"The game featured two of the NBA's premier point guards, Deron Williams of the Nets and reigning MVP Derrick Rose of the Bulls. Williams deftly side-stepped and squashed any of the one-on-one angles of the game.

"I like playing the best, and he's the best," Williams said while stressing, "It's not about me versus Derrick Rose. It's about the Bulls versus the Nets."

Yeah, but him versus Derrick Rose was a heckuva lot more interesting than Bulls versus Nets, even if Rose lasted just one half before sitting with lower back spasms. Bulls versus Nets was a mismatch of Biblical proportions."