Game Thread PLAYOFFS - ROUND 1, GAME 6: CLIPPERS @ BLAZERS - 4/29/16, FRIDAY, 7:30 (PDT), KGW & ESPN

Earlier, you said that for the 2 games paul and griffin were healthy.......etc...

 

Frazier? Good question.

 

I just see this as a sign that we haven't hit our full stride yet. We're saving our best stuff for GSW.

 

That's the booze locker

 

We didn't. We beat them once. Paul and Griffen went out in the 3rd quarter of game 4.

 

Hey, the Clippers are always looking for new fans...!

 

Some reading comprehension please. That question was in response to this exchange.

Quote from my post
"I'm just saying, if you face an opponent full strength, then you take away 2 out of their top 3 players, and barely beat them, you show that you had no chance against them at full strength."

Sleepwalker's nonsense response:
"I didn't realize Paul and Griffin got injured in game two."

 

Would we have beaten the Clips at full strength in a 7 game series? I'd say the odds are that winning at least one away from Moda would have been pretty tough. A lot of people are certainly going to say that the Blazers' accomplishment is lessened by Paul and Griffin being sidelined. On the other hand, the Clips had depth and plenty of other good players. Crawford and Rivers put up numbers that they wouldn't normally do and nearly pulled one out last night. A team can only play the opponents who are available to play. The Blazers won the series and move on. If they make a good showing against the Warriors they can do a lot to silence the doubters. Either way, I don't give a crap what anyone says. The Blazers have shown that they deserve to be in the playoffs and have demonstrated to free agents that this is a desirable place to sign in the off-season. That's a huge accomplishment that will help this team get even better in the future.

 

Well, they blew us out by 20 in game 1 and 2, we beat them at full strength in game 3, and we were a little bit ahead in game 4 when Paul and Griffin got hurt, then pulled away after they left. So perhaps we would have won that game if they hadn't. But game 5 and 6 were very close and I don't believe we would have one those if they had Paul.

 

LMA is dominating.

 

Shit!

Wrong thread.

 

Not sure how Sinobas is getting so much flack for the game statements that at basic fact. Paul got hurt midway through game 4 and Griffin later that game so they weren't at full strength for that game since a game is referred to as a whole. Yes they were at full strength for the 1st half of that game but not the full game. Why the grief? Now if people want to debate how it would have gone if they had stayed in the whole game, that can be conjectured all day.

Believe me....if Dame and CJ had gone out in the 2nd half of a very close game and we had gone on to loose, Blazer fans would say we weren't at full strength for that game.

 

Wrong. Those guys were hurt during game 4.

 

You are right, I was thinking of this post that was defending your position, and not something you posted personally. I was going from memory.

 

Great experience for this young team. Hell yeah!

At the final buzzer, as we clinched the series and the confetti fell; I was waiting for CJ to turn and point at Glenn Rivers, with a knowing smirk on his face.


[Of course we all know this would never happen. CJ is a class act, and above such actions, but a part of me would have loved to have seen the look on Glenns face]

 

Best write-up on the game I've read yet - perfectly sums it up.

http://www.wweek.com/news/2016/04/30/no-living-clipper-a-blazers-playoff-update/

 

The youngest team in the playoffs won a playoff series.
That team has the lowest payroll in the entire league.
That team is us.

If we weren't at full strength and lost I'd still be very happy. Why?
Because we're clearly on the way UP, and the Clippers are clearly on the way DOWN.
If we're even close at this point, it is very bad news for them.

The Clips and their fans understand this - they may be blowing it up as Paul and Griffin are FAs next year. I could totally see Paul leaving for Cleveland at that time. As anathema as it is to their fans, the Clips need to seriously consider trading Paul. We don't have that problem.

 

I sat right behind them, I could lean over and touch them. I said "so much for not even sniffing the playoffs" and they said nobody thought you were, and that they were getting hammered for those comments. Haha I would scream defense right in their ear and they would bring their mikes into their chests haha. Soo loud, an incredible experience