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Chicago Bulls faced the Denver Nuggets on January 28, 1979 at the McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colorado for an NBA regular season game.
Chicago entered the game with an 18-30 record. They were coached by Larry Costello in his first year with the Bulls.
Denver was coached by legendary Larry Brown in his fifth year with the franchise.
Larry had quickly transformed the Nuggets into a strong playoff team year after year despite never winning the ABA or NBA Finals.
This audio recording features announcers Gary Bender and Steve Jones.
Reggie Theus was the Chicago Bulls' number one draft pick this year.
The 6'7 Nevada Las Vegas product hasn't disappointed as he's a leading scorer among all NBA rookies.
For the third consecutive year, David Thompson of the Denver Nuggets has been voted a starting spot on the NBA All-Star team.
Thompson's coming off his most impressive performance of the year with 32 points.
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Welcome to the Mcnickels Sports Arena in Denver, Colorado, the home of the Denver Nuggets who this afternoon play host to the Chicago Bulls.
Hi everybody, I'm Gary Bender along with Steve Jones and Steve we have two clubs coming in here seeking consistency.
Gary, both teams have had their problems. Chicago down early in the season and they've been trying to get up off the floor all season long.
They have had a streak going and look like they were going to get it turned around and they've been down.
Denver on the other hand, got off to the usual quick start and they sputtered and they have been trying to catch the fast rising Kansas City Kings ever since then.
But they have it turned around here playing better basketball.
Well, Chicago has defeated Denver on the two previous occasions winning right here in the Nuggets Arena for the first time.
They want a big game here. They'd seem to and it seemed as though they had things turned around when a back to back series played some good basketball.
And then they struggle again. They've been back down and they're trying to get it back up.
A lot of skill more you visit with him. What'd you ask him?
Well, I got a chance to talk with the arts and ask him if they would really get their situation turned around.
240 pounds from Kentucky. Go, Captain of the Nuggets. Number 44, Chris.
We've got the things that we want turning around. And me personally, I feel that there's some things that I've got to do as a captain and as a leader.
And influence or encourage our guys to come out and play hard.
I know we're lacking a few things, but yet instill with the things that we do have, we've got to take advantage of it.
When you talk about leadership, do you think you can apply that type of pressure and make the Scott Mays, Mickey Johnson and Wilbur Hollins play up to the potential they did a couple of years ago?
Well, not necessarily apply pressure. But I think in terms of convincing the guys what it's all about to come out and play hard and play to the up to their potentials and hopefully get a good result.
So any results. Right. Let's talk about you for a quick second. You're going to go to the All-Star game again, big fella.
And I know you're always happy to participate in those things. You're looking forward to being in Detroit.
Absolutely. As any player in the NBA would say, it's a great honor to be chosen or selected for the All-Star team. And once again, I'm really happy to be a part of it.
On the other hand, George McGinnis will also be playing in the NBA All-Star game, which will be televised right here on CBS, along with his teammate David Thompson.
Again, is coming over, of course, from the Philadelphia 76ers this year in the trade with Bobby Jones and Ralph Simpson. He's a big, powerful man at six foot eight.
And he's been involved in games this year where the Nuggets have been losing close ones. Seventeen games they've lost by six points or less.
I asked George about those close losses.
Yeah, it's been a characteristic of our team so far. And then the losses, I think that after the season gets down to the wire that we're going to look back and feel awful bad about.
But the one thing that's I feel positive about them losses is that we stuck in there and we hung in there and we battled.
You need to stay around to the end more often. You fouled out, I think, twelve times in eleven of those games, your team has lost.
Yes, I've had a problem with fouls this year and we've had a problem winning them ballgames because of the fact that our team goes to me a lot.
And hopefully today I'll be able to stay in the game and make a positive effect on the team.
And so we're ready to go as both these clubs at center circle. Our officiating crew will be Lee Jones, the crew chief, Terry Durham and Hugh Hollins.
You see the starting lineup in Chicago says a starting five. Well, they haven't had it for a long time.
Wilbur Holland at one guard and Scott May is starting to the other forward. He has a ball right now along with Mickey Johnson.
This is Johnson had thirty three points in the game earlier this year against Denver rebound. Bobby Wilkerson looks at it now for the Denver Nuggets.
This is David Thompson. He'll be joined out there by Charlie Scott at the guard spots. Bobby Wilkerson, George McGinnis, the forwards and Dan Issel will be in the middle.
And it's turned over. Scott May comes away with it. Chicago has really been tough on Denver. They played excellent basketball. All the games have been close.
The problem for Chicago is they've been a little lacking in the first year as far as offensive firepower go. They went down and now they have begun to put it together.
They've got their best offensive unit out on the court. Now we should have an excellent offensive basketball game.
David Thompson in bounds of all the Charlie Scott's got averaging just over twelve points a game. That's a career low for him, but he's contributed in other ways, particularly in the assist department.
And we have a traveling call on David Thompson. Thompson was somewhat sensational Friday night. He had a tremendous game, probably his best all around game of the season.
He rebounded well, passed the ball well, played defense well, just did everything to ask for a play of his ability. He had six dunks in that game. He blocked the shot that everybody's talking about.
Here's Gilmore backing in on this. Scott May may try to come away with it. We have a loose ball foul.
There's a problem for us. We're trying to keep Gilmore from forcing the ball inside. Well, you know, they were teammates at Kentucky in the ABA and Dan knows artist Gilmore as well as anyone.
But Gilmore is just able to out maneuver and overpower Dan Issel. And that's where his advantage is.
Mickey Johnson picked up the foul. That's the first of the game just underway. First period, Issel outside rebound. Theus after Wilbur Holland. Holland started this year as the starting guard.
The first twenty one game. He's back in there now. Out it comes to Scott. Back is Theus. Scott having trouble and he's going to have to reset. Nice pass to Issel. And that's what Charlie Scott's been doing.
Charlie Scott's been giving the ball up well and early in the season to hurt him because he wasn't looking at the hoop. Now he's turned it around and gotten some offense going himself.
So the Nuggets got on the scoreboard. Here's Theus six foot seven inside to Gilmore. Seven two against six nine. Rebound McGinnis. McGinnis. What a horse he is on the board.
Well, George McGinnis is all that Denver has ever needed in the sense that they have a big strong guy who can take it through the hole just like that.
Boy, he went around Mickey Johnson like he was standing still. He may have done a little two step. He got away with that little NBA shuffle and they got the hoop and they got a four point lead.
Four nothing. Denver. Theus averaging sixteen point two with the basketball. Scott May hasn't played a lot but boy they're glad to have him back after starting the first game.
He's done undergoing knee surgery second time in two years. Johnson's rebound Wilkerson and we have another foul coming up. Mickey Johnson and he's picked up two in a hurry.
Well, that's been a problem for Mickey Johnson. He's an offensive player and his game sort of goes the way his offense goes. He made two tries at the hoop. He missed them both and he picked up fouls afterwards after trying to get the ball.
As an end result fifty four Mark Landsberger sent and replacing Mickey Johnson. Johnson had that sensational game of thirty three points against Denver earlier this year but he's having some back trouble.
Well, he's having some back trouble and maybe more in his head than anything else. He is kind of a psychological player and when everything is going well for him he plays well.
Wilkerson who has been up and down and he had a streak with his offense was really going well and now he's shooting about thirty five percent from the field and really struggling.
He's in a shooting slump. This guy has started the last fifteen games at forward and Denver's gone ten and five during that stretch so he's fit in very well at that forward spot after playing a guard most of last year.
It's so important to have that team chemistry and get them in the line if they have it. Boy, there's something that's impossible to stop.
And now it's five to Denver. David Thompson, you can see he has the left leg wrapped. He's had all kinds of nagging injuries. Little groin problems, a little knee injury.
He got knocked out early in the season and that hurt him a bit but as he said on Friday night he played his best all-around game. His leg was wrapped in two.
There's a move by David Thompson. All-NBA and for the third straight year on the starting All-Star squad on next Sunday's game. Seven to Denver.
Gilmore against Issel. Nice move.
A little finger roll inside and that keeps Chicago close. Artis Gilmore comes in here. Ford in the NBA and scoring just under twenty-five a game. Wilkerson out to Scott. They're moving the ball very well. Thompson.
Another assist for Scott. Thompson hits outside and Denver's off and rolling. The thing that Chicago does not want to let Denver do is get a quick start here at their home court even though they haven't been a devastating pass.
Boy you can see Lansberger and McInnis going up. There's not a lot of room when they go up. McInnis showing great speed getting that ball down to Thompson.
I don't think David Thompson was quite ready to handle that pass but Scott is.
Charlie Scott, he lost his confidence last year as a shooter didn't he?
Well there's no question about it. He's playing in a new situation coming from Boston to Los Angeles. He tried to fit in with Kareem and some other people there and just did not look at the basket.
He hurt himself but he's back right on top. He's Charlie Scott that we knew at Phoenix and Boston.
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Larry Costello, the Chicago Bulls and Denver's off and moving.
Steve they hit five of the first six shots.
That's firepower in the right places and when you only miss one and Chicago's two for ten.
That'll give you a lead. They're ahead by seven, eight, ten to go and they're trying to apply some pressure into back court.
Wilbur Holland who many people are reminded of Dick Barnett when they watch him play the little jumper the way he picks his legs up.
He's a great opportunity player. You know if he could get down in a fast break situation anytime he can go to the basket he's going to be the first to go.
He's going to get a chance to get to the line and get a hoop.
Well Charlie Scott guarding a little too aggressively on that play. Picks up the foul. His first foul.
First team foul against Denver and Holland will inbounds it from the near side.
Well a problem here. You know we talk about a hand checking rule and Charlie Scott has his hands on him. He's not happy. It's not that much contact.
Gilmore. Lansberger. This guy's a tough rebounder. That shot will count and he's been fouled. A chance for a three point play.
Lansberger his first basket. You know this Lansberger this year had 15 offensive rebounds in one game. That's the top of the NBA.
That's the top. You know that's way ahead of Moses Malone who's the offensive rebounding leader but this kid is down and deep and George McInnis is going to have to be cognizant of that and box him.
He's got good offensive moves in close around the basket. That's where he tries to work.
Foul picked up by McInnis. His first it's an 11 to 6 game. Denver. Three point play and now we have something away from the ball. Lee Jones says that Scott May reached in and grabbed.
So he picks up the foul. That's his first. The third team foul now against Chicago.
You talk about the hand checking rule and again it comes into play. No one's really hindering Thompson's progress but they don't want the players reaching and touching.
Now they Scott look at that Lansberger get up with you the former Arizona State standout. Tom Toholland. Reggie Fias. Fias at 6'7". He's a handful for Thompson but he walks to the ball.
Yeah he did a little bunny hop. He got away with it and then Lee Evans whistled him and he's a little surprised. Larry Costello he's hot about it but then he's got a lot of problems to be hot with.
Chicago started rolling and then all of a sudden they fall back into the problems that plagued them early in the year.
They just haven't had that consistency. Again is trying to get out of some difficulty. He doesn't do it.
Off to Lansberger. The Fias. Rebound by Scott May and he can't get it down. Look at him. Horse awards. Lansberger gets it in.
Anytime you get three opportunities you're going to get it down. Scott May who's missed two layups on timing problems has been there and it's important that they get as many opportunities as they can.
Well after leading 11-4 it's been cut to 11-8 now. Issel trying to answer outside. Wilkerson. Good effort.
Denver came right back with the same thing. You've got to box and either team is doing a good job of it early and it cost them hoops on second and third tries.
Chicago historically has been tough on their front line rebounding wise but Denver that time getting the better of it. Here's Gilmore with Issel trying to hang in there with him.
He likes that move and he's got it. He's got a chance for a three point play. Well an interesting thing about this matchup is normally they try to give Issel some help.
Gilmore is just as dominant in that offense as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. You'll see he works down and deep and once he gets down in there and leans in there's not much that a smaller than Issel can do.
He's on the line with the chance to get a three point play and bring Chicago within two points. That's the first foul on Issel and Issel comes away with it.
Earlier this year Gilmore had thirty one points and eleven rebounds and a game played right here in the Nichols Arena. He's out to maybe duplicate that this afternoon.
Lansberger. The interesting thing about Gilmore is he outscored every center that he plays against. Here's Theus. Well this guy's going to be around a long time isn't he?
Oh he's one fine prospect and all he can do is continue to get better. He sees the court well. He scores good. Hover Holland and to Gilmore they're going to get the big guy and why not?
Oh that'll hurt you right there. That'll hurt more than your pride when you get down and deep like that and get mugged that way.
All of a sudden we have a one point game. Thirteen to twelve. Denver on top. Remember they led eleven four. Here's Issel a little pushing there as they set up the pick. David Thompson a mismatch.
Thompson's going to take him inside. He got away with it and he's fouled. A lot of three point plays here in the early going.
Well we talked earlier about David Thompson adjusting to the guard position. That time he recognized right away he had a mismatch. Went on Gilmore and went right to the hoop. He got him a two point play and a chance to get three and build a lead up to a four point lead.
Reggie Theus picked up the foul and already Thompson has seven points in the game. For Theus his first foul. Sixteen twelve. Denver. Inside again. He tried to front him on that play. Gilmore can't handle it. Boy Larry is really upset. I think he feels they were reaching in on Artis a little.
Well they made a fine pass inside and Gilmore looked like he had an easy stuff and all of a sudden the ball was free and you always look for some help from the officials in that case.
We have five twenty to go first period. Thompson hit one from there earlier. Rebound. Holland. They're getting only one track at it now. Holland on a break. He loves to run. How's that for a play?
That's a fine offensive break that time. He was looking at the hoop and they came to him. He drew the defense and gave to Scott May. He gets his first hoop. Chicago's hanging tough. And we're going to have a timeout called by Denver. They don't like how things are happening right now.
Sixteen fourteen. Denver with the lead at five oh one as Chicago's got boring right back at this one.
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Larry Brown is fifth year as a coach of Denver. It's not been an easy year for him.
He's been up and down normally off to a quick start. His teams and they have played with a lot of consistency and this year they have been up and down.
He's trying to figure out what the problem is so they could get back in first place a place that he's made or a company to be.
Denver looked like they were off and running. All of a sudden Chicago's battle back within two as we pick up the action just inside five minutes to go.
First period.
David Thompson.
Well, he hit so didn't even ripple the court. You know, it's tough try there. He's got nine points and they're going to go back to what got him that lead Thompson scoring nine for him.
Eight for Gilmore. The leading scorer thus far in the early going to this game.
Scott a tough defensive man at six six against six seven.
Theas Landsberger.
Sixteen seconds on the shot clock as Theas trying to rotate around and that's a tough shot off balance couldn't get it. He had enough time to get that ball up but he forced one. Well, that's one thing about rookies.
You got to learn where the shot is. Scott goes down the lane and he gives it away.
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Artist Gilmore comes in here tenth in the NBA and block shots. And there's Holland and Holland. Boy, he just loves to run at every opportunity. He's trying to get down.
He's always got his nose on that hoop. He's looking for a chance to score with him in the line of Chicago seem to be trying to run a little bit more Gary and they've been getting more points out.
Eighteen sixteen. They've been outscored what now? Fourteen to two.
They have really put a good run together. They've allowed Denver only one shot and they got another break.
Holland sets it up. Landsberger a lot of missed shots inside, but it's going to be Chicago's basketball. Let's go back and watch Gilmore.
Lock that shot inside. This is always nice to have a big guy standing around to spot those flies. He fools Scott. Scott fools him right there, but this one can't get up high enough or quick enough.
And Gilmore puts it right back down.
George McGinnis comes in. Also Robert Smith is checked in along with Kim Hughes. Three changes now for Larry Brown's team.
Gilmore. Hughes blocks it. Nice play by Kim Hughes. They called him the Spider-Man.
That was an excellent block by Hughes. Gilmore thought he had a lot more time to put the top on that one. McGinnis shows him how much time you need.
George McGinnis with four points. Twenty sixteen now. As all of a sudden Denver's in trouble. They start to straighten themselves out a little bit.
Robert Smith. There's a guy that kind of grows on you. The more you watch him play out of Nevada, Las Vegas. Only five eleven.
Scott May picked up by Tom Boswell who's checked in and I think.
They had that time too much on the ball. They couldn't handle that one. Well they had a lot of defensive pressure.
He made a tough pass inside and Wilbur Holland just was surprised and not ready to handle it.
So Denver gets to handle the ball. They got a chance to increase their lead with three minutes left in the first period.
That against Denver is their third turnover. Tom Boswell. What a find he's been this year after coming from Boston.
McGinnis changed the shot. And an offensive foul on McGinnis. McGinnis has had foul trouble all year long.
Has already picked up his second. He told Landsberger. No you don't get this block big guy. You'll see him working here.
He's going to go up. He commits himself a little soon. Landsberger is right there. He just takes that big left arm and rips him away.
McGinnis has fouled out at twelve games this year and the team has lost eleven of them.
Here's Wilbur Holland into Gilmore against Kim Hughes. He faked him up and he got the foul.
That's the tough thing about Gilmore. You go up with him trying to anticipate and he'll make you pay for it.
The worst problem is you let him get down and deep and once he gets in there you know you're in a lot of trouble.
So you've got to try and commit a little bit early. He leaves his feet.
The important thing about Gilmore is in watching him this first couple of years in the NBA he was not as confident.
Very confident. Castello is yelling at Lee Evans. He wants more calls down and deep.
But Gilmore was not as confident as he is now offensively. He feels as though he can score on anybody.
He works to get that position. He wants the ball down and deep.
Gilmore now with nine points. Nine of the Bulls. Now I should say ten of the Bulls. Eighteen points.
Two point lead for Denver.
Artis Gilmore has been very, very consistent this year as he's been in his entire career in the NBA.
Here's Tom Boswell. Well he's found a home here hasn't he?
Well there's no question. They got a big fine in Boswell.
Boston had turned him loose and didn't know that he was as good a player as he is.
He's gotten a chance to play on a different coach and a different style of play.
McGennis hustling back. Able to break up what looked like might be an easy two inside.
It's John Menngelt. Will now check into the guard spot.
And Ritchie Theus will come out.
The thing that Denver would like to do is get Chicago down and keep them down.
But they have not been able to do so. Bobby Wilkerson is going to check in and Charlie Scott takes a blow.
So we're going to have Wilkerson operating into the guard spot this time.
Wilkerson, Smith, McGennis, Kim Hughes and Tom Boswell. That's the five in the game now for Denver.
Two minutes to go. First period. McGennis.
George McGennis coming in here eighth in the NBA and scoring.
He is tenth in steals and ninth in rebounding. Not too bad.
A great all-around player and since he's left Philadelphia he's been able to show people that George McGennis is not dead.
There they go inside again. But that's not going to count.
We got a pushing off foul that time.
Gilmore is going to make sure that there was no one to hold him and encumber him as he went in.
And he pushed off with that right arm and knocked Kim Hughes back about five steps.
That's the first foul on Gilmore. John Brown getting ready to come in for Chicago.
Boswell had a good game earlier this year against Chicago with 12 points, 14 rebounds.
Here's McGennis trying to get it outside and it's going to be Denver's ball.
Also Ollie Johnson comes in. So two new forwards.
John Brown, Ollie Johnson, Artis Gilmore and Scott May will come out.
You know May has got to have a problem with conditioning. He hasn't played all that much.
He has not played much but he's a hard-working guy.
Most of the guys from Indiana keep themselves in pretty good shape.
He has just got to get his game, get himself in game shape.
And they didn't get it off. The shot clock runs out.
McGennis couldn't get the ball inside and that's the fourth turnover against Denver.
22-18 the Nuggets.
Denver an impressive win here Friday night.
Breaking a three-game losing streak. They defeated the Los Angeles Lakers.
Holland to John Brown. Brown who a week ago today got a starting call against Cleveland.
Here's Mengyelder playing with a bad knee. Strain ligaments in that right knee.
Holland with Robert Smith on him. And look at McGennis box off.
Again that's a dimension that Denver has not had.
A big strong guy to go up and get that rebound when you need it.
Again a sprain with the two fouls. Kim Hughes picked up from the New Jersey Nets as a free agent.
Kim does a very good job within his limits. And look at that a left-hander shooting a right-handed hook.
Well he stays in his limitations and that time he had a mismatch on Robert Smith.
He could have just rolled inside and stuffed it and he elected that right-hand hook and got it down.
Kim's been very popular here in the Mile High City.
24-18 Landsberger with McGennis on him. Mengyel wide open. Rebound by as well.
Look at Smith go. From the running Rebels in the battle of Las Vegas. He's at home in that situation.
Oswell tries to bottle and Landsberger, a real workhorse, comes away with it.
Landsberger done an excellent job on the board at both ends for Chicago.
Limiting them to one shot, getting the offensive rebound and keeping them close.
They're going for the last shot now this first period as we have 10 seconds remaining in the first period.
Seven seconds. Mengyel was six seconds. He got this one.
And they worked that play to perfection. Used all the time. Denver's not even going to get a chance to get the ball up.
So the Denver Nuggets who got off very quickly in this game on an 11-4 lead have a four-point lead after the first period of play.
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Well, in that first period of play, it was Artis Gilmore for Chicago, scoring half their points, 10 of the 20,
after it looked like Denver might be running off and hiding somewhere.
They got off to an excellent start and Chicago came right back, went down into their strength,
and Gilmore delivered. They need to stay close in the ball game.
During that time out, Larry Costello spent a lot of time diagramming their 3A off their one set.
We'll see how good their offensive execution is.
What does that all mean?
That means score a basket.
24-20s, we pick up the second period. You saw Gilmore on the bench getting a breather.
We have Mingale, Holland, Landsberger, Brown, and Olley Johnson in the lineup.
And Hughes trying that right-handed hook again that he hit earlier.
Here comes Holland. Charles Dudley getting ready to come in for the bulls.
Mingale, one for two from the field in that first period.
Olley Johnson, out to John Brown, who they picked up from the Atlanta Hawks for number two draft pick in 1980.
Mingale, a tough guy. Boy, he got that one kicked out of the...
Two on two. Anthony Roberts, number 21 in the lineup now.
He's the guy battling back from some virus trouble where he lost 25 pounds.
John Mingale on that last offensive series, he was going to get that up.
That was his play no matter what. Kim Hughes just smothered him.
Chicago's going to work again.
He never saw the basket. Holland with Hughes on him, a little mismatch, and now they reset it.
David Thompson picking up Holland.
Olley Johnson inside the Landsberger working on Hughes.
Follow-away. Anthony Roberts has got it.
Boy, you can tell Roberts lost some weight. He's down on weight, isn't he?
He's been down, he's been coming back, he played his best offensive game, actually all-around game against Los Angeles.
All the Nuggets played well. They were happy to see him come back.
Robert Smith was doing the same thing on Friday night.
Smith, you know, didn't hit his first three, but he's got confidence.
He came back and he popped that one in for his first two points.
26-20. The Nuggets by six.
John Brown with Tom Boswell on him.
Wilbur Holland, that little jumper of his.
Intimidation that time from Smith, it was on him tough.
Chicago seemed to have struggled. They bogged down.
They tried to come down with the set offense, and they've not gotten the same type of effort with Gilmore out of the lineup.
When they run, they seem to get easier hoops.
You know, Gilmore almost averages 42 minutes a game, so he's not going to be out of there very long.
Here's Boswell, Landsberger on him.
Smith and Holland, six foot against six, five-eleven.
Two seconds on the shot clock, and Hughes got it.
Boy, he knew the time remaining. He wasted no time.
Well, the crowd was yelling, and the only thing he could do was respond. He got a low pass, but he got a high jump.
Kim Hughes, this second bucket, 28-20.
Mengelt, they're not getting the ball inside, and the reason, number 53's out of there.
Here's Hughes again, and he's taken over in the absence of Gilmore.
Boy, he has done an excellent job of rebounding again, giving the Nuggets a chance to get down and get the opportunity shot.
Oli Johnson with the steal. Mengelt doesn't see the ball, and it's off of Mengelt.
Fine, heads up play by Kim Hughes, who was able to bat it off of him.
Charles Dudley now checks in for Chicago.
Leaving will be Wover Holland, so Mengelt and Dudley will be in the backcourt.
The thing that Larry Costello should be aware of is that his team is losing a little bit of the momentum.
Certainly, I'm sure he's going to make some changes to try to get that right.
If they had it going and staying in the close ball game, they have not scored since the top of the period.
Chicago losing on Friday night against San Diego, and there's David Thompson.
You didn't hear from him for a while, but he's come back now. He has 11 points for the afternoon.
And all of a sudden, Denver has jumped up to a 10-point lead.
They lead it 30 to 20 with 916 to go before halftime.
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Denver with a 10-point lead, and Chicago has the big guy back in there under Skillmore.
Without him in there, their offense just wasn't hitting on all cylinders.
They certainly bogged down, and when they got to the end of the game,
they had no place to really get a hoop.
Now he's got Gilmore back in, and they come right back in to him.
He goes to work.
And Artis Gilmore already has 10 points in the game this foul.
It's going to be Kim Hughes picking up the personal foul, and that's his second.
Red and butter, that's what they always say.
Go to it, and he gets it right down in here, and he knows where the hoop is,
and he knows he's got a strong advantage over Kim Hughes.
He just overpowers him.
He has two shots coming.
Artis Gilmore, I'll tell you, for a big guy, he shoots very well from the line, 76%.
He is the number one field goal shooter in the NBA, with 59% coming into the day.
Well, Gary, I think all the big guys now realize that you get cheap points
with no one guarding you at the free throw line.
They're taking a little bit more time to shoot those free throws a little bit better.
Gilmore, pressured by Olly, or I should say Thompson pressured by Olly Johnson.
Here it comes to Dudley.
Dudley, out of Golden State.
Not much of a scorer, but he's been able to contribute as far as quarterbacking this basketball team.
Again, notice the difference when Chicago has the ball and Gilmore in the game.
They try to push the ball up the floor.
Look out, and Gilmore is hammered as he goes up.
Hammered by Kim Hughes, and Hughes now with three personal,
and they have caught a finger in the eye on that one.
Dan Issel and Charlie Scott are coming in now.
Well, a lot of bodies underneath, and Gilmore gets that rebound off of Landsberger.
He keeps it alive, and again, Hughes doing the only thing he can.
Comes right over the top. You see the hand go across the face there.
Gilmore is down. I'm certain that he's all right.
He's taking another breather.
Well, we're looking forward to seeing this guy in the All-Star Game.
A week from today, February 4th, the NBA All-Star Game from the Silver Dome and Pontiac,
and of course, McInnis and David Thompson will be starting in that game.
They're going to be their big guy, and it should be a good one.
We'll have an interesting matchup because Artis Gilmore is an excellent rebounding center.
And he's going to go against the Vest in the business against Moses Malone.
And we'll see when they get in the basketball game just how they play inside.
Clear out. It's their territory, right?
Dan Issel, 44, in, along with Charlie Scott, who checked back in for the Denver Nuggets,
who lead it 30 to 22, 30 to 23.
Well, with Gilmore going as well as he is, I'm not sure that Dan Issel would like to come back
and take some of that abuse.
The big guy is really overpowering people down in D.
Thirteen points for Artis Gilmore. Anthony Roberts, their second first-round draft pick last year
and a very good player. Thompson, it will not count.
He's been fouled by Dudley, but before the shot.
Dudley, he can't believe it, and he's got to have a conversation about it,
but he was right there again. You know, you talk about that hand-checking rule,
and sometimes the players just don't realize when they have their hands on the other guy,
and the whistle is blown, and it's disbelief. There's no play at all.
And Charlie Scott has backed into Mingale. He's picked up a personal foul, and Scott now with two.
A problem for Charlie Scott, playing excellent basketball, and you'll see Mingale, he takes a little bit of a dive,
but Scott has not been able to stay in the ball game a lot because he has had foul problem.
That's been the story with McGinnis, and they've lost a lot of close ones with the big guys out of the lineup.
Gilmore, tough shot. Anthony Roberts goes up for it.
Anthony Roberts was out six weeks with that virus, had his best game Friday night,
coming in against Los Angeles. Here's Issel. Out it comes to Thompson.
Nice play by Thompson. He faked him out of there beautifully.
That's one of the few times you see David Thompson give a head fake and a ball fake,
and he got him off his feet, got an easy hoop.
It looked like the Nuggets had wasted a lot of good penetration for nothing,
and they still come away with the hoop.
32-23, Theus is getting ready to come back in again for Chicago.
Olly Johnson into Gilmore. They tried to front him, and they got away with it.
Well, that time he didn't have the ball. He had excellent position.
Unfortunately for Denver, he deflected the ball out of bounds.
Larry Costello is going to change his lineup. Dudley comes out,
and Scott May comes back in.
Scott May in. That's the sixth turnover against Chicago,
and they've been up among the leaders in that department all year long.
Scott Thompson, Issel, Anthony Roberts, and George McGinnis for Denver at this stage of the game
at the 726 mark of the second period at halftime.
Have an interview with Kevin Lockery of the New Jersey Nets as McGinnis horses one in.
Boy, is he strong.
Well, the important thing about having that kind of strength is also having control,
and he was off balance but strong enough to get the ball to the hoop and get the basket.
Eight points for McGinnis. Lansberger, the basket will count,
and we have a foul coming up against Charlie Scott.
I think Scott maybe thought he was running, too.
Well, you know, one of those times when a guy wants to stay in the red,
Charlie Scott right there, but not quite there. Lansberger leaves his feet.
If Charlie Scott moved over just a little bit more and not bailed out,
he probably would have gotten the call to go his way.
Tom Boswell, 41, checks in. Bobby Wilkerson will check back in.
Charlie Scott with three personal fouls. Both he and Hughes have three,
so Scott will leave at this stage.
Again, see, that's a problem that Charlie Scott has had.
It's not that he's not played excellent basketball.
It's just time out on the floor, and you can't do anything from the bench, Gary.
There's Lansberger, completes a three-point play, and it's 34-26.
Lansberger now with seven points.
This game has kind of a flavor that they had the first time they met here.
Denver dominated and had the lead, but they could not really big enough lead
and bury them, and Chicago came back in the second half.
See, Fiasso's long arms reaching in. Wilkerson, well, he's getting the shooting slump,
but that ought to help his confidence a little bit.
Oh, anytime you can feather him from out there, you know you're going to put up
a couple more balls, and we'll see what happens,
but he's a player that really tries hard, he works real hard.
Good things will happen for him because he puts a lot of effort out there.
Ten-point lead, Scott May, tough shot, rebound, Issel.
Issel off to Boswell.
Boswell will hold it up.
The McGuinness, George inside, rejected by Gilmore.
That strength against strength there.
Wilkerson again.
You can't bring that cheap stuff in there, so they go to the outside,
and Bobby Wilkerson, he delivers.
You go in there and they test you, don't they?
They trick you.
What they do is they turn their back, make you think it's open,
and all of a sudden they turn around and knock it away.
38-26, six minutes to go.
What a move by Reggie Fiasso.
That's a little Houdini.
Now you see it, now you don't.
Just little flashes like that, it gets you excited about this young rookie.
He is big at 6'7", and he can move inside.
Here's McGuinness out to Issel.
Here's Gilmore, and he's got an off-balance shot.
You know, Issel's had a tough time finding his role on this team.
Well, he struggled, you know, basically he's an outside player
for most of the big centers.
Chicago double dribbles and blows an excellent offensive opportunity.
So we have the ball turned over by Chicago.
Let's look again at Fiasso's move.
A little magic right there.
He showed Bobby Wilkerson the baseline and spun away clean,
and Chicago has a 10-point disadvantage.
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The NBA All-Star Game from the Silver Dome and Pontiac.
Three players here this afternoon will be checking in there.
Artist Gilmore along with George McInnes and David Thompson.
The Dr. Julius Irving will be matching up against his former teammate McInnes in that game.
Firepower, that's what we'll have at that All-Star Game.
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Ten point lead now for Denver.
Five and a half minutes to go before intermission.
Dan Issel to Wilkerson.
Broken up nicely and Issel very alertly picks it up.
Dan Issel got that basket that time before.
He tried to get Gilmore off his feet and didn't get it.
Threw the ball up and Chicago got it back and wasted it.
And he got it off his feet this time and he scored.
Issel averaging 16 and a half after last year.
Averaging a little over 21.
Nice play by Theus, but you saw McInnes get up there.
It's going to be Chicago's ball, but again, Theus showing great agility in there.
Did a good job of boxing down and deep and we had heard during the timeout,
Larry Brown saying give help on defense and that time McInnes does so and they stop Theus' effort.
Look at that.
Oh, I tell you, he stretched that arm up and just kept going.
It wouldn't go for him though.
40-28.
McInnes down quickly.
One thing about George, for a big man, he really gets down the floor in a hurry.
Well, he has amazing foot speed and quickness and that's what you don't realize about him.
He runs like a small forward.
Tommy Boswell does a good job of working down and deep right there.
And you wonder sometimes why Boston let him go.
May has his hands all over him, squeezes right down the lane between a bunch of folks, gets it off the glass.
They're going to call that foul on Wilbur Holland.
That's his first, second team foul now against Chicago.
Boswell at the line.
There he is.
He played kind of a role in Boston.
And he's an all-around player and he's coming here and they let him play an all-around style of game.
His role was an oxygen breaker.
He just came in and gave people a blow.
All right.
Well, it was a role anyway.
Here's Reggie Theus, off to Wilbur Holland.
Artis Gilmore back to Holland.
Nice set up that time by Artis.
That's one thing that makes them very tough with Holland in the game.
He shoots the ball well from the outside and when they can go inside and bring it back out,
they flatten the defense out and they get a good shot.
Thirteen-point lead now for Denver.
Issel from the side.
For a big guy, he can shoot with anybody.
Well, you know, if they say advantage, Issel, and when his advantage is having Gilmore on the perimeter shooting the ball there.
Gilmore almost missed that play.
Holland said, let's settle down a little bit now.
And it goes to the big guy.
That's a funny shot.
It changed it halfway up.
Well, I think you realize he was a little bit further out in his hooking range.
He does not have that sky hook like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Consequently, he doesn't have that automatic confidence about it.
He wheels around.
He likes to face Tabasco a little bit more.
Well, he had a loose ball foul on Scott Mayer.
Robert Smith, number five, will come in.
So Wilkerson and Smith will be the backcourt tandem as we have McGuinness.
And Boswell evidently shaken up.
We have a twenty-second injury timeout for him.
Issel and McGuinness, the other two now in the lineup for Denver.
It's been a tough physical game, but when you have Gilmore inside,
you can't stay out of that realm because everybody's boxing in on him,
trying to reach in on him.
He's so strong and overpowering, you have to give help,
and that's where the physicality comes in to play.
Gilmore is an overpowering type of player, and no one individual in this league can handle him.
They need Chamberlain to come back, and he was thinking about going to Chicago.
That's right.
Lee Jones spots a reaching-in foul that time.
That's Gilmore.
And Gilmore's second personal foul.
Gilmore, though, will stay out of foul trouble.
Normally he does not foul out of many basketball games.
His problem here is with Issel, who goes to the perimeter well,
and he gives a little fake from the outside and goes by him.
So he'll have to be cognizant of that.
Three forty-six to go before halftime.
And halftime, Kevin Lockery, a guy who's had a few technical fouls call on him this year.
The New Jersey Nets call it for coach.
And there is Bobby Wilkerson on a give-and-go.
Nine points for Wilkerson.
Denver has really got good offensive execution going.
They bogged down earlier, but they've got it back.
Chicago is going to have to bounce back, and they're coming right back inside to Gilmore.
Gilmore at that time didn't want to get it off.
Scott May.
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And the crowd here wasn't sure.
Well, the Nuggets are doing an excellent job on defense by sending three men to Gilmore.
Here comes Theus.
Seventeen-point lead for Denver.
Chicago kind of out of their offense right now.
Well, they seem to be passing up the open man.
That time Scott May was open.
He elected to give it to Holland.
Look at that move by McEnnis, would you?
To Wilkerson.
I tell you, when McEnnis gets loose like that, you just got to get out of the area.
Fast break opportunities.
And when you get players with those kinds of capabilities running loose, you're going to have all kinds of fouls.
He went inside, made an excellent move, brought the defense to him,
and he dishes off into a wide-open Bobby Wilkerson, and they get the basket.
Again, McEnnis working hard, pulls the defense to him, and there's nobody by Bobby Wilkerson.
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Denver with a 19 point lead. Chicago trying to regroup forces. They bring John Brown into the forward. He has the ball now.
Brown with a mismatch. Smith on him.
Mathias into Gilmore. They go back to the guy that's carried him all the way and that shot just won't go for him.
Here they come on the run. Three, four on one.
And Wilkerson to Issel and nice play.
Well they nearly didn't get it because they couldn't get the ball in the middle. They had three guys on one side and Holland could almost zone up on them.
But they do get the basket as Wilkerson goes all the way in.
You talk about Gilmore, they're giving two and three guys on him, but Chicago has no movement anyplace else.
There's Holland open. That was a fine pass. Heads up by Theus. That's what you said earlier. He sees the floor so well.
Theus sees the ball and the court. He gives it to the people that are open. Now Chicago must put the ball in from the perimeter to loosen it up inside so Gilmore can go back to work again.
51-32. A minute 51 till halftime. Issel in and he's charged.
He picks up the foul running into Wilbur Holland.
At halftime, Rod Hundley will visit with New Jersey Nets coach Kevin Lockery.
Well you see right there, Gilmore giving away to Issel who had gone by so he doesn't get the foul.
Holland doing the thing the coaches always talk about, giving help even the big guys need help.
As the second foul on Issel, another turnover. Chicago playing with the turnovers. Here's Robert Smith.
And Denver right now is off and moving.
Well they're blowing them away right now and it's because Chicago is struggling offensively. They've come in and they've said offense is broken down.
They're not getting easy offensive opportunities and the Denver Nuggets are applying good pressure in the middle and they come up with another steal and an easy hoop.
Tom Moswell. That is a tenth turnover in this game against Chicago.
All of a sudden when it looked like Chicago was going so well and going to get back in that basketball game, they broke down. They've only had a couple of hoops.
And they've gone exclusively to Gilmore right here.
Holland's the only guy that's been scoring and he hits again from the side.
At the one quarter mark it was a four point game and all of a sudden it's 55-34.
McGinnis on the move.
The thing that's obvious to me, Steve, is that Denver's tempo is so much quicker. Chicago can't seem to pick up their tempo and compensate.
Well, Chicago only really has one style of play and that's basically to come down and set up and that hurts them very much.
The Nuggets, on the other hand, can run the set offense and they also can run off the break.
Now they've been fortunate to get the easy opportunities and they've cast in on them.
Chicago, when they made their changes in the substitution, they seem to have broken their rhythm and they have not gotten back to the offensive firepower that they had early in the basketball game.
McGinnis has been dominant in this period and Thompson has been sitting on the bench.
McGinnis converts both of them. That last foul on Landsberger, his first, and it's 57-34.
McGinnis in this game has 10 points, 13 for Thompson, 8 for Issel, 11 Wilkerson. So good, balanced scoring by the Denver Nuggets.
Wilbur Hollins trying to hit three in a row.
Landsberger comes away with it. He has 13 rebounds in this game.
And a little push and a shove and who's this one on?
It's Kim Hughes. He has four fouls.
Kim Hughes is real active and he's trying to get the ball and he does an excellent job of blocking this shot right here.
You see he gets them off the feet. Hughes goes up, gets the piece of the ball, then Gilmore comes in, he comes over Gilmore's back.
Chicago has the ball out, but they need a lot more plays like that. Kim Hughes takes a break, McGinnis takes a break, and David Thompson is back in the basketball game.
30 seconds left in this period.
And also Anthony Roberts checks in. As you said, 30 seconds left before halftime.
Here's Landsberger forcing one in and that's not a bad move.
He's real nice around the basket and he tries to get in that red area and anytime he can get down in there, he's got an excellent chance of getting the ball in.
Chicago having to play some catch-up basketball.
That's the worst kind of play.
Boy, it is, particularly when the big guy's being boxed in and guarded inside like he is.
Gilmore comes away, but Anthony Roberts with the steal.
Three seconds left.
Gilmore trying to keep it away and he does.
And so the first half comes to a close here at McNichols Arena.
As the Denver Nuggets, after moving off very quickly to an 11-4 lead, had a four-point lead after the first period and now 57-36.
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The Denver Nuggets with a 57-36 lead.
Well, Kevin Lockery of the New Jersey Nets has always been a very vocal guy.
Rod Hunley visited with him.
I'm Rod Hunley and last week on the beautiful campus of Princeton University at Princeton, New Jersey,
I was able to corner one of the most controversial coaches in the NBA,
Kevin Lockery of the New Jersey Nets.
Oh, no, no, technical. Oh, Rod.
Oh, this is a cost.
Hey, no fine, no technicals.
I've been down at Piscataway, New Jersey looking for you.
They'd send me over to Meadowlands. I go over there, there's a big hole in the ground.
They said go over to Princeton University. Here I am.
Were you trying to hide from people?
Well, we haven't been playing too well and when we're not playing well,
we move around trying to get a victory, change the pace.
Come on, let's go ahead and talk.
Okay, come on in.
I want to talk to you about the referees.
Okay.
One of your favorites.
All right.
Well, Kevin has been since 1963, last time we played against each other.
This is the first chance we've had to sit down and talk about basketball.
The game has changed, in particular, the referee.
And you lead the league in technical fouls.
I've led the league the last couple of seasons in technical fouls.
I think, Rod, when we played, there was less players and less officials.
And we became friendly with the officials and not nearly as many technicals.
It's a changing game and I think if we were more friendly together,
the officials and the coaching would be less technical.
How about now you've got three referees instead of two?
That's one more guy that's got a shot at you.
Well, the chances are 33% better now that I get a technical in a basketball game.
All right, the referee has just hit you with the second technical foul.
You know you're out of the building. Your wife's sitting up in the stands.
How does she react to all this?
Well, she reacts all right now, but the first time she'd see me coach,
she couldn't believe it because off the floor and away from the game,
I'm a little low-key compared to the way I work.
And she was extremely surprised when she saw the way I work the basketball game.
But she's used to it by now.
And I bet in particular when she sees a new dress you like to have,
and there goes that money out the window.
Who pays these fans? You pay them?
Well, unfortunately, for our club, they pay them.
Hey, you have two sons, Kevin Jr. and Steven. They both play basketball.
How do they react to their dad getting technical fouls?
The one thing I tell them is make sure you never get a technical foul
because if they start getting technicals, people will think they're like the old man.
So I tell them, make sure you stay off your faces when you're playing.
How about basketball in New Jersey? It's got to be a little frustrating.
You win the ABA. You win the ABA championship.
You had the good doctor, Julius Irving. You win 55 games.
Then the next year they merge. You come in in the NBA.
And your first year you won 22 and lost 60. It's got to be a little frustrating.
It really is because we've seen what the other teams on the ABA,
particularly San Antonio and Denver, has done.
And we were able to beat them for two out of three championships in the ABA.
If we could have came over with our ball club intact,
I really honestly believe now from being in the league three years
that we had a chance to win it all in the NBA also.
Well, you played 11 years in the NBA, Kevin.
You scored over 10,000 career points and never played in an NBA All-Star game.
Well, someone said that I scored 10,000 points, but the guys I would guard
and scored 11,000. So I guess that's the reason I didn't make the All-Star.
The fans vote on it now. In those days when you played, it was the sports writers.
You like that better?
I'm all for the fans voting on it, even though there'll be some discrepancies.
Some players, some teams will load up their ballot boxes.
But I believe the fans pays the tariff for this league.
It's an entertainment business and any time you got them sharing in a situation in the league,
I think it's good for basketball.
Well, Kevin, you guys have pretty much weathered the storm.
You started as the New York Nets in the ABA, changed to the New York Nets in the NBA,
and then moved to New Jersey, still the Nets, and playing in a lot of different places.
First the Coliseum, and then you moved into Pitchcaddyway, New Jersey,
and now a chance to move into one of the most beautiful complexes in the world,
and that's going to be at Meadowland.
Well, I think we've got a chance, Hot Rod, to soon we keep continuing on
and become a successful basketball team on the floor,
which we've improved with the 500 level with a chance for the playoff now.
When we get into the new building in Meadowland, I think it has a chance to be
not only one of the best franchises in basketball and most successful, but in all of sports.
Hey, Kevin, is that a world championship NBA ring?
It's not an NBA ring, Hot Rod. It's the last ABA championship ring.
When we were in the ABA, we beat Denver, which is a fine ball club.
We had Dr. J, Rich Jones at the forward, Kim Hughes, Brian Taylor, and John Williamson at the guards.
Several other great players, and I seen you last week on the halftime with Kevin Grieve on CBS Halftime.
You're trying to get his ring. There's no way you got his. There's no way you're getting mine.
The only way you ever get a ring, Hot Rod, is to make a comeback.
Fat chance I got.
This is the first of eight consecutive games on this road trip, so good luck to you.
You gotta be a good boy. No technicals, huh?
I will, Hot Rod. Thank you very much.
It's halftime. The Denver Nuggets with an 11-point lead over the Chicago Bulls.
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So in this first half of play, it's been the Denver Nuggets rolling very well.
They've been paced in scoring by David Thompson's 13, Wilkerson has added 11, George McGinnis 10, Issel with 8 points.
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Welcome back to McNichols Arena, the home of the Denver Nuggets, who at halftime have an 11-point lead over the Chicago Bulls.
As in this first half of play, very fine shooting by the Denver Nuggets. They are shooting almost 58% from the field.
On the other hand, Chicago has not been hitting that well for the field. They're shooting just under 33%.
The turnover department, 11 turnovers for Chicago in this first half of play, as opposed to eight for the Denver Nuggets.
Rebounding wise, surprisingly too, is that Denver is out rebounding the Chicago Bulls at halftime 28-23.
So it's been a very fine first half for the Denver Nuggets. We have one, two, three men in double figures in this first half of play.
They've been able to go to the bench and maintain that advantage. On the other hand, the Chicago Bulls have gotten an outstanding performance from Artis Gilmore with a total of 13 points.
He's followed by Landsberger, who's played well. He has a total of nine points and 13 rebounds.
All right, let's join Steve Jones. He's with David Thompson.
I'm here with David Thompson and everybody's all-league all-star.
David, Friday night you had an excellent basketball game. You seem to be much more under control. Your offense is a little bit easier for you.
Today you have 13 points. You seem to be going pretty good. What do you think the reasoning for that?
Well, I get more into the flow of the game and I'm taking the ball a little more myself.
I'm going a little more individual, taking the ball to the basket.
Anytime my outside shot is on, it seems to help my overall game. And that's really been the key. I've been shooting the ball a lot better from outside.
You think you've finally adjusted to playing the outside position playing guard.
I know that you're a lot more comfortable when you can catch the ball instead of having to bring it up to court. You think you've finally adjusted to playing outside.
Yeah, I'm getting used to it. I'm getting better more and more with more experience.
Basically, my game is 15 feet and on end, but now I'm working on my outside game, handling the ball a little more and just getting a better feel of the overall game.
All right, David, we want to thank you. We'll be looking forward to seeing you at the all-star game. Have a good second half.
Thank you, Steve.
Thank you, gentlemen. 57-36. That's our halftime score. The Denver Nuggets on top.
We're going to be back with the start of the second half in just a moment.
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14,165 on hand for this one. And Steve, we talked about the stats a little bit earlier.
Shooting-wise, Denver has really gotten the better of that.
Well, the shots come from the types of shots. They're 58 percent because they're getting shots that the players can make.
They get an easy opportunity shot coming without a lot of defensive pressure on there.
And consequently, they're shooting 58 in Chicago, only 33.
At a 21-point lead now for the Denver Nuggets. Charlie Scott off to Issel.
He is in there along with McGinnis, Bobby Wilkerson, and David Thompson.
The same five that started this game. Scott, a tough shot.
Mickey Johnson is back in there for Chicago. He didn't see a lot of playing time.
And an easy two for Wilbur Holland. So Holland, Theus, Mickey Johnson, Mark Landsberger played very well in the first day.
And Artis Gilmore opened the second half for Larry Costello.
Bobby Wilkerson down the middle. And what a game he is having. He has 13 points.
Well, Mickey Johnson is looking all the way over at the bench wondering who was supposed to give him help.
But that time he got screened. Wilkerson came down the lane and there were three red shirts in there.
Got to have a little bit better communication.
There's Theus showing a move. Landsberger inside again. And he has a bundle of rebound, but he can't get it to go.
Bundle of rebound and no points to show for it.
Landsberger had 14 rebounds in that first half. Broken up. It will be Denver's basketball.
A fine offensive rebound to Landsberger, but he's got to be able to finish it off.
It's like being able to close a deal.
So now Wilkerson wide open McGinnis. They rubbed off Landsberger, but they didn't get the basket.
Issel, to David Thompson. And that will be off of Thompson, Chicago's basketball.
Well, when you're down by 21 and a half, what do you tell your team? Just kind of chip away at it?
Well, you tell them we would like to be within a 10-point range, 10-12-point range at the start of the fourth quarter.
They always say, boys, we can't get it all back at once, so let's take one basket at a time, have good offensive execution, play a little bit better defense.
Make them shoot the ball from the perimeter. Let us get the layup.
Landsberger that time. He shot that one up high, didn't he?
Good rebound and a follow shot. It is 59 to 40.
The thing the Bulls have been able to do at the start of this quarter is get two and three tries at the hoop, and if you can do that, you've always got a chance.
David Thompson pulling up with one.
And it's saved by Bobby Wilkerson.
McGinnis, George McGinnis, he loves that shot. McGinnis now with 12 points.
The thing that the Chicago Bulls must concentrate on doing is making the Denver Nuggets now come down and set up every time
and try and make them put that ball up from the outside with some defensive pressure on them.
Mickey Johnson can't get it to go. Here comes David Thompson.
In that first half, Johnson didn't even score. He picked up two quick fouls.
Wilkerson from the corner.
Thompson, they're getting a follow, multiple shots, and they're getting the baskets.
And that's going to get Larry Costello off his feet. He's going to have a talk. He's going to say,
fellow, you didn't understand a word I said at halftime. We'll have to do the same thing all over again.
So they've fallen behind two more. They trail by 21 and a half.
It's now 63 to 40, 940 second period.
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23 point lead for Denver.
And Otse Castello was upset during that timeout.
He said, you didn't listen to what I said in halftime.
They come right back. They put the top on that one.
He was telling them basically in that timeout, fellas, it starts right here with us.
We've got to each play our own man and play some individual defense.
He went down a lot.
It's a good 7-2, 6-10, and 6-8.
We're not getting any rebounds.
True, they had a guy like David Thompson, 6-3, taking it right over the top,
doing it all offensively and getting offensive rebounds, and that certainly hurts him.
Boy, boy, can he get up in the air.
Every time I see him, I just can't get over him.
65-42.
David Thompson scoring his 17th point.
Control is so important in the basketball game.
You'll see Thompson here completely under control, goes up.
Gilmore tries to come over.
It's Mickey Johnson trying to come over, but he's there too late.
Chicago turning that ball over for the 12th time.
Got a foul. Looks like it's Mickey Johnson.
Look at Phoenix and Boston leading Golden State.
The Warriors have some problems right now.
Well, the Warriors are struggling.
A lot of teams seem to be struggling today.
Visiting teams are having a tough time coming away with any kind of thing.
Carly Scott removing the ball around.
They're getting more and more cracks at it.
You can't win basketball games like that, and Costello's deciding so.
Here's Landsberger now with 17 rebounds in this game.
Mickey Johnson playing with three fouls.
That's a tough one.
He got away with it, though.
He got away with it.
Mickey Johnson needs to get himself involved in the basketball game offensively,
and then everything else for him seems to pick up.
It should be the other way around, but in his case,
he needs to see a few balls go down before he plays a pretty good defense.
Little push in inside there, Landsberger and McGuinness.
It's Landsberger who picks up the foul.
Landsberger and McGuinness, both physical players, and that time,
Landsberger decided he was a member of the Chicago Bears and not the Bulls.
Landsberger's big enough, isn't he? 6'8", 225.
He's got to weigh more than 225.
He's got to be closer to 235.
Thompson out to Scott.
Long shot.
And look at that.
Three men on the boards that time.
Well, they're now responding.
They're making the ball come up from the perimeter.
They tried to get the ball into Thompson.
He had to give it up on the double team.
They made the good offensive play, and Chicago cut him off with one shot.
Eight minutes to go, third period, 65-44, Denver.
They have seven seconds on the shot clock.
Gilmore, that left hand won't go.
Scott with Holland, shoulder to shoulder.
Block by Gilmore.
Beautiful block that time by Gilmore.
Back they come, three on two, Holland all the way.
Landsberger again is there, but it won't go for him.
That was 18th rebound for Landsberger.
They missed some follow shots.
The other hand, George McInnis, Wilterson.
They're going to reset it.
McInnis, broken up.
Mickey Johnson reached in and got it away from him.
Here comes Theus.
Watch this.
They finally get a hoop.
They went a little rat race basketball back and forth with a few turnovers and no control.
Chicago finally gets a little hoop there, a little encouragement from Larry Costello, but they had a good, positive effort.
Landsberger following on Drake.
They didn't get it.
They came back, played some good defense, and got a basket.
For the first time, they made it with a run in this game and come away with a better score.
There's a charging situation.
Bobby Wilterson.
All you need is a good little defensive effort.
Again, Mickey Johnson getting there.
It didn't look like he was completely covering that baseline.
It looked like Wilterson had head and shoulders by, but they get the call.
They need a few breaks, and again, 6.52 left in the game.
They can still get within 10.
65-46, Holland off to Landsberger.
Reggie Pias, Scott on in.
Mickey Johnson with seven seconds on the shot clock.
He didn't get anything with that one.
Well, that's healthy basketball by Mickey Johnson.
Charlie Scott, Gilmore, and reaching over is David Thompson, and he committed the foul.
Boy, it's getting pretty physical right now.
It's pretty physical out there, but you see, Toc Choc got cut in and tried to take it over.
Mickey Johnson does not get it.
Gilmore's down and deep, and the smaller David Thompson tries to come over his back.
No chance, and Charlie Scott is going to have some words about that.
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In with the basket mark.
Larry Costello seeing maybe the earmarks of a comeback here.
According to his troops, he's seen much better effort the last four or five minutes of this game.
Positive effort. The guys are beginning to play a little bit better defensively.
Even though Mickey Johnson took a little selfish offensive try the last time down,
they are getting better offensive opportunities, and that's what he's asking of his team.
Just chip away plenty of time in the ball game.
Denver's going to give us a chance to put the ball in the air.
Scott May has checked into the lineup. Here comes Lansberger.
He has 18 rebounds, 23 is his career high.
All in hits it. All of a sudden.
That's the way they diagrammed it. We looked in just before they started.
So, Chicago's not dead in this one yet. 65-48.
Again, it's off to Issel.
Issel out to Thompson with Scott May coming out on him.
Scott May picking up the foul.
Scott getting up a little slowly, and I know everyone's concerned every time he goes down
because of all the problems he's had with the knee.
He bounced around a little bit, but he didn't move his feet. He had his body there,
but his feet were still tangled up. That's the reason he's rolling around on his back on the baseline.
That's three fouls now on Scott May.
65-48. Again, it dribbles it off his foot.
And the scramble is on, and thereafter.
Thompson.
Oh, what a play by David Thompson. Fast and furious activity.
While we talk about controlling against Chicago, they did not have the ball.
Everybody tried to break and run away from it.
Scott May scrambling all over. Thompson comes in, shows Gilmore his body,
and then takes the ball away from him and puts it in.
67-48. The intensity picking up.
Theus, the Landsberger. Tough shot. He can't get it.
Again, it's just barrels in there, intercepted by Holland.
Wilbur Holland all the way, and Wilbur Holland now has given him a shot in the arm offensively.
He has 14 points.
Well, Wilbur Holland knows where the basket is, and he's going to keep looking at it,
which is important. They need someone to continue to score.
They've cut into the lead a little bit, and again, they've got to play good defense,
make the ball come up from out there, and try and get down and get some easy opportunities.
Well, they've cut it to 17 after trailing by 21-1.5.
Scott May cuts it by two more.
And as I said before, the earmarks of the comeback are shaping up now for Chicago.
It's interesting how defense can bring you back in the game, Steve.
Well, it's not so much defense. I think it's your offense that kind of keys the combination of the two.
And if you get good baskets, your defense seems to pick up.
There's Thompson, tough shot, but he got it again, and David Thompson with 21 points.
Control, I keep saying control, and he's playing under control.
He's doing anything offensively he wants. They're going to have to give him some help.
Inside, four and a half minutes to go, third period.
Fiat to Scott May, into Landsberger.
Landsberger taking McGinnis in to Scott May, and he's hit two in a row.
Scott May with that great shot. It's almost a picturesque shot.
He's got a classic outside jump shot. He just is not in very good game shape again,
not having the chance to put the ball in the air too many times.
But again, Chicago's gotten better ball movement, and their defense has picked up because of it.
Scott May with six points on Bobby Wilkerson. Wilkerson, difficult shot at best.
Landsberger with yet another rebound. That's 19 for him.
Up to Holland. Wilbur Holland pulls it up.
Denver thought they were going to get away with this one easily.
I think they know now they're in a basketball game.
Chicago is playing tough.
This is the same thing that happened the last time they played.
Scott May all of a sudden got himself a couple of hoops, and he's got his nose on the basket.
He comes with three baskets in a row and a chance to get a three-point play.
And Larry Brown, as we see him again working in deep, is going to have to call a timeout
to have some type of discussion about their defensive effort.
Scott May now with eight points picking up the foul. Wilkerson, his second.
We'll be back. This game's really getting tough.
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One of the best X's and O's men in the business, Larry Costello,
he diagrams a play for his team and tries to get them set defensively.
They have been doing a lot of talking, been very animated in that huddle over there,
trying to get back in this basketball game.
They've been very positive, and the key for them is movement, good effort.
Scott May now trying to complete a three-point play, and as you see,
he's made it 69-57, three and a half minutes to go, third period.
Chicago's come back into this game, battling from a 21-point deficit at halftime.
Robert Smith out to Anthony Roberts.
They're moving the ball now. You can see the ball movement that they were lacking earlier.
Here's Roberts.
Gilmore with Boswell, and he rejects it, and it is tough in there.
Boswell reaching over Scott May.
Oh, boy.
Well, I tell you, you know, Boswell does an excellent job to get that rebound,
and then he forgot about that big skyscraper sitting in there.
You'll see he goes up, gets the rebound.
Gilmore gets himself right, he gets the ball again.
Boswell's upset because he can't handle it and comes over Scott May's back.
Chicago's working, trying to get to that 10-point deficit.
First foul on Boswell. We approach the three-minute mark now, this third period.
69-57, Wilbur Holland.
At time, Boswell reached in and broke it up.
Here comes Smith.
Smith broken up by Theus. Theus with the long arms, and we've got him right on top of us now.
It's going to be Chicago's basketball.
I didn't know you were that quick, big guy.
They started to come over, so you bailed out.
I tell you what, that's perseverance.
And here is a quick basket and a chance for a three-point play as Landsberger got down behind him
while they were arguing on the play.
Cruz controlled the Denver Nuggets, and Larry Brown looks on, saying,
fellas, we've got to wake up and play basketball out here. They're starting to come back.
He's a predator call on the officials, but the team has gone to sleep.
They've allowed Chicago to get within 10 with 2.52 left.
We got us a ball game, Gary.
Yes, we do, and Landsberger, who has just played remarkable basketball,
has 15 points and 19 rebounds, and he's got another one.
Landsberger off to Theus, and I thought that was a pretty wise play.
He just brought it out. Let's go for one now.
Let's get inside 10 points with this team.
Under control, and if they continue to go like this,
they're going to start to come back down inside to Gilmore,
because they're getting the ball up from the perimeter and they're getting it down.
Anthony Roberts comes away with a rebound.
Ten-point difference in this game at the 2.31 mark.
Third period.
Brings it out to Smith.
Tom Oswell.
Oswell going to shoot outside.
Tipped in beautifully by Anthony Roberts.
Roberts with his first points of the game.
Well, that's what he does so well for them.
He's a good offensive rebounder as well as a perimeter shooter.
They need that kind of effort. They went dead in the water.
Chicago has been coming back and chipping away.
And there's a way of chipping away at it.
Artis Gilmore, Gilmore now with 15 points.
He had ten of those though in the first half.
They have gone away from him, but everyone else has gotten involved offensively.
That's what they need to open it up for him again.
It's down to ten points again.
Anthony Roberts giving them a shot in the arm offensively.
Back at you. That's what they call that in your face.
And he scores another hoop, again giving them some kind of lift.
Denver's beginning to pick up their defensive effort.
A lot of pushing and chipping in there as both of them jockeying for position.
Those two being May and Roberts. They're really going after each other.
Roberts on Scott May. May turns around.
Landsberger's there. It's 20 rebounds for him.
Gilmore's got it. They're just forcing the ball.
The basket I believe will count.
And a chance for a three-point play coming up.
That is just sheer strength inside.
Well, when you've got strong guys like that, you see Landsberger very active.
No one boxes him.
Gilmore gets it. Arms all over him. He just rolls it up.
Again, Ola Chamberlain taking bodies off the ground with him.
He gets two. They're down by ten.
One-twenty-two left.
And Thompson is back in the game.
But more important, Larry Costello is right in front of us.
Tell him, fellas, we're doing all we can do. Let's just keep it going.
At the line now goes Gilmore.
Landsberger has 21 rebounds, two away from his career high.
That's the official count on Mark Landsberger in the rebounding department.
And there's your score, the closest they've been in a long time, by nine.
Heavity three-64. Smith out to Issel. Issel bringing Gilmore out.
What could Gilmore get back in for that rebound?
Well, that rebound right there was Artis Gilmore's 10,000th of his career.
That's right. He needed six coming in here today.
He's got over 14,000 points in his career and now 10,000 rebounds.
What a productive career he's had.
Mengelt, throw it away.
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John Brown and Mengelt checking into the lineup right now.
And we're going to have a timeout by Denver.
Denver asked for a timeout with 54 seconds left in this third period.
As the Chicago Bulls, after trailing by 21 at halftime, have climbed within nine points in this game, 73-64.
They've done it with just pick-up intensity.
They've got quite a performance from Landsberger, Gilmore.
And I thought maybe one of their real outstanding performances was a guy by the name of Theus,
who came in and seemed to have control and had some ball movement.
They've all played much better since they got blessed out in that timeout.
Now we're going to take a look at Larry Brown's huddle and see if he can get his team offensively guarded, defensively riding.
Vaz and David. Dan's coming up.
Vaz, you pop. Don't pop until Dan receives the old post play.
All right? Hey, don't pop until he receives it.
Look, the second time down, we're just hitting Dan and he's going straight on the drive on Gilmore.
All right? We're running them both times.
That's it, David, with you low.
Woozy, that means you've got to be aware of court balance, all right?
We can't foul and can't give up second shots.
And be aware of the clock, Robert, all right?
We want to get it inside.
Vaz, don't pop until Dan receives it.
All right? Hey.
All right, Steve, now what does he mean by not popping?
Coming out to meet the ball, right?
Don't come out. Don't break the play until we get everyone set in position.
They want to get it down. And if they're going to try to go to Gilmore, they're going to try and pull him out.
You see Larry Costello. He's working down at the other end.
Again, diagramming both coaches, excellent coaches.
And the thing that Larry Costello is trying to do is keep a positive effort for a team that's trying to come over the hill.
Larry, Larry Brown is trying to keep them down.
He's trying to emphasize the good things.
Both coaches trying to keep their teams on a positive note.
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Chicago setting up defensively with Mendel and Fias at the guard's bite.
Boswell brings it out to Robert Smith.
Now they've got 40 seconds left now for the end of this third period.
Thompson, he shot it with a man in his face and he got it.
What a shot by Thompson. 23 points he's fouled by Fias.
Well, that's just a great offensive play by Thompson.
You'll see Fias right there in his face. The problem for Fias is he brought that hand down and got called for the play.
Thompson has a chance for a three-point play. Doesn't get it in Gilmore rebound.
I tell you, Thompson in this third period has made three very pressure-packed free throws, or I should say field goals.
People hanging all over him.
All his field goals have been tough tries.
Chicago the last two times down, just when they seem to have got it going, have turned the ball over without a shot at the hoop, and that hurt.
Now Kim Hughes is coming in for Dan Issel with 25 seconds left in this period.
Hughes will check in with a total of four fouls.
Smith, Thompson with Anthony Roberts, Kim Hughes, and Tom Boswell.
They're going to go for the last shot now this period.
Seventy-five, sixty-four. Watching the clock very closely.
The thing that you want to do defensively is not let the team run their play, so you try to be disruptive.
Run at the guy, make them do something they don't want to do, put the ball up quicker.
With three seconds.
Good, John Brown's got it, so they do not get the two points on the last play of this third period.
What a third period we had. Twelve minutes of very intense basketball.
The Denver Nuggets are at a 21-point lead at halftime, now having a battle for the lives.
They lead it 75-64.
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Artis Gilmore today going over 10,000 rebounds in his career.
Joining a select group of people, Chamberlain's Bellamese, Silas' Russells move over and make room for Big A.
We start the fourth period. Be sure now and stay tuned for the MVP award at the conclusion of this game.
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Mengyel rebound. Brown can't handle it.
John Brown, good second ever to Gilmore and Kim Hughes has just picked up his fifth foul.
Kim Hughes has had a tough time all day long and the problem that time is they played pretty good defense.
Again, Chicago getting a good offensive effort on the board.
Mark Lansberger comes back in.
You'll see Brown go down and deep.
Kim Hughes all over the back.
No complaint. Lansberger back in the game.
They have a problem. They've got Scott May coming out because Denver has two big strong guys in them.
Boswell and McGinnis, they want a matchup.
What a game Lansberger's having. He has 15 points and 21 rebounds.
Gilmore looking back door.
Have a troubling walk to the ball.
Now Chicago, what is that? Three times straight I think down the floor. They haven't, they've turned it over.
They got within nine and now they've had three turnovers and that's hurt them.
They've had a good defensive effort, good offense to the outs for the Nuggets in the third period,
but they've got to come back to that effort that they finished with.
Boswell backing in on Lansberger. Robert Smith seeing a lot of action.
Driving on Mingeld and who got the foul?
It's Mingeld. He did not have position.
And now Charlie Scott will be checking in.
Robert Smith makes an excellent move right here.
Mingeld never having his feet set and not had his body over there.
Robert Smith should have tried to get that ball in there, maybe would have gotten a chance to shoot some free throws.
And Smith comes out of the lineup for Scott. Thompson inside, 25 points.
Any way you want it, he can get it done.
And he has hit some shots in the second half. 77-64.
Chicago is in nine and all of a sudden now Denver started to creep away again.
Gilmore is going to bring it back by two though.
He got a lot of help that time. He wanted to put it over the top and stuff it.
McGinnis came over, had a lot of hands in the way so he had to take it off the glass.
A tough drive but they got it.
Gilmore with 20 points for the afternoon.
Scott to David Thompson.
Diaz staying on him.
Diaz could probably match up with as well as anybody on David.
But David hits it again and he's laying them on.
The problem again is now Thompson is going inside and out and Diaz really doesn't know what he's going to do.
Thompson is too great an offensive player so you've got to give him some help.
You've got to make him work harder and you've got to really concede him 25 a game if you want to start the ball game.
John Brown lost with the ball.
And he doesn't like that development. That's a 16th turnover against Chicago.
Look at that one. It got a little tighter didn't it?
Well, Golden State is coming off the floor and they're also back in the basketball game.
24 seconds to shoot. Anything can happen in this NBA so you've got to stay with it.
79-66. This will often McGinnis.
McGinnis on Landsberg.
Another foul coming up. Who's it on?
McGinnis really upset.
It's going to be Landsberger committing the foul.
Or McGinnis really upset about something.
Well, I think McGinnis wants a hoop but he's coming right here and now he's got the ball up.
He's saying he's in the way and Gilmore comes up and knocks the ball down.
Landsberger committing the foul. That is his third.
McGinnis still arguing and Charlie Scott yelling some encouragement.
Charlie Dudley. I think he wanted goaltending on the play but what do you think?
Well, it wasn't goaltending right there. Gilmore catches the ball. It wasn't on a downward flight.
But George has been known to lobby for every point that he can get.
Here's a guy that's on the line that's averaging 11 free throw attempts this year.
More than anybody else in the NBA, he's just not been able to get a good percentage of the men.
He's made like 376 of them, been there about 580 times.
He's hit 67%. He leads an attempt and made free throws in the NBA.
That's because he's so quick and big and gets inside and you get in trouble when he does that.
He also has the green light.
Here's Dudley. Mingelt. 81-66.
Gettler in this fourth period has put it together again.
Gilmore at the Mingelt with six seconds on the shot but Gilmore trying to follow and McInnis has it.
McInnis that guy just fought him off.
Well, they brought Charlie Dudley in to see if he could do something defensively with David Thompson.
Excuse me, Gary, but they seem to have missed something with Wilber Holland out of the lineup.
Here's Brown driving and he's intimidated and it is really tough inside.
Here comes Boswell up to Thompson. McInnis.
Gilmore and Gilmore's fouling.
You talk about a meeting up above the basket.
Well, they set a little prayer up there.
You see Thompson draws and Gilmore turns his back making McInnis think he's got the easy stuff.
That looks like a pretty good play if Gilmore doesn't get that arm there and the bodies collide.
That's a good fly.
Free fouls on Artis Gilmore and McInnis to the line.
Now you see his shooting percentage from the strike, not what he'd like to have.
He's not shot well but he's always been there and that's important.
I think if you get there enough times eventually your concentration and your efforts picks up.
The Denver Nuggets doing a fine job defensively making the Chicago Bulls turn the ball over,
come back and they have extended their lead.
Chicago must now settle down and get some hoops.
They should try really to get back running, getting some quick opportunities and scoring a little bit easier.
I bet your point was well made that when they took the guard outside,
hollering out of the lineup they may have lost a little something.
You know, Hollen is a guy that can give them that firepower, give them that quickness to get down court and they haven't had that.
There's Brown hitting from the corner.
83-68, that's only the fourth point in this third or I should say fourth period for Chicago.
They had 64 points after three periods.
And up and down quarters as far as team shooting, Denver had the better from the first half
and then only were six for 20 at one point during the third.
Scott dribbled that one off his foot.
Chicago will have it and that is the 13th turnover against Denver.
And Gelt Dudley Gilmore, Brown and Landsberger.
That's the five in there now for Laurie Costello's team.
McGinnis on to steal a 10, Brown double dribble.
He was in too big a hurry.
John Brown is pained, he knew he had a free chance to put the ball up.
McGinnis had gambled and was half court and he just couldn't control it.
And again another turnover and that's plaguing Chicago as they try to make their comeback bid.
You know, McGinnis is tense with the NBA and steals.
They almost had one there.
Here's Landsberger, that's 22 rebounds for him unless we lost count somewhere.
He's had so many of them we have to keep checking the stats.
He's done an excellent job of going to the board.
He's really kept them in the game.
Mingale gets the ball up from the outside.
They've got to have good defensive pressure, not turn the ball over.
They're going to make it all the way back.
13 point game after cutting it to nine and now Denver still not out of this one with eight minutes to go.
Scott into Boswell, route on him.
Boswell and we've got charging on Boswell.
He had no place to go.
He can't believe it.
He's got that pained look on your face.
You see right here John Brown making up for the mistake at the other end does an excellent job with a little hand in there to get an advantage.
And then he gets his body in front of it.
That against Boswell, his second personal.
Mingale off the Landsberger.
John Brown, they're pushing him outside a little bit on defense now.
They pushed him much higher out, but they get the ball down and deep and again they close.
Again, this happened in the last time they played.
They begin to come back.
The Nuggets working pretty hard.
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Mingale makes an excellent penetrating move.
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Also a month ago today, Denver had the same type of league and they ended up losing it.
So Larry Brown is cognizant of that and he's telling his team to keep good offensive pressure on the bull.
David Thompson with Dudley on him.
And this time he can't get it.
Brown lost it.
Another crack at it for Denver.
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Coaches try when they see that.
You get the ball up from the outside, you have the board covered.
McGinnis just barrels over.
John Brown.
Lansberger comes away with it off to Dudley.
Scott is back.
Mengel.
What a shot that was.
We had two people all over him and who touched it last?
I think Denver did.
Let's see.
Well, they should have gotten a foul out of that.
He came up and showed the ball and brought it back and he pushed it up in the air.
It went all the way over the top.
They say David Thompson nixed it.
You see Mengel working in there.
A little showing tail.
Puts it up way high off the glass.
Goes all the way over the back.
Dudley's ready to catch it.
Wilbur Holland checks back in.
Dudley will check out for the Bulls at the 7'13 mark.
Lansberger, the Mengel, shooting against Scott.
Rebound McGinnis.
McGinnis who can handle the ball.
Off to Bobby Wilkerson.
McGinnis picked up by Lansberger.
Smith with Wilbur Holland on him.
Inside seven minutes to go in the game.
I don't believe McGinnis thought that was going to go in.
Well, you've got to get a look in this game.
Now when he put it high up in the air and it came off the glass, they get the basket.
They got a 13-point lead.
18 points for McGinnis.
Mengel.
Well, as McGinnis has been very consistent this year, he's been over 30 points seven times.
Mengel, another outside shot.
He nails it.
Scott May getting ready to come in for Chicago.
It's 85-74.
Wilkerson out to Scott.
Kemper with good ball movement.
Mengel comes away with it, but I believe he picked up the foul.
He thought he had a clean steal.
It looked like a clean steal.
McGinnis just apparently had lost control.
He had made a quick move inside.
There were two people in there on him, and Chicago came up with the ball.
Larry Costello right in front of him.
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Come on, you're kidding.
With 6-21, Mengel has picked up his second personal foul.
Four team fouls now against Chicago, only one against Denver.
Looks like McGinnis is a little shaken up on that play.
Taking a bit of a breather.
That Mengel is a tough guy.
He was a football player at Auburn.
He won't back off from anybody.
He plays a little bit of football out there, but you need a guy that will go on the floor and come up with a loose ball for you and give you a good, honest effort out there to make a successful basketball team.
McGinnis putting on a couple of moves, dishes it off to Smith, and he misses an easy one.
Here comes Wilbur Holland.
They've got a chance now to climb the closest they've been in a long time, 85-74 our score.
They got within 9 earlier, and they're trying again to do that very thing.
Gilmore, and it's a big turnover.
Smith.
He had enough spin on that ball that it got him.
Just enough.
He was low on the ground, and he just got it up as Mingelt was chasing to hit the lip and fell in for them.
Chicago really a little frustrated as they try to run their off-pin.
18 turnovers, and that was a big turnover.
Gilmore to Scott May, and Mingelt, Smith hits the deck.
Smith picks up the foul.
Talking about a little football.
Robert Smith, he's not a very big guy, he's 5'11", they say he weighs 165. Mingelt, he's solid.
He comes in here at 6'2", and they list him at 195.
If Robert Smith continues to run into picks like that, he'll be 5'5", before his career is over.
Landsberger with McGinnis on him.
Scott May, well, it's a tough shot.
Landsberger trying to follow.
There he is again with another rebound.
I believe that ties his personal high of 23.
That's just a great rebounding effort.
He's got a lot of offensive boards to keep the ball alive, and Holland gets it down for them.
Holland has been tough.
He has 16 points.
He's been shooting and shooting well from outside.
That was his 23rd rebound for Landsberger, tying his career high.
And now, he's got another foul.
George McGinnis, and that's his third.
He's got a chance to get within 9.
They've got a chance to get within 9 with 4.56 left, almost five minutes left in the game.
Plenty of time.
What they must have is good offensive execution.
They've been hitting the board good.
They just got to cut down on the turnover.
Scott May into Gilmore.
4.46 left in the game.
Gilmore looking around, backing in on Issel, and he forced it, but he couldn't get it.
It just can't get inside that 10-point mark here, and there's McGinnis.
He is tied up, but a foul will go on Wilbur Holland.
Larry Costello not too happy about that development.
McGinnis goes to the line.
It looked like they had McGinnis tied up right there.
You see him, man.
He said, this will make coaches older in a hurry.
He was out in the league two years.
He's back in, and I'm sure brings back a few memories of those years he had with Milwaukee.
He may want that vacation back if they keep going like this.
George kind of bouncing those free throws around.
There's Landsberger.
He has 24 rebounds.
That's a personal high for him.
Career high.
Penalty in, and so it's three to make two, and McGinnis is going to need all of them.
And he gets the third one.
McGinnis now with 19 points.
88-76, oral pressure by Smith on Holland.
Holland's a tough guy to pressure.
He's got good quickness, and that makes it difficult.
He handles the ball well, and more importantly, he's dangerous because he's always looking to score.
Fias with the left hand can't get it.
Holland tries to break it up, and Issel saves the ball.
They're approaching four minutes in this game.
McGinnis out to Issel.
Roken up by Fias, but Thompson comes back with it.
Fias trying to get back on Thompson.
McGinnis, it's a long ways out.
Smith comes away with it, of all people.
He fakes Gilmore up, and Gilmore's committed the foul on Issel.
That's four on Gilmore.
That's about the only thing you can do in a situation like that, is hope he goes up with a fake.
Well, anytime you've got that kind of offensive pressure on you, where the little guy comes in, he almost has it clean,
and he's got a man on the other side, Gilmore, trying to anticipate.
Got a piece of the ball, but also got a piece of Dan Issel's head, and Issel's going to get some free throws because of it.
Chicago's really struggling at the defensive end, and that's hurting them.
Larry Costello, he's trying to pull one out of here somehow, and it has been an uphill battle.
Trying to dream of some miracle to get them to run that play that will get them going offensively.
Again, they're going to take another time out. They're going to have another discussion.
They're going to see if they can make it right with 3.51 left in the fourth period.
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Well, the Chicago Bulls have twice climbed within. 11 points, 9 points, the closest they've been.
That's been the magic mark here in the second half of play.
Denver's been able to meet every challenge when they've gotten within 9, and they've played good defense, good offense.
They've gotten the ball when they needed it.
As a consequence, they have the lead and the pressure, obviously, on Chicago to make another turnover.
But Denver returns a favor.
Guess who got that pass? Larry Costello.
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That's 14 turnovers against Denver.
Well, they'll try it again. Three and a half minutes left.
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Here's Landsberger with McEnnis on him. Scott May into Gilmore.
Gilmore, turn around. That's a tough shot for him.
Landsberger there again. 25 rebounds.
He's gonna try it again, and he got it.
I'm gonna tell you something right now. I'm gonna give him my vote for the MVP.
Well, you've just gone out on a limb, right?
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He's got a contest with David Thompson, who's also answered big hoops for them.
But Landsberger has been after it all day long.
He works on his rebounding, so I guess he can give his points totaled up.
He has 19 points, 26 rebounds.
First kick there, piece of work.
Here's Thompson shooting against Fias.
Tipped out, here comes Fias.
Fias, look at him move.
Block by Thompson. Oh, what a play by David Thompson.
Maybe I'm premature in that post.
Bobby Wilkerson.
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David Thompson coming back with another great block.
He did the same thing against Lou Hudson coming over the top.
On Friday night, he does it against Fias, who had gone by Robert Smith
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All right, Tom Boswell, Cole Ellis, number 31, will come in.
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way up in the air. Doesn't look like those legs are dead yet.
We have a timeout now by Chicago with 2.20 left in this game.
Larry Costello hoping somehow to pull this one out,
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So we have 2 minutes, 20 seconds left,
and Larry Costello trying to pull some magic off here.
This Chicago team who's won the first two games here in McNichols Arena on the 28th of December,
then they went to the stadium in Chicago and duplicated their effort on the 29th.
Well, they had two good efforts in a back-to-back series,
and they seemed to have lost it.
They played a good first period, got bogged down in the second period,
and it's been a long climb for them.
They got within nine in the third period.
They have been within nine.
A couple of the 11 or 9 was in the fourth period,
but they have not been able to get over the hill as Gilmore worked.
Gilmore misses one that he didn't want to miss.
92-78.
Approaching the two-minute period now as Issel to Smith.
Bobby Wilkerson, Denver won't be in as much of a hurry now.
Mo Ellis, lead action.
Ellis has been out for the year with a knee operation.
Here Smith again, and he hits it.
Robertson Smith.
This guy, he was cut once last year, then he was brought back,
and he has a niche on this basketball team.
94-78, a minute 51 left.
Fias from the corner.
Landsberger, Pablo Timpson, he has 21 points.
21 points, 27 rebounds.
94-80.
Issel, off to Boswell.
You can see they're in no hurry right now.
They want to use some of that time.
Well, they use that clock to have everything in their favor.
Robert Smith makes a tough try.
Landsberger with another rebound, and Fias, really a good athletic effort.
He gets the hoop.
You know, he can use either hand equally well.
You notice that?
He was comfortable going up left-handed that time as right-handed.
Either way, they just have to be a little bit more consistent.
94-82, off to Boswell.
1-14 left in this one.
Denver trying to win their second in a row after breaking a three-game losing streak Friday night.
Bo Ellis.
Issel, nice play by Bo Ellis.
Issel with 12 points.
96-82, Alan De Fias.
One minute left.
Gilmore.
Gilmore hasn't scored an awful lot in the second half.
Fias.
Well, Denver's done a good job of doubling up on him,
making him take the shot from the position that he doesn't want.
Early in the ballgame, he was able to go in a one-on-one situation,
wheel and roll inside and get any kind of hoop.
And they started sending a bunch of people at him,
and that changed Chicago's offensive effort completely.
He's had only seven points in the second half.
He has 20 for the game.
Scott May driving inside, and he's been fouled.
And they got a goaltender. Bobby Wilkerson went up and slapped that ball away.
You'll see May out here now.
He makes a good move to get by Bo Ellis.
This is not smart basketball by Wilkerson as he slaps it away dead.
It looks like that ball was easy to be close to going in.
And maybe Bobby Wilkerson has given his teammate a break.
So the basket will go to Scott May.
Scott Lloyd now comes in replacing artist Gilmore.
John Brown will come into the ballgame.
Mark Landsberger will go out.
Landsberger with 28 rebounds, 21 points.
I give him my vote.
Where are you on this one?
Well, I thought David Thompson, he challenged him at every time,
and I think that, you know, we kind of split on that.
We might have to call for Billy Barnes to bail us out on that.
All right, Bill Barnes, you will cast this siding vote.
Put the old pressure on.
Twenty-five seconds left.
Smith.
Scott Lloyd trying to get the ball,
and Robert Smith instead comes away with it.
Denver to win their 28th game of the year.
And here Hughes put one away.
Six points for Hughes.
So Mark Landsberger is our MVP.
Bill Barnes casts the siding vote.
Doubling up on me like the Chicago Bulls are being doubled up
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John Brown working hard.
He gets it down, but a little bit too late.
It's all academic now.
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It's all over at McNichols Arena.
The Denver Nuggets defeating the Chicago Bulls, 98 to 87.
An update on Mark Landsberger officially now.
He's been credited with 29 rebounds.
A go at his 21 points, and of course, he's our MVP.
But as you look at this Denver attack, they got very good balance scoring.
David Thompson led the way with 27 points, but he was closely followed by George McEnnis with 19.
It was 15 points for Bobby Wilkerson, 12 for Dan Issell.
And then they had some good scoring off the bench from Hughes with six,
Roberts with four, and Robert Smith with a total of eight.
As far as Chicago's concerned, leading the way was Landsberger.
He was followed by Gilmore, who had 20 points.
Then Wilbur Holland had 16.
Scott May, a total of 12.
Theus, six. And Mickey Johnson, a total of two.
So as you look at this game, it was an uphill struggle all the way for Chicago.
It started out with Denver jumping to an 11 to 4 lead.
Then all of a sudden, it was 16-14 as the Bulls came fighting back.
After a one-quarter action, it was 24-20, a four-point lead for Denver.
And then at halftime, Denver made a run as they led by 21 at the intermission, 57 to 36.
And then Chicago played very good defense, very aggressive on the boards,
cut it to nine points at the third-quarter mark.
And it was finally 75-64 before Denver made their move once again and put this game away.
So after Chicago won the first two, it was Denver here today.
And Denver now moving their record to 28-24.
They started the afternoon three and a half games behind the surprising Kansas City Kings.
1-scrap, that's his sixth.