Dave from Blazers edge continues hiss negative blazer views...

Yeah, it's a load of steaming shit. The Blazers were a playoff team last year who upped pace with Felton and now have an older Batum, a better LMA, a comfortable and integrated Wallace, a healthy Camby, a guy off the bench in Crawford who can get off a shot at any time and can play the point.

I've never much agreed with "Dave from BlazersEdge", though, so I admit my view of anything he writes is negatively biased.

 

To be fair, I'm not sure MM's post was implying anything negative as much as pointing out a possible reason for the improve stat.

On the other hand, we've become so used to MM's posts being unfounded criticism that we immediately assume he's being negative.

 

"Blow it up"

It's going to suck when teams figure out how to stop the Blazers, and solve their defense. Maybe as well rebuild now.

I see Portland going 5-28 in the second half of the season with this group of scrubs and their jerkwater coach.

It will be just like the Ducks, and what happened in the Rose Bowl this year after Wisconsin's Top 8 defense had a month to prepare for Chip Kelly and his gimmicky offense.

 

True, and I do have one small criticism, and it pertains to Jamal Crawford. Watching him dribble the ball for 7 seconds and then launching a shot (which he missed) with 13 seconds on the shot clock, and 2:10 left in the game, alarmed me. I appreciate chuckers as much as anyone (I was the last defender of Outlaw Island, for example), but at least be smart about it. Nate pulled him right after that shot, too.

 

Agreed. That was a little frustrating to watch. With about 2:30 left, we ran the 1-4 offense like we used to do with Roy, but with Jamal handling the ball. We had a terrible possession and I remember thinking we better not keep running that 1-4 offense for the final 2:30.

 

Still of lot of growing yet to do for this team, and that's a good thing. Were only going to get better.

 

I have to give Nate credit for yanking him after that shot. I'll also give Crawford credit for not sulking about it, because if you saw after the game, he and LMA embraced for a good 15 seconds or so, and Jamal was all over the court high-fiving during timeouts after he was pulled.