Basketball

January 2012

BASKETBALL Temple pulls off the upset again No. 5 ranked Duke. With Temple Owl’s stars Khalif Wyatt scoring 22 points and Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson scoring 17, Temple won 78-73.

Temple came up with big rebounds, big stops and tough man-to-man defense to pull off their win. The Owls shot 56 percent (31 for 55) and outrebounded Duke 32-29. http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/ basketball/recap? gid=201201040577

Judging by his first three games of the season, Bynum seems determined to prove to every basketball fan in Los Angeles that this team already has a star center.

With healthy knees and plenty of energy after a four-game season-opening suspension, Bynum gave yet another dominant low-post performance. He barely missed his career-high of 23 rebounds in his second career 20-rebound game,

playing a team-high 38 minutes. "I think I'm getting a lot more touches, so it's easier to be confident," said Bynum, who's averaging 22.7 Bynum points and 17 rebounds in his (Lakers) first three games. "Before the slams one down practices every day, I'm on putting in work, so it's paying Duncan off."

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The Bulls pulled out a win http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/ against the Atlanta Hawks news?slug=ap-nbaroundup with 3.7 seconds left. Luol Deng scored the go ahead basket for the Bulls and finished with 21 points. The reining NBA MVP Derrick Rose was obviously the play Rose expected to shoot the game (Bulls) winner but the play ended goes up for the with Loul Deng scoring. In the shot as forth quarter the Bulls rallied Deng back from a 19-point deficit (9) with Rose scoring 17 of his 30 watches points. “A win is a win and it’s hard to win in this league,” Rose said. “But we know we’re 10 times better than what we showed out there. I felt bad for our fans to see us play that bad.”

The Missouri Tigers held their undefeated season and shut out the Oklahoma Sooners to 33% shooting and out rebounded them 38-23. Missouri is now 14-0 and 1-0 in the Big 12 and caused Oklahoma to lose their first game in the big 12 this season. Marcus Denmon put up 20 points for the tigers, they were 57% at their three point shot, they made 12 of their 21 shots from outside the three point line. "Big 12 play got here really fast, it seems like those 13 games flew by," Denmon said. "We understand this is where teams are made, in conference play. None of those wins before conference matter."

Marcus was the leading scorer but still stays humble and want to continue to win more games in conference. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/

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Ricky Rubio and the Timberwolves forced the Washington Wizards in to their 8th straight loss. The Wolves were playing without beasley and still managed to score 93 points in the game. Love lead with 20 points and 16 rebounds and ricky rubio had 13 points and 13 assists. The Wolves high shooting percentage lead to a 93-72 victory. http://www.nba.com/games/20120108/ MINWAS/gameinfo.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2

The Miami Heat beat the Atlanta Hawks in triple overtime. LeBron James and Dwyane Wade sat out with injuries. LeBron is out with a turned ankle an Wade is out with a sore left foot. Neither are very serious but enough to keep them out for a few games, Chris Bosh and Mario Chalmers had to step up their game in order to pull off the win and they did. Bosh had 33 points and Chalmers had 29. Miami won 116-109 after Bosh hit a game tying 3-point shoot to try the game and force the first over time. “It was a lucky shot,” Bosh said. http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2012010501

Dirk Nowitzki played his 1000th game in the NBA! He has been in the NBA since the 1998 draft, he was drafted ninth overall. The Mavericks played the Suns at Dallas, Dirk was the leading scorer with 20 points with Jason Terry trailing behind with 18 in the game. The new member of the Mavs, Lamar Odom, scored 15 points and got 5 rebounds. The Mavs coach says, “He had good stats, but there are areas where he needs to improve.” The game was close until the third quarter when the Mavs went on a 13-4 point run. Dirk Was the 98th NBA player to obtain at least 1000 games played, Robert Parish is the first with 1611 games played during his 21 season career. http://sports.espn.go.com/ nba/recap? gameId=320104006

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The Suns won their 24 straight games against the bucks almost tying the record of 27 in a row (Spurs beat warriors 27 times straight). The Suns forced the bucks into their fifth straight loss as well. Marcin Gortat scored 18 points in the game with Steve Nash trailing behind with 17.

Channing Frye scored 16 points all in threes, he nailed 4 for 4 even though his previous 3 percentage http://www.nba.com/games/ was only 17. The Suns turned their season around 20120108/MILPHX/ gameinfo.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2 from 0-3 to 4-4.

Kobe Bryant has been taking pregame injections to his wrist to be able to preform normally. He has been playing through the pain for a while now but it has gotten to be too much and must take injections in order to preform at his normal intensity. Kobe has shown he will do anything to get into the game, for example last season he played after having his knee drained several times. Kobe is having a career low in shooting percentage this year and has finally learned to feed the ball to the post and get his shots off after.

No. 15 Hoosiers win a big game against Loins. Indiana University basketball program has been coming out strong this season in all categories across the boards. They have already beat the No.1 and No. 2 ranked teams this season and are creeping their way up the rankings.

Indiana’s Jordan Hull was the leader this game scoring 28 points and four assists. Matt Roth was close behind Jordan Hull with 22 points and one assist.With Indiana beating Penn State 88-82, Indiana showed they can take on any team.

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