Give Me The Rock
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Quote of the Day: “A lot of people are going to think it’s a misprint, a lot of people will think there’s no way they scored that many points. It’s unbelievable. There are no words for it.”
- Kenyon Martin, on the final score of the Nuggets game (Denver 168, Seattle 116)
Line of the Night: 168 points for the Nuggets. 84 points in the first half. A 52 point win. It’s no surprise then that a Denver player wins the LotN. What is the surprise is that Nugget is Marcus Camby (6.0) and he finished with only 15 points off 4-6 shooting in the game. But unlike the Sonics, he played some defense and had 15 rebounds, 10 assists and 4 blocks in only 27 minutes of play. It’s a nice little triple-double for Camby.
Honorable Mentions: Rafer Alston (5.4) is a big reason why the Rockets have won 22-straight and why I have won a bet against NBA Roto (nice). Yesterday, he was 8-11 from three and scored 31 points; Joe Johnson (5.1) had 28 with 11 assists and 5 threes; this is like the third straight game that Ron Artest (5.0) has found himself in the honorable mentions, this time by going for 19/10/5 with 4 steals; and Jason Richardson (5.0) had 33 points and 6 threes.
Waiver Wire Line of the Night: Jarvis Hayes (5.0), remember when you use to be good? And by good, I mean not that good but people would still own you in leagues? I just looked at your career stats and I hadn’t realized how long ago that was. Wow, time flies. Anyway, congrats on the 25 minutes yesterday. It sure looks like you were hot. I mean, 7-8 for three and 10-13 overall? I can see why they didn’t want to take you out of the game. A shooting night like that happens, what, maybe once a year?
And Rasho Nesterovic (4.4) conveniently waited until the game before Chris Bosh is scheduled to return to go off, as he went for 20 and 8 with a couple steals and a couple blocks. At least with Bosh coming back, we won’t be fooled into picking Rasho up only to see him go for 8 and 2 in the Raptors next game.
Biggest Loser: It would be easy to give this one to the entire Seattle SuperSonics team for allowing 168 points. But when you think about it, they actually did a service to fantasy owners everywhere who own Camby, Iverson, Carmelo, and Kenyon Martin. So, we’ll let them slide.
I’d rather point out two stars who were less than super yesterday. First, the Rockets may have won, but it was in spite of Tracy McGrady’s (1.9) performance. McGrady was 4-16 from the floor and 3-6 from the line to finish with 11 points. And Kobe (2.3) wasn’t much better. He scored 24, but it took him 33 shots to get there (11-33). I’m no genius, but I think it’s bad to have more shots taken than actual points.
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