Chicago Bulls 101, Orlando Magic 93
by Evan Dunlap on Jan 3, 2010 1:38 AM EST
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PrintTonight against the Chicago Bulls, the Orlando Magic tempted fate by trying to make it 3 straight games playing down to the level of their competition, only to "flip the switch" and seize the lead at will and come up with the win. It didn't work: poor effort on the glass and some ice-cold shooting doomed them to their 9th defeat of the year, losing by a final score of 101-93. In his third game since re-joining the starting lineup, Matt Barnes led Orlando with 23 points and 5-of-6 shooting from three-point range, while reserves Ryan Anderson (12 points, 9 rebounds) and J.J. Redick (11 points on 68.8% effective field goal shoting) soundly outplayed the starters at their respective positions. Indeed, Rashard Lewis sat out the latter stages of the 4th quarter while Anderson helped the Magic rally. Despite his 3-of-15 shooting performance, Carter probably would have played down the stretch had he not rolled his left ankle trying to elevate for a layup; Josh Robbins reports that Carter insists the injury isn't serious and that he'll attempt to play in the Magic's next game this Tuesday. In any case, the Bulls didn't necessarily out-play the Magic, but they out-worked and out-hustled them, which proved to be the difference.
| Team | Pace | Efficiency | eFG% | FT Rate | OReb% | TO Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magic | 93 | 100.0 | 43.5% | 14.1 | 29.6 | 12.9 |
| Bulls | 91 | 110.9 | 44.3% | 27.6 | 33.3 | 13.2 |
| Green denotes a stat better than the team's season average; red denotes a stat worse than the team's season average. | ||||||
Bulls point guard Derrick Rose led all scorers with 30 points, just 2 shy of his career-high, while earning a career-best 10 free-throw attempts. Rookie power forward Taj Gibson also notched a career-high mark, with 7 offensive rebounds. Lewis lost Gibson and backup center Brad Miller on the offensive glass far too many times tonight, prompting coach Stan Van Gundy to pull him for good at the 5:55 mark with his team facing a 15-point deficit, its largest of the night. After the game, Van Gundy said his power forwards "have gotta take a little more pride in taking other guys off the glass." Friday, they allowed Wolves power forward Kevin Love to snare 8 offensive rebounds, so it's easy to see why Van Gundy's so concerned.
It could just be a coincidence, but Orlando reeled off 10 straight points after subbing Anderson in for Lewis, a run Anderson capped with a three-pointer to bring Orlando to within 5 with just over 3 minutes to play.
Orlando's impressive late rally came up short, and unsurprisingly so. Van Gundy expressed astonishment that his team was even within "shouting distance," the way that it had played, and so was everyone else who was watching. Elite teams do not have to rely on making late scoring runs in order to win games: they bury opponents early, quell the inevitable run or two that the opponent will make, and call it a night. Van Gundy put Barnes in the starting lineup hoping that he'd be the spark. And while Barnes has played well since returning to the starting 5, his presence hasn't been enough to reverse the trend of Orlando playing from behind. Tonight was the 8th time in their last 11 games the the Magic trailed at halftime.
With 5:38 to play in the opening half, Anderson sank 2 free throws to give Orlando a 45-37 lead. The Magic weren't dominating the Bulls by any means, but they were playing reasonably well and showed no signs of coughing the lead up. Chicago proceeded to go on a 15-3 run to end the half, scoring its final 9 points to take a 52-48 lead, not to mention momentum, into the locker room.
So how'd it fall apart so quickly tonight? Far too many one-and-done possessions. Orlando missed its final 8 shots, committed 2 urnovers, and only converted 3 foul shots in 6 tries. The Bulls, meanwhile, shot 7-of-12 to close the half. Gibson quietly cleaned up Chicago's few errors in this stretch, tipping in his own miss and, on the next possession, shoveling an offensive rebound to Luol Deng for a dunk.
Maybe that prolonged cold streak in the 2nd period wouldn't have been so bad if it didn't carry over into the 3rd. Chicago opened on an 11-2 run, while Orlando came up empty on 6 of its first 7 possessions: 5 missed jumpers, 2 turnovers (1 after the Magic's only offensive rebound of the sequence), and 2 missed free throws from Dwight Howard. By that point, Chicago had taken a commanding 13-point lead, and it was clear that Orlando would have to start making shots quickly in order to make a comeback.
It may appear as though Rose was the player who really did the Magic in, with his 30 points, 6 rebounds, and 7 assists. Thing is, I'm not sure if that's necessarily true, because the Magic couldn't have defended him much better. They fouled him too much, yes, but they also forced him to take 16 of his 23 shots from 10 feet out to the 3-point line. This season, Rose is a 38.3% shooter outside of 10 feet. Tonight, that's where he did most of his damage, shooting 7-of-16 from 10 feet and beyond. They forced a mediocre jump-shooter to take a ton of jump-shots. The problem was that he converted. I'm fully prepared for readers to rip into Magic point guard Jameer Nelson in the comments, after allowing Rose to outscore him 30-10. And Van Gundy said one of the issues his team needs to address is that opposing point guards tend to have big scoring nights against Orlando. I'm not sure what else Nelson and his backup, Jason Williams, were supposed to do with Rose tonight, though. He sagged off him a bit, especially in transition, in order to prevent him from driving the ball. So Rose just pulled-up and drained jumper after jumper. Nelson and the Magic played the percentages, but Rose's performance tonight was the exception to the rule. I maintain that the Magic's poor job of rebounding, and their own poor shooting, had more to do with this loss than Rose's jump shot.
Among the reasons the Bulls are among the league's least efficient teams is their over-reliance on long two-pointers. They average 30 long two-pointers per game compared to 11 three-point attempts. Tonight, they took 39 long two-pointers compared to only 5 three-pointers. Orlando forced an inefficient offensive team to take even more inefficient shots than usual! The problem was that Chicago earned 7 more foul shots and grabbed one-third of its own misses. Forcing bad shots doesn't do much good if you let those possessions continue.
Another stat that jumps out: Howard's lack of involvement in the offense. The Magic's franchise center had approximately 11 shooting possessions in 33 minutes. Only Rashard Lewis (~10) had fewer shooting possessions among Orlando's starters. This one night after bringing up the rear among Magic starters in shooting possessions. I don't believe Howard is too upset with his lack of touches--if he is, he's awfully quiet about it--but Van Gundy lamented the offense's lack of balance in recent weeks. Orlando launched 37 three-pointers for the second consecutive game. He said most of them were good, open looks that he wants his team to take, but he also said there are times when Magic players will take open threes even if Howard "has his man sealed" under the hoop, in which case he'd rather them make the entry pass and let Howard go to work. I expect Orlando to force-feed Howard the ball Tuesday night in Indianapolis, where the Magic will conclude this three-game road trip.
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the beast is starving.
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by Wmillion on Jan 3, 2010 2:21 AM EST via mobile reply actions
What a goddamn embarrassing performance tonight.
This team just doesn’t seem hungry anymore. Boston looks hungry for another title after we knocked them out last year and Cleveland is definitely hungry for a title after we embarrassed them (plus, they need a reason for the King to stick around). The Magic have taken a step back for some reason, and they’re better than those teams. Hopefully they snap out of it.
Leadership on the court
D12 doesn’t have it. If he is flat, we are flat.. The team follows it leader.
That is why you have to feed the beast.
In the series that D12 dominated we played lights out. In the series were he got neutralized, we struggled.
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To be frank, Orlando seems bored.
I could be wrong but that’s the vibe I’ve been getting from the Magic for a while.
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SVG needs to channel his inner Chuck Daly and start cracking the whip.
Basketball teams need to be somewhat afraid of their coaches, I think. Either that, or afraid of their team leaders (like Kobe and LeBron). The Spurs look like they’re playing a different game than the Magic are at this point in the season. They’re focused, driven and determined. Even when they were up twenty-five over the Heat on NYE, they were still fired up on every play. Just compare the way that Tim Duncan reacts to the game with the way that Dwight and Vince react to it.
I love the Magic, and I dig their friendly vibe, but they need to start getting competitive if they want to contend. There’s just no other way to put it.
tough spot for SVG
teams not responding.. I think he needs to go D12 and get this deal figured out ASAP.
We are ultra talented because most teams would barely be a .500 team based on all that has happened this season.
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Orlando is ultra-talented.
Which is what makes it all the more unsettling that we’ve been behind at half-time in 8 of the past 11 games.
Or... you know, not.
Listen, if you have a team that’s relatively easy-going, maybe you let that happen. Like, they’ve responded well to pressure before. But they can’t spend a whole season acting all intense… that’s not their thing. Judging by last year, they can handle it for a month or two, especially when there’s a REASON to be intense. But if they try to force it now, they’ll be burnt out on it by the end of the season. Better to win 55 and keep your sanity than win 60 and be in pieces by the playoffs, right?
It's a good thing Larry Bird's initials weren't MJ. '80s basketball was confusing enough -- Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Marles Jarkley, Mominique Jilkins... Makeem Jolajuwon...
Still, I think the players understand what it takes to get back to the Finals.
I’d be concerned about the Magic’s lax attitude if the team didn’t play in the NBA Finals this past season but I’m not because I get the feeling the players are pacing themselves. Let’s be frank, seasons are a grind and not every team in the NBA is going to be intense for nearly all 82 games. That’s just impossible, unless you’re the 1996 Bulls, a team with Kevin Garnett, etc.
Look back at history and there’s many teams that were historically known for going on cruise control during the regular season and then turning on the switch in the playoffs – 2001 Lakers, for instance.
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It's the NBA.
Losses happen. Every contender this year has its flaws. LA was helped by its extremely home-heavy early schedule, Boston was helped by its easy early schedule. The Magic’s record is right up there with them. I’m sure Boston fans were crying out after they lost back-to-back games against the Clippers and the Warriors.
As I was just saying in an earlier post, it seems that the Magic keep on having these outlier performances against them, and tonight was no different. I mean, you WANT Rose taking those shots. That is playing him by the book. It’s becoming a ridiculous trend now where they play along with the strategy pretty well and have it somehow blow up in their face. Very frustrating.
The defensive rebounding and lack of Dwight in the offense has to change though.
And who was matched up against Flynn?
The same guy who’s gotten worked by Aaron Brooks, Mo Williams, Rondo, Westbrook, Rodney Stuckey, Deron Williams, Devin Harris, and the list goes on.
Flynn made 5 3's...
You WANT him to take those shots. Just like you want Rose to take jump shots, and Rondo. If they make those, well, it’s just not your night. I honestly don’t believe you have watched any other team play besides the Magic if you don’t understand that.
And honestly, I thought Rondo was played well for the most part on the Christmas game. He had 0 assists to 6 TO’s in the first half, and a good chunk of his points were on offensive rebounds or tough shots over Dwight (coincidentally, the Celtics only scored 38 points, the Magic just couldn’t score at all). It wasn’t until the fourth quarter when he started playing really well.
Jameer Nelson isn’t the only one guarding these guys. He averages the fewest amount of minutes out of any of the mainstays in the starting lineup. Jason Williams has to take some of the responsibility as well. Also, the Magic employ a team defensive scheme. It’s not about locking down one guy. The system is designed to give poor shooters open jump shots, or against the better players stick to them on the perimeter and if they get by you, so be it. Dwight is then supposed to protect the rim with the forwards sealing off Dwight’s man to prevent offensive rebounds.
Just so you know, all you're doing here is explaining (or attempting to) why Jameer is consitently outplayed by opposing pg's this year.
You do it fairly well, but it doesn’t change the fact.
Just so you know...
You’re just showing that you’re not reading anything before you post something.
I was merely saying that Jameer is not one of our biggest problems. I’d say consistent effort across the board, rebounding from the PF position lately, and inability to get Dwight involved with the offense are far greater problems.
Based on who else is in that clip, that game happened in either March 2003 or January 2004
It’s now January 2010. Lewis is 30 years old. He won’t do things like that very often anymore.
too bad Shard has that big deal.
Not sure RA couldn’t do the same with the same minutes. Don’t have the advanced stat data..
I know RA has a slightly higher FG%, FT%, but Shard shoots a better 3 ball.
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They're nearly identical offensively, when looking at the numbers.
Some differences between the two is that Anderson is the better rebounder but Lewis takes care of the ball and is the superior defender. With Van Gundy, that last attribute trumps everything.
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Yes.
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"The second unit is kind of crazy because the second unit is only white guys." - Marcin Gortat
I agree about the strategy re: Derrick Rose.
I thought Nelson again looked good both offensively and defensively last night. He had some quick drives to the basket, and some good ball movement going on.
While Rose may be a mediocre shooter, his ability to slash into the paint is eye-popping. He’s explosively quick and has a nice follow-through. It seemed like the Bulls noticed how lackluster we were on the defensive boards, and then tried to take advantage of that by driving inside quite a bit. Another thing I noticed is that the Bulls have terrible ball-handling skills — they turned it over a ton during the first half.
Overall, yeah…Rashard and Vince were invisible offensively, we had no energy, and we took too many three-pointers when Dwight could have posted up inside more. (Although I will give props to Joakim Noah — that’s a really good center right there.)
The Magic shot 14 of 37 from three (37%).
The threes weren’t the problem; it was the offense not being ran inside-out.
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More Bass
I know Ben broke down the stats on Twitter, but it seems like a small sample size to make a statement. If the 1st half of the season is when you tinker, we need to see BASS ASAP!! The fact we are playing so d@mn sloppy and we still continue to bench Bass doesn’t make sense.
Is Shard ever going to rebound efficiently? Shard has no double digit rebound games? Ryan Anderson has two 9 rebound games and 1 double digit rebound game.
I hope Meer heals quickly, he is really inconsistent right now.
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and yes
when in the hell is brandon gonna get some burn? you’re telling me he couldn’t have scooped up some of those rebounds that taj gibson got last night? gimme a break stan, play the guy.
Doubt it.
Bass isn’t a good rebounder.
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Based on his career.
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He was a mediocre rebounder last year, and he was a mediocre rebounder the year before.
Look at his stats from the last two seasons in Dallas… he had PLENTY of playing time, and yet they’re pretty much in line with the rebounding stats of Tony Battie last season here — or Anderson as a rookie in NJ. But Bass isn’t a rookie; he’s been around long enough that if he was a skilled rebounder, we would’ve seen it at some point in his career. We haven’t seen it.
All of which is not to say that Bass is a bad player… but he’s probably the weakest rebounder of our three PFs. (Lewis’ numbers are slightly skewed by the fact that he almost never goes for the offensive board… almost all his rebounds are defensive. If he crashed the boards on offense, he could probably bump up that rebounding stat slightly… but it would destroy our transition D.)
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Rashard has had three double-digit rebounding games.
Thing is, Lewis has never been a good rebounder so why expect him to suddenly become Rodman on the glass? It’s not going to happen and if you think Anderson (who’s the best of the trio) or Bass are going to change that, get ready to be disappointed because they’re not good rebounders. Despite all the complaining about the lack of rebounds, the Magic are first in defensive rebound percentage.
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because they have the best rebounder in the game.
The site I was using must be wrong. It gave me the wrong stats for Lewis and Jameer.
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pretty pathetic effort last night
ive had a bad feeling about this team, despite wins, for a couple weeks now. they hardly ever bring the effort to games that they showed so often last year. this season, the strategy is more, keep it close, drop bombs in the last 6 min to pull ahead. that aint gonna cut it. i dont know if stan is being tuned out but watching these guys coast through every game really frustrates me.
Remember, they've been injured/short-handed for months.
Even the guys who HAVEN’T been injured have been playing cautiously, because this team was held together by duct tape for a while. That’s not true any more — everyone’s basically healthy — but it may take some time for the Magic’s style to reflect that.
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Seriously pathetic
If you can’t get your best player the ball there is a problem. Dwight hasn’t topped 15 attempts all game- what other All Star can say that? That is not a good thing. The guy isn’t even averaging double digit attempts.
If you have the most dominate C in basketball feed the man. Would rather see a telegraphed move from Howard who shoots 61% from the field or fade away jumper from VC who shots 40% from the field.
I think Howard needs to improve his O, but that comes with repetition, he isn’t seeing it.
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The Magic, this year, struggle on back-to-backs.
I think that’s why Orlando didn’t play so well in yesterday’s game. Lack of effort, energy, etc.
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You know, Jameer's back. That's all that matters to me.
I was worrying about the guy, and he turned in two solid performances on back-to-back nights. Unfortunately, most of the team didn’t join him in Chicago, but in the long run, we need Jameer. So to see him out there playing like Jameer… well, it works for me.
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Seriously
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by Wmillion on Jan 3, 2010 2:36 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Man, just look at the stats from last year.
We’ve gone over this — a 10-game fluke in the early season (when the whole team was struggling on defense due to the absence of Lewis) plus a few games where the guy’s coming back from injury doesn’t invalidate what we saw last year for the better part of a season. I’m tired of this. You have no memory. You want to worry, worry about Carter — he’s NEVER played well for us for any length of time.
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No, I feel good about Carter.
He makes the Magic’s offense pretty dynamic. And when his shots are falling, he’s as good as any SG out there, forgetting about Kobe.
We’ve gone over this? Maybe, but you (or anyone else) pointing to 40 games last season to justify a complete letdown of a season from Jameer doesn’t settle anything. He is playing really bad. You should repeat that several times until you understand.
Yeah, he was pretty average for those ten games.
Those ten games without Rashard. REAL worried about that. Yep.
And oh, god, those four games after he missed over a month with that knee injury? What was he THINKING, recovering from a knee injury IN THE MIDDLE OF A SEASON?
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Not sure what your point is.
I suppose it’s just someone else explaining their reasons why Jameer is having a bad season rather than just accepting the fact. Yes?
I'm saying "having a bad season" is a patently ridiculous way of phrasing "was slightly below his averages for three weeks."
Even if you add “and spent another week recovering from an injury”, what you end up with is still ridiculous.
It's a good thing Larry Bird's initials weren't MJ. '80s basketball was confusing enough -- Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Marles Jarkley, Mominique Jilkins... Makeem Jolajuwon...
So what would you call the season he's having so far?
Tell me the patently appropriate description, if you would.
I apologize . . . your description is that he's slightly off.
He’s at 47% eFG right now. That’s bad. You might even say patently so.
You just don't get it, do you?
You’re repeating, “he’s having a bad season, he’s having a bad season”, as though if you keep saying it long enough it somehow becomes true.
In reality, the guy hasn’t even had a season yet. He’s had a month.
And he’s spent a substantial portion of that month clearly battling the lingering effects of an injury. And don’t say “Substantial portion? It was 4 games.” Because I’m going to say, “Yeah. 4 games has been a substantial portion of Nelson’s season so far, because he hasn’t had enough games to be called a ‘season’ by any reasonable measure.”
And yes, counting those 4 games, he’s shot inaccurately. (Why, his numbers are just about exactly in line with Carter’s. SHAMEFUL.) And even not counting those four games, he’s been… not-great. I’ll admit that Nelson had a ten-game stretch to open the season where he averaged 13-14 points and shot 44%.
But if you expect Nelson not to have the occasional 10-game stretch where he averages 13-14 points and shoots 44%, well, clearly you don’t understand probability. And if you think the Magic can’t endure that kind of performance on occasion… well, you have less faith in the team than I do.
Either way, you seem oddly fixated on it, as though it were something more than a ten-game stretch during which a guy was a few points (and a few percentage points) off his game. But as far as we know, that’s what it was. So don’t be. Seriously, I don’t want to hear this kind of panic until and unless Nelson has consistently played poorly for a long stretch of time — in February, maybe. LATE February.
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All-Star break.
That’s what I keep saying. But in the age of “NOW NOW NOW”, some people can’t comprehend that. Oh well.
Yeah, I think that's fair.
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That percentage is below-average but there's still plenty of games left.
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Didn’t Jameer have 6 pts last night? While getting toasted by Rose.
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by Wmillion on Jan 3, 2010 2:35 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
10 points.
And he and Barnes were basically our only playmakers on the court last night. Everyone else either decided to launch 3 pointers or to suck entirely. What I will give Jameer is that he looked energetic and quick, as opposed to the game against the bucks.
Yep, Jameer had a double double last night
10 points, 10 assists.
by NC Magic Fan on Jan 3, 2010 3:14 PM EST up reply actions
You people who are trashing Jameer...
Obviously didn’t watch the game. It’s the only non-negative interpretation I can come to. You apparently also didn’t read the section Ben wrote talking about how they couldn’t have defended Rose much better, and 16 of his 23 shots were outside of 10 feet.
I watched it.
I thought it was 10 the site I went to said 6. Either way your man goes for 30 vs your 10. Good chance we lose.
I know Orlando played it smart, but it didn’t work.
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i wish i got a chance to see this game on encore but i dont think wgn does that.
however, im not totally sure you can lay last night on nelson. as a bulls fan, someone who gets to watch some horrific point guard defense (rose is still pretty yikes in this area), i can say that the bulls ability to defend pgs basically comes from their big men. last night i felt howard was all-around invisible. could this be the reason for some of the pg explosions in ORL? again i wish i could have watched this game again to figure some of this stuff out.
"Oooohhh, cat in the wall, eh? Now you're talkin' my language."
The Bulls looked excellent last night.
Their effort on the court was great to see. The Magic should be embarassed about how bad they looked in comparison.
It wasn't embarrassing. I wouldn't go that far.
The Miami Heat game on the road, THAT was embarrassing.
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Effort indeed!
The bulls were great last night; and it was their EFFORT, DRIVE! Man, it makes us look like slobs. The Magic feel somehow ENTITLED, when for al purposes we have NOT done ANYTHING… yet!
LOL, there's better things to worry about in society than a professional basketball team.
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true but the Magic give us something to really look foward to after a long day off work and school
I know for atleast me it gives me an outlet of my problems and i can have something positive come from something as easy as a b-ball game, i by no means am giving up oon the Magic and I never will but i know we are capable of so much more than we are achiev\ing, but Barnes was ballin last night.
I know, I'm just saying.
I do think professional teams have their place in society by uniting a community behind something.
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