I won my bet (Nets +200).   Game notes:

• You know Mikki Moore's move, the one where he catches a pass under the basket, then does an unnecessary 360 on the floor before rising up and dunking it?  We're gonna call it "The Chinese Chandelier" from now on.  It was either that or the "Stockholm Finger Up Your Ass".
• It's the second quarter, and Larry Hughes is 1-11 now.  Everytime he misses, the crowd shows its displeasure.  They're not saying "Huuuuughes", they're saying "Boooooo, you f*cking burger".   Then they wish you would spontaneous burst into flames, and that from your ashes Carl Boozer would rise.  Either that or that they were born Pistons fans.
• Things that are more rawkus than the subdued Cavs crowd tonight:

1.  The mah jong game between the old Asian grandmas in my neighborhood every Tuesday night.
2. The NYU student library.
3. A Tim Duncan interview.
4. A screening of Ishtar.
5. The morgue.

Whatever.  The Nets are up 47-39 at the half.  Ilgaukas has 14, Nachbar 11.  Kidd has 9, and LeBron 7.

• Richard Jefferson scores to lead off the second half, and manages to backslap LeBron at the same time.  He slapped him like Rick James.  And now LeBron is pulling a Vince Carter!  Air Pussy II: King Pussy.  Oh wait... there's actually some blood.  Jefferson must have popped that zit that was on James' nose....
• Hughes gets the ball stolen from him, and Mikki Moore to the basket... gets flagrant fouled by Sasha Pavlovic.  Wow, how's that for payback?

Sasha to Mikki Moore: "Hey! Gotta gotta pay back!! (The big payback)
Revenge!! I'm mad (the big payback)
Got to get back! Need some get back!! Pay Back! (the big payback)
That's it!! Payback!!! Revenge!!!
I'm mad!!"

"I don't know karate, but I know KA-RAZY!!!!" 

• On the replay it wasn't really that much of a flagrant.  But then again, if Sasha is hitting Moore hard enough to send him flying, he's hitting him pretty hard. 
• After Moore nails his FTs, Kidd for the three!  It's now 56-41.  The Nets, our last hope for this year's playoffs (seriously: Cavs vs Bulls/Pistons?  Spurs vs. Jazz?  Please give us the Nets).
• Hughes is up to a Starks-like 1-14 FG, and Kidd hits a deuce to make it 59-41.
• Jefferson hits a three to make it 64-45.
• LBJ is rising.  First he hits a jumper, then gets fouled on the following drive.  He hits 1-2 FT.  How to stop a rising LeBron:

1. Stab him with a really sharp Starbury sneaker through the heart.
2. Papercut chamber of death.
3. Poison his fingernails.
4. Foul him, force him to hit FTs.

• Richard President Jefferson for a nice reverse.  68-48 Nets.
• A quadruple team on Ilgaukas!  4 red shirts surround the only Cav capable of hitting a basket.
• After RJ misses a shoot, he manages to tip the rebound out to Kidd behind the arc.  Lawrence Frank calls a timeout so that the crowd can really boo the lackless effort from the Cavs. 
  

Let's pick it up in the middle of the 4th now:

• It's 79-70 Nets with 5 minutes to go after Hughes finally hits a shot (the first basket made by the Cavs this period).  The crowd finally awakens!
• And Vince Carter hits a big jumper, making it 81-70 (the Nets first basket of the quarter).  4:40 to go.  Crowd goes back into a Meadowlands-like coma.
  
• James immediately loses the ball on the next possession.  After a terrible Nets possession, the Cavs have a big possession.  But Hughes misses a three.
• And three minutes later it is 82-72.  There is less than a minute to go, and the Nets are still ahead by 10 despite only scoring 5 points this period; Kidd has missed 4 straight FTAs; and the Nets have only hit 1 FG this whole quarter.  Cleveland has scored 13 points this quarter.
• And now LeBron is hurt.  Wow.  Either he's really hurt, or he's really King Pussy, the second coming of Vince Carter....
• And Kidd finally hits a FT.  Final score: 83-72 Nets.

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