Oh man was it ugly. But it's nice to get out of the house on such a dreary night and hang out with my season ticket holding buddy Pat! I did, however, miss Joe Trippi at DL last night as I've read on the blogs, ah well. I would've loved to thank him in person for the Live8 "press" pass.
We got there a little bit late after I had the bright idea of catching the northbound train from Lombard-South to Walnut-Locust to catch the express train down to Pattison. A) it's just a few stops, why did I think this was the better solution? B) we hopped on the wrong train directly across the tracks taking us to City Hall instead of going upstairs and back downstairs to the right southbound tracks. Ugh. I'm still not 100% comfortable with the trains here. If I'd have been taking them for a bit longer than I have, it would've been mere instinct to go up the stairs, but I saw the train across the tracks and we went for it. Damn me!
I got a few good shots of the action from our seats. It's a nice perch Pat and Jodi have. First row in the second tier, unobstructed view of just about everything. The seats are also well within the range of HipHop's air-powered t-shirt shooter [no, we didn't catch one]. Here's the flickr set of thirteen shots from the game.
Iverson was not in attendance, dunno where he was. Webber was so rusty it was disgusting. Igoudala is just a showstopper. I missed one of his dunks, the biggest one of the night. That guy is like a fucking pogo stick, just explodes to the rim. Korver was about 2 for 20. Didn't hit a shot until about six to go in the fourth quarter. I'm not even going to get started in trying to describe the gameplay of my woeful Bricks. I barely knew the names of any set of five on the floor at any given time. Besides Marbury, Hardaway and Crawford, I really didn't know anyone. Q wasn't there for the Knicks and Mo Taylor was ejected about six minutes into the game. The Bricks are just so woefully undersized. It's gonna be ugly. Somehow, they beat the Sixers by nine.
It's only pre-season, but good God was it ugly.
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