Portland vs Houston Game Thread?

Bayless nor Sergio have impressed me lately honestly. Both really only excel at one thing.

 

This is why I have been a little down on LMA this year. He just disappears way too often and when he is not shooting it well..he continues to jump shoot instead of going inside.

Play of the game was when Outlaw had it, got fouled no call...

 

I didn't know there was a such thing as "flopping foul"? Supposedly, flopping was supposed to warrant a technical, though I've never seen that called. I believe they called a blocking foul on Joel. It was by nothing close to a defensive foul.

And Yao is a big guy and barreled into Joel pretty heavily with his shoulder....so I don't even think it could really be called a flop.

 

Really? You're blaming this on Frye's free throws?

How about the fact that Batum got NO shots in the 4th when he was red hot. Or how LMA shot stupid jumpers at the end of the game. Or how our bench fucked us in the second quarter.

But no, you blame 2 measly free throws by Channing Frye....

 

I love Travis, fv Blazer, but I was not opposed to seeing him benched tonight. He made some BONEHEAD plays tonight. The end of the quarter heave when 2 men were open and his failure to get out on shooters. I love how he can elevate his game in the 4th, but getting out on shooters should be cake.

 

Good news: the Suns are blowing a huge lead at home against the Bobcats.

 

Don't play TO for three quarters.

Play him the entire 4th. Problem solved.

He'd also lead the league in pts in the 4th.

 

It was momentum changing. We were making a huge run and his two FTs would've cut it again to 5 points. We needed everything to go well to cut away at the 18 point deficit. He missed and they went on a run.

 

I blame Frye for being hot garbage since the first game of the season. He's terrible.

 

Actually, if Outlaw doesn't play the 2nd quarter, we would've gotten routed. His 8 points kept us in a game that we were about ready to lose by 30. No one could score but he took and made shots when nothing was going right.

 

Rudy Fernandez is the most over-rated Blazer ever. It's first-impression syndrome. He looked great in the pre-season, and had some very good games at the beginning of the regular season. But he plays just like Derek Anderson, after Derek lost his slashing ability.

 

I think you meant to say Outlaw not LMA.

 

Nope, not at all.

 

You know what else was momentum changing? The bench in the second quarter, constant jumper after jumper when the Rockets got cold, poor free throws by LMA, boneheaded jumper at the end of the 4th by TO.

We could go on and on, but there's no one single play that completely screwed us tonight. We dug a hole, and were almost able to get out of it. Frye's free throws would have helped, but they aren't as big a story as the entire game.

 

I agree. He's been a tad disappointing this year, but he is just a rookie. He should improve next year.

But he has to start knocking down his open looks. He misses way too many of them.

 

All he does is shoot threes and finish an alley oop play once a game. If he makes that wide open three and makes that layup at the end of the quarter, we win. You're right. Rudy gets a free pass in here.

 

2 assists takes help from 2 other guys so 4 pts divided by 3 players = 1.33pts < 2pts

As I said, I'd have liked to see both of them play a lot more.

Blake is just not up to a team that pushes the ball so fast and also gets back so fast.

Nate got outcoached, which seems to happen often against uptempo teams, but rarely against slower teams.

Nobody on this team should be playing more than around 30 minutes a game, and we could run even these guys out of the building.

 

There was no boneheaded jumper by TO at the end of the 4th. He hit a three, made a layup, and then missed a layup that he was fouled on. There was no missed jumper. Did you watch the game?

 

My bad. 3rd.

 

Outlaw had no boneheaded jumper late in the 4th quarter:

http://www.nba.com/games/20090224/PORHOU/playbyplay.html

He hit three big shots in the 4th and after he was fouled on that layup and it wasn't called, we never went back to him.