Tip-In Points: Who The Eff Is Bill Walker?!
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Bill Walker, NY Let’s see. Who do we got? We have T-Mac. We’re all familiar with him. That’s Eddie House next to him. Right. He’s also nuevo. Then there’s the Rooster. And next to him? … um, No. 5. No. 5? No. 5. That’s, uh. Gimme a second … okay, I give up. /peeks at box score.\ Bill Walker? This is like when the Thunder paraded out Kyle Weaver a few months ago or Craig Smith started making an impact for the Clippers in January. Bill Walker’s neither a D-League call-up nor a rookie. He’s essentially a throw-in from the Eddie House-Nate Robinson trade. This particular throw-in made his first career start in place of the sucktastic injured Chris Duhon and dropped 22 on the unsuspecting Pistons. Don’t waste a waiver pick on him, but if you need some quick scoring punch on your team, it’ll be another two or three 20-point games before opposing teams start fearing the wrath of Walker. He’s played 35 and 36 minutes and scored 21 and 22 points in those games. Jrue story. Heck. I’m just happy I was able to find a picture with Walker somewhere in it.
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Mike Conley, MEM Led all scorers in this game with 26 points. Led all stealers in this game with five steals. Led all Conley’s in this game with one Mike.
Rudy Gay, MEM Good things come in fives: 5-for-11 FG, 5-for-6 FT, five rebounds, five steals, 15 points. Even had a +/- of five. That said, he also had five turnovers. Perhaps I shoulda just said things come in fives.
Marcus Thornton, NO Team-high 27 points. Y’know … even if Thornton and Darren Collison improve and get the Chris Paul-less Hornets into the playoffs – the fact that they’re on the same team is going to have a Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia”/”It’s Complicated” effect with Rookie of the Year voters.
David West, NO Nice line for a guy I’ve completely forgotten was on this team: 15/6/5/5 blks. West blocked Zach Randolph four times. Last night must have been lead-shoe night for good ol’ Z-Bo.
Louis Williams, PHI Zipped up 30 points on Wednesday. Had he zipped up 31 he’d have had 3,000 points in 300 games. He didn’t so he hasn’t.
Andre Iguodala, PHI Splashed his game with some weak sauce last night: 11 points, six turnovers.
Stephen Curry, GSW 3-for-12, four turnovers. Hey, they can’t all be winners. The sweet ain’t as sweet without the sour.
Jonas Jerebko, DET Second straight double-double (15/13) and his fifth this season. Arguably the best performance by a Swede since this Nordic Model. (Made you look!)
Tracy McGrady, NY So okay – when no one guards T-Mac, he can still play like T-Mac (21/7/8), when he feels the pressure, it’s back to Team Ack.
J.J. Hickson, CLE In 26 minutes, Sir Hickson scored 20 points and grabbed 13 boards. That’s about 8/5 better than Shaq woulda had did.
Devin Harris, NJ Eleven points on 13 shots. One assist. Four fouls. Yup, that’s about right. That’s just about right.
Terrence Williams, NJ 21/5/7 Them 21 points marks a career-high; a short, unimpressive career.
Tyrus Thomas, CHA T-Time earned his third double-double in seven games as a michaeljordancat. Almost typed “CHI” next to his name here. Joakim Noah’s plantar fasciitis regrets me not being able to do that. It told me so. Then it told me to fix myself a seltzer – which I thought was weird. But whatever.
Ray Allen, BOS Foul trouble (4) begets fantasy line trouble (1-for-2, 3 pts, 18 mins). Begot it?
Kendrick Perkins, BOS Yesterday was a false alarm. Flu-like symptoms are gone with the wind on Tuesday (also a little known Skynyrd outtake).
Brandon Jennings, MIL Had one more turnover than points on Wednesday (6:5) and shot 2-for-12 from the field. Okay, now this is getting re-goshdarn-diculous!
Ersan Ilyasova, MIL I totally spelled that correctly without looking it up. Anyway, Snare Yo Saliva cleaned up nicely: 19/10/6
Carl Landry, SAC Double-doubled (22/13) in his first return to Houston since being traded. Dude just liked Tex-Mex, I guess.
Tyreke Evans, SAC Shot 4-for-22 from the floor. Feel free to scroll up about nine inches to Stephen Curry for my thoughts on this performance.
Danny Granger, IND Dropped 30 points all by hisself. That’s splashback from being hassled by Ron Artest the day before. You gotta heed the splashback. It’ll ruin your shoes.
Amar’e Stoudemire, PHO 30 points in 27 minutes. I admir’e his e’fficiency.
Steve Nash, PHO 1-for-5 from the floor. Mr. Sureshot’s surely been shooting schlocky lately?
Channing Frye, PHO Seven treys. As you were.
Luis Scola, HOU Looey’s Cola scored 19 and matched career highs in both rebas (18) and dimes (5).
Al Jefferson, MIN DNP. Went boozin’ and cruisin’ last weekend. He was then rewarded for doing so by getting to skip both of Minnesota’s next two losses.
Darko Milicic, MIN Freed! Started! Sank every shot he took (3-for-3), but fouled four times just to return to the sweet comfort that has been his NBA home (the bench).
Jason Terry, DAL Busted face. Surgery a-comin’. Out at least the weekend games.
Jason Kidd, DAL DNP The Mavericks are dropping like Trailblazers!
Chris Andersen, DEN 13/7/4 blks. If Andersen’s knee tendinitis is wrong, I don’t wanna be rightis.
J.R. Smith, DEN 4-for-5 from downtown. It’s March. He’s heating up. Get used to it.
Baron Davis, LAC Shot 1-for-5. He hasn’t scored 20 points since January 31. On top of that, he’s only shot 45 percent or better thrice in his last 17 games.
L I N E O F T H E N I G H T
44 min / 53% FG / 83% FT / 21 pts / 18 rbds / 8 asts / 3 stls / 1 blk / 0 tos
David Lee, NY This was his 25th 20/10 game of the season, which is just one of the reasons he’s ranked as high as fourth in some fantasy leagues. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Commissioner Stern has already gotten word to Lee that chewing towels on the sideline will no longer be permitted. No towel-chewin’ surely means his stats are about to nosedive.
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