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Hit it boys!

Lion Face: Kobe Bryant
The dude has a broken finger on his hand. He often uses his hand for basketball related activities. One might even call it his strong hand when referring to how he performs these basketball activities. And yet, he still took a decent defensive team like the Bulls and torched their perimeter length and athleticism for 42 points. Well… sure, he did all that scoring but he probably took an insane amount of shots to get to those 42 points, right? Wrong. Try 15/26 shooting from the field, 14/21 shooting on two-pointers and he didn’t shy from contact by evidence of his 15 free throw attempts. He played through pain the way stars are supposed to play. If Vince Carter had this broken finger, he would have had reconstructive surgery on the finger that would have rivaled the complexity of the procedures in Face-Off. For this, I’m willing to ignore his eight turnovers. KOBE RULEZ!!!!111!!!

Lemon Face: Spencer Hawes
I just don’t get it with him. What does he do on the basketball court? He’s flat out soft. He doesn’t score inside even though he can. He settles for jumpers even though he doesn’t make them. He barely rebounds. He can’t defend anybody in the post. His passing is a nice skill but he never utilizes it. And he’s supposed to be a building block for this young Kings team? He was torched by LaMarcus Aldridge tonight after being embarrassed by Al Jefferson in the last game. He also grabbed just two rebounds in 28 minutes, shot 2/7 from the field and was a -24 on the court.

Lion Face: Shaqzunas O’nealkaus
This center-hybrid combined for 32 points, 10 rebounds, three assists, two steals, six blocks and 14/18 shooting. It was like watching Goliath and fat Al Roker combine forces for the greater good of protecting the city of Cleveland. I don’t expect nights like this to replicate often for the center-hybrid of Shaqzunas O’nealkaus so we might as well celebrate it while we can.

Lemon Face: Larry Hughes
Remember when Larry Hughes was playing great point guard for the Knicks? I barely do too. He finally came back down to Earth in Charlotte with eight points on 3/10 shooting and six turnovers in 20 minutes off the bench. If I know Knickblog like I think I do, Gian is putting together a video showing just how terrible Larry Hughes was in contrast to this video.

Lion Face: Michael Beasley
He outplayed Chris Bosh and matched him point for point in this game. He finished with 28 points and 11 rebounds. He was extremely efficient with 11/19 shooting and 6/6 from the free throw line. He had 14 of the Heat’s 36 points in a pivotal second quarter in which Miami pulled away a little and gave themselves some breathing room. Oh, and Michael Beas also had this sequence:

Lemon Face: Toronto Raptors defense
Seriously Toronto defense, go kill yourself. You’re putting all of these nice, fine Canadians into some jigsaw, Saw type of torture machine every time you hike up the shorts, sit down in a defensive stance and then allow a ton of points on a lot of easy shot attempts. Please check yourself and quick wrecking this Canadian pride.

Lion Face: Joakim Noah
20 rebounds, M’er F’er!

Lemon Face: Joakim Noah
Well, 14 rebounds were on the offensive glass and he was 4/16 from the field shooting so he probably didn’t have THAT impressive of a night on the boards. Maybe I got a little ahead of myself…

Lion Face: Joakim Noah
YEAH RIGHT! He also had six blocks!

Lemon Face: John Salmons
You’re such an inconsistent, frustratingly bad player that I don’t really want to mention how awful you were. Actually, you weren’t even so much bad as you were inconsequential on the court. So I’m going to forget that you scored two points in 29 minutes (and were roasted by Kobe Bryant) and finish this LF/LF on a high note with four straight lion faces:

Lion Face: Tim Duncan
34 points in 35 minutes on 14/22 shooting to go with his 14 rebounds.

Lion Face: Ginger McNasty

Chase Budinger didn’t just have this alley-oop throw down; he also had 16 points, 12 rebounds and five assists. That’s getting it done against a pretty good Pistons backcourt.

Lion Face: Jerryd Bayless
Jerryd Bayless got the minutes against the Kings and made the most of them. He clinched the game for Portland with the final six Blazers points that turned a 89-86 lead into a 95-88 win. He almost impossible to keep out of the lane and he did a fantastic job of forcing the issue, putting the defense on their heels and unleashing the fury on the Kings in crunch time.

Lion Face: Geraldine Wallace
Gerald Wallace is a joy to watch.