The Rest of Monday's News and Notes

Here's (hopefully) a quick rundown of what I noticed in tonight's games:

- I could've actually watched part of the Denver@Charlotte game, but then I would have been pissed I didn't get to see the end of it, 116-119 - Cats with the win. It looked like a great game with Charlotte playing another great team tough. These Bobcats are for real IMHO and they're only a season away from making the playoffs (assuming they re-sign franchise big man Emeka Okafor to a reasonable contract - reasonable = not Dwight Howard money). 40 pt games seem to be a nightly theme recently and tonight was no exception. In this first game of the night, Gerald Wallace went for 40, but not lacking the other cats either with 8 boards, 5 dimes and 4 in the B/S department. He's no slouch when it comes to producing. Camby's ridiculous 20-23-6 were no match - in the game that is, I'm sure fantasy owners weren't complaining about Camby's line tonight.

- The C's lost again at home, this time to a different southeast division team, the Washington Wizards. Boston's streak of being seemingly unbeatable wasn't going to last, but I'm going to argue that these losses are good for them. They aren't getting blown out and these are low scoring contests, which means that the C's are still playing great defense and with great intensity. It's just a factor of the bench on a cold streak and some late game situations not going their way. I don't believe they have anything to worry about. The PGA tour are going to get their numbers every night (in close games anyway) and if the rest of the team is getting a bit cold, that's to be expected. It's not time to panic yet - they are 30-5 afterall. As for owning Celtic players, I wasn't a fan of any of them outside of the musketeers to begin with. Rondo is as streaky as they come and he wasn't effective tonight. Pick your spots if you're going to start Celtics without the initials PP, RA and KG.

- Portland lost a heartbreaking thriller yesterday afternoon to Toronto, but demolished tonight's Atlantic division foe, the New Jersey Nets. They got a lift since Steve Blake returned after missing only one game. He only had 5 pts in the game, but they don't rely on Blake for much other than managing the game while he's in there and hitting some open shots. This Blazer team is young and deep with talent. I can see them tailing off at some point this season, but if they don't it will be because of the poised play and leadership of sophomore guard Brandon Roy. The kid is as calm as they come and he controls the game whenever he's on the court. Very few players do this. I don't like his fantasy game much for H2H because he doesn't do anything fantastic, but he doesn't hurt you either.

That was the 1st half of the night. I will post the 2nd half of the games once they are finished.