Nets 93 Trail Blazers 86. Nets go to 11-6

This was really like four separate games. The Blazers led 30-17 early second quarter. The Nets looked terrible, and had committed about 10 turnovers. Then the Nets went on a 58-20 (!) run, to lead 75-50 late in the third. Portland came back with a run of their own, 34-9, to tie the game at 84. Then Kidd took over in the last couple of minutes, and the Nets held on for the 93-86 win.

They've shown a disturbing trend this year in running up leads, and then letting the other team back in it, something that rarely happened last year. It looks like they also think that they can turn it off and on at will, like the Lakers.

Kittles "bruised" his knee and left the game, but from the way he was holding a towel over his face and the anguished look he had, I'm afraid it might be more than a bruise. The Nets also played without Mutombo, which was no loss IMO.

As usual, Kidd carried the taem with his scoring - 28 points on 10-17 shooting.