Wesley Matthews: Tough day at the office. Won't happen again. Promise. Patty Mills: Oh man!! Tough break but proved that we can run with the best. Get some rest, fine tune a few things, stay tight as a group & Bob's ur uncle LaMarcus Aldridge: Tough lost tonight ! The plus is we shot 30% and still had a chance to win. And finally, Marcus Camby: Thx #ripcity for da love, I should b good n no time
There were some tweets having quotes Miller being pissed off saying Kobe Blatantly fouled him when he stole the ball. Stupid halfcourt three at the buzzer from Barnes... Was pretty disappointing we failed again to close out on the Lakers.
Kobe Bean, what a punk. You could tell it was a big win for him last night as he screamed obscenities and waved his arms in the air at the final buzzer. We failed this time, but we got their number, our defense was solid.
Like it or not... the Lakers know how to close out tough games against the best, the Blazers do not! Respect the champs! They showed again why they are! Till we can beat them we have little to say!
We looked Damn good against the defending champs, holding them to only 84 points. The problem comes when you go 1-8 from the field and turn the ball over three times in the final minutes of the game. Were matching up very well, just not executing.
"Tough day at the office." Love it. Also glad that it doesn't look like some larger injury/problem was going on with him last night. Brush it off, Wes!
What I want to know is who pissed off the NBA scheduling folks so that they gave the Blazer 3 out of 4 of their matchups with the Lakers on the 2nd night of a back-to-back? There ought to be a rule against that kind of crap.
I wish the schedule makers were replaced by an impartial computer system that doesn't care about marquee matchups on x-mas day and down the stretch. Minimize back to backs and lengthy gaps, shorter home stands and road trips, fewer short turn arounds against the same team, etc. It shouldn't be that tough to balance everything reasonably well.
All true. Also true, is that they know when it's time to close out a tough game, they can maul our players and the refs will swallow the whistle. That's a nice one-two punch.
Yes, but you have to credit the Lakers defense for our miscues and hurried missed shots in the last minutes of the game. That is what champions do. I remember back when everyone said the Howard/Webber Wizards vs Bulls series was a close series. But it really wasn't. The games were very close, sure, but the Bulls swept them 3-0. Wizards didn't win a single game. Champions tighten the defense and make the big plays (Kobe and Fisher's shots). The Lakers have dominated us this season. Period.
The refs swallowed there whistles for both teams pretty much the entire game. Was really fun to see them just let us go at each other. We rushed our shots late and didn't look like the same team that closed the game vs the Mavs. We should be better at close games by the playoffs, our schedule pretty much says we'll have a lot of them.
Agreed; the game was reffed pretty evenly; Camby would have fouled out before he got injured if they had called it close enough to get Kobe on that steal... hrm, maybe that would have been better overall anyway.
Or both of our Denver games on the 2nd night of a B2B. It gets tiring to spend good money on a game just to watch your team run out of gas.
