Quality choice. I will let you pick the first half of the 4th song, spliced into 3 other songs of my choosing.
Bottom line, we're a hell of a lot better than almost everyone thought we would be. Let's hope we can keep it up.
I think Portland will be really tested tomorrow night and will get OKC's best. Same amount losses but three games behind in the win column. OKC will be gunning for them and I think this game will signify just how real Portland is.
It'll be interesting to see OKC. They just held on to a blown 15 point lead and had KD in there for 40 minutes... It will be a test, for sure.
It's easy to overlook in the course of the regular season, but top teams usually get an opponent's best effort. How Portland handles playing with a target on their backs in the near future is going to be very interesting to say the least.
That is how I feel. Normally Ptd might sneak up on OKC who is on the road and playing back to back (and winning the first game). But with the Blazers sitting on top of OKC and slowing becoming the talk of the western conference, you can bet OKC will shake off the weary legs and come pumped for this game. This is a statement game . . . and if the Blazers keep this up, many opponents will view games against the Blazers as measuring stick of where they are (I bet Denver is licking their chops to get Ptd at home again). Nice feeling for me is I feel at home, if Blazers play their game, they can beat anyone. Don't need to rely on a let down from the other team, Blazers are good enough to win if they bring their A game, no matter what game the opponent brings (yea I'm kind of on a Blazer high right now)
Nik, I have noticed an interesting air of confidence recently. Deservedly so if you ask me......I just haven't seen or felt that around here in a few years.
Shit... this is going to be hard to keep track of. It's like Six degrees of Kevin Bacon. The Blazers beat the Pacers, making them the #1 team.... but the Blazers lost to the Suns (twice), so THEY'RE the #1 team..... but then they lost to Utah...... so the Jazz are the #1 team. This is making my head spin.
I like to think of myself as an objective realist; in reality I know I'm more on the pessimistic side the spectrum, but the past four or five years there was increasingly less to be optimistic about with this franchise and I said so ... frequently. I also know for a fact this bothered the hell out of a lot of people and people sometimes take this shit personally, but I've always striven to call things as I see them. So now that the team is playing really good team basketball they've got my attention again and I just wanted to wait and see if this was more than just a hot streak before letting myself get invested again. I have no idea if the way they are playing will hold up over the course of the season because so much depends on good health and a little bit of luck, but I like what I see.
