Nate The Man: Bulls beat Nets in triple overtime classic

For the lovers of Basket ball, Nate Robinson was at his best yesterday when the Chicago Bulls  took Brooklyn Nets by surprise when they beat them to a fabulous, breathtaking, wondrous and thrilling 142-134 Bulls triple overtime victory. Nate was the Man of the match, by scotching 34 whole points for the Bulls.

Perhaps not so wonderful for the shocked Nets, who gave up a 14-point lead with less than three minutes left in regulation and head home for Game 5 Monday trailing 3-1 in this first round series. But the day was a bounty for basketball with one of the great individual playoff performances ever, Nate Robinson’s 34 points off the bench with 29 in the fourth quarter and the overtimes, including 12 consecutive in 1:42 after the Nets were leading 109-95 with 2:53 left in the game.

“Amazing game to be part of,” marveled Carlos Boozer, who had 21 points and his own big third overtime score. “Three overtimes, down by so much late in the fourth, a spectacular show by Nate. Amazing. He put on a performance for the ages.”
It was the stuff of legend for the frenetic Robinson, the stuff of Isiah and Nate Archibald and World B. and Calvin Murphy and Downtown Freddie Brown and Iverson, the littlest guy taking on the biggest kids and making them reel in awe and wonder.
“Nate was huge,” said Joakim Noah. “He might be the best under six foot player ever. He’s an unbelievable talent.”
Uncanny, unusual, perhaps unprecedented but hardly unskilled.
“I always think I’m on fire,” said Robinson. “Like the old school game, ‘NBA Jam.’ You make a couple and the rim’s on fire and when you shoot the ball, the ball’s on fire. I feel like that at times.”
It was like a video game with Robinson scoring 23 fourth quarter points, the second most in franchise history to Michael Jordan’s 24 in the 1990 playoffs. Robinson, basically after the game seemed over and many fans began to leave, accounted for 27 of the Bulls’ 35 fourth quarter points with nine of 11 field goals and a pair of assists. He set a franchise playoff record for most points off the bench and did it all in fewer than 29 minutes as he fouled out.

“Nate (Frickin’) Robinson,” Luol Deng’s Twitter account announced with obvious awe and wonder after the game, if not shock.
“Nathaniel. Nathaniel was huge,” enthused Joakim Noah, who rallied strong in almost 39 minutes despite his foot miseries with 15 points and 13 rebounds and led the team in overtime scoring with 10 of his points.

Source: Bulls Blog

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