9-14. 3-5 on 3's. 2 steals. 23 points. Travis doesn't get a lot of love around here. I'm glad he stepped up tonight and proved his value. And avenging his poor play against Houston in the playoffs. He's an excellent player coming off the bench. He has a history of leading us to wins. And I still don't believe he has quite peaked. Go Travis!
We've seen it before. We've also seen him go into a slump the very next game. It's pretty commonly known that Travis will either shoot you in or out of ballgames and I don't get why everyone's on his balls all of a sudden as these games aren't rare or anything. They happen about every 5 games for him so that means the next four will read 1/9, 4/13, 3/7, and 5/15
Nice game, no question. I wish Trout was more consistent, but the kid really does catch more hate than is justified.
I liked how active he was tonight running the floor and crashing the boards. If he played like that every night instead of just looking for his shot, I'd be a lot higher on him. Part of my frustration with Travis is I don't think he's as good as he should be.
Truth- Outlaw is one of our most consistent scorers. After LMA and Roy, he has been the only guy we can count on the last two seasons. Who else has been more reliable?
All I want to see from Trav is consistency and a little more versatility on a game by game basis. He can even have bad shooting nights and I won't bitch if he commits to pulling down boards, playing good D and moving the ball. Whatever though, good game for Travis.
I have a love-hate relationship with Outlaw. So many times I have seen him force shots, and no one to grab an O-rebound, and the next thing you know the other team gets an easy fast break score.. At least tonight it didn't seem he was forcing shots, and actually waiting to be open instead. It was refreshing.
It figures that Outlaw blows up for the one game I can't watch, rewatch, DVR or archive. Just looking at the notes and box scores, I'm fine with Travis getting 33 minutes if he's attacking the boards, attempting to play D, making shots, etc. What I'm not fine with is when he gets large minutes when he isn't. Hopefully, that doesn't happen this year.
I like how he played but it's just one game. Don't pump him up too much to where you'll go on suicide watch if he has an off game.
The thing is... Outlaw is 100% the most hated Blazer in here. In the "game" thread, he was voted off before even Dante Cunningham and Juwan Howard. And yet Outlaw has won so mamy games for us. People actually said in here that Juwan should play ahead of Travis, lol! And then Travis carries us tonight. Why won't people wake up and embrace this guy as a positive force on our team?
I agree. Travis is under appreciated around here. Big time. He's a very good player off the bench who can do some really good things.
I think we finally narrowed down the cause of Outlaw's inconsistencies. Take one for the team and Stop watching games!
Exactly right. Last night's game was Fool's Gold. Outlaw will look good about once every 5 or 6 games, and the rest of the time he'll kill you with turnovers and one-on-one play. I will say that last night I saw him actually pass off once (to Pryz) as he was driving to the hoop, which nearly floored me.
+1 Outlaw, Blake and Nate get a lot of shit on this board . . . with fans like taht, who needs road games.
When I saw that my initial thought was "No! Why'd you pass it to Joel?" Without looking at any else, just watching the game in the arena, Outlaw was the reason we win that game. He lit the fuse in the beginning of the 2nd that pushed us out to a big lead. That gave us the breathing room so that when we turned sloppy we still had enough margin to win. I'd love to see him put together a couple games in a row!
