First Round Game 3: Blazers @ Rockets Thread

Your buddy Outlaw was playing some very meaningful minutes instead.

 

That phantom technical ended up fucking us.

 

Blake WTF were you doing? There were 9 seconds left and that shot was horrible.

 

There will be a Game 7 in Portland, and the Blazers will win it.

 

Yeah, that, and the other 24 foul shots they had. We shot 10 free throws in this game. They shot 24.

 

I'm sure it's just an aberration and will be resolved in the next game.

I'm sure...sooo...suuurrreee....

 

Do not blame Blake for this loss. He's the only reason we were in the damn game to begin with.

If you want to play the blame game, let me tell you this. After this post-season, I never want to see Travis Outlaw in a Blazer uniform again.

 

Other than Blake's and especially Roy's penchant for dribbling huge chunks of valuable time off the clock, I thought the players put a lot of effort into this game at both ends. Even with Nate pleading with them to push it up court twice in timeouts they still walked it up, and Roy just stood there at the top dribbling the clock out like we had the lead or something.

The starters never had any offensive flow and unfortunately neither did the bench.

The bench can be excused for less production as they are used to having Sergio make their game easy, and some moron kept him on the bench.

As I predicted after last games win, and was attacked for, we can't win a playoff series riding 2 guys. They were dead tired in the fourth quarter, and it showed in their lack of execution.

83 pts won't cut it. We need 100 to beat these guys. We need a set-up guy to get 100 pts against these guys.

We need Sergio.

Our depth is our only advantage, especially in this series, and Nate's wasting it on the bench.

 

Love the 2 fouls on Houston in the 4th quarter - particularly with 1 being intentional.

 

Greg didn't get big rebound numbers but kid worked his ass off making Yao a non-factor in the second half when he was in. It was up to people like Travis, Steve and Brandon as well as LaMarcus to grab those rebounds and they just didn't do it.

Greg put in work tonight and he is the reason it got close.

 

You can look at it as that, or a missed opportunity, which is what it is in my book.

 

No crap. That is a travesty in itself. We get called for the same exact thing they are doing on the other end, and not getting called on.

 

Amazing that we were so close as bad as Outlaw did again.

I only saw the second half but in the fourth I thought Przbilla would have been more effective than Oden, Oden seemed unsure what to do on offense, just seemed uncertain and tentative.

Early in the fourth Blake made a couple threes and a drive to the hoop for a basket, really brought us back into the game, gotta cut him some slack.

One play that upset me, Roy beats two guys and then two more guys run at him and he isn't able to find either Blake or Rudy, both shooting the lights out on threes; he has gotta work on that. It seems Houston's strategy was they were gonna stop Roy even if they had to leave everyone else open.

 

Battier had a sensational game. 16 pts, 4 rebs, 1 asst, 2 steals, 4 blocks

 

That was just so sad to watch.

Rick used to be a proud man.

 

That 3 Battier hit at the end of the game really hurt.

 

Travis Outlaw had the best +/- in the game.

 

Are you kidding? He always whined - it's just now he's whining and it's actually being effective.

 

Outlaw is fucking choking at the worst possible fucking time. He needs to have his ass benched, but Nate is too fucking obsessed with his rotations that he's letting them cloud his judgment.