Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 8:29 am  |  26 responses

Granger Of The Night

The Assassination Of The Minnesota True Heads By The Coward T-Wolves.

by Shannon Booher

Granger Of The Night:

Danny Granger — 41 points, 11 boards, 6 assists, 2 blocks, 1 steal

That’s three in a row. That may be a L.O.N. record. Somebody get the resident Archivist on it.

Beast Of The Night:

Marcus Camby — 27 boards, 19 points, 4 blocks, 2 assists, 1 steal

Awww, man. What a wasted effort. On the verge of a forth straight victory, up four in the Chi, with about 20 seconds left… the Clippers happened. Young rook Eric Gordon committed the unfathomable mistake of fouling namesake Ben Gordon on a 3. Count it. And1. Tie game. While the Clip Joint surprisingly got a shot off (Dunleavy specializes in the end of game “no shot”), Al Thornton’s fadeaway baseline 20-footer was no good. In OT, unimaginatively pounding the ball into Z-Bo, in the same spot, time after time after time, eventually caught up with them, as the Bulls took the lead for good following two offensive fouls and an entry pass turnover. Free Marcus Camby?

Playoff Intensity Of The Night:

Two games last night gave us a glimpse of spring, even in the heart(break) of the coldest winter. It’s No loveobviously impossible to generate legit playoff intensity this time of year, but sometimes old rivalries recall the ghosts of Playoffs past. If that’s so, then let the Ceatles/Hawks be the haunting, and Spurs/Hornets the exorcism. You see, sometimes the old spooks cannot be driven away (Ceatles 88, Hawks 85), and other times, demons from the past are cast out (Spurs 83, Hornets 90).

Contraction Club Of the Night:

Washington Wizards — 74 points vs. the Detroit Pistons

The ‘Stons quietly righting the ship? Or a three-game blip against three bad teams?

Minnesota T-Wolves — 70 points vs. the Cleveland Cavs

So bad they make the page melt. So bad they don’t even make sense. So bad they sense patty melts.

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  • Ken Posted: Dec.18 at 8:36 am
    Dizzle got a few player of the days last year, but that’s diff from LON I guess. And that Camby line is indeed beastly.

  • Ryan Jones Posted: Dec.18 at 8:37 am
    Booher cracks my sh*t up. And Granger is overachieving like Pitt overacts. What.

  • Kid Presto Posted: Dec.18 at 8:44 am
    Granger is officially on the marquee. Fly society accepts him into our club. congrats young man.

  • Eboy Posted: Dec.18 at 8:48 am
    Granger is pretty good at basketball.

  • Kid Presto Posted: Dec.18 at 8:50 am
    Three peat!!!

  • Myung Posted: Dec.18 at 9:08 am
    I’ve felt the effects of Granger this week, as my opponent in fantasy basketball has him.

  • TADOne Posted: Dec.18 at 9:20 am
    Granger- MIP.

  • Simon S.Y Lawy Posted: Dec.18 at 9:57 am
    It’s time to give him a nick name, any suggestion?

  • littleshotlarry Posted: Dec.18 at 10:09 am
    Wolves got Grangered! O Danny Boy, the Hoops and Hops are callin’.

  • littleshotlarry Posted: Dec.18 at 10:16 am
    Oh. I mean Warriors got Grangered. Was staring at that picture. heh.

  • a_whiteman Posted: Dec.18 at 10:35 am
    Free marcus camby!!!!! And boo to the new layout

  • ciolkstar Posted: Dec.18 at 10:48 am
    Granger probably could win MIP, even though he was pretty damn good last season. And he definitely does need a good nickname…

  • Kid Presto Posted: Dec.18 at 10:56 am
    Danny Grangerfield. perfecto.

  • San Antonio Spurs Tim Duncan Reaches 10,000 Rebounds | For the public, by The Public Posted: Dec.18 at 11:01 am
    [...] broke Alvin Robertson’s consecutive games with at least one steal record last night. I know Danny Granger was unconscious last night. I know these things. I’m smart! Not like everybody says…like [...]

  • Myung Posted: Dec.18 at 11:47 am
    I remember watching Danny on NBA TV and then later on TNT before the rookie sophomore game (I’m not positive, but I think it was for the ASG in Houston). Dude was completely comfortable in front of the camera, just making jokes and having fun. It seems like he has a personality that will be easily marketable if 1. he goes to a new team or 2. the pacers become a better team. I just looked at the draft board in 2005. These are some of the guys taken ahead of him: Martell Webster, Channing Frye, Ike Diogu, Fran Vazquez, Yaroslav Korolev, Sean May, Antoine Wright, Rashad McCants, and Joey Graham. The Hawks fan in me won’t let me write the name Marvin Williams on that list. We already get enough grief for passing on a couple of other players from that same draft.

  • Myung Posted: Dec.18 at 11:50 am
    Nickname: Scottie Pippen The Sequel

  • Myles Brown Posted: Dec.18 at 12:10 pm
    Booher, you’re gonna make me cry.

  • mckensm0 Posted: Dec.18 at 1:10 pm
    The Wolves are terrible. If this team would have simply kept a few of the players they originally drafted (Ray Allen, Brandon Roy, O.J. Mayo, Mario Chalmers – am I forgetting anyone?) they’d still have Garnett and be duking it out with the Lakers for the best in the west. Instead, the team stinks, the players are an odd collection of pieces that don’t fit together, and there is no buzz in the arena at all.
    The season ticket holder base has shrunk to 6,000 or fewer and the arena is aging. The owner is the City of Minneapolis, who dunder-headed leaders just approved a five million dollar grass roof for the building (to be paid off over thirty years – the building won’t even last that long) when they could have bought a conventional roof for 2 million and put 3 million into improving the interior. I can see the team sold in the future and relocated to Seattle.

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  • TADOne Posted: Dec.18 at 2:29 pm
    Grass roof?

  • melvin ely Posted: Dec.18 at 8:13 pm
    forget the archivist booher, someone needs to do a “what’s my name?” on granger quick. Alsooo – anyone else having problems with the new layout? Whenever I open a page all the frames, columns, comments get jumbled up. The page rights itself only after multiple refreshes. I need some serious help with this here interwebs

  • chintao Posted: Dec.18 at 8:14 pm
    That Jesse James flick was the jawn.

  • melvin ely Posted: Dec.18 at 8:22 pm
    oh and apparently rooftop football is big in ‘sota :)

  • Shannon Booher Posted: Dec.19 at 1:05 am
    My only problem is with that Chris Bosh Village People cowboy pic… it’s killing me.

  • josh q. public » Blog Archive » Funken Tim Duncan Posted: Dec.22 at 12:31 am
    [...] broke Alvin Robertson’s consecutive games with at least one steal record last night. I know Danny Granger was unconscious last night. I know these things. I’m smart! Not like everybody says…like [...]

  • What is Danny Granger? - NBAMate Posted: Jan.8 at 9:42 am
    [...] then it didn’t, and he dropped 32 on Kobe and the Lakers (killer game) and went for three LONs in a row and one third of the way through the season Danny Granger is sitting amongst the top five scoring [...]

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