Dornado

TV/radio: 7 p.m. Tuesday; CSN, WMVP-AM 1000.

Series: First meeting. The Bulls won two of three last season.

Last meeting: Bulls 85-59 in Orlando on March 19.

Probable starters (PPG):

Magic; Bulls

E'Twaun Moore 14; Kirk Hinrich 4.7

Arron Afflalo 14.5; Richard Hamilton 14

Nikola Vucevic 12; Joakim Noah 14.7

Glen Davis 25.5; Carlos Boozer 13.7

DeQuan Jones 2; Luol Deng 13.3

Team averages (Through Sunday)

Scoring offense: Magic 108.5 (1); Bulls 96.7 (17)

Scoring defense: Magic 91.5 (T-5); Bulls 87.3 (2)

FG percentage: Magic .489 (5); Bulls .449 (13)

FT percentage: Magic .784 (T-11); Bulls .784 (T-11)

3-point FG percentage: Magic .538 (1); Bulls .250 (27)

Rebounding: Magic 46 (5); Bulls 42.7 (15)

Turnovers: Magic 12 (T-3); Bulls 15.7 (T-13)

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Dornado

Well, after the game against New Orleans I can safely say we won't go undefeated this year. The Magic have been shooting well and scoring points early in the year... hopefully we can lock them down. Mostly I'd like to get the taste of that loss out of my mouth... and distract myself from watching election results.

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Good Hope

The Kleszmatics are in town. Think I'll have to go see them instead.

Go Bulls! Go Obama!

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"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." Heb. 11:1

There are better things to hope in than the Bulls, but its fun to try, anyway.

Firefight

Yes, I will be tuned in to this one and tuned out of the political coverage. So glad the Bulls are playing tonight.

Haven't seen the Magic play yet this year, but their numbers look impressive. Baby scoring 25+ a game needs to change tonight...

Hopefully the Bulls come out with some intensity and get out to an early lead with the starters.

Dornado

Bulls up 19-11 in the early going... Luol Deng off to a nice start early on. Magic take a ton of quick shots from all over the floor, or at least they have so far... hopefully they don't fall against us.

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hobojoe

I feel like Davis has had about half a dozen shots blocked already. Vaughn going with Vucevic/Davis/McRoberts in the front court at the same time is scary (not in a good way).

Dornado

Magic keeping it close. 23-22 Bulls with 30 seconds left in the 1st... Kirk got away with a bit of a bump that helped disrupt the Magic offense there, 24 second violation. Came back the other way and threw up a brick from 3 feet away.

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Dornado

JJ Reddick with a J to give the Magic a 24-23 lead after 1

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Dornado

Finally get to listen to the Bulls announcers tonight... so much better.

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Dornado

Magic up 48-43. God do I miss Derrick Rose.

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Dornado

Rip Buzzer-beater makes it 48-45 at the half. Both of these teams look pretty terrible right now... maybe its just me.

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Dornado

66-59 Magic lead right now... we really struggle to generate offense. That's probably why I'm the only schmuck posting in this game thread.

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hobojoe

Good, hard basketball game tonight. Joakim Noah was the best player on the court tonight and clearly the difference. Played great offensively and locked down Big Baby all night with his length inside. Afflalo, Moore and Vucevic did what they could to keep the Magic in it, but Noah and the Bulls were just too much, especially when they started hitting their jumpers in the fourth quarter.

Dornado

Noah to Gibson for a dunk and the foul... bulls up 96-89 with :39 left. Luol Deng has been solid for us tonight... offense has been a little bit better in the second half... Robinson heated up a bit, Taj even hit a couple of 18 footers.

(edit to add: I typed this but forgot to post it... rather than delete it I just posted it on delay)

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Dornado

Davis trying to do his thing against Noah has been pretty fun to watch

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