Every night there are some stupendous, silly, stupid, or downright outlandish individual lines from around the lig. Doing Lines lets you know which one tops the list.Mike Conley's problem the past season-and-a-half has been his inability to get it, man, a problem that has resulted in little playmaking, lots of turnovers, and buckets full of regret. But the surprise hire of Lionel Hollins came with a bottle of Veteran Savvy Pills (please see your doctor for more information), and Conley has used the meds to turn into something resembling something everyone dreamt he'd be.
Monday night against the dilapidated Hornets (no Chris Paul, no David West, no Tyson Chandler, no David Wesley, no J.R. Reid, no Elden Campbell) Conley had 18 points, eight assists, four boards, a steal and a block. Four turnovers is too many (until you see O.J. Mayo's six), but this is just one performance in a line of recent promise for Conley. Good stuff, good hope.
Get! Buckets!: Marreese Speights, ladies and gentlemen, gets buckets. Speights went Jack Bauer off the bench against the visiting Suns: 24 points in 24 minutes, seven rebounds, a pair o' blocks, no turnovers, a steal. He even chewed two sticks of gum in each half. Watch yourself!, Elton Brand ...
2009 Mo Williams Memorial Upper Midwest Free Agent Point Guard of the Year Goes To ... : Ramon Sessions, for his work in "Cleaning Up the M.A.S.H. Unit and Taking Rafer Alston's Lunch." Sessions has been a'blaze of late, his 26/7 against the uberdefensive Rockets just the latest conflagration. But the big numbers: Sessions had four steals (11 total for the No. 2 in turnover creation Bucks), while Alston had four turnovers in 22 minutes. Bucks win, Bucks win.
