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11-21-2013, 03:45 AM
Hey guys, the Indiana Pacers def. the New York Knicks in overtime while the Dallas Mavericks makes a comeback to def. the Houston Rockets
Here are the stories:
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20131120_IND@NY
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George takes over late as Pacers outlast Knicks in OT
Nov. 20, 2013
NEW YORK -- Paul George and the Pacers were down and just about out, seconds away from consecutive losses.
Once a late foul call gave him a chance to tie it, he wasn't letting Indiana lose it in overtime.
"I wanted to attack," he said.
George made three throws to tie it with 5.2 seconds left in regulation, then scored nine of his season-high 35 points in the extra period as Indiana pulled out a 103-96 victory Wednesday night over the New York Knicks, who dropped their sixth straight at home.
New York scored the first 13 points, but this settled into a playoff-type game between teams that met in the postseason last May. And it again went to the Pacers, who bounced back from their first loss after a franchise-record 9-0 start.
"Heck of a win for our guys," Indiana coach Frank Vogel said. "A grind-it-out kind of game. That's sometimes when we're at our best. The offense wasn't really flowing but our defense really buckled down."
George Hill added 23 points and eight rebounds for the Pacers, who beat the Knicks in six games in last season's Eastern Conference semifinals. Just as in the clincher of that series, Roy Hibbert had a pivotal block on Carmelo Anthony's drive to the basket.
Anthony had 30 points and a season-high 18 rebounds for the Knicks, who looked completely deflated after they couldn't score following the free throws George made when Iman Shumpert was called for fouling him.
George then put away the Knicks in overtime, keeping them winless at home since beating Milwaukee on Oct. 30 in their season opener.
"I thought we had the game won," Anthony said. "And in overtime, I don't know, they just walked away with it."
J.R. Smith had 21 points, and Beno Udrih scored a season-high 19 for the Knicks, including a go-ahead shot with 1:21 left in regulation when he appeared to just throw it at the rim when Anthony couldn't get free. The Knicks protected the lead through a couple of missed 3-pointers by Hill, and Anthony made two free throws for an 89-86 lead with 9.2 seconds left.
Shumpert was then called for the foul on George, with replays showing what appeared to be perhaps just a slight touch to George's arm. The All-Star sank the free throws, and Anthony missed on the other end, and Smith was off on a tip attempt.
"It don't really matter what I think or what happened," Shumpert said. "They called the foul."
The stunned Knicks walked back to the bench as if they had just lost -- and pretty soon, they had.
George followed Hibbert's block with a 3-pointer, and answered Anthony's basket with four straight points to put the Pacers in control.
Last season's winner of the Most Improved Player award said he would have deferred in similar situations in the past.
"I would have looked to have someone else to be in that position or that role," George said. "This year, this time around I want to be more aggressive."
The Knicks were again without injured starters Tyson Chandler and Raymond Felton. Amare Stoudemire also didn't play on the second night of the back-to-back.
They now go on a four-game road trip, perhaps what they need with their inability to win on their home floor.
George was two shy of his career high, bouncing back well from a season-low 12 points on 3-for-14 shooting in a 110-94 loss at Chicago that ended Indiana's perfect start.
The Knicks jumped to a 13-0 lead while Indiana missed its first seven shots. The Pacers were only 5 for 20 in the first quarter, but one of the makes was Hibbert's ugly, banked 3-pointer that beat the buzzer and cut it to 19-14.
New York was ahead 42-37 at the half and never trailed by more than four until overtime.
The teams were evenly matched last season, only minutes from heading to a Game 7 until Hibbert's sensational, momentum-shifting block on Anthony's dunk attempt late in Game 6. Indiana went on to force Miami to seven games in the East finals and is intent on doing better this season.
As for the Knicks, they are 3-8, unable to match their strong start last season, certainly not able to keep pace with Indiana's blistering start.
This was a much better performance from the Knicks, who had been critical of their own effort and were coming off a loss in Detroit a night earlier, but not good enough.
Notes: Metta World Peace returned, saying he had fluid drained from his left knee twice in recent weeks. ... Danny Granger is with the Pacers on their trip that concludes Friday at Boston, but Vogel said Granger is still experiencing soreness in his left calf and won't practice until that is gone.
Meanwhile....
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20131120_HOU@DAL
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Ellis sparks Mavericks, come from 18 down to beat Rockets
Nov. 21, 2013
DALLAS -- Monta Ellis is turning into quite a consolation prize after Dallas missed out on Dwight Howard.
Ellis had a season-high 37 points and two key assists late, Dirk Nowitzki led a fourth-quarter rally with 14 of his 35 points, and the Mavericks spoiled Howard's best offensive night in Houston with a 123-120 victory against the Rockets on Wednesday night.
The Mavericks settled for a pair of guards in Ellis and Jose Calderon after Howard chose the Rockets in free agency during the summer. Nowitzki wanted Howard as much as anyone else, but has raved about Ellis all season.
"We're really just playing off of him," said Nowitzki, who also had a season high in scoring. "He's been aggressive, he's been shooting the ball well, but what's been great is that he has been making plays for others. He's making all of us better."
Howard, playing in front of Dallas fans for the first time since his big decision, made his first 11 shots and scored a season-high 33 points to go with a game-high 11 rebounds after receiving some mild pregame boos.
The Mavericks, who improved to 6-0 at home, trailed by 18 late in the third quarter but were down only one in the final minute when Ellis drove and zipped a pass to Shawn Marion in the corner for the go-ahead 3-pointer with 47 seconds left.
Houston's James Harden had a chance to tie it with nine seconds left but missed the second of two free throws, keeping Dallas' lead at 121-120. Calderon made two free throws after a Houston foul, and Harden shot an airball on a 3-point try in the final seconds.
The Rockets had 101 points after three quarters -- 50 of them in the paint -- but set the tone for the fourth by starting it with four consecutive 3-pointers, all misses.
"In the fourth quarter, we went away from what we were doing the first three quarters," said Howard, who had four alley-oop dunks in the first half. "We've just got to read how teams are playing us. It's growing pains. We have a very young team. We've got to realize what we can do as a team."
Howard, who was 12 for 16 from the field and even made nine of 13 free throws, hit one of two from the line for a 119-114 lead before Nowitzki hit a jumper, then blocked a shot by Howard on the other end.
Ellis assisted on a dunk by Marion, and after Chandler Parsons missed a layup, Ellis found Marion for the go-ahead shot. Ellis finished with eight assists.
"We stayed together as a team," Ellis said. "We got the defensive stops when we needed and came down and made shots on the other end."
Nowitzki passed Reggie Miller for 15th on the NBA scoring list, with the 35-year-old in his 16th season going ahead of Miller on a free throw after a technical foul for defensive 3 seconds called against Howard. Nowitzki now has 25,298 points.
Miller, the second-most prolific 3-point shooter behind Ray Allen, scored 25,279 points in 18 seasons with Indiana from 1987-2005.
Brooklyn's Kevin Garnett is 14th at 25,340 points after scoring four in a 95-91 loss to Charlotte on Wednesday night.
"We never could get a handle on them," Rockets coach Kevin McHale said. "We just couldn't get them stopped the whole game. Dirk and Ellis got what they wanted."
The Rockets led by 18 late in the third quarter before the Mavericks rallied in the fourth by shooting 74 percent and outscoring Houston 36-19.
After Dallas got to 104-101, Houston went back up by nine on consecutive 3-pointers from Patrick Beverley and Harden, who had 23 points on 6-of-14 shooting.
The lead was still nine when Calderon and Nowitzki hit 3-pointers around a bucket by Harden, setting up the wild finish.
"It would have been easy to drop our heads and stop playing, but these guys aren't going to do that," Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said.
Parsons had 21 points and a game-high 11 assists, but he attempted only two shots in the second half after scoring 18 and hitting three of four from 3-point range before halftime.
"It's just annoying and frustrating to know we should have won the game," Parsons said. "We had a big lead and then we played completely different in one half than we did in the first half."
Samuel Dalembert, the defensive-minded center Dallas signed after Howard chose Houston, was powerless to stop him most of the night before finally getting a block on a layup try that was just Howard's second miss.
Dalembert led the Mavericks with 10 rebounds and four of their five blocks.
A night after shooting 72 percent in the first half of a blowout win over Boston, Houston was at 68 percent at the break against Dallas and had 36 points in the paint -- 16 of those on dunks -- in taking a 68-61 lead.
Notes: Nowitzki got a technical foul in the first half for complaining about a foul on a drive by Harden, who missed the free throw. ... The Rockets shot 75 percent in a 40-point first quarter. Harden, Parsons, Terrence Jones and Omri Casspi combined to go 5 of 6 from 3-point range as Houston took a 40-29 lead.
credit: cbssports.com
Here are the stories:
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20131120_IND@NY
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George takes over late as Pacers outlast Knicks in OT
Nov. 20, 2013
NEW YORK -- Paul George and the Pacers were down and just about out, seconds away from consecutive losses.
Once a late foul call gave him a chance to tie it, he wasn't letting Indiana lose it in overtime.
"I wanted to attack," he said.
George made three throws to tie it with 5.2 seconds left in regulation, then scored nine of his season-high 35 points in the extra period as Indiana pulled out a 103-96 victory Wednesday night over the New York Knicks, who dropped their sixth straight at home.
New York scored the first 13 points, but this settled into a playoff-type game between teams that met in the postseason last May. And it again went to the Pacers, who bounced back from their first loss after a franchise-record 9-0 start.
"Heck of a win for our guys," Indiana coach Frank Vogel said. "A grind-it-out kind of game. That's sometimes when we're at our best. The offense wasn't really flowing but our defense really buckled down."
George Hill added 23 points and eight rebounds for the Pacers, who beat the Knicks in six games in last season's Eastern Conference semifinals. Just as in the clincher of that series, Roy Hibbert had a pivotal block on Carmelo Anthony's drive to the basket.
Anthony had 30 points and a season-high 18 rebounds for the Knicks, who looked completely deflated after they couldn't score following the free throws George made when Iman Shumpert was called for fouling him.
George then put away the Knicks in overtime, keeping them winless at home since beating Milwaukee on Oct. 30 in their season opener.
"I thought we had the game won," Anthony said. "And in overtime, I don't know, they just walked away with it."
J.R. Smith had 21 points, and Beno Udrih scored a season-high 19 for the Knicks, including a go-ahead shot with 1:21 left in regulation when he appeared to just throw it at the rim when Anthony couldn't get free. The Knicks protected the lead through a couple of missed 3-pointers by Hill, and Anthony made two free throws for an 89-86 lead with 9.2 seconds left.
Shumpert was then called for the foul on George, with replays showing what appeared to be perhaps just a slight touch to George's arm. The All-Star sank the free throws, and Anthony missed on the other end, and Smith was off on a tip attempt.
"It don't really matter what I think or what happened," Shumpert said. "They called the foul."
The stunned Knicks walked back to the bench as if they had just lost -- and pretty soon, they had.
George followed Hibbert's block with a 3-pointer, and answered Anthony's basket with four straight points to put the Pacers in control.
Last season's winner of the Most Improved Player award said he would have deferred in similar situations in the past.
"I would have looked to have someone else to be in that position or that role," George said. "This year, this time around I want to be more aggressive."
The Knicks were again without injured starters Tyson Chandler and Raymond Felton. Amare Stoudemire also didn't play on the second night of the back-to-back.
They now go on a four-game road trip, perhaps what they need with their inability to win on their home floor.
George was two shy of his career high, bouncing back well from a season-low 12 points on 3-for-14 shooting in a 110-94 loss at Chicago that ended Indiana's perfect start.
The Knicks jumped to a 13-0 lead while Indiana missed its first seven shots. The Pacers were only 5 for 20 in the first quarter, but one of the makes was Hibbert's ugly, banked 3-pointer that beat the buzzer and cut it to 19-14.
New York was ahead 42-37 at the half and never trailed by more than four until overtime.
The teams were evenly matched last season, only minutes from heading to a Game 7 until Hibbert's sensational, momentum-shifting block on Anthony's dunk attempt late in Game 6. Indiana went on to force Miami to seven games in the East finals and is intent on doing better this season.
As for the Knicks, they are 3-8, unable to match their strong start last season, certainly not able to keep pace with Indiana's blistering start.
This was a much better performance from the Knicks, who had been critical of their own effort and were coming off a loss in Detroit a night earlier, but not good enough.
Notes: Metta World Peace returned, saying he had fluid drained from his left knee twice in recent weeks. ... Danny Granger is with the Pacers on their trip that concludes Friday at Boston, but Vogel said Granger is still experiencing soreness in his left calf and won't practice until that is gone.
Meanwhile....
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/gametracker/recap/NBA_20131120_HOU@DAL
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb296/tnawrestlingfan/tnaimpactwrestlingfan/img24251391_zps11058e42.jpg
Ellis sparks Mavericks, come from 18 down to beat Rockets
Nov. 21, 2013
DALLAS -- Monta Ellis is turning into quite a consolation prize after Dallas missed out on Dwight Howard.
Ellis had a season-high 37 points and two key assists late, Dirk Nowitzki led a fourth-quarter rally with 14 of his 35 points, and the Mavericks spoiled Howard's best offensive night in Houston with a 123-120 victory against the Rockets on Wednesday night.
The Mavericks settled for a pair of guards in Ellis and Jose Calderon after Howard chose the Rockets in free agency during the summer. Nowitzki wanted Howard as much as anyone else, but has raved about Ellis all season.
"We're really just playing off of him," said Nowitzki, who also had a season high in scoring. "He's been aggressive, he's been shooting the ball well, but what's been great is that he has been making plays for others. He's making all of us better."
Howard, playing in front of Dallas fans for the first time since his big decision, made his first 11 shots and scored a season-high 33 points to go with a game-high 11 rebounds after receiving some mild pregame boos.
The Mavericks, who improved to 6-0 at home, trailed by 18 late in the third quarter but were down only one in the final minute when Ellis drove and zipped a pass to Shawn Marion in the corner for the go-ahead 3-pointer with 47 seconds left.
Houston's James Harden had a chance to tie it with nine seconds left but missed the second of two free throws, keeping Dallas' lead at 121-120. Calderon made two free throws after a Houston foul, and Harden shot an airball on a 3-point try in the final seconds.
The Rockets had 101 points after three quarters -- 50 of them in the paint -- but set the tone for the fourth by starting it with four consecutive 3-pointers, all misses.
"In the fourth quarter, we went away from what we were doing the first three quarters," said Howard, who had four alley-oop dunks in the first half. "We've just got to read how teams are playing us. It's growing pains. We have a very young team. We've got to realize what we can do as a team."
Howard, who was 12 for 16 from the field and even made nine of 13 free throws, hit one of two from the line for a 119-114 lead before Nowitzki hit a jumper, then blocked a shot by Howard on the other end.
Ellis assisted on a dunk by Marion, and after Chandler Parsons missed a layup, Ellis found Marion for the go-ahead shot. Ellis finished with eight assists.
"We stayed together as a team," Ellis said. "We got the defensive stops when we needed and came down and made shots on the other end."
Nowitzki passed Reggie Miller for 15th on the NBA scoring list, with the 35-year-old in his 16th season going ahead of Miller on a free throw after a technical foul for defensive 3 seconds called against Howard. Nowitzki now has 25,298 points.
Miller, the second-most prolific 3-point shooter behind Ray Allen, scored 25,279 points in 18 seasons with Indiana from 1987-2005.
Brooklyn's Kevin Garnett is 14th at 25,340 points after scoring four in a 95-91 loss to Charlotte on Wednesday night.
"We never could get a handle on them," Rockets coach Kevin McHale said. "We just couldn't get them stopped the whole game. Dirk and Ellis got what they wanted."
The Rockets led by 18 late in the third quarter before the Mavericks rallied in the fourth by shooting 74 percent and outscoring Houston 36-19.
After Dallas got to 104-101, Houston went back up by nine on consecutive 3-pointers from Patrick Beverley and Harden, who had 23 points on 6-of-14 shooting.
The lead was still nine when Calderon and Nowitzki hit 3-pointers around a bucket by Harden, setting up the wild finish.
"It would have been easy to drop our heads and stop playing, but these guys aren't going to do that," Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said.
Parsons had 21 points and a game-high 11 assists, but he attempted only two shots in the second half after scoring 18 and hitting three of four from 3-point range before halftime.
"It's just annoying and frustrating to know we should have won the game," Parsons said. "We had a big lead and then we played completely different in one half than we did in the first half."
Samuel Dalembert, the defensive-minded center Dallas signed after Howard chose Houston, was powerless to stop him most of the night before finally getting a block on a layup try that was just Howard's second miss.
Dalembert led the Mavericks with 10 rebounds and four of their five blocks.
A night after shooting 72 percent in the first half of a blowout win over Boston, Houston was at 68 percent at the break against Dallas and had 36 points in the paint -- 16 of those on dunks -- in taking a 68-61 lead.
Notes: Nowitzki got a technical foul in the first half for complaining about a foul on a drive by Harden, who missed the free throw. ... The Rockets shot 75 percent in a 40-point first quarter. Harden, Parsons, Terrence Jones and Omri Casspi combined to go 5 of 6 from 3-point range as Houston took a 40-29 lead.
credit: cbssports.com