NBA BASKETBALL |
Dec. 23, 2002 |
Observations from New Jersey vs. Chicago
By InsideHoops.com
The Chicago Bulls visited the New Jersey Nets tonight,
and received a rude welcome, as the home team smacked the visitors around in nasty
fashion. Below are some random games observations.
- Marcus Fizer is quicker than he looks, both when facing the defender and driving,
or posting up and spinning into the lane.
- Eddy Curry had no real impact on either end of the floor.
- Jay Williams drove a lot into traffic and repeatedly tried to shoot over multiple
defenders. It usually didn't work.
- Marcus Fizer's legs are actually Redwood trees that he chopped off and attached.
- Lucious Harris is an automatic jump-shooter. The league still hasn't realized
this.
- Jalen Rose settled for forced jumpers with time remaining on the clock and a
defender on him. It didn't work.
- When Richard Jefferson gets mad, he will drive 8923389 times in a row and get
to the rim by any means necessary.
- Fan support for Brian Scalabrene isn't as loud early on in the game. Tonight,
for example, Nets big-men got in quick foul trouble, so Scalabrene made an early
appearance. Fans were excited, but they didn't go nuts as they would in the end
of a blowout win. The lesson here? I have no idea. Lets just move on.
- Richard Jefferson obviously has some sort of invisible pogo-attachment on his
feet, allowing him to bounce extremely high up and down, over and over, seemingly
never tiring.
- Fans go absolutely insane for cheap, free t-shirts thrown to them, but mostly
sit in silence while their home team spoils them with great basketball.
- Jason Kidd ain't too shabby.
- Kenyon Martin treats the rim as if it just attacked him in the parking lot before
the game.
- Anthony Johnson threw a two-handed dunk down on a fast break in the 4th quarter,
with a defender nearby.
- Bill Cartwright and Dikembe Mutumbo should have a spoken-word competition.
- Brian Scalabrene glided into the lane like Iceman Gervin and bounced in a sweet
finger-roll.
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