Blazers upset about hard screen.............

I've watched a lot of NBA basketball and I don't think I've ever seen anybody set that kind of a hard screen at the end of a game when the outcome is decided. Certainly it was within the rules, but it wasn't necessary and could have resulted in an injury. There are some things you don't do to opponents in the NBA like rubbing it in by trying to score at the end of a game when the W is sewn up. Cardinal crossed that line of professional "etiquette". I hope it brings a bit of payback at the Rose Garden.

 

It's not very likely we'll have a chance to repay Cardinal. So I guess since he picked on the smallest guy in the room, Barea should maybe have his head on a swivel?

 

If his head ain't swiveling at the start of the game, it should be by the end.

 

That pick kind of reminds me of taking the last shot right as the time clock expires when your the winning team. Bad sportsmanship is what it is, I wouldn't mind that pick at any other time in the game and I would have been disappointed if one of our players did the game thing.

 

im not saying the mavs shouldnt have, im saying that i dont like it

 

The point of screen is to free a player from the defender so that he can get a shot off. The Mavs weren't trying to score at that point, so the whole reason for laying out and potentially injuring the defender doesn't apply. From that standpoint, it was cheap. That said, all I'm looking for a little fire from the Blazers. If this helps, then great.

 

I am going to do everything in my annoying power to get Tyson so pissed off at me; that he comes to my section and sock me in the face. Hopefully I can get him suspended for game 7.

I was thinking shit talking like "Hey Tyson, your momma must be real proud she raised such a good daughter! Only bitches whine to the refs!"

or this "Chandler, is that a jock strap or g-string?!"

or "Chandler I didn't know the NBA has women playing in it! You one hella ugly bitch!"

 

If this actually gets us angry, then we're bigger pussies than I thought.

Does Patty play Aussie Rules Football this way? If so, he's an embarrassment.

If you want to send a message, put Armon Johnson out there and put an elbow in Kidd's, Terry's or Barea's face. Draw some blood. Show you give a shit about being in the playoffs. Why we play Marquis of Queensbury rules is beyond me.

 

That's how it usually is at the end of games when the winning team has the ball on the last possession. The defender (especially if it's a scrub) gets up on the guy with the ball. That's just what usually happens. It was an unnecessary pick in the first place, and it was very hard. He even lowered his shoulder for it.

 

"Do you just look like Freddie Mercury or do you fuck like him too?"

"Are you the catcher or is Barea?"

 

Hey, you leave me and uncle grandpa out of this!

 

If I was Patty, I'd be more pissed at my teammates than Brian Cardinal. CALL THE FUCKING SCREENS!

If the Blazers want to use that as motivation, fine whatever.

P.S. I think that was the only time in the entire game the Blazers didn't switch on a screen.

BNM

 

Up 11 with 10 seconds to go and Cardinal decides to put his stamp on the series with a hard screen? I have absolutely no problem with hard screens, in fact I love when a hard screen is set. But, there is no need to set a screen like that when the shot clock wasn't even running because the game was about to end.

 

The game was over. His teammates weren't paying attention.

 

I don't get it either.