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FIRST QUARTER
The Bobcats faced the Blazers on Opening Night. The Blazers are 2-2 with Rasheed Wallace, Rashard Lewis and Bobby Jackson who is coming off the bench. In the first quarter The Bobcats got off to a good start. Ridnour was there offense with 10 points in 8 minutes in that quarter. But Amare was struggling in the first quarter. Shooting 0-4 and he got 1 point from the line. It was Rashard Lewis who was dominating scoring 14 of his 24 points in the first quarter. At the end of the first the score was 28-22
SECOND QUARTER
The Bobcats started the second quarter off slow, in the first 4 minutes they shot 2-11. One of them being a three. But with the remaining 8 minutes, Stormile Swift had 10 of his 12 points in that quarter, and Wade had 8 points. On the other side, Bonzi Wells and Earl Watson helped the Blazers still up by 4 points at the half.
THIRD QUARTER
With the score 50-54 the Blazers up, Wade and Amare were talking so they could get eachother involved. Wade was passing to Amare so he could Post Rasheed up. And Amare was dishing to the cutting Wade. That quarter alone, Wade had 10 points, and Amare had 11. No offense came for the Blazers, but they managed 19 points. With the 4th quarter left, the Bobcats were finally winning 80-73
FOURTH QUARTER
The Blazers started off on fire, Rasheed hit 2 threes in a row, Bobby Jackson scored 10 points in a row, and the Blazers had a 14 point lead with 5 minutes to go. But Wade only had 18 points, so Bernie was screaming at the team to give Wade the ball. Wade was getting around Bonzi and pulling up right in his face. Wade scored 10 points in the quarter, and Ridnour hit a Three to get them back in the game. Deron cam in with a few minutes remaining. Deron dished to Amare downlow over and over scored on Rasheed. With 1 minute left, the Bobcats were up 110-110 and they blew past the Blazers. The Bobcats Won there first game 114-104. Dwyane Wade took Player of the Game Honors.
SCOREBOARD
TEAM----------1st------2nd------3rd------4th-------Final
Bobcats-------22--------28-------30--------34--------114
Blazers--------28--------26-------19--------31--------104
Stats
C - Amare Stoudemire - 20/8/0 and 6 blocks
PF - Stormile Swift - 12/9/1
SF - Danny Granger - 8/2/3
SG - Dwyane Wade - 28/4/6 and 5 Steals
PG - Luke Ridnour - 23/1/7
Key Bench Players
Deron WIlliams - 9/1/4
Desmond Mason - 11/2/2
Stats
C - Rasheed Wallace - 13/14/0
PF - Jonathon Bender - 11/4/2
SF - Rashard Lewis - 24/1/3
SG - Bonzi Wells - 15/1/3
PG - Earl Watson - 12/5/2
Key Bench Players
Bobby Jackson - 23/1/3