When I first saw the boxscore from last night's Clippers/Suns game, I assumed it had to be a misprint. 140 points, again? No. Couldn't be. And against the Clippers, again? No way.
But my friends, the truth is a sad but definitive, yes way.
For the second consecutive night, the Clippers proved just how awful they truly are. A team that has been so besieged by injuries (the most recent being Marcus Camby's eardrum caving in on a team flight, prompting Mike Dunleavy to say "We're inventing new ways to get hurt") was just made witness to the first team in nearly two decades to score at least 140 points on back to back nights.
I know it's regular season basketball, and so who cares? Can you really get impressed by a win over the Clippers, and does that even say much to the possible "re-emergence" of the Suns? Most likely not. The Clippers stink, and everyone knows it.
But, let's just take a quick look at the numbers.
282 - Total points scored by the Suns in the two games. In their previous 3 games, they'd scored 290.
170 - Points scored in the paint by the Suns in the two games. Tuesday's 90 paint points outdid the full game efforts of the Raptors, Sixers, Magic, Nets, Hawks, Pistons, and Sixers (again) over the two day span.
65 - The total amount of points Amar'e Stoudemire scored in the two games (Previous 3 games, 64)
63 - The total amount of points the Clippers were destroyed by in the two games.
2 - Games that Zach Randolph was suspended for.
1 - Fists that Louis Amundson received to his face.
0 - The amount players that played 30 or more minutes in either game for the Suns.
All in all, I think the Clippers have had enough. Let them go free, and bring on the next worthy challenger for the Suns: Oklahoma City. Over/under on that game? 250, 260?
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