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The Bulls are the inferior ball team without a doubt. 22-point game. We ma have to pack up a little early.
BLOCK! A lot of contact. Butler hits the deck and Wallace makes him look like a child! Bulls double team. C.J. WATSON WITH THE BOMB!!! 20 point game.
TIMEOUT--- 4:22 remaining in the half---
Williams dancing. Williams shakes. picks up his dribble dishes to Lopez! FOR THE JAM!!!
15 point lead for the Nets. They are maing the regular season look like it was long long ago.
5:22 remaining in the first half--- Lopez spins and connects with a layup.
Wallace with the block!!! Sloppy basketball now. TIMEOUT NETS
Wallace at the line-- 6:01 to play as the Nets shoot free throws.
6:47 Williams makes it look tooooo easy as he penetrates and lays it in. Boozer responds with fadeaway
7:17 Blatche with a jumper! The Broooklyyyn chants are defeaning.
Robinson cocks back! Misses the three pointer.
Fancy Robinson! With the finger roll, but Watson gets the floater to sink and-1!
8:44 to play in the 2nd quarter-- Deng bricks the three. Watson with the lay-in
We're back! Blatche called for the foul. Looked like it was all ball.
TIMEOUT
Small lineups n the floor for both teams. The Bulls suffocate Blatche on the baseline underneath the basket.
9:26- STACKHOUSE! with the airball. Third of the game.
9:49- Robinson with the ball and knocks down second consecutive shot.
9:59 Humphries in. Joe Johnson picks up his second foul of the game.
10:10 Johnson again with the dribble and the penetration. Gets the ball up and it's good!
10:43 Joe Johnson sinks the bucket and Robinson answers back.
Bulls haven't made a shot in years. Finall! Boozer connects
Bulls inbound. Robinson takes first shot and misses.
D-Will starts quarter on the bench
Bulls having a hard time getting in the paint and finishing.
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Brooklyn up 25-14
Stackhouses misses another three at the end of the first quarter.
The Bulls are there at the basket. But the ballbangsoff the backboard and never touches rim.
Here comes little man Nate Robinson. And he commits a turnover. Williams with the steal and bucket
1:14 Lopez at the line again...1-1 from the line. 2-2 for Lopez.
1:27 Stackhouse it the national anthem on the nose, but he airballed a three-pointer
1:52 Bulls were scrambling for the ball. They missed three opportunities to score!
1-1 from the FT... 2-2 FT
2:23 left in the first quarter--- Foul shots will be taken when we return to action--
2:43 Butler with the rebound and puts it back after Gibson missed.... On the other end, Lopez grabbed the offensive rebound and missed And-1 opportunity.
Technical foul shot ... Missed by Heinrich. 3:08 Wallace with the strip! Finishes at the basket!!
3:49 Boozer with the jumper. . . Lopez answers back working on Gibson! Beautiful spin...
4:31 Jimmy Butler sinks the jumper... Williams answers back with a drive to the basket. Beautiful penetration. He went by three players before putting it up.
5:12 Gibson sinks the jumper
5:28-- Lopez goes to the line after getting fouled. He got hacked hard. 2-2 from the line
5:35 to play in the first quarter--
Pause in the action...
6:11 Noah with the block on Lopez to return the favor! Boozer throws ball away. Nets ball. Williams with the pump fake. Heinrich goes up. Williams sinks the three!
Deng is cold. Misses wide open three.
Wallace to the line. Misses first free throw.
6:52 Bulls can't connect and take lead again. There hasn't been a bucket by the Nets since Lopez's And-1
7:15 Lopez gets a deflection. Nets can't score again. Noah hit the deck in last shot he missed. He's limping now.
7:53 Boozer with the fade away!
The Nets have gone cold.
8:46 Lopez with the block! AGAIN! Noah this time.
9:27 And-1! Lopez takes it to the rim and Noah fouls him. . . . Williams with the beautiful dribble!
10:00 Nets with the advantage early on. They have their playmakers. Boozers gets blocked again by Lopez.
Boozer gets blocked. Williams stops goes. Tear drop good!
Johnson misses the first shot of the game. Deng penetrates but floater doesn't fall. The Nets coart looks extremely small since everybody around the court is wearing black.
Here's tipoff! Nets ball. Brooklyn wearing their black jerseys while the Bulls are in their red road jerseys.
Where Brooklyn at?! Nets intros take off.
Bulls introduced---Of course, boos are heard.
Stackhouse might have a future in music.
Old man Stackhouse singing the national anthem! Wow. Pretty decent job. Heard some Marvin Gaye in that rendition.
It's Game time! The action is soon to start. Score will be posted on the title with the play-by-play here in the body with time stamp on the left of the play.
Tipoff just minutes away! Hang in there. Tell us who you're going for and what you expect to see in this game!
The Knicks won their first game against the Celtics. The Denver Nuggets are up 93-92 in their game with 45 seconds remaining.
The Brooklyn Nets face the Chicago Bulls in the first round of the 2013 NBA Playoffs as the respective fourth and fifth seeds face off Saturday night. Join us for the live blog with play-by-play, stats and most importantly, up to the minute scoring updates from Game 1 of this postseason meeting.
The Bulls are hurt and barely got in as the fifth seed, but they have one thing working for them in their psyche, they won the season series 3-1 over the Nets. Two of the three games were decided by a total of four points, but the Bulls won the game because of their defense. So without a doubt, Carlos Boozer, who averaged 16.2 points and 9.8 rebounds per game, will have to put up bigger numbers if he's to keep his Bulls in this match.
The Bulls are up against a Brooklyn team that has seen the payoff of a big summer. They resigned players and traded for Joe Johnson. Though Johnson has sort of disappeared in the background of Brook Lopez and Deron Williams, he made key shots throughout the season. This big three will try to win the first playoff game in Brooklyn this evening and if you can't watch the game, then that's why we're here.
In their first season in Brooklyn, the Nets took the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference. They went 49-33 and won seven of their last 10 games in the season. As for the Bulls, they finished their last 10 games with an even 5-5 record. If they are to survive this Nets team, that's healthier, they will need to play great defense and prevent Williams from doing as he pleases.
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There's already an update for this game: Joakim Noah was warming up before the game and looks ready to play in this game. He was suffering from foot problems before the game.
