Game Thread PLAYOFFS - ROUND 1, GAME 6: CLIPPERS @ BLAZERS - 4/29/16, FRIDAY, 7:30 (PDT), KGW & ESPN

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Who has been the most impactful Blazer in this series thus far?

Poll closed Apr 29, 2016.

  1. Damian Lillard

    8 vote(s)
    10.7%

  2. CJ McCollum

    3 vote(s)
    4.0%

  3. Maurice Harkless

    8 vote(s)
    10.7%

  4. Al-Farouq Aminu

    1 vote(s)
    1.3%

  5. Mason Plumlee

    55 vote(s)
    73.3%
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  1. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    In your boxing analogy, it means that my favorite boxer is one match closer to a title shot, and I'll hope he trains for and executes better in the next fight.

    In real life, it means that this team gets to move on to the next round. They get to reset and switch gears to play a new team, one to whom they're almost guaranteed to lose, but whom they've already beaten once, so who knows what might happen.

    Live in the moment, and appreciate the good. If you insist on focusing only on insufficiencies, you'll never be satisfied with anything.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Post on Reddit about the Clips -

    "The Clippers should change their name to the Pirates, Chris Paul has a hook hand, Blake Griffin has a peg leg, and now Austin Rivers has an eye patch."
     
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    This is the first team in years that improved through the season and you could anticipate a win in the Play Offs.
    Sweet! Blazers in Six!
     
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    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    Only 16 teams in NBA playoff history have come back from 0-2 to win a playoff series. (94.1% of the time they haven't).
     
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    MarAzul LongShip

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    Blazers have done it at least twice.
     
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    42N8Bounce Red Hot And Rebuilding

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    Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone. There were some ugly wins, but that was a beautiful series. On to round 2!

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    Give the Blazers credit for taking advantage of the opportunity. They are the franchise that has dealt with a myriad of injuries and even though Paul and Griffin were out, Reddick was hobbled, Rivers could only see out of one eye at the end and Jordan turns his ankle late....you still have to take advantage.
     
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    Blazers are among the few that beat the Warriors.
     
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    Got to give credit where credit is due. Props to the refs tonight! I think this crew was far and away the best I have seen in a while. I thought they did a pretty damn good job letting Doc rant, then ignoring him.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Dude should have had at least one tech.
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    The reality is that the Clippers still have good players who have won in the playoffs. These young Blazers have, what, one guy that's ever won a playoff series? You just can't underestimate how hard it is to finish a team off in the playoffs when you've never been there and they have. Maybe if CP and Blake were healthy we'd have seen the Clippers finish off the Blazers tonight, but injuries are a part of the game. This is like saying the Warriors championship last year meant nothing because Irving and Love were out for the Cavs. I mean, it's just kind of a weak argument that looks at basketball as a video game rather than as a reality with men who have put months and years of effort into this one night. To say that this should have been easy is disrespectful to those Clippers players who absolutely battled tonight and also to the Blazers who kept fighting and finally were able to finish off a team playing with nothing to lose.
     
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    Ugh. I thought I'd be hyped about winning and closing out this series. But I'm just relieved. Stotts blows. Trade Aminu for anything you can get. Winning is always better than losing, but that didn't feel nearly as good as I thought it would.
     
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    I will settle for getting the last call which sent Plumlee to the line. It was the correct call, but one we don't usually get against the Clips.
     
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    Atleast we didn't get beat by asshat rivers and jamal crawful . . .
     
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    Chris Paul has been on the losing end of three of those.
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    #RESPECT
     
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    I find losing is far and away a bigger emotion than winning.

    I like to win, but I freaking HATE to lose........especially to an LA team.
     
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    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    I can't believe this team won a playoff series! I thought for sure we'd be scouring mock draft at this time. This team has a lot of heart!
     
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