Tip-In Points: The Kings Visit The Mayo Clinic
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O.J. Mayo, MEM If Memphis has any strengths – and I’m not necessarily saying they do, so don’t go quoting me – it’s that you never know which sloppy player is going to make a name for himself on any given night. Someone will. And it will be sloppy … unless you’re talking about O.J. Mayo on Monday, who was not sloppy at all. So nevermind that. I just disproved myself. And now you see why I didn’t want you to go quotin’ me. Now you have to go back and re-quote me. Do you see the damage you’ve done? Mayo had 20 points off only eight shots. He also went to the line 10 times and made it all 10 times. That’s accountability, man. He’s like Casey At the Bat if Casey hadn’t totally choked.
Here are a few more guys that totally choked and a few who didn’t.
Tyreke Evans, SAC ‘Reke Show put the Kings on his back, scoring 28 points on 10-for-18 shooting. Evans’ back is too small to fit whole teams on it, so Sacramento still lost to the Grizzlies.
Spencer Hawes, SAC Hawesome has seen better days. Few of them have come lately however. He started the season 0-for-13 from the three-point line, went 2-of-3 on Saturday, then started sucking anew from downtown Monday (0-for-1). He’s fun.
Rudy Gay, MEM Rudy-Tootie’s averaging career highs in points (21.9), rebounds (6.8) and FG% (51.3). I’m told he doesn’t seem as selfish as I was told he seemed last season. I can’t be sure as I’ve never actually seen this guy play. That would entail watching a Memphis Grizzlies game. No one enjoys basketball enough to do that.
Ersan Ilyasova, MIL He led the Bucks in points (20) and all I can tell you about him is a) He’s not Andrew Bogut, b) he’s averaging 15 points and 7.9 rebounds in his last seven games and c) if you rearrange the letters in his name, you get Snare Yo Saliva.
Brandon Jennings, MIL Twelve points, 7 assists and played like we all expected him to play back in mid-October. But this is November and now we’re all disappointed.
Michael Redd, MIL Michele Rouge is back and ready to give you all 20 points, a couple threes and nothing else. That is, until his knee pops or his elbow dislocates or his swine gets floozy or whatever. Four points and a three on Monday you say? He’s dead to me.
LaMarcus Aldridge, POR 24 / 13 against the Bulls couldn’t hide the fact that he runs funny. Seriously. He lifts his knees like he’s prancing.
Joakim Noah, CHI Noah was slathered in Eau D’en all game and it frustrated him. 7 points, 8 boards and only got to the line once in nearly 33 minutes. Oden. Annoyance. Anger. A technical foul. After eight games of at least 11 rebounds, Noah hasn’t had more than eight in his last two.
John Salmons, CHI He’s the worst of all fantasy players right now. He’s hotcolding. What’s hotcolding? He’s shooting .500 and scoring 15-18 points. Maybe a steal, a few assists. A game later, he sinks you. Foul trouble. Cold shooting. So you bench him. He’s back to .500 with 20 points. That first bad game was a blip. So you put him back in your lineup. Stinkaroo again. This will go on all season (hotcolding). Unless you trade him. Then he’s going to play like Oscar Robertson for the remainder of the season.
Baron Davis, LAC When you drafted Davis you were aware that games like this could happen and probably would happen. So if you knew that, you only have yourself to blame. While we’re at it, Baron blames you too, because guys who go 0-for-9 (before finally making one) with only six assists don’t tend to point fingers inwardly much.
Marcus Camby, LAC One of the better games from Camby this year. Not a “let’s-hold-off-on-retiring-No.23-to-see-how-this-Camby-thing-pans-out” type of game. But solid. Good for a Clipper, let’s say. 6-9 (.667) / 12 PT / 18 RB / 4 AS / 3 ST / 1 BL
Matt Bonner, SA The Red Rocket neared his career high in points (25) with a 23-point performance on Monday. He drained six threes in only 25 minutes. Am I saying he’ll do it again? You’ll never know. I am saying he’s only scored 20+ points in fewer than 30 minutes twice in 377 career games.
LINE OF THE NIGHT
Greg Oden, POR 7-8 (.875) / 10-12 (.833) / 24 PT / 12 RB / 1 AS / 2 BK / 2 TO
Oden scored a career-high 24 points in a smidge under 27 minutes. He took eight shots and only missed one. He’s like the most wrinkly-headed of all angels.
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