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NBA Recap – Week 6

Posted: February 6, 2012 / in: NBA / No comments
NBA Recap – Week 6
Game of the Week: San Antonio Spurs vs Oklahoma City Thunder 107 – 96
 
 The Thunder, the team with the best record in the league, had lost only four games, out of 22, before meeting the Spurs. And it was a remarkable night for Tony Parker. The French guard had 42 points (16-29 from the field) and thanks to his nine assists he became the all time assist leader of the franchise, passing Avery Johnson. Tony Parker was well aware that he was making history. After the game Tim Duncan, 13 points and 15 rebounds, said about Parker that “He came to me and said he wanted me to hit the next shot (to break the assist record). After I hit it I realized why. It was great.” (nba.com). In his long career Tim Duncan has played both with Johnson and, of course, Tony Parker.For the Thunder, who were not able to stop the Spurs, Kevin Durant and Russel Westbrook’s combined 40 points were not enough. James Harden added 19 from the bench. One of the key of the game were the three pointers. San Antonio had 12,shooting 52%, while Oklahoma City had 7, but shooting 33%.
 
Man of the Week: Danny Granger
 
Even though the Minnesota Timberwolves are not among the very best teams in the NBA it has become more difficult to win in Minneapolis this year. The Wolves have a good roster this season and are one of the best team to watch. On Wednesday they hosted the Indiana Pacers who are having quite a good season (0.714 PCT) and the Pacers needed a super performance by Danny Granger to get the victory. The 28 years old forward had 36 points and was 5 from 8 behind the three point line.
There was also a moment of tension during the game between Granger and Kevin Love who did not like the way the Pacers were playing. After the game Danny Granger wrote on twitter “In response to @kevinlove‘s “pacer toughness” comments… We don’t act tough, we just play hard. If we have to be tough then we will be…”
That is how we want the players to play: hard but fair!

Another mention goes to Anthony Morrow of the New Jersey Nets. On Friday night he had 42 points against, again, the Minnesota Timberwolves. But as I wrote already, this year Minnesota is a tough team to play against and the Nets ended up losing this one by three, 108-105.

Quote of the week: Blake Griffin

“It’s the timing of when I got the pass and the late rotation. If all that comes together at the right time, then those things happen. It’s not like I caught the ball and thought, ‘OK, let’s go make something happen.’ It just came together and, fortunately, we got it.” (nba.com)

Looks like for Blake Griffin only the sky can be the limit, literally. On Monday night the Los Angeles Clippers beat the team with the best record in the NBA, the Oklahoma City Thunder. Blake Griffin had 22 points and, another, monster dunk, this time on Kendrick Perkins, who is neither the smallest nor the softest guy in the league. Words, however, this time are not enough… Check out this video:
http://www.nba.com/video/channels/originals/2012/01/31/20120130_griffin_dunk_angles.nba/

Stat of the week: 6522 assists (Steve Nash)

With 6522 assists Steve Nash has became the Phoenix Suns’all-time leader in assists, passing Kevin Johnson (6518). The Canadian is in the NBA since the 1996-97 season and has played 1109 games so far, averaging 14.6 points and 8.5 assists per game.

Steve Nash is sixth in the NBA all-time leaders in total assist. The player ranked first is John Stockton, with 15806 assists in his career, a number unreachable for any other player so far, considering that Jason Kidd, presumably almost at the end of his career, has achieved 11660 assists.

In the 120-103 victory over the New Orleans Hornets Steve Nash, who was not even 100 percent due to a bruised thigh, also added 30 points in less than 30 minutes on the floor.

Hint of the week

Even the NBA stops when it is Super Bowl time. The NBA schedule had only two games on Sunday and both ended way before the NFL final, this year held in Indianapolis. Not even Christmas has this power on the NBA.

Even though the NBA Finals are very fascinating, for me they are even better than the Super Bowl, more people prefer to watch the final act of the football championship. Why?

It might just be that people like American football more than basketball. But one reason might be the different calender.  Thee NBA season has, usually, 82 games and the playoffs are best-of-seven series.
Every NFL team, on the other end, plays 16 games every season and every playoff round has just one game.

Could it be that this system makes every match a little bit more unique and interesting for the people?

NBA All-Star Feb 24-26, Orlando

The NBA has revealed who the starters, voted by the fans,in the All-Star Game will be. The All-Star Weekend will be in Orlando this year, home of the Orlando Magic. It is the first year since 2003 that the All-Star is held from one of the Easter Conference team.

Eastern Conference: Derrick Rose (Chicago Bulls); Dwyane Wade (Miami Heat); LeBron James (Miami Heat); Carmelo Anthony (New York Knicks); Dwight Howard (Orlando Magic).

Western Conference: Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers); Chris Paul (Los Angeles Clippers); Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City Thunder); Blake Griffin (Los Angeles Clippers); Andrew Bynum (Los Angeles Lakers).

Standings

The first eight teams of each conference go to the playoffs.

“Teams 1 to 4 in each conference are the three division winners and the team with the next best regular-season record, with the seeding of these four teams determined by regular-season record. The playoffs seedings of Teams 5 to 8 are based upon regular-season record.” (nba.com)

Eastern Conference

  1. Chicago Bulls
  2. Miami Heat
  3. Philadelphia Sixers
  4. Indiana Pacers
  5. Atlanta Hawks
  6. Orlando Magic
  7. Boston Celtics
  8. Milwaukee Bucks
  9. Cleveland Cavaliers
  10. New York Knicks
  11. Toronto Raptors
  12. New Jersey Nets
  13. Detroit Pistons
  14. Washington Wizards
  15. Charlotte Bobcats

 

Western Conference

  1. Oklahoma City Thunder
  2. L.A. Clippers
  3. San Antonio Spurs
  4. Denver Nuggets
  5. Utah Jazz
  6. Portland Trailblazers
  7. L.A. Lakers
  8. Dallas Mavericks
  9. Houston Rockets
  10. Memphis Grizzlies
  11. Minnesota Timberwolves
  12. Phoneix Suns
  13. Golden State Warrios
  14. Sacramento Kings
  15. New Orleans Hornets

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