#21 NBA Basketball Surprises Week 23 (Haas News)

The best performances Weekly! It’s Sunday and like every Sunday it’s time to discuss the NBA Surprises.

Welcome back to my weekly list! Can’t believe it’s week 22 already and the play-offs are just weeks away! There are so many teams tanking really bad! But luckily there are teams giving it them all to make sure the end up in a good seed for the play-offs or even trying to just squeeze into the play-offs! Who will just make it and who will be disappointed and just miss out? In a few weeks we all know!
Like every week I would like to share my take on the most impressive performances and players that surprised me.
I always take in consideration the teams play and winning streak, playing well individually but your team is not does not earn you a spot to the Haas picks list! This week’s list is dominated by the East! Boston, Philadelphia and Detroit are all on nice winning streaks when it really matters.
Here are my top performances.

Quin Cook
Can injuries by a good thing sometimes? I was really lucky I could watch all the starts of the Warriors when I was there a month ago, nut as we all know the last weeks they are battling injuries and lost all the star power.
It means they will be second in the West and don’t have home court when they play the Rockets but it also means they found a reliable back-up point with a lot of confidence in Quin Cook.
Sometimes a opportunity is all a player needs to show his potential, fair enough the Warriors lost many games in the absence of the stars but having a player ready for the play-offs in Quin could be very important in the offseason.

I case you missed his week, scoring 17 points on average with 5 assist just great numbers, I am super happy for him after his time in the G-league it looks like he secured his NBA future, maybe not with the Warriors long term but there will be teams interested.

J J Redick
The 76ers are really showing great basketball and moved into a half game behind the Cavaliers, currently they are on a 9 game winning streak! Last week Belinelli made it to the Haas list. This week I just have to pick a Sixer again, it if very hard to choose because they have such balanced play, so there are multiple players that deserve it Saric? Fultz? Redick? I think I have to go for Redick who made the list before, Scoring 20 points on average this week and as mentioned in previous post his leadership is key!
Very good to see Fultz back on the court as well would be interesting to see how this young team does in the play-offs, hope Eimiid will can come back sooner as well.

Terry Rozier
Like the Warriors the Celtics miss players as well, but they are still battle ling for the best seed in the East. The beat team they have to beat in the Suns and Kings but had key wins in games against the Jazz and especially Raptors.
The Celtics are on a six game winning streak even without Irving, this week I want to give a small shout out to Marcus Morris who had a 20 and 25 point game but the selection of this week goes to Terry Rozier, he scored 33,21,16 and 13 points, witch really helped the Celtics winning. I still think no team in the East can challenge the Western Conference winner but it will be fun to watch who makes it out of the East.

Andre Drummond
Too little too late for Detroit? I do believe so, they are too far behind to sneak into the 8th seed in the East but they are playing great Basketball lately witch they can continue to do next season and really make some noise I hope. This week Andre Drummond was a rebounding beast again, collecting 58 rebounds in 3 games and scoring 61 points to make it even more impressive

Gerald Green
The way I see it is that we all know the stars can play for their teams and come play-offs they will step up and really need to show their potential, but many times role players make the real difference if you can find something extra that can be the difference between winning or losing a series. I still believe Gerald Green was a very important pick-up for the Rockets, would he see much action in an close series? Don’t think so, can he win a game for you when they really need something, for sure!
This week he scored in double figures every game and he can really give instant offence at times!

Hope you liked this week’s picks, I will be back next week! How is your team doing? Please don’t tell me they are tanking? Few more weeks until the play-offs!