Feb 8/ 08

A nice big night in the NBA tonight with 11 games.  A couple easy wins came about not so easily as the Suns only beat the Sonics by 4, and the Celtics beat the Timberwolves only by a last second lay-up.

The Expected: Kidd - Yep Jason Kidd is so good that a triple double is expected out of him, on this night he gets 19, 13 dimes and 11 boards

The Surprising: Douby - Kings - scores 15 points in 14 min, tripling his season average on the night.

The Disappointing: Felton scored 4 points on 2-10 shooting and only added 1 assist in 32 min of play.  

The Feel Good: Ford coming back after that nasty fall delivered by Al Horford.  He walked onto the court, when he entered the game, to a standing O.  He only played 13 min, but got 6 assists in that time

the odds and ends

Clippers - (16-31)  W

Maggette scores 14 points above his season average with 35.

Thornton and Mobley both score 19

Kaman picks up a double double with 16 and 12

Raptors - (26-22) L

Calderon gets more dimes than buckets with 14 and 11

Bosh had a typical night for him with 29 points and 12 boards

Moon racks up the 2nd most on the team with 16, a good night for the rookie

Nets - (21-29) W

Kidd's triple double night already mentioned

Jefferson scores 23

Carter has a good line wth 18 points, 9 boards and 5 assists

Boone grabs himself a double double with 12 points and 11 grabs

Bobcats - (18-32) L

Wallace leads the team with 21

Okafor scores a meek 10 but picks up 17 rebounds

Dudley and Boykins come off the bench scoring 15 and 13

Lakers (32-17) W

Here is a scary stat for the rest of the league to see - Kobe and Gasol combine for 66.

Looks like Gasol's transition into this line-up isn't going to be that difficult

Kobe's line reads 36 points, 10 boards, and 6 assists

Gasol added 9 boards to his 30 points

Fisher had 14 and 7 assists

Magic (32-30) L

Even all around numbers, no one with 20 points.  But 7 scored 10+

Howard leads team (as he should) with 19 and 11 rebounds

Nelson had the next best line with 17 points and 9 helps

Spurs (32-16) W

Duncan - 21 points, 14 boards and 3 blocked shots

Ginobili - 20 points, 9 assists and 7 rebounds

Finley comes off the bench with 17

Horry follows him with 13

Knicks (14-36) L

No surprise that the Knicks lose to the Spurs, a troubling stat is 62% free throw shooting on 22-35.  You guys are pro's you should at least sink those

Crawford gets the team high with 24

Randolph gets a double double 13 and 10

Lee and Balkman comes off the bench scoring 14 and 10.  While both got 7 rebounds

Cavs (28-21) W

Like I would expect anything different, Lebron led the way to a Cavs W tonight.  His line reads 26 points, 11 boards, and 7 assists.  Coming up just short of the triple double

Ilgauskas has the type of night he needs to have for the Cavs to win with 17 points and 11 boards

Hawks (21-25) L

Johnson scores 23 points, dishes 8 times and grabs 6 boards

Williams scores 21

Josh Smith has yet another nice line with 15, 8 boards, 4 assists, 3 steals, 3 blocks

Blazers (28-21) L

Not a great night for the Blazers.  Roy sits out and it looks like this team falls apart.  Although that does seem to happen to a lot of teams that play the Pistons

Aldridge scores the most for the Blazers with 22

Not too much else stands out on this night as no other players finish with 10+ points

Pistons (36-13) W

Billups - 17 points, 5 assists

After that, all the stats are quite scattered about. 9 players get 2+ assists, the highest being Billups with 5

Only one player logged more than 25 min on the court (Prince, 27 min)

Celtics (38-9) W

Didn't expect that the C's would barely escape Minnesota with a W

Pierce leads the way with 18.  Adding 6 assists to his line

Powe had 16 points and 8 assists.  No points bigger than his lay up that barely got out of his hands before the buzzer.

Timberwolves (10-38) L

Jefferson has 18 points, 9 boards, 2 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks

Smith gets 2nd in scoring despite being the 6th man (16 points)

Grizzlies (13-36) L

Gay has the best night for the Grizzlies with 18 points and 12 boards

Miller 2nd with 15

Mavs (34-15) W

Nowitzki has an alright night with 21 points and 6 boards

After that, only players coming off the bench scored more than 10

Bass, 12 points. Terry, 11 points. George, 13 points.

Sonics (13-37) L

Sonics nearly pull out a W in Phoenix, if it wasn't for Szczerbiak pulling a C-Webb and calling a timeout when there were none left.

Wilcox had a good night scoring 22 and grabbing 15, doubling his season average on both accounts

Collison picks up a double double off the bench with 11 points and 12 boards

Suns (35-15) W

Nash has 13 points and 8 assists

Stoudemire has team best with 33 and 10

Hill, Barbosa and Bell go for 16, 15 and 14

The Sonics out rebounded and also dished out more assists than the Suns

Jazz (32-19) L

6 players score 10+ points

Boozer has 23 points and 12 boards

Williams has a good night with 18 points and 9 assists

Harpring and Price scored 13 and 11, while both logged under 20 min

Kings (23-25) W

Martin and Artest take charge of this game with 27 and 22

Douby's big game in short minuets was a huge lift as the Kings beat the Jazz

Kings out rebounded the Jazz by 15

Wizards (24-25) L

5 players get 14+ points.  The most by Jamison with 21

Blatche gets a double double with 14 and 10

Nuggets (30-19) W

Saving the best for last, as Carmelo Anthony has a career night scoring 49 points.  He had a very hot hand as he shot 19-25 on FG's (3-3 from 3 point land) and 8-8 at the line

 AI had 18 with 11 dimes

Camby had a good night with 8 points, 17 boards, 8 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks

Anthony was the only player on the Nuggets to record a 3 pointer.

So that was a ordinary night for most, and a very special night for Anthony.  So close to the 50 point mark, but he will have to save that for another night.  As it is a given that he will make it there eventually.