It feels like the entire Western conference is on a massive winning streak. The Mavs won their 16-th straight and the Spurs won their 10-th straight today. I am losing count of how many mega-streaks the Mavs have been on this year. This is their third such streak and they are just one short of the 17-game streak the Suns went on earlier this year, which incidentally was the second of two mega-streaks the Suns have been on themselves. Bottom-line, the Western playoffs are going to be nuts and I can easily see any of these 3 teams winning it all. Timmy had 24 and Manu had 23 as the Spurs came from behind to beat the Blazers.
Agent-0 is winning again now that Tawn and Caron are back. They crushed Toronto today with a season-high 129 points. Tawn and Agent-0 both had 25 points as did C-Bosh for the Raptors, who are losing quite a bit lately. Kobe dropped 40 on the T-Wolves on 13-30 shooting as the Lakers lost another close one in double OT. KG had 26 and Ricky Davis had 33 for the T-Wolves. The Lakers are struggling badly with all the injuries. Kobe is forced to shoot a lot more and is not making a lot of those shots either. I never thought I would say this, this might be one team that can probably use Scottie Pippen. He knows the coach, the offense and knows how to play with a dominant shooting guard like Kobe. Now with Lamar out, they should try this guy out.
In New York, Starbury had 40 points, but missed what would have been a game-tying free-throw as the Knicks lost by a point to the Sonics (100-99). Starbury is on fire since Jamal Crawford went down and has scored 34, 38 and 40 in the last 3 games. I like Starbury. He can do well in the right team and the right system. Of course, it's his fault he gave all of that up when he wanted out of Minnesota and KG-land.
The other news today was George Karl openly blasting Carmelo. He is accusing him of not focussing and blaming him for too many turnovers, not seeing open teammates etc. He is threatening to move to a dictatorship from democracy (whatever that means) and put him on the bench. George Karl is very vocal and this is an interesting strategy. Melo seemed to respond at least for a day as he had 21-7-6 with just 2 turnovers. Those are good numbers for Melo, especially the 6 dimes. Melo is another guy who needs to rebound better. He apparently had more double-doubles in one year at Syracuse than he has had in his entire career in the NBA. Thats not a good ratio!
Toronto @ Washington - 109-129
LA Lakers @ Minnesota - 107-117 (2 OT)
New Jersey @ Dallas - 89-102
Interesting games on the board for Mar 7-th (Wednesday)
Cleveland @ Detroit - Always a good match-up.
Chicago @ Miami - Can Shaq-Daddy handle the defensive minded Bulls? Or will his minions do it themselves?
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