It was his second 20/20 game in a row, third in six games and 17th of his career. He was within a rebound of doing it two other times this year. He also swatted six shots as the Magic improved their record to 16-3 since opening the year with two losses.

Charlotte's Gerald Wallace was absent for personal reasons, and Jason Richardson scored 24 to lead the Cats. Raymond Felton scored just 8 points on 2-of-11 shooting, with eight assists as Larry Brown continues to get erratic point guard play.

Okafor is playing solid ball (12 boards, 19 points on 9-of-11 shooting) after a slow start this year, but Sean May is not the answer at power forward with his health issues. Okafor is averaging 19.2 points and 10.2 boards over the last five games, but is another player who could use some help down in the blocks.

Rookie DJ Augustin (14 pts.) has a bright future, but will need time to develop. Adam Morrison (13 points, remember him?) hit a big 3-pointer with 6.7 seconds left to draw within two at 98-96.

Memphis 109, Houston 97

The Rockets are without Tracy McGrady for a while, and were without Brent Barry and Ron Artest for the evening with minor injuries. That gave Memphis confidence enough to take down the Rockets, who got a quiet night from Yao Ming (14 points and 4 rebounds).

Former Spurs power forward Luis Scola started and had 16 points and 15 rebounds for the depleted Rockets. Rafer Alston has been picking up some of the scoring slack lately and tied for team honors with 16 points while adding 8 assists.

Memphis' young roster can't seem to get a point guard to play well enough on a consistent basis to stabilize the team's offense . Mike Conley has been a disappointment so far. Kyle Lowry started and had 5 assist and 11 points though the team actually played better with Conley off the bench in this game.

Tardy Rudy Gay had to come off the bench, but still led the team with 20 points. Marc Gasol played Yao Ming well and finished with 10 points, 8 rebounds, 3 steals and 3 blocks.

Pressure is on coach Marc Iavaroni, as the young, talented Grizzlies need to show improvement this season. So far, five coaches have been dismissed. Is it asking too much for this young team to be doing better?

Hakim Warrick reminds me a bit of Josh Childress in his role for the Griz. He is athletic and active, scoring 18 points, with 8 rebounds and 2 blocks in a do-whatever-you-need role off the bench.

O.J. Mayo continues to produce, but this team's identity is still being determined.

Golden State 112, Oklahoma City 102

Kevin Durant scored 41 points and had 10 rebounds in another losing cause. I said at the beginning of the year that I feared for P.J. Carlesimo's job. It took less than 20 games for him to be gone. Now Scott Brooks can absorb all the losses that this team will take.

They simply are not talented enough to be very successful this season. The only thunder you will hear this year will be teams running over them.

Chris Wilcox (8 pts, 8 boards) is a classic underperformer, greatly talented and not very motivated most of the time. Nick Collison (15 points, 10 rebounds off the bench) is just the opposite. Not as talented but will give a consistently solid effort for you. He's just not a game changer.

Earl Watson has defensive shortcomings, but is a solid distributor of the ball (7th in assists per 48 minutes, good turnover to assist ratio 4.5) and can hit the three.

Russell Westbrook (8 points, 8 rebounds, 7 assists, 7 turnovers) is the future and has great tools for both ends of the floor. Should they play him more now? Or let the veteran Earl Watson (3 pts, 7 assists) teach him how to run an offense?

Don Nelson's team was without its top two scorers in Cory Maggette and Stephen Jackson. It didn't matter as even 6-14 teams like the Warriors drool to play the inept Thunder.

Jamal Crawford led with 19 points, and won his first game as a Warrior.

Andris Beidrins (21 rebounds, 17 points) remains a bright spot on a team that is going nowhere this season. Yet, it is surprising that they are doing so poorly. They just don't play defense, giving up 112 points a game, by far the league's worst.

They are negative in every offensive statistic compared to their opponents except foul shooting where they shoot 5 more foul shots. This team turned to mush in a hurry.

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