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November 12th 2007 11:10
Two former Eastern Conference powers notched up their first wins
for the new season and we should stand up and applaud! Let’s give it up for the Washington Wizards and Miami Heat!
After an extremely poor start to the season by both squads, they finally got the monkey off their backs, and hopefully, this is the start of better things to come.
We’ll begin with the team from the nation’s capital who fought off the Atlanta Hawks with a 101-90 win. Caron Butler and Antawn Jamieson for the Wiz, organised a team meeting before the game and basically kicked some ass!
Better yet for Washington, both, Caron and Antawn led by example, taking the team on their shoulders with a shattering performance. Butler scored 24 points, while Jamieson had a further 23, and grabbed 15 rebounds for good measure. Talk about your hardcore performances.
Gilbert Arenas, who has been struggling with his body of late, also came to the party notching up a further 18 points. Let’s hope for the sake of Washington that they can build on this first up win.
The other notable struggling team for the East, the Miami Heat, found a way not to choke, pipping the New York Knicks, 75-72.
Heat guard, Jason Williams was the hero for the day when he made the go-ahead basket with 19 seconds left on the clock. It isn’t a stretch to say that the M-I-A really needed this one with Shaquille O’Neal, and coach, Pat Riley suggesting as much.
We here at NBALOUD have a nasty habit of not covering the best team in the NBA, which is the San Antonio Spurs. Hey, who on earth does give this team their due? They have been so consistently excellent that we expect nothing but sound basketball from the team from Texas.
Furthermore, their superstar players don’t demand trades, father illegitimate children, or have trysts with strippers in Las Vegas! As much as we in the public like to say we want clean cut teams. We all secretly want some scandal.
So, in a rare feat for us in this space, we’re going to write about a Spurs game. Funnily
enough, the first game we choose to cover here was a smack down when they crunched the Milwaukee Bucks, 113-88.
The Spurs fans in attendance would have loved every second of this game as Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan et. al. tore through their opponents. El Loco scored 21 points, and perhaps most impressive of all, he is actually the team leader in points coming off the bench with 19.7 points a game!
Performance of the Day.
Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady have been playing wonderful combination basketball so far this season. Both have been outstanding, but it was, Yao who was the catalyst in their win today.
The Houston Rockets defeated the Charlotte Bobcats, 85-82, with the big two of Yao and T-Mac causing most of the havoc. Yes, we could have taken the easy way out in giving the performance of the day title to both of the Houston studs, but we’ll go with Yao, and here is why.
Yao scored a righteous 34 points and the man hit a pair of clutch free throws with 20 seconds left in the contest to seal the deal. ‘Nuff said.
Today’s video is of the top 10 plays from, er, this day. Enjoy.
Manu Ginobili is a playah! (Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images)
After an extremely poor start to the season by both squads, they finally got the monkey off their backs, and hopefully, this is the start of better things to come.
We’ll begin with the team from the nation’s capital who fought off the Atlanta Hawks with a 101-90 win. Caron Butler and Antawn Jamieson for the Wiz, organised a team meeting before the game and basically kicked some ass!
Better yet for Washington, both, Caron and Antawn led by example, taking the team on their shoulders with a shattering performance. Butler scored 24 points, while Jamieson had a further 23, and grabbed 15 rebounds for good measure. Talk about your hardcore performances.
Gilbert Arenas, who has been struggling with his body of late, also came to the party notching up a further 18 points. Let’s hope for the sake of Washington that they can build on this first up win.
The other notable struggling team for the East, the Miami Heat, found a way not to choke, pipping the New York Knicks, 75-72.
Heat guard, Jason Williams was the hero for the day when he made the go-ahead basket with 19 seconds left on the clock. It isn’t a stretch to say that the M-I-A really needed this one with Shaquille O’Neal, and coach, Pat Riley suggesting as much.
We here at NBALOUD have a nasty habit of not covering the best team in the NBA, which is the San Antonio Spurs. Hey, who on earth does give this team their due? They have been so consistently excellent that we expect nothing but sound basketball from the team from Texas.
Furthermore, their superstar players don’t demand trades, father illegitimate children, or have trysts with strippers in Las Vegas! As much as we in the public like to say we want clean cut teams. We all secretly want some scandal.
So, in a rare feat for us in this space, we’re going to write about a Spurs game. Funnily
No, one gets past the Great Wall of Houston. (Photo by Kent Smith/NBAE via Getty Images)
The Spurs fans in attendance would have loved every second of this game as Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan et. al. tore through their opponents. El Loco scored 21 points, and perhaps most impressive of all, he is actually the team leader in points coming off the bench with 19.7 points a game!
Performance of the Day.
Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady have been playing wonderful combination basketball so far this season. Both have been outstanding, but it was, Yao who was the catalyst in their win today.
The Houston Rockets defeated the Charlotte Bobcats, 85-82, with the big two of Yao and T-Mac causing most of the havoc. Yes, we could have taken the easy way out in giving the performance of the day title to both of the Houston studs, but we’ll go with Yao, and here is why.
Yao scored a righteous 34 points and the man hit a pair of clutch free throws with 20 seconds left in the contest to seal the deal. ‘Nuff said.
Today’s video is of the top 10 plays from, er, this day. Enjoy.
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