Since the season ended, NBA.com’s editors have been working tirelessly to bring us the Top 10 plays from all the NBA’s superstars. Below are the clips for three of the best athletes in the league: Derrick Rose, D-Wade and Russell Westbrook.
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The top two seeds in the West found themselves down 0-1 after Game 1 in their respective series. Game 2 becomes a “must-win” for those teams, because it’s extremely tough to recover after dropping the first two games of a seven-game series at home. Not only are you down 0-2, but your confidence wavers and you have to find a way to win at least two games on the road against a good team.
Both the Spurs and Lakers gutted out a couple of fairly ugly victories on Wednesday night. San Antonio got a boost when Manu Ginobili (17-7-4 with four steals) was cleared to play. The scoring was balanced for both the Spurs and Grizzlies, who each had five players in double digits. But it was the Spurs three-point shooting (7-for-17) and defense that was the difference in the 93-87 win.
The Lakers/Hornets had the feel of a mid-90s NBA brawl, before the league changed the rules to clean up the game. The Hornets shot themselves in the foot with 18 turnovers and 12 missed free throws. Credit the Laker defense, which looked championship-caliber for the first time in weeks.
Pau Gasol was curiously passive (2-for-10, eight points), while Kobe Bryant (11-3-2) had a quiet game as well. But Andrew Bynum (17-11), Lamar Odom (16-7) and Ron Artest (15-6-2, with two steals and two blocks) picked up the slack. Bynum does look like a franchise center when he’s playing…when he’s playing.
Game 3 of the Lakers/Hornets series is on Friday, while the Spurs visit Memphis on Saturday.
In general, NBA players play better at home. That’s a fact. The Top 250 players (in terms of total minutes played this season) are 6.3% better in Efficiency Per Minute (EPM) when playing at home.
But as with anything in life, there are exceptions to this rule. There are certain players who, for whatever reason, play better on the road.
The table below shows the Top 50 players (in terms of Efficiency Per Game), along with both their home and away EPM, and the “percent better” they are when playing at home. If the number is negative, the player actually performs better on the road.
The NBA.com editors have been busy putting together Top 10 clips for the best players in the league. Here are the top plays from LeBron, Kobe and Blake Griffin.
Carmelo Anthony posted 42 points, 17 rebounds and six assists, but Amare Stoudemire left the game with back spasms, and the gritty Celtics were able to take Game 2. Rajon Rondo had 30 points and Paul Pierce added 20 in the win.
I wonder if Knicks fans are getting disenchanted with the team’s two superstars. First, Carmelo mails in a 1-for-11 second half in Game 1 and now Amare leaves Game 2 after only 17 minutes of playing time because his back is acting up. Sure, Carmelo dropped 42, but the Knicks still lost, so does it really matter?
In other news, the Magic won a must-win Game 2 to even the series with the Hawks at 1-1. The Mavs beat the Blazers to take a 2-0 lead in the West.
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