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Mon Nov 23 10:40am EST Behind the Box Score, where the Knicks nearly pulled one By Kelly Dwyer Boston 107,Ghd Sale, New York105 (OT)This loss is on Al Harrington(notes).OK, an open shot that turned into the game-winning shot ...that's on Al Harrington. The near-win for the Knicks was almost on Harrington,but, let's be dramatic. It's November, after all. Crunch time. Every gamecounts.So, THIS LOSS IS ON AL HARRINGTON!David Lee(notes) is supposed to shade and follow Paul Pierce(notes), whohad scored 33 points in the win and has hit more game-clinching shots than Ican remember. Kevin Garnett(notes) is Lee's man, but with less than two seconds to go,you help your teammate follow Pierce on a screen-and-roll.Harrington is supposed to move over to Garnett because K.G.can't get a pass off, and K.G. can't set up another teammate to get a shot off 20feet away with less than two seconds to go in overtime.Al was slow to recover, though, and Garnett hoisted a jumperwith about a second to go, from where he'd hit a few minutes earlier in thegame (despite going 4 for 15 at that point), and the C's won. It's not much to beproud of, on the road against a three-win team in overtime, but Boston will take it. Now,Cheap Ghd Straighteners, Harrington (30 points) had New York in the game to begin with, and hewas a catalyst down the stretch. And also in the first half when the Knicksbegan their comeback. New York made a game out of this by taking shots the C'sdidn't expect them to take, which had Boston talking and angry, butineffective. Boston'sreal problem was on offense, though.The Celtics are a veteran team that knows how to pass. Theycan't score 110 in their sleep, but they know how to move and trust and finishand score in the proper way. The team reminds me of champions of old (yourSpurs, your Bulls) that were pretty good offensively, but mostly made their haydefensively, and it was obvious that the C's just weren't aggressive enough onthe O-end to pull apart. Meanwhile, the Knicks were just screening and chucking andwhile they weren't exactly pulling SSOL-styledmaneuvers, they were keeping the C's on edge. While Boston, meanwhile, extra-passed its way intoseventh options and low-percentage shots with the shot clock dwindling down.What resulted was a fabulous game, somehow. Bostonpicked up the intensity offensively as the game moved along, while New York kept nailingshots. And the last 10 minutes of game time was quite the watch.Bostonhad it, though. They hit a few more free throws (Pierce, mostly, who finishedwith 33 points), which made the difference. Nate Robinson(notes) (finally) had hisbest game of the season (19 points, and of course, Hollywood'sWill Ferrell was in the house), but it wasn't enough. Also, Rasheed Wallace(notes) missed all three of his attempts frombehind the 3-point arc, and he's now shooting 27 percent from long range,despite taking almost six a game off thebench. My unspoken-and-unwritten-because-I-didn't-want-to-seem-too-severe-a-Rasheed-critic-worst-case-scenariohas come true, less than a month into the season.Six a game,ghd classic styler, 27 percent, off the bench. ***Orlando 104, Toronto96It seemed like this could have been a 120-118 contest.Neither side could stop penetration. Jason Williams(notes) vs. JoseCalderon(notes)? With Jarrett Jack(notes) and (to a lesser extent)Anthony Johnson(notes) backing things up? This began as a pairing of the two worstdefensive point men in the league, and acted like it, early on. Then the Magic started getting what felt like one offensiverebound for every two offensive misses, and that was that.Orlando managed only 14 offensive rebounds all day (so to speak), enough to make a difference.The Magic shot worse, from every area, only had two fewer turnovers and reallyseemed right for the upset as the Eastern Conference's finest rivalry (since2005-06) spun on.Of course, if we're honest, it felt as if the Magic shouldhave won by a lot more.The go-to story involves Vince Carter(notes), who was an absoluteprat in forcing his way out of Toronto.Carter deserves more enmity than any other ex-player gets from anyother ex-crowd, combined, and that noted go-to story involves him playing wellin Toronto.That works, actually; because though Carter shot 9 for 24, there were probably sixshots that rimmed in and out or bounced out while he was fouled (and didn't seea call). Not V.C.'s biggest fan, but I can't slough that off.So, he played well, despite 24 points for 24 points forCarter. Meanwhile, the Magic essentially got whatever they wanted, and justhappened to miss a ton. Same for the Raptors, while we're at it, but who won?Whose story is this, dangit?Dwight Howard(notes) had 17 points and 12 rebounds while playing a lazy,unintelligent game that allowed for him to whine about calls that could havegone either way, without taking the time to think about how he could haveavoided those 50-50 whistles. J.J. Redick(notes) was money -- 19 points on 10 shots inunder 30 minutes with five assists and zero turnovers -- with every jumperlooking Ray Allen(notes)-pure.Williams (19 points) got layups whenever hewanted; it was pretty pathetic (Jose, mainly), and Mickael Pietrus(notes) played thesort of boneheaded game (on both ends of the court) that he's become known for this season. Sorry for being such a jag when it comesto MP and Howard, but it's become clear that Pietrus' head really took thesummer off, and that Howard is trying to cut corners.Torontojust couldn't stop anyone. Had the open shots fallen, this would have been a20-point loss.Andrea Bargnani(notes) had another good rebounding game, the Toronto center pulled innine, but he missed a few good looks and took a few bad looks (21-footers underduress and off the dribble; no reason for those) before fouling out with 11points and nine boards. Jarrett Jack had 11 points to zero turnovers, withseven boards and eight points, but his defense was miserable (and, actually,somewhat better than it's been so far this year), and Hedo Turkoglu(notes) (11 shotsto score 12 points) was crap down the stretch.Chris Bosh(notes) played a cerebral, quick,ghd uk, adaptive game, but hecouldn't get the ball to save his life on a team full of "shooters," andfinished with 22 points on 14 shots. Amir Johnson(notes) (14 points, eight rebounds) worked quite welloff the Torontobench.***Phoenix 117, Detroit91Unless you watched -- actually, even if you watched -- this was a bigger rout than you'd think.Just 87 possessions in this game, so Phoenix managed 134 points per 100possessions, which is a white hot total. Detroitstarted the year quite passable on D, but that's clearly fallen apart.This was never a game. Detroit lost in overtime in adifferent time zone on Saturday night, and while it was the last game of atough road trip, the Pistons didn't look good even adjusting for the outsideinfluence. Detroithas lost five straight, and that no-good defense that we pegged them for tostart the season (which seemed a stupid accusation after the team started theseason locking teams up) seems to have reared its ugly head.Phoenix had 25 assists on 42 made field goals while shooting 57.5 percent. Lots of goodlooks. Lots of turned heads.Meanwhile, the Pistons continue to struggle mightily, andthis was more or less a decision in Phoenix'sfavor midway through the second quarter. And Ben Gordon(notes), who I like (someonewho made half of his 20 attempts on Saturday night, by the way), has made just25 of 74 attempts from the floor during this swoon. He's better than that.Steve Nash(notes) had 20 points on eight shots (with nine assists)in 28 minutes, because he's awesome. I would totally let him cut in line at Golden Tee. I don't even like barsthat have a Golden Tee, as a rule, but given the chance ...***Miami 102, NewOrleans 101I'm not going to get into some lame "theory" (New Englandwas better because Tom Brady was more of a threat in the pocket than aMarino-like Drew Bledsoe; the Knicks were better because with Ewing healthythey went to Patrick way more times than he deserved, while they mixed it up inhis absence amongst more efficient players), but the Hornets are clearly morefocused with Chris Paul(notes) on the pine.Strike that.The Hornets are clearly more focused with Byron Scottclearly more focused on what he clearly loves the most -- playing golf.Without Scott standing on the sidelines, desperately tryingto give off the stink of culpability and capability with his arms folded andeyebrows furrowed, the Hornets are actually running plays, moving into setsquickly and passing the ball as if they have an idea as to what comes next.Paul can be a part of this. But we'll delve into that closerto his return.As it was on Sunday, the Hornets lost on the road to abetter team. But that doesn't mean you can't laud this lot.And Miami?Udonis Haslem(notes) banked in a game-winner, which isn't fair. Itmakes him seem lucky to make a shot like that.Actually, he was lucky to make a shot like that. But he wasalso fouled, blatantly, while shooting that 16-footer, and a lucky bankresulted. Haslem's a better shooter than that, and he deserved the call.Didn't matter, though. The Heat prevailed, Dwyane Wade(notes)dropped 31 on 21 shots (finally), and Jermaine O'Neal(notes) played sound defensethroughout. I made a joke about him looking like a Collins twin, last year, buton Sunday he looked like a Collins twin in the finest regard. Moved his feet,made an impact. Great to see. Marcus Thornton(notes) had 24 points off the bench for New Orleans while DarrenCollison(notes) had 11 points, six assists, five boards and just one turnover startingin Paul's place.This can work. Let's just get the NBA's MVP (thus far) backon the court, first.***Charlotte 104,Indiana 88Nazr Mohammed's(notes) per-minute stats have been great all season,and while he isn't in perfect shape, he's clearly in the best shape we've seenin years from this talented (though routinely disappointing) center, soSunday's outburst wasn't that much of a surprise.Nazr has always had talent and touch, but he's also beenlazy, he hasn't been in shape, he hasn't made smart decisions on the court, andhe's rarely been aggressive enough to make that talent work for him. Not evenin contract years, though he's received some pretty nice contracts.Still, 18 points, five boards, two blocks and two steals infewer than 18 minutes for Nazr in this win. The Pacers fell behind early,couldn't hit a shot from any angle and Mohammed put the Bobcats over the topon the other end.Ugly game. The Pacers went 5 for 22 from 3-point range, andcouldn't find anything offensively (save for Dahntay Jones'(notes) 19 points, more onhim later in the week). Charlotte'sD had quite a bit to do with it, but the Pacers also missed their fair share ofmakeable ones, with heaps of poor decisions to boot. Despite missing 9 of 10 3-point looks, Charlotte nailed half itsshots, with Boris Diaw(notes) (17 points, seven boards, four assists, zero turnovers)also turning in a nice game. Boris and Nazr, two of my favorite bigs over thelast decade. They usually play like crap, and actually got it together for thisgame. And, somehow, it still didn't feel right. Both of them justwasted what could have been fantastic careers. ***Los Angeles Lakers101, Oklahoma City 85 The Lakers dominated this game from the outset, it was neverreally close, as Los Angeles'offense was just too quick for the usually great Thunder D to handle.Too many options, the passes were too quick, the reactionswere that sound. The Laker reactions. Which brings me to Kobe Bean Bryant. As you likely know, Kobehit a series of first-quarter shots that left just about everyoneastonished. Though we shouldn't have been.Anything you see out of this guy, he's worked on. Anyattempt he takes the time to put together,ghd iv styler, he's tossed it up 600 times in thegym. Seriously. I was going to write "1,200," as a random number, but thendecided to actually attempt an accurate guess. And part of me wants to write"tossed it up 600 times in the gym, this year alone."This is why you need to respect this man, to no end. Hemight make you feel uneasy with his past, or the way he seemingly calculateseverything as if his life were one great SportsCentury episode, but youcan't deny his sepia-toned brilliance. Brilliance of his own design. Nobodyfinds the calculated stuff to be more distasteful than I, but you can't denythe work Kobeputs into the game we love, and if you love this game, you have to respect him.Others may jump higher. They may be taller, they may havelonger arms or bigger hands. I don't want to demean the work others have putin. LeBron James(notes) didn't come out of the womb dribbling a ball. He worked. But Kobeworked. And there's a reason why aleft-handed banker off an offensive rebound without a dribble seems so naturalto him. Even if he's preening after he makes it. When you work, and it paysoff, you deserve to preen. Even ifit seems unseemly and show-offy and annoying.Andrew Bynum(notes) (25 points, nine boards, two blocks) is a stud,and you were wrong to have ever doubted him.Oklahoma City'sSerge Ibaka(notes) (13 points, 11 rebounds, five blocks off the bench) is yourfavorite player, it's been that way for weeks, and you don't even know it yet.Give it time. Related: Behind the boxscore

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