Blazers have no chance to win this series; are you excited for next season?

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  1. KeepOnRollin

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    Yep. It changes a lot of things since he put this no chance thing out.

    He jumped the gun since the clipps were up 2-0 (which they should have been being at home) and looked fairly decent doing it.

    We would have won this last game had Paul not gone out and Griffin not have re-injured himself though.

    So at 2-2 we might not have won the series still (had the injuries not happened) but to say no chance is a little preposterous.
     
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    I don't blame Draco for thinking the Blazers were major underdogs, but this gets back to something Zach Lowe said about blowing up really good teams that seem just short of true title contention (in the case of the Clippers)...you never know when an injury will suddenly clear your way or give you a shot.
     
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    In all fairness to the Blazers, we won both games with the Clips basically at full staff or health. The injuries really didn't come until we had owned them in game four.
    ;)
     
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    Ummmm no. The game was extremely close when Paul went down. It was by no means won.
     
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    We lead from start to finish in game #4. Yes, it got close. The Clips could never bust through though with or without Paul.
     
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    It was by no means won, but the Blazers had been leading throughout, and the Clippers had not at any point in that game demonstrated any indication that they were going to take over. The Blazers were leading, playing harder, and playing better, despite Paul's presence. Kenny Smith was already calling it a Blazer victory at halftime with us only up 4, simply because we were putting forth significantly more effort.
     
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    I was right there with Draco's thinking on this and I consider myself a bit of a homer. You could not watch Game 1 and not feel demoralized. Game 2 was winnable, but the Clips still seemed to have the upper hand. I know the Blazers play better at home, but it just didn't seem like we were going to solve this puzzle. Kudos to Stotts, and Plums (who has been awesome), and to the rest of the Blazers for their fight in this series. It's been fun to watch the team compete to tie the series.
     
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    Man I would love to hear their call the last two games. Hahaha that would probably be almost as good as reading the clutch city boards during the Houston series
     
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    We never trailed in the game, however, several times (including at the end of the 3rd, after the paul injury) it was a 2 point game... so I wouldn't say we owned them.
     
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    Did you even read what he said? He said we had already owned them before the injuries. Are you agreeing with him, because I was merely pointing out that he was wrong.
     
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    Exactly. As I pointed out... at the end of 3 quarters (and pauls injury was halfway through the 3rd) it was only a 2 point lead.
     
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    It's like nobody read what I was responding to and just quickly knee-jerked to me saying that the game wasn't won.
     
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    Right? We were playing with more effort, YES, but our shooting % was only 1% better after 3 quarters... so it's not like we were taking advantage of our max effort... we missed a LOT of easy shots.

    The final score was not indicative of the overall game... but we won, and in the end, that is ALL that matters.
     
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    Geez guys. Take one word and blow it up.

    No we didn't own them. Sorry. Yes it was close at times, but they never led and yes, all indications were they wouldn't be able to pull it out, with or without injury.
    The POINT of my post was that certain people said to give up and this was a waste and blah blah blah. Wonder how they feel now. ;)

    The POINT is Draco called me delusional among other things and I see he is no where around to say he was wrong. Love this place.. but man. People need to own up.
     
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    Granted, OB exaggerated by saying we "owned" them. However, even before that, you said "To be fair, Draco didn't know Paul and Griffin (and to a certain extent Redick) would suffer injuries," as though the wrongness of Draco's original position is based on Paul's injury, despite the fact that we won game 3 with Paul playing the whole game, and we led the entirety of game 4, including the portion Paul played. I don't buy the notion that Paul's presence over the final quarter would have made a 15+ point difference.
     
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    I'm not saying I think we would have lost if CP3 didn't get injured. But there were several points until late in the 4th quarter where we had between a 4- and 7-point lead. It's hardly unfathomable to think that CP3 could have easily helped LAC overcome the small lead we had late in the 4th.
     
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    That's an answer we'll never know.

    It can be debated, though, since he did keep them afloat in the first quarter by scoring the first 12 points... so whose to say he couldn't do that in the 4th?

    We won, that's all that matters, though.
     
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    But he created the thread before game three. So his post was made based on the results of games one and two. Things looked pretty fucking bleak at that point.
     
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    a 2 point lead, no matter what, can be overcome... A fluke turnover leading to a fast break, a foul on a 3 point play... when it's one possession going into the 4th quarter, it's anyones game. Hell, what do they say all the time? "Get it down to 10 going into the 4th, give yourself a chance" So why not 2 points? lol.

    There were nervous times... you don't "own" someone and have nervous times at the same time.

    I think it's sensationalism (fox news worthy) to use the word "owned" when it was anything but... That's all I'm saying.
     
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    Actually it was started before game two, but still, that's kind of the point. We all knew things looked bleak at that point. But most of us understood that two games do not define a series, and said as much. Case in point...
    The notion that losing the first game of a series on the road, or even the first two, meant beyond a reasonable doubt that the series was over was ludicrous to many, and the Blazers demonstrated that the thread was ludicrous, before Paul's injury occurred.

    You can't decry knee-jerk reactions in one post and then defend them in another.
     
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