Classic! Somebody uses steals and rebound totals to define defense, and then says to learn the game. I love it!!
yeah, that was pretty good. C'mon people, MARIS is just trying to get a rise out of people and it works every time.
This may be the best game thread ever. I'm so glad I decided to not post and to just watch the game (thanks KGW!).
Like others here I do tend to get emotional during the game. I'm usually pretty level headed but I go through a lot of ups and downs but I certainly wouldn't consider myself a bandwagoner. I was damn close to turning the game off in the third and I'm very glad I didn't. Great finish.
Dear god... did we really just win this game? I just got home after tuning it out once CP3 went down. I thought we had no chance in hell (we were down 20?!). Fuck.. this is unbelievable. We were playing sooooooooo shittily and I could not stand those announcers. I am so happy that we sent them a giant "FUCK YOU" by winning that game and CP3 going down. Oh man.. oh man. Does anyone have a recording they could upload of the 4th quarter? Or is NBATV going to replay this tonight? AHhhhh.
Not sure if anyone else noticed this, but Nate just glanced at Scott and didn't go shake his hand after the game. I loved it. Scott is a punk.
MIXUMS THOUGHTS ON ORleans GAME.... - Bayless killed sergio tonight. Im wondering how long before bayless starts over sergio. - Blazers cant defend the paint against good pgs....paul and deron murdered us. this is a big issue. - Obvioulsy anyone who watched knew the blazers had this game at the 6 minute mark. You can always tell when a team is done. Hornets had no chance. - Amazing comeback BUT still the fact we were down by 20 is upsetting. Hornets are not that great IMO. - Basically if you have 31-32 wins at the break....you should be a LOCK for playoffs which would mean all we need is 20 wins by april 15th. We have 30. If we cant get 1 more...that would be depressing since we play the thunder and knicks. I almost say 100% we lose to dallas which hurts big time in case of tie breakers. That loss on xmas was bad one for us. - Outlaw has won us about 5 games but prob lost us just as many with his defense. He might be the most puzzling player i've ever seen.... - Hornet announcers are just scumbags... at one point there quote was "theres your all star" referring to roys tough night. Sorry guys.... but soon LA ill be taking wests spot. - Again nice win but the defense is a joke. I dont know if its fixable with the roster we have. our PGs are just not anywhere near quality defenders and that includes blake. bayless is too young yet to determine. paul must have been licking his chops to face sergio. hes awful. - If we beat dallas, that will be about as big a win as we"ve had all year. We NEVER Win there. they have owned us for a loooooong time.
Sometimes Karma has a weird way of paying visits. Blazer fans all know this, because we've had several visits from Karma. But I wonder if the NOH announcers remember the 25-10-6 (thats 10 assists) on 11-15 shooting in the 101-86 W that the Blazers had earlier this year.
I only pulled it up because it was the most honest and blatant insult toward a Blazer I saw in this thread. No worries. Had I been posting live, I'd have been kicking myself over a few things.
whoa. I deleted that post 'cause I thought I had made a mistake about the whole sequence but you made your response before I edited it. Just checked the play again. It was the right play. Outlaw threw it away, and Paul was obviously hurt on the inbounds play immediately after.
Not as silly as pretending they aren't a huge part of it, along with not allowing your opponent to score on you, which Paul was unable to do against Sergio. You apparently use giving up 7 points on 3 straight attempts and committing stupid fouls to define defense.
Sergio and Bayless each scored 6 points on Paul with Bayless getting 13 against scrubs. Sergio 6 - Paul 0 Bayless 6 - Paul 12 Both did fine considering, but Sergio defended admirably, Bayless was outmatched and a step slow.
Paul was able to get 7 assists on Sergio in the first quarter. That's a result of Sergio's defense letting Paul get wherever he wanted.
