Daily Babble: Big Nights for Two Eastern Conference Forwards

by Steve Weinman on Dec 23, 2007 9:53 AM EST in NBA Articles

Paying some quick homage today to two individual performers last night, both of whom absolutely had career nights:

In Phoenix, Chris Bosh kept the Raps in it with the Suns, going for a career-high 42 points and 13 rebounds. The most awing part of the stat line? That Bosh worked his way to the foul line for a whopping 24 attempts, making 22. The Suns as a team shot just 29 free throws on the evening. Of course, the Suns did come out victorious, but given that they won this game by 19 points, one would have to wonder just how much trouble the Raps would have been in without Bosh putting forth his gargantuan effort last night.

On the other hand, the team of one other far, far Eastern power forward had no such troubles. The Bucks hung on to top the Bobcats, 103-99, and Yi Jianlian did nothing short of abusing the Charlotte Bobcats' frontcourt. In a performance that he is wholly unlikely to match anytime soon, not only did Yi go for 29 points and 10 boards, but he did his scoring on 14-for-17 shooting from the field. That, folks, is efficiency personified.

Props to Bosh and Yi. And better luck next time for the Raps.

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Easy Yi.

by teaguelife on Dec 23, 2007 11:24 AM EST reply actions

Bigger props to Yi, because his team won.

by clover on Dec 23, 2007 11:31 AM EST reply actions

Seems like a lot of Power Forwards have career games against this Suns team. KG’s top two scoring games (44, 47) were against the Suns over the past couple seasons, Bosh now (42), Big Al earlier this year (32 points, 20 boards), Duncan exploded out of his injury for 36-17 last week. Makes me wonder what Amare would do against the Suns if he was guarded by himself.

by Big Ticket on Dec 23, 2007 12:55 PM EST reply actions

Bosh is the best big in the league at getting to the FT line. So many moves and so aware of how to initiate and draw contact.

Really helps him his team when he isn’t in the post. Knowing they can get an easy bucket by himself getting to the line.

…. Actually Dwight is right there with Bosh. He’s hacked more often. Bosh really is incredible at how he draws the fouls, incredible for a big I mean.

by Who on Dec 23, 2007 1:13 PM EST reply actions