All eyes, of course, are on Tyreke Evans The Point Guard. The numbers don't look great on that tip: two assists, four turnovers. But watching the game, his passing skills actually looked pretty good. Evans, in fact, looked better making tough or "vision-related" passes than he did making the standard "move the ball" passes.

(Note: there's an update at the end of the post.)

Evans' worst plays weren't really plays at all. On a few occasions, his perimeter ball movement passes were badly off target, either resulting in a turnover or forcing the receiver to blow his position in an attempt to get the ball. But there were no stand-out bad decisions on dribble-drives or on the fast break. One such play, early in the game: Evans drove the lane from the top of the key, driving right but switching back left early. As he hit the restricted circle, the defense collapsed. Evans rose, hung in the air a second, and delivered a perfect pass to Thompson, who was set up at 12 feet on the left baseline. JT's man had helped, and JT was wide open. Thompson missed (airballed, actually), so Evans gets nothing in the box score. But it was a great play, and it's one Evans needs to repeat every quarter this season.

The numbers don't look great for Tyreke Evans The Point Guard. But the video evidence makes me feel good. I mean, how could you ever accuse a guy who beatboxes for JT in a Happy Birthday freestyle for 79-year-old Pete Carril of not being a willing playmaker?!