First Round Playoffs: Blazers/Rockets Game 2 Thread

JAZZ WITHIN 3!

 

So your sample size is a 3 minute run of the game against Rockets scrubs?

 

It's the Portland Trailblazers, not the Portland Sergios

 

Once again, they almost choked the game away at the FT line. If they want a chance to win in Houston they have to MAKE THEIR FUCKING FREE THROWS!

 

Brooks is 9 for 13 from downtown in the first two games of the series. Granted he's played great so far, but there's no way he can keep this up, right?

 

It's the Portland Trailblazers, not the Portland Roys.

Sergio plays as a team, in the playoffs Roy has played selfishly and neutralized his teammates.

These both should have been easy wins for us. Lack of, nearly total absence of, team offense and ball movement almost cost us this game just as surely as it cost us the first game.

No way we win in Houston riding 2 guys on offense, and I doubt Nate is happy how we won the game.

 

Go ask Robert Horry.

 

When your best two players both shoot over 55% from the field, shoot a combined 20 FTs and commit a total of ZERO turnovers in over 85 minutes of playing time, I'd say that's a recipe for winning 9 out of 10 times.

The Blazers took what Houston gave then. Aldridge, presents a big mismatch for the Rockets. We didn't see it in Game 1, but we certainly did tonight. Roy was the only Blazer penetrating, getting into the paint, knocking down shots and drawing fouls. With his ability to get around Artest and Battier, he made two of the best perimeter defenders in the NBA look rather ordinary.

They are our best players for a reason. When they both have it going, you ride them for the win. Yes, we will need other players to step up to win the series, but every game is different. Adjustments will be made. If Houston decides to focus more on Roy and Aldridge, it will create more opportunities for their teammates. And when that happens, I'm confident Roy will find them. It's not like he's a selfish prima donna. He's smart enough to see when he has an advantage, and when he doesn't, he's smart enough to find the teammate who does.

BNM

 

Bullshit.

 

A-fucking-men.

Sure it would be nice to see a little more ball movement, but if those two are taking and making high percentage shots then go for it.

 

If I get within arms length of Robert Horry, I'm punching him in the nuts.

 

Brooks 5 assts, 3 turnovers, Loss

Blake 5 assts, 1 turnover, Win

 

All I've got to say is "Scoreboard."

Your obsessive man-crush on a mediocre player has reached comical proportions Maris; only you and Mixum can find something to complain about after the first playoff win in 7 years.

 

Ball movement WAS lousy. 11 assists in all? meh. Didn't see great team ball, but as the team regains its confidence, I think we will.

Silver lining was only 5 turnovers. Is that a playoff record for Portland?

iWatas

 

Except that the odds of that happenning 10 times even in an entire season are about 1 in a trillion.

Hindsight says it worked.

Common sense says it would be foolhardy to expect it to be a repeatable occurence in this series, or the next if we get there.

Sharing the ball and trusting the entire team won us 54 out of 82.

I like those odds a lot better.

 

Pretty much sums it up, but I'd still like to see our other guys getting involved.

 

well, the rest of the guys NEED to get involved for us to win this series. Tonight was a freak occurance of awesomeness by ROY and LMA. The other guys need to step up BIG TIME.

 

I know you don't watch basketball outside of Blazers games, but Houston is one of the best teams at defending the pick and roll (and pick and pop) as well as closing out on 3 point shooters which are all major parts of this team's offensive repetoire and one of the reasons they get so many assists out of their half-court sets, they weren't letting us have many passing lanes or open looks in the corner or at the wing so the team adapted and got the ball into the hands of its two most dominant scorers and they delivered.

 

Piss and moan after a loss. Piss and moan after a win.

Typical for this board.

 

Yao, Lowry, Von Wafer, Battier and Landry.

I doubt anyone in the league calls those guys scrubs.

They scored a combined 49 pts tonight.