GAME THREAD: GAME THREAD: NBA: DALLAS at CHICAGO

NBA: DALLAS at CHICAGO

<div class="pre">DALLAS AT CHICAGO - PROBABLE STARTING LINEUPS

REVISED LINEUPS

DALLAS CHICAGO

F Jerry Stackhouse F Luol Deng
F Dirk Nowitzki F Tyrus Thomas
C DeSagana Diop C Ben Wallace
G Devin Harris G Kirk Hinrich
G Josh Howard G Thomas Gardner

OFFICIALS: Dan Crawford
Leroy Richardson
Ely Roe</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NBA DALLAS 6
CHICAGO 11 8:42 LEFT, 1ST QTR</div>

 

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CHICAGO 17 5:39 LEFT, 1ST QTR</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NBA DALLAS 24
CHICAGO 26 2:48 LEFT, 1ST QTR</div>

 

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Joakim Noah looks really good. He had a nice drive from the top of the key where he got fouled.</p>

Big Ben looks very good. Much better than last year. Even though Dallas is doing good with Howard/Dirk in attacking the Bulls in the paint, or interior defense is clearly very good, compared to that crap show Wallace and Brown put on display last year.</p>

 

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<div class="pre">NBA DALLAS 24
CHICAGO 26 END, 1ST QTR</div>

 

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Joakim Noah looks really good. He had a nice drive from the top of the key where he got fouled.</p>

Big Ben looks very good. Much better than last year. Even though Dallas is doing good with Howard/Dirk in attacking the Bulls in the paint, or interior defense is clearly very good, compared to that crap show Wallace and Brown put on display last year.</p>

 

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<div class="pre">NBA DALLAS 30
CHICAGO 33 END, 1ST QTR</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NBA END 1ST QTR 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
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DALLAS 30 30
CHICAGO 33 33 END 1ST QTR

HIGH SCORERS AFTER 1ST QUARTER

DAL - JOSH HOWARD 12, JERRY STACKHOUSE 5, DIRK
NOWITZKI 5
CHI - LUOL DENG 11, TYRUS THOMAS 5, KIRK
HINRICH 4</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NBA DALLAS 34
CHICAGO 37 9:00 LEFT, 2ND QTR</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NBA DALLAS 40
CHICAGO 40 5:38 LEFT, 2ND QTR</div>

 

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Joakim Noah looks really good. He had a nice drive from the top of the key where he got fouled.</p>

Big Ben looks very good. Much better than last year. Even though Dallas is doing good with Howard/Dirk in attacking the Bulls in the paint, or interior defense is clearly very good, compared to that crap show Wallace and Brown put on display last year.</p>

 

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<div class="pre">NBA DALLAS 43
CHICAGO 48 2:35 LEFT, 2ND QTR</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NBA DALLAS 49
CHICAGO 53 HALFTIME</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NBA HALFTIME 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH TOTAL
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DALLAS 30 19 49
CHICAGO 33 20 53 HALFTIME

HIGH SCORERS AT HALFTIME

DAL - JOSH HOWARD 12, JOSE BAREA 12, JERRY
STACKHOUSE 9
CHI - LUOL DENG 11, TYRUS THOMAS 9, AARON GRAY
8</div>

 

Re: NBA: DALLAS at CHICAGO

Aaron Gray had 8 points and 5 rebounds in the first half. Its amazing that Gray didn't get picked in the first round. Aaron Gray is clearly a lottery talent....obviously a lot of it has to do with the conditioning he did since coming to Chicago, but he is just a very, very good ball player. I think he might be better than Joakim Noah.</p>

People can just shutup now about the Bulls not having a post up presence. They have one now in Aaron Gray. We posted up Aaron Gray time after time. He only had one turnover in all that time. He has good offensive awareness, and avoids getting it stolen, or losing the ball like Eddy Curry did when he was here. Gray can back down his man pretty well. He also runs the floor very well for someone his size. Yao Ming, Shaq, Mutumbo, Duncan, none of them can keep up with him. He gets down there fast, and when the other big man is still at midcourt, while Gray is in the paint, with position on a smaller player, that is only going to help us in our transition game.</p>

Gray is just a downright great rebounder. He has the body and size to not get pushed around at all. He just keeps his position. He has very good hops (32" vertical at combine, likely increased that since coming to Chicago), so he goes up and gets the ball well as good.</p>

Very pleased with what Aaron Gray has given us so far.</p>

Joakim Noah has looked good a bit. Nothing special, but good role player qualities. He had a nice drive where he got fouled, and then another fastbreak in which he got fouled. He hits the freethrows good. He is a pretty good on ball defender on players like Dirk. His rebounding has been sub par though so far. His hands are very stonelike...needs to do a better job at catching the ball. Very reminiscent of Chandler when watching Noah try to catch the ball...possibly worse.</p>

Tyrus Thomas has been downright amazing so far....maybe the best player on the court. His defense is glue like (3 steals 1 block), and he caused more turnovers in which other players got the credit for. He has been boxing out and skying for rebounds very well. On offense, he had a nice slicing move around the basket. He hit a midrange jumpshot. He had another midrange jumpshot that missed, but looked good formwise, almost went in with the shooters touch.</p>

No Ben Gordon or Joe Smith though....but getting Smith acquainted with the team doesn't see mlike too big of a deal, since I doubt he'll find too many minutes with Noah, Thomas, Gray, Wallace, and Nocioni up there.</p>

 

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<div class="pre">NBA DALLAS 58
CHICAGO 57 9:02 LEFT, 3RD QTR</div>

 

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<div class="pre">NBA DALLAS 60
CHICAGO 67 5:40 LEFT, 3RD QTR</div>

 

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In the 3rd quarter, we are primarily running the offense through Tyrus Thomas in the high post. This is one of the things I thought we'd be working on this season, and utilizing it a bit....but not to this extent. It looks really good. Tyrus hit one of his two jumpshots this quarter, had a nice dunk. Kirk is really struggling right now without Gordon, but you have to imagine with Gordon in for Gardner, this high post offense with Tyrus will work way better.</p>

 

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<div class="pre">NBA DALLAS 64
CHICAGO 70 3:00 LEFT, 3RD QTR</div>