2nd night games notes - bulls @ nets, sonics @ nuggets

picking up half way through 4th quarter at bulls against nets...

Deng: monstrous offensive rebound. Missed the tough layup. Drew a perfect charge on carter on the way back down. Next trip down, picked carter dribbling down the court and returned for a dunk.

Collins has big ben’s blown out fro. I’m not sure what original big ben, who has his hair in braids tonight, thinks of all this mess.

Carter lost the handle but scooped it up with one hand on a kidd fastbreak bounce pass

Jersey up 7 with 2 minutes to go

Carter shot a fadeaway 3. why?

Deng tipped a rebound from his right hand to his left, then made the layup. He’s gonna be an all star this year.

Out of a time out they draw a play out of time out, Jefferson drive in then kick it to kidd, who air balls the 3

Hinrich drove baseline then kick it top to nocioni who, of course, made the 3.

Just like that. It’s tie 96.

Back the other end, the nets, guess what, got a broken play with carter shooting the fadeaway airball.

Ben Gordon shorts a 3 after a time out. And the original big ben caught it and threw up the ball and missed the rim.

Overtime.

Wright is bailing the nets out more than once. Made a long jumper, then drove in what an impressive layup. Shouldn’t that be what vince carter be doing?

Luoul deng (and the Bulls in general) is causing a lot of deflections.

Kidd just threw it up to the hoop for carter to lay it in. up 3 now.

Impressive play out of a time out by bulls. Hinrich drove baseline, all shooters around the arc on weakside. Simple bounce pass to big ben who was wide open in the middle of the lane for a 2 hand dunk. Nice play skiles.

Jefferson drive right lane for a floater. Kidd steal, vince drove in, Jefferson kick out 3. up 6. then he celebrated by pounding himself in the chest and hurt himself. Pulled a muscle or something. No seriously.

Ben Wallace bricks a freethrow. Made 2nd.

Kristic is back! Anyway, after a bunch of freethrows, nets squeezed out a win. They were lucky they didn’t lose.

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Espn studio is fucking eerie. It’s creepy as hellllll. it's like espn is trying to find a studio combination that rivals the TNT crew, so they put together 3 most ridiculous personalities on their roster for this horror show. aptly debut on halloween night. nightmare lineup.

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the nuggets are just running everyone over this season. once they quicken up the pace of the game, they will just beat you down with their size and athleticism, and all of them can finish. (in fact having too many finishers and not enough facilitators on the team is probably a problem for them.) tonight they are going to ruin the sonics.

transition is the name of the game for them. yet another iverson face up steal and a layup and1. sick.

carmelo shake twice and shot a fadeaway. never moving his pivot the whole time. butter.

durant drove left side down and made a layup over two guys. first field goal of his career. many more to come. he's 6'9" and 215. a stick.

once it's slow down, the lead is cut to 3. well. it's 1 now. and it's not durant doing the damage. it's the team running the offense. which apparently the nuggets can't do.

hubie called out carmelo being the only player in the league to be double team every time down the court. nice.

johan petro travelled, but he was quick enough to do a juke move and made a bank shot from the foul line. pretty impressive for a 7 foot project. delonte west is pretty impressive too. scored some sharp buckets, made good plays with the ball. good thing sonics got him before the wolves did huh?

end of 1st. 32-31 nuggets. the slaughter is overstated? well, let's see how the rest of the quarters go.

nene just made missed another pick and roll layup. shit that he should have dunked in. and a 3rd. he looks like he has as much hang time as me.

west made a 3! he's playing really well tonight.

durant hits his first 3!. he's so lanky that when he fills up he's gonna be massive. missed a few freethrows early on though.

green a turnaround jumper from the post. now sonics are up 4 points. nuggets seem more lost on the court than the sonics do. is that even possible?

durant ran a 4-1 on fast break and dropped it off for a booming one head dunk. 17 point turn around. wtf.

the nuggets are all playing pick up ball and sonics are playing sets.

after a turnover, allen out on a run and finally made a layup. if they can't play sets, they need to feed on steals and blocks, which means they need to play MUCH BETTER DEFENSE. they don't play like a team though. it's usually one pass, stare down, they try to score. everyone just stand around watching. they play like complete strangers. i mean most passes are off target and the receivers are usually not in position to catch them. i know it's the first game of the season but the other team is playing with more cohesiveness and poise, and that team basically just got together this summer.

finally some signs of life by the nuggets, AI drove in a continuation floater. then passed ahead to kenyon for a dunk. can't finish the half correctly though. somehow with the starting lineup on the court, diawara was the one who took the last shot of the half. who's diawara? exactly my point. 63-62 nuggs.

back from the half. denver going on a nice run. carmelo 2 3s. already 26 points. nuggs up 10 now.

wilcox post up. west cut in for a layup. where's the nuggets' D?

west lopped up to durant for an alley oop layup. 8-0 run just like that.

west another double clutch twisting layup past the defense. super quick dude. came back and picked pocket for a easy dunk to take the lead. time out nuggets.

carmelo a release layup to iverson. he's super duper quick.

last play of the quarter, sonics had the ball with shot clock off, someone took a shot, najera grabbed the board and flipped it upcourt for melo to catch. with time running out, melo caught it and shot it in the air around the 3 point line and almost made it. that would have been a play of the year. possibly one of those career highlight clips.

najera 3 pointer, then drew a charge on the other end. two defensive stops later, he ran out on a break and finished a dunk that bounced out and bounced in.

iverson just had his 6th steal and feed to kleiza for this 14th assist of the game. you can still neatpick on his shot selection sometimes, but he's putting his footprint all over this game. he drove left baseline, ducked under for an and-1 layup, came back and picked west right in front of him again! 7th steal of the game. his fantasy owners are so happy they are crying right now. some guards don't get 7 steals a month. they just show a graphic showing AI's first career game was 30 points. THIRTY FUCKING POINTS!!! he musta pissed a lot of people off.

robert swift looks AWESOME. long orange samurai hair. good stuff. luke ridnour grew more of his hair out. looks like a golden mop on top of his head.

final score 120-101. not exactly a 20 point blow out. wait. the sonics just let the inbounded ball rolled to midcourt before taking it up real quick for a last second bucket. wtf was that? alright final final score 120-103.