As a long time Blazer fan living smack dab in the middle of the Worriers bandwagon turf, it'll be annoying as fuck seeing all those GSW car window flags and newly purchased GSW shirts every the fuck where I go tomorrow - all acting like they've been fans since, like, forevah! I think tonight's game decided the series and had we won, GSW would've been in for some real trouble. This loss hurts like hell but I'm supremely proud of our guys for the season they gave us. Reigning champs, 73 historic wins, likely back to back league MVP and this young team is giving them all they can handle. Aside from a couple bad quarters by a young, inexperienced team, this could very well have been a 3-1 series in our favor right now. Oh, and there's also having to listen to the Draymond Green Show on Tom Tolbert's radio show on my drive home. If you guys think he's a smug SOB in your limited exposure to him, you should hear him on a daily/weekly basis. I honestly want to gouge his eyes out every time I hear him on the show...but at the same time, I'm sure I'd be spitting out a different tune had the Blazers drafted him. (Tolbert on the other hand, despite being a former Worrier, is one of the funniest mofos you'll ever hear!) Anyways, great game. Even better season in the hope that it gives us going into next year...let's hope we can continue to make the right moves and further develop to build on this momentum. Go Blazers!!!
That was a brutal loss that's even worse this morning after tossing and turning in about 4.5 hours of sleep last night. I kind of feel bad for my 9 yr old son, who is born and raised here in SJ but I've made him a die-hard Blazers fan. He's going to have to sit through class and recess with all his Worriers fan classmates today. To his credit, his last comment/question to me when I dropped him off this morning was "what if we come back?" Ah, the innocence of youth.
Not true...at least those would be tattered from years of use. Most of these (like the GSW t-shirts) look like they still have the price tags on them.
Between Draymond's bravado, the Warrior fans coming out of the woodwork, and Steph being damn near unguardable... I'm really starting to hate that team.
Decided against laying in bed all day licking my wounds today so I'm at the office now. Even my Worriers fan coworker just said that if Green wasn't on his team, he'd hate the fuck out of that guy. Jim Rome spent my entire commute into the office praising Dray-face as well. Also said that Steph killed the city of Portland. I think we broke Houston a couple years back and probably did the same to LAC but PDX has been through too much adversity to be broken even by a soul crushing performance like that by Curry. Has GSW come back to the Bay Area yet? Between myself and @crandc we can probably manage to find that fuckface Green around town and accidentally run over his foot.
To be fair, the Warriors' fanbase has been known to be great, packing the house and creating a din, even through all the (many, many) lean years. Sure, any dominant team will acquire a sizable bandwagon, but the Warriors have a very durable fanbase.
Eh, yes and no. I've been taking my son to the GSW games when the Blazers came to town for a few years before they won their title and the crowd was good but nothing jaw-dropping IMO. Growing up in Salem in a relatively poor first generation immigrant family, we never had the opportunity to go watch those great Blazers teams in the Memorial Coliseum so I can't make a direct comparison. My biased opinion is that our fans are better. But I agree that any winning team will spawn lots of bandwagoners... I've got friends in my personal circle that didn't know what basketball was two years ago but now feel like they're a contributing to their success per the Strength in Numbers slogan. Pretty sickening.
How can you break a city that achieved more than any analyst (probably including Rome) thought? I think they are just trying to say "told you so" even though "told you so's" don't work for a team that made the 2nd round when expected to have 26 wins. Portland said Told you so.
Yeah, they killed Portland and Green made a frigging "guarantee". A number one seed beats a number five seed and that takes a "guarantee"? When Namath made his famous guarantee, his Jets were massive underdogs; and he walked the walk, not just talked the talk. For a #1 seed to "guarantee" a win? Not much of a BFD. Green, you're no Namath. Crap, do these idiot sticks know a damn thing about Portland and the Blazers? It would take a lot more than going down fighting against a heavily favored team to kill Blazers fans. That would not even make the top 10 Portland fan killers. We've been killed by the best. We defined heartbreak.
True this ^^^ We all have our opinions and perspectives but here are the facts as I see them: -we were considered a lottery team by the vast majority of the league before the season (Kingspeed notwithstanding) -one returning starter from last year -one of the youngest teams in the league; youngest (and least experienced) team left in the playoffs -we had to bring on additional salaries mid-year just to make the league minimum; lots of $$$ to spend -we made the playoffs as a 5th seed and beat the 4th seed (with some timely LAC injuries) As for GSW: -reigning NBA champs -posted a historic 73 win season in trying to defend their title this year -are the #1 overall seed for the entire playoffs -has the back to back league MVP and first ever unanimous MVP -has depth at all positions so they're still a well above average team even without their MVP -didn't lose 2 games in a row all season - even against the likes of much more highly regarded opponents like the Spurs, Cavs, OKC, etc. -didn't lose twice to any single team . . . until the Blazers beat them in game 3 And despite all of that, we're down 3-1 to the #1 seed mostly due to a bad 1st quarter in game 1, a stifling 4th quarter in game 2, and a historic OT by the MVP in game 4. While it does hurt, it's hardly unexpected all things considered. No one expected us to even be here - but once we got here, some got greedy and lost sight of all that was accomplished by this team.
