Doing Lines: Rockets Handcuff LeBron

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.

This might be the most downright outlandish line of the entire season: LeBron James played 34 minutes Thursday in Houston, and only tallied 21 points (on 21 FGAs), one rebound, zero assists, two blocks and a steal.

This was the first game in LeBron's entire NBA career without an assist. He hadn't finished a game with only one rebound since November 2007. Shane Battier and Ron Artest completely obliterated King James, and it wasn't even debatable. Simple, wanton destruction.

(It also shows you how great 'Bron is, that we can attack when he merely doesn't get an assist or more than one rebound. We expect a ton out of the Chosen One. Every day.)

Missing the Conductor: The Suns played without Steve Nash; Leandro Barbosa actually did fine as point guard (18/6/7). But the Lakers pounded Phoenix in total, thanks mostly to yeoman work from Kobe Bryant (22/8/4), Lamar Odom (23/4/9) and Pau Gasol (16/9).

But Trevor Ariza really spread those wings and disrupting the Phoenician attack, turning out five steals in 24 minutes. Highly impressive work for the statistical enigma.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

2-27-2009 @ 9:08AM

demzrdopes said...

Artest owns LeBron..

2-27-2009 @ 10:51AM

FRANK said...

The problem with teams that depend
in 1 player to get motivated or in
another words 1 man team, NOT;

Basketball is a team sports and
NO 1 player can do it alone;

The teams that have been winning when
it counts are the teams that play
as such : " as a team " simple ?
follow up it will continue if not
ask Kobe ( finally ) now that he is
playing as a teamplayer.

2-27-2009 @ 11:46AM

shepardtrent said...

Oh come on...LeBron had an off night.. I agree that the Cavs did not lay as a team last night, but they usually do. One person cannot account for winning all the games the Cavs have. BT Frank you make no sense...you seem to say that the Cavs dont't play as a team, and if you do not lay as a team you cannot win, yet they have one of the best records in the NBA???? Your post is ridiculous!

2-27-2009 @ 11:47AM

Shane Bacon said...

Makes Michael Smith looks like a genius though.

3-01-2009 @ 10:37AM

ijc2001 said...

It's so easy to jump on the anti-cavs bandwagon you people make me sick. He is 24 years old and is caring the league. With all the team injuries the cavs have had they STILL have one of the best records in the league. All you cavs haters are going to be crying when they win it all. Go Cleveland Cavaliers.