It's great. I mean if we want a shooter out there with Roy and Miller then it should be Rudy getting the bulk of the minutes and not Blake. It seems everyone associated with the team, be it Mike and Mike, KP or Nate, they all have a non-curable man crush on Blake and its not helping us win games, especially important ones like tonights or the one against Atlanta a week ago at home.
Yeah, Blake was bad in the clutch, but the Blazers as a whole were pretty worn out in the 4th. There's not much to really be complaining about. We lost, big deal. The season goes on.
WOW! Just landed (Very rough landing on BlazerOne!) and read some of this thread and am blown away. We just played 5 games in 7 nights and pushed a very good team to overtime. Some of the guys played like shit down the stretch and we lost. Why is everybody freaking out on here? When we win by 15 against the Pistons, a lot of the same people on here that were going crazy tonight will probably claim we will go undefeated the rest of the season! It cracks me up how high and how low some of you get on here.
I don't care that they lost HCP, I care that Assclown continues to overuse Blanky, and underuse Oden. It's a pattern that will get us out of the playoffs early again.
Very true. You win big games in the paint, not the perimeter. I didn't get to see much of the game though, so I am unsure what went down. All I noticed was that about halfway through the game, Aldridge had 14 points. Near the end of the game he hit a bucket, and that put him at 16. So he basically was successful for a half, and then what happened? Did we go away from him? Did he just miss shots? If something is working, make them stop it. Dont' stop doing it.
If we did that, once they stopped it, people would just complain that we went to it for too long, and Nate was stupid to keep doing the same thing over and over. Especially if they stopped it at an important time of the game.
Um, no, if they kept doing it, then either Atlanta adjust and gets somebody else on our team an opportunity to score, or he keeps scoring and the Blazers win. Then nobody is bitching, because we won.
I am trying to piece together what that has to do with not going to Aldridge after he had 14 first half points and then not going to him in the second half.
Ask the guards. That said, watching last night's game, I have to say Oden played his worst game of the road trip. When Zaza Pachulia outrebounds him in 14 less minutes, it just isn't a great game for Oden. He didn't play poorly, but he didn't dominate the opposing C, as he has been doing consistently lately (when he stays on the court).
Yes he did. TO's will be a problem until he gets more comfortable with the ball. His two TO's were passing. He threw it over Blanky's head, and threw a bad pass to Miller under the basket. He was absolutely doing the right thing, just executed it poorly. Isn't it fair to say that he would only get better at that with more reps? I honestly think that come playoff time we would be a much better team with our offense working from the inside out, rather than from the outside in
