all bad however, with the line-up they have the Raptors will want to see a push for the play-offs next season.
Cleveland managed to avoid an upset at the hands of New Jersey so keep firm hold of the top spot in the East. LeBron was again the man chipping in with another double double (30-11rebounds) to match Anderson Varejao’s lesser double double (16-11rebounds). Vince Carter wasn’t able to have the game-changing performance he wanted, only dropping an average 25 points. Cleveland rarely looked in danger and the Nets are 2 games off 8th place now so need to start winning.
New Orleans came home after time on the road to beat the Golden State Warriors by 10 points, 99-89. A comfortable win against a team that they had previously lost to at the New Orleans Arena earlier in the season. They were without Chris Paul that day though, unsurprisingly he led his team in scoring last night, helping himself to 27 points and 8 rebounds to keep the Hornets sniffing for a top 4 spot in the West.
Finally the Sixers went to the league-worst Sacramento Kings and won 112-100. Having established a 26 point lead at half time Philadelphia let their foot off the gas and Sacramento managed to get that figure back to something respectable. All of the Kings’ starters got double figures including double doubles for Jason Thompson and Spencer Hawes which just shows that the Kings don’t have a bench. Iguodala (who is still not a breed of lizard) lead the 76ers points wise with 27 to make sure they took advantage of Detroit’s loss and extend their lead to 1 and half game in front of 7th place.
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