Originally Posted by Mediocre Man Efficient offense at it's best. 6'11" PF draining a 30 foot 3 at the shot clock buzzer One more possitive on Nate: I like the switch to zone late in the game. Better late than never." ___________________________________________________________________________________ Funny that Hubie was talking about our use of the 2-3 zone.............in the first qtr.
true. he was active on the offensive boards. reminded me of a lite lebron with that one pass he had on a fastbreak
Plus he will have to learn to pace himself or get in better shape. He could hardly breathe at the end of the 3rd. But he does work his ass off.
So I'm rewatching the ESPN version (after hearing the Mikes earlier)...kind of getting sick of Hubie, which is odd, since I generally respect his knowledge. Then I just saw Tokito's tweet: Oden to ESPN re. Griffin: "I told him not to posterize anybody on my team, but he's definitely not listening to me." I've counted 5 easy baskets at the rim for them and 2 for us.
Fun game tonight. Nice to see Aldridge go from goat to hero. For three quarters, his offense was horrible. Just awful. But he kept rebounding, played good D, and then man, that 3 shut the crowd up for the rest of the night. Another dominant 4th quarter for our Blazers. I love it. Nice to hang out with El Presidente too. I may go to Knicks game on Saturday. Depends om work stuff. GO BLAZERS!
I know, right? I watched part of the ESPN broadcast and they were not even trying to hide the fact that they were rooting for the Clippers
I really can't hate on the announcers for rooting for the Clips. That team hasn't really had anything to cheer about forever. Every time they build a good team, it's blown up. Hopefully they keep this core together, because they have some really talented young guys. Baron needs to move on. That guy just doesn't look anything like the guy that was so much fun to watch.
Ya, they used it a few times and for it to be effective they can't use it all the time. That would just allow the other team to get use to it and figure ways to beat it. It's nice to throw at them at certain times.
The reason the game was televised was because it was the debut game of a #1 pick. Blake Griffin was the reason for the broadcast. Of course they're going to root for him.
Ya, we did. I meant in the 4th. I was glad to see Nate go with it again. I was hoping for it sooner, but we won. Good move by him to go back to it
Only got to see the 4th quarter. Batum looked awesome, him and Camby in that Zone was a thing of beauty. After the game I also checked Nic's stat line and it looks like he had a near-perfect game.
I honestly think a lot of it is coming from Matthews. I have watched him closely when he is off the ball. I absolutely love it. He is bumping guys, running into them, using his elbows, shouldering them. He gave Nash a few good bumps off the ball the other night. We desperately needed somebody to do that for this team!
