Toilet Bowl: Round 1 Recap

The Toilet Bowl may be for the losers but the games are certainly anything but crap. Two games that came down to the wire and both the favored teams ended up losing. Check it out:

5-4, MoRRie's Pogiboys vs Pooh Bears
In a game that made Alvin and his fans stutter with fear, the Pogiboys accomplished their goal: getting one of the top two picks in next year's draft. The Pooh Bears made up a minu-12 deficit in AST in a flash on Sunday and the race was on to win that crucial game tilting category.

With the Pogiboys already suffering from missed games from Chucky Atkins and Darko Milicic, they needed every one of Rudy Gay and Hakim Warrick's extra games this week (5 games for the Grizzlies). Chris Paul had a pretty sorry week (12.7 PTS, 6 AST) but he still managed to contribute 3 STL a game.

As for J's Pooh Bears, Pau Gasol (17.4 PTS, 9.6 REB, 4.4 AST) and Ben Gordon (23.5 PTS, 2 3PT) pulled their weight, as did Shawn Marion (7 BLK) and Andre Miller (8 AST per) but Mike Bibby couldn't come through, especially on Sunday night, as he totaled just 6 AST on the week. In the end, it was a stunning finish as the recently acquired Steve Blake powered the Pogiboys to victory (AST 126-122) with his 7 AST Sunday night. Steve Blake, hero?!

6-3, Sour Snails vs Phanatics
Perhaps due to its low profile, everyone ignored what was probably the best comeback of the year as the Sour Snails rallied back on Sunday to overtake the Phanatics and propel themselves into a top-2 pick.

How'd they do it? Well, we're not quite sure because the national attention was on other games this week. But in a battle of "Are we the worst GMs?," it looks like Trieu had the last laugh as his Golden Warriors -- Stephen Jackson (20.7 PTS, 3.3 3PT) and Jason Richardson (exact same PTS, 3PT) -- poured it on and secured a victory, even without the service of Ime Udoka. Who? Nevermind. Steve Nash's 10 AST per game and perfect free-throw shooting turned out to be instrumental in giving the Snails the win.

The Phanatics had this thing all sewn up but then, as the rest of the season has been for them, injuries hit. Paul Pierce sat out a few games, Lamar Odom took a seat, and point guards Luke Ridnour and Earl Watson (combined for 52 AST and 14 STL) were consigned to the bench. The Phanatics lost AST by 20 and STL by 2. Hum... Hard to fault Ping though, since everyone in his lineup deserved to be there.

We'll have to watch this one on SlamNation Classic since nobody really knows how the Snails took down the Phanatics, but they did!