No Celtics basketball last night, but plenty to talk about. here's today's NBA Recap.- The Detroit Pistons defeated the LA Clippers in overtime, due in large part to 30 points from KG's best friend, Charlie Villanueva. The 30 points is the most for Villanueva this season. He has been a bust so far in Detroit, like everywhere else, but this is probably his best performance yet. Despite 64 combined points by young guns Eric Beldsoe, Eric Gordon, and Blake Griffin. Griffin also put up 18 total rebounds. Despite having a team of the future in Bledsoe, Gordon, and Griffin, this team isn't doing anything with their current squad. If the Clippers don't get it together (mortal lock: they won't), they'll be going to the lottery, again. How can they fix this? Probably not another trip to the lottery. They've tried that the last 20 years, bearing little fruit. Veteran presence? Well Baron Davis hasn't done much for LA's other team, has he? Who knows, it's probably a curse on the Clippers.
-A successful young team, the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Portland Trailblazers 110-108, pretty much because of a combined 70 points from Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant. James Harden added 12 points off the bench. This team misses Jeff Green, starting small forward, and his 19 PPG and 7 RPG. Although they are are successful young team, they beg the question: Can they compete with LA like they did last year? I don't think so, not yet anyway. LA is head and shoulders above EVERY team in the NBA at this point, and the Thunder may need another year to reach the proper level of maturity/experience to truly compete for a title.
- Minnesota actually won another game (112-10)! And what a coincidence, in said game Kevin Love played 40 minutes and got a flabbergasting 31 rebounds. He also added 31 points. This is the first 30-30 night since Moses Malone's in 1982. Hopefully this will make the Wolves play him more, because if this performance doesn't convince them he needs to be on the floor, only a 100-75 game MIGHT convince them. To be mentioned in the same breath as Moses Malone is a huge honor, so maybe the Wolves management will reward him with quality minutes. Michael Beasley also added 35 points, helping shed his bust image. I hope he turns out to have a nice career, not only for him, but mainly because I was the idiot who said he'd have a better career than Derrick Rose (gulp.) on draft night. The same can't be said for Sebastian Telfair, who somehow still has a job on an NBA squad, let alone a STARTING job. Yep, the Wolves are THAT bad. (He had 0 points in 35 minutes BTW!)
MVP of the Night: Everyone's favorite white player, Kevin Love (who also went to my favorite NCAAB program UCLA.No bias thought.) Congrats on 31-31 Kevin, here's to playing time!
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