Game Thread: Sacramento CSN 7pm (Pac) Dtv 755

Well, then you're part of the "what have you done for me lately?" bandwagon.

 

Tough game, we came out with the win. We GOTTA win games like this.

Oden was extremely disappointing.

Roy was freakin' amazing. LMA didn't play too bad and got a double double... once his shots fall he will be gettin 20+ppg and 9rpg. Travis did play well and is gettin' better on the off. boards and the defensive end. Joel was awesome. Sergio and Rudy were fine, I really want us to use Rudy better like we were earlier in the year.

Another nerve racking game... in a couple years if i'm still a hardcore Blazer fan my heart will def. not be in good shape. Does anyone else feel their heart can't keep going through with this? I know this is what sports are about though, high highs and low lows.

We will only get better from here guys, and with an extremely tough schedule we are 9-6 and it looks like we will get to 50 wins... Calm down, sooo much complaining after a win, Jesus.

Go Blazers!

Channing Frye: "They got a bunch of good players and we got Brandon Roy."

 

Love Channing. Brandon had similar comments about not being happy with this victory.

I think that's great that they're hold themselves to such a high standard. They EXPECT better. This is why they will make A LOT of noise in April and May!

 

Better fuckin blow the team up. This just isn't working.

I mean he had 20 points and 9 rebound in the last game and then the next two he had 6 and 5 and the 0 and 2. He's clearly not a very good player.

He should sit and just miss the rest of the season.

Fast forward. Next season. 6 points and 1 point to start the season! 15 and 4; 5 and 5; 2 and 1. What the hell is happening?

We need to trade this Marcia Stoudemire now!

She sucks!

 

9-6 is nice, but we're 1 miracle shot and 2 opponent easy misses at the buzzer away from being 6-9. also we've looked impotent against full-strength west contenders (suns, lakers), and we've been winning with hot outside shooting that will be better defended as the season goes on. i'd be surprised if we're really a 50 win team.

 

LOL! you can say that about soo many teams. fact is that good playoff teams can win close games, and games where they play poorly like vs. Sacramento and Minnesota. We also could have won that Jazz game but didn't play well down the stretch, and we could have won the GS game, but lots of things happened at the end... why don't you count those and say we could be an 11 win team also? It goes both ways.

 

We won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

yes it can go both ways. my point was our 9-6 record doesn't necessarily mean we are likely to be a 50 win team. more things have gone right than have gone wrong for us to get to this point.

 

Err... so our 9-6 record is because we have gotten lucky? We only have the toughest opening schedule in the NBA and were the first team in the NBA to 10 road games... we only had Oden out for a couple games and Webster out and still out for a little bit longer... We only blew 2 winnable games ON THE ROAD. We have only lost games to playoff teams (LA, Phoenix twice, Utah, New Orleans) and the Golden State on the road in a kinda crazy game, and all those losses were on the OTHER TEAMS HOME COURT!

We are well ahead of expectations, and we are only going to get better, and our schedule is only getting easier. I predicted 47-48 wins, but I am extremely surprised with how our team has responded recently, and I think they will do better than I predicted, because they already are.

Of course a 9-6 record doesn't mean we are going to win 50 games, but I think it puts us in a great situation/position to get there. And I don't think we are in this good position because the ball bounced our way a couple times... we took the Houston game, and we are showing what those veteran playoff teams like the Spurs (the past couple of years) do and that is find a way to win games without playing good ball.

If anything, if we were more lucky with our schedule (not just teams played but home/away ratio), injuries, chemistry, I think we could have a better record by at least 2-3 more wins. If LMA wasn't in a slump, if we utilized Rudy better the last couple of games, if Greg hasn't disappeared the last 3, etc... We are already among the top echelon teams in the West record wise, and even if those 3 games were losses, 6-9 would still be a pretty nice position considered our schedule and that its going to get sooo much easier starting game 25.

I guess I just look at it as a glass half-full.

 

He does need to work on rotating back to penetrating guards, but that's no small feat when you are 20+ feet away from the hoop trying to keep Brad Miller and Spencer Fucking Hawes from draining 5/9 from beyond the arc.

the bottom line is we need guards who can cut off dribble penetration more consistently and right now that aint happening.