NBA: Carmelo Anthony unstoppable, Vujacic not so much
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- The Toronto Raptor’s José Calderón has already missed four free throws this season, that’s more missed free throws in 3 games this season (9-13), than he had missed the entire last season (151-154). On the night Calderon was presented with an award for recording an NBA single-season record of 98.1% from the line, he missed two free throws.
- Calderon’s teammate, Andrea Bargnani has shot the most free-throws so far without a miss this season having hit all 12 of his free-throws. The Italian big man is averaging 22 points and 5 rebounds through three games.
- Through three games, Carmelo Anthony has been unstoppable on the offenseive end; scoring 30 points, 41 points, and 42 points. He is averaging a league-high 37.7 points per game on 53% shooting from the field, gone to the free-throw line 41 times and adding 7.0 rebounds for good measure. The Denver Nuggets are 3-0 with wins over Utah, Portland and Memphis.
- It hasn’t been a rough start for Hasheem Thabeet, the first NBA player from Tanzania. After playing a fruitless debut in which he missed all his shots (0-2 FG, 0-2 FT) and sitting out the next game with a DNP, Thabeet scored his first basket, blocked 4 shots and grabbed 6 rebounds in his third NBA contest, but also committed six fouls; fouling out in just 11 minutes of play.
- It’s going to be tough for Thabeet to uproot 7-0 starting center Marc Gasol, who has been playing great early in his Sophomore season. Through three games, Pau’s younger brother has put up averages of 20 points, 11 rebounds, 1.3 blocks, shooting 73.1% from the floor (19-26), and 84.6% from the line.
- I’m interested to see how many three-pointers Danilo Gallinari takes tonight as the New York Knicks look for this first win against New Orleans. As mentioned yesterday, the 6-10 Sophomore is attempting a league-leading 12 three-pointers this season, having hit 50% of those long-range attempts (18-36).
- Sasha Vujačić looked terrible in 12 1/2 minutes of play in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 94-80 trumping by the Dallas Mavericks. When he wasn’t committing ill-timed fouls, he was losing his defensive assignments, and complaining to the referees about every single call that went against him. What happened to that player that actually looked like he belonged in the NBA, much less the Slovenian National Team?
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October 5th, 2010 at 12:27 am