Russell Westbrook is back and better than ever with this explosive move to get to the basket and slam it down. Guess the hand isn't bothering him anymore cause he looked unstoppable on that move. With Westbrook and Durant back the Thunder look to climb out of their 7-13 hole to make the playoffs in the hyper competitive western conference.
There are two things you can rely on Gerald Green to do; take a "heat check" jumper after making one shot and slamming down a highlight dunk every game. Tonight when he did the latter he did it in amazing fashion. It's rare to see an off the backboard dunk and it's even rarer to see a guy throw that off the backboard dunk to himself. Green did just that and boy was it pretty. It's unfortunate that Green has said in interviews that he will never appear in a dunk contest again because he is certainly one of the most exciting high flyers in the league.
Paul Pierce, now with the Washington Wizards, continues to score buckets but tonight marked a significant milestone when he passed none other than Jerry West aka The Logo aka Mr.Clutch for the 17th spot on the NBA all time scoring list. The 37 year old Pierce averages just over 21 ppg for his career and looks to be the deciding veteran factor for the Wizards this season. Paul's big shot occurs 30 seconds into the video.
Tony Allen put on a show Sunday night in a 107-91 win over the Los Angeles Clippers. Allen uses the superb pick by Marc Gasol to get Matt Barnes off him and gets Glen Davis with the behind the back fake and lays it up and in. Davis isn't exactly the most agile or athletic big in the NBA so this move might not have worked against a slot blocker like Deandre Jordan but an exquisite move to get the Grizzlies the 2 points nonetheless.
Quite impressive but it only forced me to go back and watch this. Beautiful basketball all around.
Tied at 86 in the final seconds of regulation versus the Charolette Hornets Rodney Stucky was looking to win the game but air balls the jumper. Thankfully for Indiana Solomon Hill grabs the miss and flips it over his back to beat the buzzer and win the game. Hill may have only had 6 PTs and 5rebs in his 38 minutes of play but his late game heroics give the Pacers an 88-86 victory.
The Milwaukee Bucks desperate to hold off a late 4th quarter run by Bosh and the Heat looked for some heroics from Brandon Knight who stepped up when they needed him most. The Bucks were up by 4 with 3:30 left in the game until Brandon Knight got hot. Knight hit a 3 pointer and Norris Cole would fire back with a 3 of his own but Knight kept feeling it as he hit another 3 on the possession right after to expand the Bucks lead back to 7. Mario Chalmers then scored a layup to bring the heat within 5 with 1:10 to go. Now with the shot clock running down for the Bucks Brandon Knight was forced to put up a tough top of the key 3 pointer that fell and sealed the deal for Milwaukee. Knight would finish the game with 20 points 5 rebounds and 4 assists in the Bucks 91-84 victory. Dwyane Wade sat out again for the Miami Heat and it seemed to cost them as Bosh shot badly making only 2-17 of his field goals. When this occurs the Heat have issues finding a consistent secondary scorer to at least provide an offensive threat the way Wade does.
Knight's hot streak begins at the 5 minute mark of the video.
