Tip-In Points: Rose Rash
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Derrick Rose, CHI Derrick Rose is maturing into a fine young sophomore. After a hampered and pampered start to the season, while hobbled with a ankle injury, Rose could only manage 12 points in 29 minutes. Not awful, but not where the reigning rookie of the year needs to be. Slowly, Rose got his wheels. Penetrated. Scored. Chopped heads. Burned a lot of fools. By January he was averaging season highs in minutes (37), points (23) and assists (6). But as the Bulls spent February flip-flopping between a sureshot postseason team and one that just missed, it seems Cracklin’ Rose is doing too much. Spread too thin. His wheels are losing tread. Among the league’s top 10 players in field-goal attempts, Rose is eighth with 1,062. Of those, only 25 of them have been three-point attempts. This tells you something. What’s it tell you? It tells you he’s driving. He’s going for the basket and he’s doing it a lot. A lot. The problem here, and with the Bulls having dropped their last three there is a problem, is that his assists have dropped from six in January to five last month and three in two March contests. Not only that his point total is following the trend. From 23.1 to 22 in that time. No Joakim Noah, no John Salmons, no Tyrus Thomas, no good..
Noah, Salmons and Thomas ain’t below neither.
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Ron Artest, LAL Stole the ball five times again. Dwyane Wade had six turnovers. There are no coincidences.
Pau Gasol, LAL Cold. Shot 36 percent from the field, which is particularly heinous when you consider Gasol’s “field” is never more than 15 feet from the basket.
Kobe Bryant, LAL Mamba dropped 39+ points for the 12th time this season … which is cool, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Quentin Richardson, MIA Seven long bombs helped his season-high 25 points. That’s Kobe Bryant not respecting Q.
Dwyane Wade, MIA A season-high 14 assists to go along with his industry standard 27 points. He also turned the ball over six times (not a season-high). Yeah, ’cause that’s gonna change anyone’s opinion.
Udonis Haslem, MIA 12/11 dub-dub. His 13th of the season, third in his last 10.
Amar’e Stoudemire, PHO Was 11-for-15 at one point. Ended at 11-for-17. STAT’s scored 30+ points in seven of the last 17 games,
Goran Dragic, PHO DNP – ankle. First game he’s missed all season. He’s still in the running for the punctuality scholastic pin.
Deron Williams, UTA Scored 27 points, distributed nine assists and sank five treys … with a brace on, sucka. The skills make him good, the brace makes him bionic.
Mehmet Okur, UTA Dropped 13 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter. It never Okur-ed to me he had that kind of outburst in him.
L I N E O F T H E N I G H T
40 min / 67% FG / 88% FT / 31 pts / 18 rbds / 1 ast / 1 stl / 2 tos
Zach Randolph, MEM This was Z-Bo’s fifth game with at least 30 points and 15 rebounds this season, tying Pau Gasol for the most 30/15 games in Vancouver / Memphis history. Slurp it with a spoon.
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