Kenny Smith says "Blazers will be odd team left out"

I believe #18 was: You've GOT to make your free throws - or more accurately: Thou shall not miss thine free throws.

BNM

 

With that voice, how can there be any doubt?

BNM

 

Kenny Smith translated ------------ "blazers, I challenge you too make the playoffs"

Deep down he likes us for sure

 

No, I am not mixed up, I just don't know any of it at all, because it is worthless. Unfortunately the only parts of it I know, are from those cheesy Charleton Heston movies that I would happen to channel surf by on the way to watching something worthwhile.....

 

Fixed that for ya.

 

They beat us on our court on Christmas Day.

 

Sure it is. We have 4 rookies playing significant minutes. And we have three 3rd year players playing significant minutes. And NONE of them have any experience playing meaningful playoff-deciding games in April. Nash/Shaq/Amare have been there before. Kidd/Dirk/Terry have done it before- in fact, all three of them have been to the Finals- Kidd TWICE!) Utah is two years removed from the conference finals. And here's the sad truth: we are 1-5 against those teams. Don't mean to be a downer but making the playoffs down the stretch will be a MAJOR mental test for a bunch of guys who aren't used to it (though Outlaw should have no problem; he's immune to pressure).

 

Yea, but at some point, some of the teams are going to make a push and go on a winning streak. We need to be one of those teams.

 

I'm not really expecting a first round miracle, either. The playoffs really are a different animal. I will just be happy trash-talking an opponent for a week or two for the first time in a long time.

 

No doubt. If we don't make the playoffs, I'll be devastated.

 

if the blazers don't make it, it will be because they aren't good enough not because they aren't old enough.

 

First off, let me say that I think they will make the playoffs.

But back to the argument....

If the Blazers aren't "good enough," don't you think it might be because the players have no experience playing in pressure games against veterans?

 

Let me say it better....

Time has shown that players get BETTER as they grow into the league. Brandon Roy is, for instance, a much better player than he was last year just as Chris Paul was a much better last year than he was the year before. Part of being "good enough" is growing INTO being "good enough." So in the case of our players, "not good enough" could go hand in hand with "not fully grown yet." Just wait til next year and the kind of statistical production we'll get out of Oden once he's played a full season against all of the bigs and has had time to learn how to play against them and then you'll see what I mean.

 

i definitely feel the same way.

no, i really don't think so. if the blazers fail to make the playoffs this year, i think it's just because they weren't as good as we thought they were. i don't think it will be because they have to lose those type of games first to game experience before they are able to win them.

 

Totally irrelevant to the thread, but what the HELL happened to the board? I had to sign in again. I have a poll about what car I (don't) Bunch of previews top, left, right, that I don't want. Can't start a new thread to ask what is going on.

The board is totally completely unreadable, I clicked on a random thread. Someone please let me know if/how I can restore original settings or I am permanently off the board. I literally cannot read any thread.

 

Thanks, barfo, I figured it out. I have the page bookmarked and got the weirdness. I went back to sports forum and followed the links, then re-bookmarked. Seems OK now. Sorry to interrupt this intellectual thread.

 

FWIW- I tired to log in as I usally do and got some funky page on this site. I clicked on an Orlando post and that brought me to the NBA (above) and got back here.

So I too experienced something out of the norm today.

My guess is it has something to do with that big advertising banner above. S2 has gone commercial . . . I would like to think this board (Blazers) is what drew advertisers.

 

The Clippers beat us on our homecourt too. We also beat Boston. That's why they play the games.