High school’s main attraction, live from the United Center!
by Bryan Crawford / @_bryancrawford
What’s good? Y’all know SLAM is in the building for the 35th annual McDonald’s All-American game in Chicago. We’re kicking the live blog off for the boy’s game so be sure to chime in and comment. I’ma hold it down even though it’s a struggle for me right now. Dropped my laptop and broke the ‘F’ and the ‘V’ buttons. All good, tho. 2 buttons don’t stop no show!! In a minute…
- We’re back!! The boys squads being introduced to the Bulls intro music right now.
- Music just switched to ‘Lose Yourself’.’ Seems appropriate… This is a huge moment for these kids. One they won’t forget. Enjoy it!
- Not quite last year’s turnout in terms of fans, but there’s still a lot of people here tonight.
- We’re less than 4 minutes from tip-off, ‘Rack City’ blaring through the UC.
- Rodney Purvis got bun-nies!!
- T-shirt give aways always gets the party crackin’! Gets me crackin’ too when people are falling over each other to grab ’em.
- Poythress, you can’t do that. Travelling…
- Grant Jerrett is nice down low.
- Shabazz with the jam!
- Shabazz with the 3. Cookin…
- Another jam for Shabazz, then a layup. He’s got 9 already. West up 11-2.
- Poythress with the nice lob finish.
- Another jam for Poythress
- Tyler Lewis is a trooper. Got his tooth knocked out in practice but he wasn’t missing this game for anything!
- TO. West up 15-9 with 15:28 left in the 1st half
- Yogi Ferrell in the game. Hoosier fans got a good one.
- Perry Ellis almost brought the house down with that inbounds play.
- Archie Goodwin with the nice tip-in
- Purvis!! Told’ja…
- Kyle Anderson is gonna be nice and Isaiah Austin is gonna cause matchup problems at the next level
- Kids out here going hard. Gotta love that
- Tony Parker with the nice jam off the dish from Anderson. TO, West up 23-17
- Shout out to adidas for going hard with the neon uni’s this year.
- TV timeouts are EXTRA long, yo. You don’t notice it because, you know, you’re watching on TV
- Poythress for 3. Coach Cal got another one!
- Anthony Bennett with a nice jam
- Poythress is nice, man.
- FT’s cut the West lead to 7, 31-24
- DaJuan Coleman looks like… Oh, nevermind.
- That dude, again… Shabazz Muhammad with the nice tip jam
- Poythress is cookin, on the low. He’s got a quiet 11 points which has helped cut the West lead to 3, 33-30
- Former McDonald’s greats being shown on the big board. Bron got booed. Of course they show DRose and the UC goes crazy
- DRose got a louder ovation than when they showed Michael Jordan
- Alonzo Mourning in the building
- Good crop of big men in the 2012 class with Tony Parker, Cameron Ridley, DaJuan Coleman, Grant Jerrett and Isaiah Austin
- Almost forgot Shaq Goodwin
- He wants be called William, tho…
- Rasheed Sulaimon might be on that V ERY short list of Duke players I actually like
- Touchdown!! Kyle Anderson to Rodney Purvis
- Kyle Anderson out’chea dropping DIMES!
- Archie Goodwin blew a break away layup!
- He made up for it two times in a row tho. Back to back jams pust the West up 8
- 3:15 left in the 1st half, West up 48-40
- Shabazz Muhammad going to work. 13 in the game on 6-9 from the field
- Amile Jefferson got a little Lamar Odom to him. A little…
- DaJuan Coleman is built like a rhino
- Shabazz Muhammad, tho… 15 points already
- Halftime!! West up on the East 58-46
- 1st half scoring leaders West: Shabazz Muhammad 15 points, Archie Goodwin and Cameron Ridley 8 points
- 1st half scoring leaders East: Alex Poythress 11 points, Tony Parker 8 points, DaJuan Coleman 7 points
- Nice touch pass to Shaq Goodwin for the East dunk
- Perry Ellis with another jam for the East
- Kyle Anderson showed off some nice pro-style post moves for a second
- Rasheed Sulaimon showing offf the athleticism
- Yogi Ferrell might someday be the new #PointGod
- Sulaimon 3 on one end, Purvis dunk on the other
- Archie Goodwin, another Kentucky stud
- West team just loaded. Pulled away now and up 21, 73-52 with 15:42 left in the 2nd half
- Poythress is a beast. Nice jam down low
- Amile Jefferson with the Kevin McHale up and under move
- Oh, shout out to Devonta Pollard who had to sit this game out with a concussion suffered in practice. And yeah, Shabazz is still cookin
- Muhammad would’ve brought the house down with that windmill
- Great block by Gary Harris who blew the lob pass on the other end
- Marcus Smart struggling in this game. 1 point so far
- West up 80-56 with 11:50 to go in the game
- I need to get my hands on a pair of those West team shorts…
- Yogi gets great elevation on his shot
- Archie Goodwin has a really nice game. Kentucky fans should be excited
- Perry Ellis can jump
- Nice putback Shaq, er, William
- Nice pass off the glass from Kyle Anderson to Rodney Purvis. East still down 16 with 7:15 to go in the game
- Shabazz is showing why he’s the top player in the 2012 class
- Nice dime from Smart to Ridley. Texas connection
- Kyle Anderson flirting with a triple double: 9 points, 6 boards, 6 dimes
- Alex Poythress is going to slide right into that Kidd-Gilchrist spot and Kentucky won’t miss a beat there
- Kyle Anderson blows the dunk that could’ve cut the lead to 8. Things got a little sloppy after that for both teams
- Purvis 3, Jefferson dunk and we’ve got ourselves a game. East down 93-88
- Sulaimon out of the TO with a 3. Lead up to 8
- Dunk by Amile Jefferson cut the leadt to 6, but Grant Jerrett knocks down a jumoer to put the West back up 8. 98-90, 2:15 to go.
- Nice drive by Yogi to gt to the line. Misses the 1st FT tho…
- Another dunk by Shabazz Muhammd puts the East up 7, but Rodney Purvis with the And 1
- Purvis misses the FT but the East gets the O board but can’t convert
- Ferrell to Sulaimon for the And 1. Nice finish. Poythress fouls out with 19. Sulaimon makes the FT to put the West back up 8, 104-96. Kyle Anderson drives and scores. West 104, East 98
- 52.6 seconds left. Anything can happen but I’d say the West has this one locked up. Ferrell fouled with 43.5 left to play
- Great look by Anderson to Dunn to cut the lead to 4, but the West comes right back and scores
- Anderson with the Dunk, East still down 4 with 4.1 seconds left and fans are filing out of the United Center
- That’s it from Chicago, folks. The West wins by a final score of 106-102. It’s been real. See you next year… You know SLAM and SLAMonline will be there holding you down as always!
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