Patty Mills sees serious court-time

There was talk leading in to the Portland vs Phoenix game today that Patrick Mills could be the starting point guard thanks to an injury to Andre Miller. While this didn't eventuate, Patty did see some serious court-time entering the game after just 4.5 minutes.

Here's his line from today:

BENCH	MIN	FGM-A	3PM-A	FTM-A	OREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	+/-	PTS
Andre Miller, PG	Did not play
Patrick Mills, PG	27	4-9	0-4	1-1	2	3	7	0	0	2	4	+3	9

For his first decent run, that's a good productive line from the young man.

He had 6 assists in the first half alone, but with the game on the line the ball would no doubt have been in Brandon Roy's hands. A 7 assist to 2 turnover ratio is pretty solid and if he could've knocked down a couple of those threes that he missed, it would have been a very impressive performance!

Yes, I couldn't find a decent NBA game shot of Patty yet!

Andre Miller throws down

Now, I've mentioned it many times before, I'm not about the flash dunks, I'm more about the beautiful pass or the big triple with time running down. Saying that tho, I was watching the boxscore of the Portland - Denver game yesterday when I saw a line that surprised me:

6:26 Andre Miller makes slam dunk (Martell Webster assists)

I actually remember thinking to myself at the time "wow, Andre Miller dunked it?!"

I've always been a fan of Andre Miller, he's your pass-first team-oriented point guard. He's 6'2 but he's not the most athletic of players and at age 33 he's getting on in NBA years. So when I came across the clip of the play I was even more shocked to see just how good Dre's dunk actually was!