Spurs lost their first 1st round games in 2003, 2005, & 2007

And they won the championship in all three of those years.

We can still win it all.

 

I still feel good about this team but, for now, I just want to win a game. That thrashing really infected my mojo.

 

Winning it all is unlikely, but then again so was HCA at the beginning of the year to me. Let's start with winning a game, then the series, and go from there.

 

Call me crazy but I feel like the Blazers will win the series still. Take away Yao and Houston struggles badly.

 

I agree, one win will make a huge difference. My uncle says that often, life is like a jar of pickles. It is really hard to get that first pickle out because its jammed in there, but once you do, all the other ones come out easily.

We just need to get the first pickle out of the jar.

 

How do we take away Yao? Also- the Rockets won in NO without Yao last month.

 

or we'll be in a real pickle.......Ollie.

 

Three ways come to mind:

1) Foul him HARD as many times as possible

2) Take it to him in hopes of getting him into foul trouble. (That somewhat worked in game 1 as he had 4. The Blazers just failed to capitalize - i.e. taking it to the paint - when he was out.)

3) Send a hit squad

 

That means the Spurs are winning it all this year, right?

 

I found a picture of a young ABM with his Mojo!

 

Did someone want a pickle?

 

It means it's still possible.

 

I believe he is nursing a sore foot.

Shit happens.

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g266Uwp6ZnI

 

It's far from over. I don't expect all those home teams who lost Game 1 to lose all of the series. Hopefully we catch Houston a little overconfident and get back into it.

 

You bring up the silliest of stats. Next "interesting statistic" thread you make is probably when we're down 0-3 and you'll bring up that the Boston Red Sox were down 0-3 in the MLB Playoffs, but rallied back and eventually won a championship. That's happened once in all of MLB. I suppose I should go buy a lottery ticket, because somewhere across the country there was also another college kid that loved basketball but didn't quite have enough money to go to a playoff game, yet somehow won the lottery. There's a chance, right?

 

I know we can stop, or at least slow, Yao - we did a much better job in all three previous meetings. It's not going to be easy and he's going to get points, but we have to at least make him work a lot harder for them.

 

By this criteria, so could they.