Cavs-Nets Game 3 Live


–Port Authority sucks. I hate Port Authority more than any other place in New York City. During the season, the bus left from gate 305. For game 6 of the Raptors series, the bus left between the two PA buildings outside. Today, it leaves from gate 207, yet nobody has idea until we wander around the place for 15 minutes.

–I’ve been relegated to third string media seating up in section 205. This sucks but it also brings me back to my glory days as a Nets fan when I had ticket plans in sections 209, 216 and 239. The high five homies of section 216 will always hold a special place in my heart, though I’m somewhat happy that I’ll never wear a playoff towel underneath a Nets bucket hat ever again. The positive aspect of these seats is that they’re better for watching plays unfold. Premeditated dive cuts, I see you!

–Mikki Moore, wide open in the paint, actually does a jumping jack to alert his teammates that he’s open. That was comedy. Mikki has liked it to the tune of 6 points in the first 4+ minutes, including a facial over Sasha Pavlovic.

–Two 3’s by Kidd, corner pocket and side pocket respectively, put the Nets up 14-4. The Cavs call timeout and metrosexual guy and the Nets dancers come out to fling t-shirts to a crowd that was already given free red t-shirts. What a waste of fabric.

–Jason Collins blocks a Drew Gooden shot and gets it stuck between the rim and the backboard. Man, he can’t even block a shot correctly.

–What does it say about Vince that the Nets are up 20-9 and I’m questioning his shot selection? In a bit of mixed news, Vince picks up his second foul with 2:39 left in the quarter.

–Charge called on RJ. I could’ve sworn Anderson Varejao was still moving, though it might have just been his hair flopping.

–For a team up 9, the Nets have made quite a few stupid mistakes.

End of 1: 22-15 Nets. The Cavs are shooting just under 28%.

–James Gandolfini, a.k.a Tony Soprano, is in the house. I have this urge to breathe heavily and blow the air loudly out of my nose in his honor. I’ve always enjoyed the idiosyncracies of the Soprano character as portrayed by Gandolfini.

–I’m pretty sure an errant Marcus Williams pass just drilled Howard Beck of the New York Times in the face. But I’m not sure because I’m sitting in Secaucus. And the third pick in 2007 NBA DRAFT…goes to…The Boston Celtics!

–Spliff Robinson wins the Russ Bengtson memorial “Stop Shooting” award for the first minute+ of the second quarter. Also worth noting: Larry Hughes is working on a lifetime achievement award.

–The Nets have gotten two shots two go in which the ball bounced up off the back off the iron and straight through. Fuck you, David Blaine. And fuck your magnets. If I didn’t hate Blaine so much, I’d put the Ryan Jones memorial asterisk between both of those F bombs, but I really dislike Blaine.

–It’s Memorial Day soon.

–The Nets are currently (8:06 left in the second) out-rebounding Cleveland 15-10.

–You know in Utah how everyone wears those free powder blue shirts, or how in Golden State everyone wears the yellow ones? Well, today about half the fans are wearing their free red t-shirts. Other than a lack of noise and a mind-boggling disinterest at times, that’s the difference between 87% of Nets fans and real fans.

–Led by Drew and Z, the Cavs clip a once promising 12 point lead to 1. A Larry Hughes jumper gives Cleveland the lead. The Nets are freezing right now. They were at 45% after 1 and now the Cavs are out-shooting them.

–Without Jason Kidd’s four 3’s the Nets might be eliminated already. As it is, his fourth ties the game at 40. And to think, Rod Thorn nearly gave him up for a shit sandwich (Jordan Farmar and the possibility of Andrew Bynum being the bread)…

–Vince hits a pretty leaner. And-1. The Nets should hire a team of 8 year old girls subliminally enter his mind and chant things like:

BE AGGRESSIVE
B-E AGGRESSIVE
B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E
AGGRESSIVE!

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