Tuesday, October 28, 2014

NBA Tipoff Live-Blog

Finally. After one of the more compelling offseasons in recent memory,  basketball returns to its rightful place at the forefront of American sports-talk. 

1st Quarter


11:48: Annnnnnd we're off. Tyson Chandler maybe would have finished that lob from Jameer Nelson 4 years ago. Great play design by Carlisle out of the gate, though. 

10:32: Jameer Nelson looks geriatric. In other news, Danny Green is still wet. 

9:31: These are 2 of the best 5 X-O coaches in the NBA. Love the game of chess that goes on between Pop and Carlisle.

9:12: Holy Chandler Parsons. Slick in-and-out dribble punctuated with a flush over Timmy Duncan.

7:53: Dirk joins the party. The Red Mamba (Bonner) bit on Dirks' pump-fake. He then calmly buried a 14-footer. 

7:04: Dirk strips Duncan in transition and shouts "AAHF HIS LEHG". Reminded me of this

6:22: Ginobili checks in. No fouls have been called yet. This is an enjoyable brand of basketball.

Commercial Break thoughts: one way to measure coaching is what they do after time outs, stoppages

5: 38: Poor perimeter defense from SA. Both Jameer Nelson and Monta Ellis are getting into the painted area at will. 

5:18: Tyson Chandler doing what Tyson Chandler does. 

3:50: Sloppy sequence ends with a Tony Parker corner three. 

Commercial break: It's funny because the last time I watched the spurs play, they were playing perfect basketball. this is far from it. 

2:50: Aaron Baynes denies Parsons at the rim and Bellinelli buries a 3. Jameer Nelson cans a 3 on the other end. Both offenses seem to be picking up.

2:03: Yikes. Tyson Chandler tweaked his back on one of the attempted lobs. Heading to the locker room.

1:27: Devin Harris looks sharp: mid-range jumper and alley-oop to Brandan Wright on consecutive possessions. 

0:47: First one-footed-fallaway jumper of the year for Dirk, this one with a members bounce. Those never get old.

Nice execution by the Mavs at the end of the 1st quarter. 

2nd Quarter

11:54: Spurs begin 2nd Q with some full court pressure.

10:08: Baynes is kind of good. Old school. There may be a new Big Fundamental in San Antonio. 

9:41: Dirk has now been dropped by Boris Diaw twice. LOL

9:18: Not surprisingly, Danny Green has clearly continued to work on his in-between game. Two smooth looking mid-range Js thus far. 

8:14: Richard Jefferson's corpse! He's alive! Dang, Jameer Nelson has now hit 3 3s.

7:27: Greg Anthony was describing Richard Jefferson's "evolution" which most of us would describe as "decay"

4:28: Tony Parker hits a jumper off of a Duncan screen --going to his left. He rarely shoots jumpers going to his right off pick-and-roll. He has a fairly quiet 10 points. Mavs lead by 3.

4:22: Dallas defensive rotations have been really solid. The back-side guard has disrupted an interior pass on several occasions (Parsons the recipient twice)

3:32: Beautiful fast-break by Parsons and Jefferson. I dream about running those fast-breaks at Gregory Gym. My life is very average. 

2:39: Out of a timeout, Ginobili posted-up Parsons and scored. Interesting. 

1:22: Attention teams who don't shoot corner 3s: watch this game. There have been about 7 between the two teams.

Mavs lead 53-45.












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