You can't win in this league without a guy who can score in the post and
defend the rim. That's what all these guys do, literally anchoring their
teams to success. This one is a yawn-fest this week folks; nothing
unusual to see here.
Gold
Amare Stoudemire - PF/C - Phoenix
Suns - Presenting to you, for the millionth week in a row in the top spot,
it's Amare. Phoenix might be
struggling post-Awful Shaq trade; but Stoudemire's not. His performance
last week: 29.2 pts, 8.9 reb, 1.4 asst against 2.5 turn/game; 0.8 stl, 1.8 blk
and shot 57.1% FG, and 86.9% FT.
Silver
Marcus Camby - C - Denver
Nuggets - We can lather, rinse and repeat on Camby as well. There's
nothing to see here but sheer awesomeness from the former Minuteman.
Camby this week: 9.1 pts, 12.3 reb, 2.9 asst against 1.5 turn/game; 1.4 stl,
3.9 blk and shot 44.6% FG and 70.8% FT.
Bronze
Pau Gasol - PF/C - Los
Angeles Lakers - If the Lakers win the NBA Title
this year; does Memphis GM Chris Wallace get the Finals MVP? Just
sayin'. Gasol this week: 20.4 pts, 8.4 reb, 3.1 asst against 1.9
turn/game, 0.7 stl, 1.9 blk and shot 60.3% FG, and 76.7% FT. I guess Kobe
can pass the ball after all. Who knew?
For those who are in dire need of totals, we have a new top three. In
first is the streaking, no, trending Mehmet Okur (PF/C - Utah Jazz - 4 games),
who's been on fire for about a month now. Second place goes to forgotten
Al Horford (PF/C - Atlanta Hawks - 5 Games), which, thanks to Mike Bibby,
should probably become more of a normal performance from him. Finally,
third place in totals goes to the Boston Celtics' Kendrick Perkins. He
had a monster 10 point, 20 rebound performance against Detroit
in this stretch, and has put up three more double-doubles in a row. You
may have heard of Perkins; possibly because I mentioned him here
, here
, here
, oh yeah and here.
If you need Center help, he's likely available for now; and will be getting a
lot of PT now that the Celtics have pretty much sewn things up in the East.
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