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(From the Associated Press) - As he sits on the bench at the start of each game, Jamal Crawford analyzes the opposition, the defenses they are employing, and the flow of the game. The Atlanta Hawks are sure glad their sixth-man extraordinaire is a quick study. Crawford scored 29 points and the Hawks avoided a three-game losing streak by beating the Washington Wizards 105-99 Thursday night...“He just comes in and changes the game,” Al Horford said of the Hawks’ super sub. “He really gave us a lift when we needed him to. It was tied 66-66 and he came in and made two threes and I think that changed the complexion of the game.” Horford and Joe Johnson each scored 18 points in Atlanta’s first trip to the nation’s capital this season for the makeup of a game that was postponed Feb. 6 due to a blizzard which left 2 feet of snow in the area. Andray Blatche had 30 points and 10 rebounds for Washington, in the midst of a stretch of three games in three nights because of the schedule change. The Wizards have lost five straight and seven of eight. Blatche’s putback with 4:53 remaining pulled the Wizards to 92-89, but they would get no closer...Nick Young scored 13 points of his 17 points in the second quarter for the Wizards, who dropped their fifth straight at home in front of a crowd of 13,625. Mike Bibby finished with 16 points for the Hawks, who have won five straight over the Wizards, including three this season.
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(From the Associated Press) - Dwight Howard insists he didn’t intend to hurt Derrick Rose. He was just protecting the basket. So when Rose drove the lane hard and tried to finish over the towering center for the second time this season, the man who goes by “Superman” again delivered on his nickname. The Man of Steel. “I think if you hit something that doesn’t move,” Howard said, “you usually end up falling.” Howard went up. Rose went down. Two teams continued to head in opposite directions. Vince Carter had 23 points to help the Magic pull away early and cruise past the injured Bulls, 111-82 on Thursday night for a season-high seventh straight win. Matt Barnes added 14 points, and reserve Brandon Bass scored 13 in another blowout victory against a struggling team for the Magic...Rose sprained his left wrist in the midair collision with Howard in the first quarter and didn’t return for the Bulls, the latest setback in a season that’s quickly going sour. Taj Gibson and Hakim Warrick had 12 points apiece, not nearly enough to prevent Chicago’s sixth consecutive loss. “We’ve got to find a way to get healthy and weather the storm,” Bulls coach Vinny Del Negro said. “But there’s no question we are a battered bunch right now.”...The injuries have led to poor play and pushed Chicago out of the Eastern Conference’s final playoff spot. The Bulls are 1 1/2 games behind Miami, Charlotte and Toronto for the eighth seed. The Magic moved 4 1/2 games behind first-place Cleveland—and 4 1/2 ahead of Boston—in the East. They have taken advantage of talent-deprived and injury-riddling teams the past two weeks.
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(From the Associated Press) - Brandon Roy’s first career win at Oracle Arena couldn’t have come at a better time for Portland as it tries to hang on to the eighth spot in the Western Conference. Roy scored 41 points, Andre Miller added 15 points and seven assists and the Trail Blazers overcame a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the Golden State Warriors 110-105 on Thursday night...With 15 games left in the regular season, Portland is four games ahead of Memphis in the race for the final playoff spot in the West and a loss to the Warriors, who own the third-worst record in the NBA, would have been costly for the Blazers. Instead, Portland rallied for its fifth win in six games to move a season-high 11 games above .500 while winning in Oakland for the first time since Nov. 3, 2004. “There’s been a lot of those streaks the last few years that we’ve had to overcome,” Blazers coach Nate McMillan said. “I’m happy that it’s over. I’m happier about what we did. We pounded them on the boards, we got to the free throw line (and) we went inside.”...Corey Maggette scored 24 points and Monta Ellis added 17 before fouling out in his first game back following a six-game absence for Golden State, which lost its sixth straight. “We went cold at the wrong time,” Warriors coach Don Nelson said. “We ended having a team out there that hadn’t been together very much and we didn’t run our stuff very well against the zone. It was probably a combination of things.”
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(From the Associated Press) - As he sits on the bench at the start of each game, Jamal Crawford analyzes the opposition, the defenses they are employing, and the flow of the game. The Atlanta Hawks are sure glad their sixth-man extraordinaire is a quick study. Crawford scored 29 points and the Hawks avoided a three-game losing streak by beating the Washington Wizards 105-99 Thursday night...“He just comes in and changes the game,” Al Horford said of the Hawks’ super sub. “He really gave us a lift when we needed him to. It was tied 66-66 and he came in and made two threes and I think that changed the complexion of the game.” Horford and Joe Johnson each scored 18 points in Atlanta’s first trip to the nation’s capital this season for the makeup of a game that was postponed Feb. 6 due to a blizzard which left 2 feet of snow in the area. Andray Blatche had 30 points and 10 rebounds for Washington, in the midst of a stretch of three games in three nights because of the schedule change. The Wizards have lost five straight and seven of eight. Blatche’s putback with 4:53 remaining pulled the Wizards to 92-89, but they would get no closer...Nick Young scored 13 points of his 17 points in the second quarter for the Wizards, who dropped their fifth straight at home in front of a crowd of 13,625. Mike Bibby finished with 16 points for the Hawks, who have won five straight over the Wizards, including three this season.
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(From the Associated Press) - Dwight Howard insists he didn’t intend to hurt Derrick Rose. He was just protecting the basket. So when Rose drove the lane hard and tried to finish over the towering center for the second time this season, the man who goes by “Superman” again delivered on his nickname. The Man of Steel. “I think if you hit something that doesn’t move,” Howard said, “you usually end up falling.” Howard went up. Rose went down. Two teams continued to head in opposite directions. Vince Carter had 23 points to help the Magic pull away early and cruise past the injured Bulls, 111-82 on Thursday night for a season-high seventh straight win. Matt Barnes added 14 points, and reserve Brandon Bass scored 13 in another blowout victory against a struggling team for the Magic...Rose sprained his left wrist in the midair collision with Howard in the first quarter and didn’t return for the Bulls, the latest setback in a season that’s quickly going sour. Taj Gibson and Hakim Warrick had 12 points apiece, not nearly enough to prevent Chicago’s sixth consecutive loss. “We’ve got to find a way to get healthy and weather the storm,” Bulls coach Vinny Del Negro said. “But there’s no question we are a battered bunch right now.”...The injuries have led to poor play and pushed Chicago out of the Eastern Conference’s final playoff spot. The Bulls are 1 1/2 games behind Miami, Charlotte and Toronto for the eighth seed. The Magic moved 4 1/2 games behind first-place Cleveland—and 4 1/2 ahead of Boston—in the East. They have taken advantage of talent-deprived and injury-riddling teams the past two weeks.
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(From the Associated Press) - Brandon Roy’s first career win at Oracle Arena couldn’t have come at a better time for Portland as it tries to hang on to the eighth spot in the Western Conference. Roy scored 41 points, Andre Miller added 15 points and seven assists and the Trail Blazers overcame a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the Golden State Warriors 110-105 on Thursday night...With 15 games left in the regular season, Portland is four games ahead of Memphis in the race for the final playoff spot in the West and a loss to the Warriors, who own the third-worst record in the NBA, would have been costly for the Blazers. Instead, Portland rallied for its fifth win in six games to move a season-high 11 games above .500 while winning in Oakland for the first time since Nov. 3, 2004. “There’s been a lot of those streaks the last few years that we’ve had to overcome,” Blazers coach Nate McMillan said. “I’m happy that it’s over. I’m happier about what we did. We pounded them on the boards, we got to the free throw line (and) we went inside.”...Corey Maggette scored 24 points and Monta Ellis added 17 before fouling out in his first game back following a six-game absence for Golden State, which lost its sixth straight. “We went cold at the wrong time,” Warriors coach Don Nelson said. “We ended having a team out there that hadn’t been together very much and we didn’t run our stuff very well against the zone. It was probably a combination of things.”
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