Check all the comments...they all sleeping on us everyone is saying If KD plays sweep but without him warriors in 5.....they dissing us , i have a feeling we gonna smash warriors, let them doubt us they all said we would get bounced 1st round hahahaha
I kind of figured that GS would he heavy favorites and to be fair theyve dominated half a decade now so until they get beat they deserve it. Up to the Blazers to rip it away from them.
Everyone ALWAYS sleeps on the Blazers. You can set your calendar by it. As the wise man (me) says: He who laughs last, laughs last laughs!
Theres no reason for the national media to pick the blazers. But they doubt dame. And thats a bad place to be.
Everything, at this point, is gravy. I will enjoy the hell out of this team even if we get swept. But, with the heart we have shown, we are getting at least one win (and maybe a lot more)!
They are a generational team, with generational talent at pretty much all positions except Center. And their bench isn't too shabby either. I don't blame people for saying they'll sweep us. This is the first time in Dame's career that we've even made it this far. We're without our starting Center, our backup has one shoulder, Hood might be out with an ACL injury, and we don't have home court advantage. I'm okay with losing to the best team in the league with those odds stacked against us. I think with Nurk we would have a chance, but even then, probably 2 games at the most. I don't WANT to lose, of course, and especially to GS, but I've made peace with it. Golden State is going to absolutely crush any team, probably the Bucks, that makes it to the Championship.
With the whole world thinking the Blazers have no chance, as a fan I feel the Blazers have nothing to lose. The players on the other hand, definitely don't plan on losing. They can use being the underdog as motivation to play aggressive yet relaxed. The Blazers are not an easy out. They will win more than one game. This series is going six or seven.
Few expected the Blazers to win against OKC or Denver, either. Heck, how many didn't even expect us to make the playoffs before the season. We're big underdogs. We should be. But the players will decide this. Not the pundits.
I still think their bench is highly suspect, yes 1 game they played great, but Warriors love to dig deep because Houston is their mortal foe , they sleeping on us, without KD we could win both games at Oracle
Yep. I said it to riverman before the game... But if we won today, which we did, that gets people to notice. That gets free agents attention. Its almost now a blessing nurk got hurt. Now you can sell the fact that with your starting center out, we can make it to the wcf. Think of what we can do with you, the prized free agent. You can sell that and top free agents can actually buy it. Will they? Maybe. But do we have a legit shot at a big time free agent in dames prime? I can say for the first time that it is now possible. So yes, this is all gravy.
Nope, we sweep them. All we have to do is show up and win the first game, and second, third and fourth. That simple. They will be too busy dreaming about the finals against Bucks!
I swear they were talking about Hood being helped to the locker room and Shaq said something like, "Man up." What the hell? It's a hyperextended knee dumbass.
