Wednesday, January 12, 2011

How the Ball Balls Dropped: Just Another Day in Cleveland

The Lakers must have looked like this to the Cavs.

Cavaliers (57), Lakers (112)
I don't even know where to start. I'm looking for other ways to say "The Lakers destroyed Cleveland". By 55 frickin pts. Wow. Interesting note though, the largest margin of victory in the shotclock era was by 68 pts, 148-80, December 17, 1991. Who were the teams involved? Cleveland, getting beat by the Heat.

Knicks (100), Trailblazers (86)
The Blazers had trouble holdin' off the potent offense of New York. What's troubling is that the potent offense we're talking about included 19pts from Ronny Turiaf. You have to wonder whether Carmelo's addition would actually do more good than harm for the streaking Knicks.

Suns (98), Nuggets (132)
Phoenix is oh so thankful that Cleveland lost by 55 today, coz now no one notices that they sucked just as well, losing by 34 to Denver. The Nuggets remain hot at home... home... heh... gotta start to NOT get used to Melo calling Denver "home".

Spurs (107), Timberwolves (96)
Michael Beasley just rolled another ankle (I guess he had three). And the Spurs went on to win over Minnesota for the 17th time in a row, the longest streak any team has against another. Weird sequence in the third, 5 straight technical fouls for the wolves with coach Rambis even getting thrown out. It was pretty much downhill from there (it was actually already downhill even before that). Kevin Love had another 20-20 game. If only Minnesota has a better record than this, I swear this man has got to have some MVP nods.

Kings (133), Wizards (136)
These two are starting to become exciting teams to watch again. Though that naturally translates to, as the score suggests, awful defense. But hey, they're not gunnin' for an NBA championship any time soon, so why not? Reke is still out for Sactown, but the other guys filled in well. Especially that hoodahell player, Pooh Jeter (Pooh! His name is actually POOH!!) who sent it to overtime (it was by a layup through a wide open lane. just shows how easy it was to score against the Wizards D). Though that still wasn't enough against Nick Young's career high 43pts. Would you believe it?.... his name is POOH!

Pacers (111), 76ers (103)
Iggy finally got back to the floor after missing 7 games from a knee injury. His return was however spoiled by the Pacers, snappin' their 9 game road drought. How did they do it? They scored more points than Philadeplhia. (That's how interesting this game is.)

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