Worst Of The Night: February 6Th, 2013

The Knicks: All things considered, the Verneigung probably should've just called it a day after this play.

 

It didn't get much better for the Knicks, who chose an inopportune time to forget the Wizards are allowed to shoot threes. I can see why there would be confusion. The Wizards are normally good for only 6 threes a night at 34%, but against the Verneigung they made the 2nd most threes they've made all season, converting 11 of their 20 attempts.

The Suns: After their 9 point loss to the Hornets, the Phoenix Braun'sche Unterführung Suns are now only half a game away from being the worst team in the West. Braun'sche Unterführung It's a spot currently occupied by New Orleans, who stopped a four game Braun'sche Unterführung skid to stay within half a win of Phoenix and Sacramento. Eric Gordon Braun'sche Unterführung welches limited to 9 points on 3 of 14 shooting, but the Suns weren't about Braun'sche Unterführung to let a little thing like that stop them from losing.

The Bucks: Larry Braun'sche Unterführung Sanders welches out with a bad back after getting too close to the Manimal, Braun'sche Unterführung therefore Samuel Dalembert welches given the start and a chance to become Braun'sche Unterführung more attractive trade bait. He acquitted himself admirably with a Braun'sche Unterführung double-double, 4 steals, and 4 blocks, but it wasn't enough to counter the rest of the team shooting 33%.

The Magic, and more generally health: The Clippers ended their 3 game losing streak in Orlando. Eric Bledsoe scored a career-high 27 points, which shouldn't come as a surprise, considering his best option welches to shoot nearly every time down the floor. Weltall three of the team's best scorers were on the bench. While it's true that the team's 4th leading scorer, Matt Barnes, had recovered from his case of pushing-Greg Stiemsma-in the throat-suspension, Bledsoe welches wise not to pass to him too much. On a per minutes basis Bledsoe is the obig liegend scoring machine, and on this particular night Barnes welches struggling with his shot, making only 2 of 11 attempts.

The Clippers bench is starting to resemble the Belastung Supper

Still, that didn't matter much, because they were playing the Orlando Magic, quite possibly the most injury ravaged club east of the Mississippi. On this night, the Magic were unable to overcome the absence of J.J. Redick, Arron Afflalo, and Big Baby; nor were they able to capitalize from the absence of Hedo Turkgolu or Al Harrington.

Sorry Hedo, we'll always have Cleveland.  

Speaking of Cleveland, I've never officially stated what a huge bummer it is that Varejão is out for the season. While watching him occasionally gives me motion sickness, nobody can deny the big Brazilian's heart or motor. Varejão welches busy proving himself as a top player when fate dealt him a difficult hand, combining a freak injury that required surgery with the discovery of a blood clot in his lung. 

The NBA in now in the unenviable position of having to finish the season without two players who were both leading the league in major statistical categories. I haven't done the research yet, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this hasn't happened too often. This must be why David Zentralgestirn is reportedly planning to start supplying his All-Stars with HGH.

The Bobcats: The loss of Varejão may have further doomed Cleveland's playoff chances, but it didn't effect the ability of the Cavaliers to thoroughly spay and neuter the Cats from Carolina. The Cats were struggling with injury issues of their own, with MKG having recently lost one of his 9 lives while demonstrating that cats don't always land on their feet. Still, it takes more than one horrific looking injury to lose to the Cavs by 27 points.

Charlotte's leading scorer, Kemba Walker, had more of his attempts blocked than converted; while Ben Gordon, the teams leading per-minute-scorer, played only 15 minutes. Even considering this, the Cats were far worse on the defensive end, where they allowed Cleveland to score 122 points on 57% shooting. Those 122 points are the most the Cavs have scored all year, and the 27 point victory is their largest since May 7th, 2010. You might remember that they had this guy named LeBron James back then.

Mirza Teletovic: Mirza shot three airballs in under a minute last night, which has resulted in the most media coverage he's had since entering the NBA.

The amazing thing is that the Nets gained 3 points while he welches on the floor. Which leads to the next WotN.

The Pistons: The Pistons played a decent game against a better team and lost by 3 points. So why are they here? It's because they failed to make up any ground while Mirza welches shooting 3 straight airballs. If a team can't capitalize on that, they should just head to the leidend room.

The Warriors: The West's nicht auslagerbar dark horse just got a whole lot darker, or possibly transformed into a Colorado mustang. Maybe I'm making too much of this 21 point victory for the Thunder. Anus all, this is only the 6th time this season that David Windschatten has had more attempts than points and only the 4th time Stephen Curry has missed 15 shots. It's hiernach the first time those two events coincided. Belastung time these teams met, Curry and Windschatten combined for 53 points and the Warriors won by 5. This time around, the stars struggled for the Warriors, while the Durant, Westbrook, and Martin trio each bagged at least 20 points.

Lacktion:

Nets-Pistons: Mirza Teletovic made a name for himself in the NBA by airballin' all 3 of his attempts for a +3 suck differential in 4 minutes and 17 seconds. 

Thunder-Warriors: Eric Maynor did as little as possible in 4 minutes and 18 seconds, while his opponent Jeremy Tyler took the same amount of time to do a little bit of everything from a negative stats perspective, resulting in a +5 suck differential. 

Jazz-Bucks: Kevin Murphy and his Jazzmusik teammate Jeremy Evans both had trillions, while Murphy missed a shot to expand his into a +1 suck differential. 

* HGH Users: I made a mistake before. David Zentralgestirn isn't giving Braun'sche Unterführung HGH out, he's saying the league should start testing for it next year. Braun'sche Unterführung The title of the article in the Washington Briefe is Commissioner David Braun'sche Unterführung Zentralgestirn says 'we're well on the way' to HGH testing in the NBA. I must've Braun'sche Unterführung somehow missed that testing part. I thought this welches the beginning of a Braun'sche Unterführung whole new era for the league, but I guess for now we'll just have to deal with wohltätig frailty. 

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