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Line of the Night: Jamaal Tinsley (5.9). Congrats to anyone who took a risk on Tinsley at the start of the year. The guy who has never been able to stay healthy hasn’t missed a game all season and has rewarded owners with an average of 8.4 assists and 1.9 steals in 18 games. According to the game recap, the Clippers’ game plan was to leave Tinsley wide open on the perimeter. I can’t believe that didn’t work, it seems like a flawless plan. Tinsley ended with 29 and added 7 assists, 7 rebounds, 3 steals, and 3 threes.
Honorable Mentions: Grant Hill (5.5) also hasn’t missed a game all year; Kobe Bryant (5.1) scored 28; Amare Stoudemire (5.0) went for 28/12; Stephen Jackson (4.8) only scored 20 but had 3 steals and 4 threes; and Chris Kaman (4.6) had the very palindromeal 22 points and 22 rebounds.
Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Nothing too exciting happened on waivers yesterday, which means Brent Barry (4.0) kind of wins by default. His night – 17 points with 3 threes - was nothing to write home about, but he made just about every shot he took and player raters like that kind of thing. Quentin Richardson (4.0) probably had his best game of the year with 15 points, 9 rebounds, and six assists in 41 minutes. He also took 10 threes and made 3 of them. Player raters don’t like that kind of thing.
For today only, the special Doing More With Less Line of the Night: Adonal Foyle (3.0). Foyle managed to score 8 points, grab 7 rebounds, and block 3 shots in 12 minutes of action. It is, of course, wrong to assume that if he played 40 minutes, Foyle would have scored 26 points, grabbed 23 rebounds, and blocked 10 shots. But it’s still fun to imagine.
Goat of the Night: I’ll spare Tim Duncan (1.3) who only played 11 minutes before colliding with James Jones in the first half of last night’s game against the Blazers. It looks like he’ll miss a game or two, but should be fine in the long run. Instead, the nod goes to Brandon Roy (1.4) who scored 4 points on 1 for 9 shooting in 33 minutes in beat down loss to the Duncan-less Spurs.
