Weekend road games against the Cavs and Knicks two teams with a combined record of over the last six weeks were both within five points in the last five minutes, because offense continues to be a struggle.
After putting together a three-game winning streak in which they averaged more than 24 second chance points per game , the Wolves had an opportunity to put themselves right in the mix for a playoff spot over the weekend.
But they were without Robert Covington and all three of their point guards, and they lost both ends of a home-and-home with the seventh-place Jazz, getting outscored by 27 points in 31 minutes with Karl-Anthony Towns off the floor.
The Lakers were in fourth place after that Christmas Day win in Oakland and have since fallen to ninth , two games behind the eighth-place Clippers, who have an easier schedule going forward.
They did get Rajon Rondo back on Thursday and he had 24 assists with just five turnovers against Minnesota and Phoenix, but Kyle Kuzma sore hip was subsequently added to the injury list and missed the win over the Suns on Sunday.
This was going to be a good spot for a note about how Jahlil Okafor has seemingly revived his career by averaging It could be that Davis, currently nursing a sprained finger, has played his last game in a New Orleans uniform.
After all, even if he was healthy and even if they were waiting until the summer to trade him, is there a reason for the Pelicans to have Davis play another minute for them?
The Wizards are still hanging around, picking up two important wins last week by holding both the Pistons and Magic under a point per possession.
Otto Porter has been coming off the bench since returning from a three-week absence 12 games ago and had some good performances over a six-game homestand.
But he has shot just for over the last three games and the Wizards have been at their best over the stretch with Porter on the floor alongside one or both of the two starting forwards.
If triple-doubles are your thing, then welcome aboard the Luka Doncic bandwagon. He has shot better on pull-up jumpers effective field goal percentage of The Pistons remain in the playoff race, because they remain in the Eastern Conference.
But they just went on the road against three teams that are also below. Now they begin the longest homestand remaining on their schedule, with the worst opponent being the one they just lost to in Dallas on Friday.
Only the Cavs, Wolves and Bulls have taken a bigger step backward offensively than the Pistons, who have scored 1.
The Magic keep finding excruciating ways to lose. Two nights later against Washington , Vucevic went 0-for-2 at the line with the chance to take the lead with a minute to go and, after a Jeff Green bucket, the Magic never got a shot to tie or take the lead, because they committed turnovers on their next two possessions.
And on Sunday in Houston , they suffered their eighth loss in a game they led by 15 points or more. Two weeks ago, they were just a half game out of eighth place , with five of their next six games against teams that had losing records at the time.
And the Houston loss began a stretch of five straight games against teams that currently have winning records. Two of those five are against the streaking Thunder.
The Hawks have climbed out of the No. Seven different Hawks have averaged double-figures over that stretch though not all seven have played in all five games , led by John Collins, who scored a career-high 35 points in Chicago on Wednesday.
Collins now ranks fourth in effective field goal percentage among players with at least field goal attempts , having seen a jump from last season , even though he has taken a greater percentage of his shots from outside the paint.
He has shot better both inside the paint and out, and has taken 2. Even with a record over their last 23 games, the Grizzlies have still outscored their opponents by 3.
With Deandre Ayton left ankle sprain and Richaun Holmes right foot sprain both out, Dragan Bender whose fourth-year option was declined in the fall may be getting his last chance to prove he can play.
They have no road wins within the Western Conference and no home wins against the East , though they have home games remaining against each of the bottom four teams in the opposite conference.
The first of those is Saturday, when they get a visit from the Hawks. Four of their last six games including the one in which James Harden scored 61 points at Madison Square Garden have been within five points in the last five minutes and coach David Fizdale has used 11 different guys in clutch time over that stretch.
With Emmanuel Mudiay suffering a shoulder injury on Wednesday, Frank Ntilikina got a chance to start for the first time since early November, but he went down with a groin injury two games later.
The Bulls split their two games with the Cavs last week, with their offense unable to hit league-average efficiency in either meeting with, perhaps, the worst defense in NBA history.
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