OT: Wow, Tyreke & Co. Stage 33-Point Comeback In 1 1/2 Quarters!

The thing that makes the comeback less impressive is that in order to come from behind by 33, they had to be down by 33. To the Bulls. Excuse me for not wanting to switch rosters with Sacramento.

 

The slow down game was designed for the sole purpose of dealing with those teams. No running team has won a champoinship since then. Any high end team with the ability to play a slower pace can control the pace and take a running team out of their game. There are too many things they can do to control the pace of the game, and take the comfort level out of the running teams hands. Combine that with the fact that in the playoffs, more fouls are called which stops play and hinders running teams. The whole fact that you had to go back to a team that ran the court 20 years ago shows this to be true.

I also believe in order to have a good running team it depends on personnel. Just like the Triangle offense is a straight line without a player named Jordan or Kobe on it, the running team requires a player like Magic Johnson or Nash to run the show. Maybe a Baron Davis if you surround them with enough talent.

 

The Portland Trail Blazers acquired the draft rights to forward Jeff Pendergraph (31st overall pick) from the Sacramento Kings in exchange for guard Sergio Rodriguez, the draft rights to forward Jon Brockman (38th overall pick) and cash considerations, it was announced today by General Manager Kevin Pritchard.

Quite possibly the worst trade in Blazers history.

http://www.nba.com/kings/news/kings_biggest_comeback_team_history.html

 

[video=youtube;sCMy9X1JpSk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCMy9X1JpSk&feature=sub[/video]

 

You honestly believe the Spurs will finish 7th? If history has taught us anything, it's that the Spurs turn it on in February. I can't imagine the Spurs will finish lower than 4th. Probably 3rd.

 

Nah, not really. The game thread at Sac-town royalty kind of caught my eye. Apparently Sergio wasn't exactly the difference maker in this game that you make him out to be.

http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2009/12/21/1210936/post-game-thread-kings-102-bulls-98#comments

 

Sergio only has about 4 good games to his name this year, despite what some people will say on this board, and those 4 games, skew his numbers (which are usually about 2 points and an assist or two) in the rest of his games. It's one of those grass is greener if you only selectivly choose certain game results.

 

I would have paid money to come here if that had happened

 

I would have too MIXUM's head probably would have exploded.

 

shit...a lot more "level headed" people than Mixum would have their head explode too. You cant get much more of an epic collapse...unless it was in a game 7 in the WCF or something

 

Sergio played 13:31 in the 3rd and 4th quarters, leading the Kings out of their 35 point deficit, and was tired. He usually doesn't play that long. He committed no fouls until his last 22 seconds, when he had 3 fouls. Westphal (too late is better than never) quickly pulled him out of the game. The Bulls got 2 points on FTs from the 3 fouls. Udrih went in and they won the game. So yes, Sergio imploded in his last 22 seconds out of fatigue.

But until he went in, they were going in the wrong direction from 35 down, and they immediately reversed direction. Of course, he wasn't the only one who made it all happen.

 

I think I have learned that more level headed people are called homers. That's what I get from Mixum's thread. It's good to expand one's vocabulary.

Oh, and BTW, I think that as bad as WCF epic collapses go, they are not really as bad as the finals collapses are...

 

Yeah, he's good. And for a team with strong leadership like the Blazers have, he'd probably be very good. But damn... he really played some crummy ball in the second half. You don't always hear it about Deng, but he sometimes deserves the selfish rap more than guys that have left, like Gordon, or Salmons, who gets it a lot. He very often doesn't seem to work well with Rose, and its really frustrating.

 

well played...but you know it still hurt

When that lakers finals collapse was happening I tried everything to mindfuck it into not happening (as if the world revolved around me). I was thinking of every anti-jinxing thought I could while psychotically laughing with occasionally bursting into turrets like cursing episodes....I dont remember anything specific about that game at all, Ive blocked it all out...serious

 

Ahahahahahaaaa. Thanks I needed that.

 

See how worthless your clearly biased and inaccurate dismissal of a player's successes really is?

If a person had didn't watch the Kings and Blazers, they might actually believe you. Having watched both teams, and both players, I know otherwise.

Here are his real stats, if anyone is interested:

http://www.nba.com/playerfile/sergio_rodriguez/career_stats.html

Strong improvement so far in most catagories.

As for the comeback game, which I watched, Sergio was the game-changer. He stopped the bleeding and turned the tide so smoothly and quickly the Bulls were stunned into passivity.

Truly a masterpiece of team direction and everything this team is missing at the point.

 

Sergio, in 308 minutes played this year has a winscore of 0.7, Bayless, in 290 has a winscore of 1.2 - with all due respect to Sergio, who is playing a lot better in Sacramento than he did in Portland (not a surprise, he is not a half-court player, we all knew that, still kudos to him) - Bayless was, and still is a much better prospect, Especially playing next to Brandon Roy.

Good to see Sergio, however, making a run at possibly sticking in the league after this year. While he did not fit in this team and was just taking minutes from Bayless who is a much better fit next to Roy - it is nice to see him doing well. I always thought he was a nice guy with very exciting game, when things are moving fast.