Mar

12

Nets Push Past Depleted Cavaliers 104-99

Posted by Jeff Sack under Main 

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Richard Jefferson scored 24 points, leading six New Jersey Nets players in double figures as the team shot 51.3% (39-76) from the floor for the game as they defeated a depleted Cleveland Cavaliers team Wednesday night 104-99. Cleveland with neither of their centers Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Ben Wallace able to play because?of each having sore backs?were just no match for the Nets. Cleveland had to put a relatively small starting lineup, as they started Joe Smith and Anderson Varejao, instead of Z and?”Big Ben.”

New Jersey basically ran away and hid during the game’s first quarter, and Cleveland could never quite catch up. The Nets broke out to a 38-23 lead at the end of the first period. Cleveland got to within?five points as LeBron James hit a 26 foot trey to make it a 49-44 game with?3:54 left in the quarter. But New Jersey pulled away again and Cleveland was down by a score of 58-47 as the game reached the half.?New Jersey started the third quarter on a 10-2 run, and they pulled ahead 68-49. Cleveland never really recovered as they never got closer than 9 points down the rest of the period and the Nets led 80-67 with 12 minutes remaining. Cleveland never came close to threatening in the fourth.

Jefferson scored 24 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds, in the New Jersey victory. Bostjan Nachbar came up big again off the bench scoring 21 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal, 1 block, Devin Harris scored 19 points, 5 assists, 5 rebounds, 4 steals, 1 block. Vince Carter scored 14 points, 8 boards, 6 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks, Josh Boone scored 13 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 block. Nenad Krstic scored 10 points, 4 assists, 1 rebound.

LeBron James had another monster game as he recorded a double-double, but it wasn’t enough. LBJ scored a game high 42 points, grabbed 11 boards, 7 assists, 2 blocks, 1 steal. Devin Brown came off the bench as coach Mike Brown chose to start the returning Sash Pavlovic. Brown scored 19 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, Damon Jones scored 12 points, 4 assists, 3 rebounds, 1 steal. New Jersey snapped a five game losing streak with the win. They are now 27-38, Cleveland is 37-28.

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