Yeah their defense is pretty pro especially without a gimpy McGrady in there. Artest and Battier know all the little tricks and aren't afraid to use them and their help and collapse in defense is swift and effective.
I hear ya. And I agree with Nikolokolus. It's got to be their defense, because they don't look that impressive on offense, at least not on paper.
Their offense is fine when they can get Yao the ball. They get confused and hurry up too much when they can't get it into Yao which is why we need to front him.
Yeah well I only I saw the end of the 1st game vs the Rockets where BRoy won it, and didnt see any other Rockets game. And this game they flat out dominated, and we sucked a big one..No way they play that good again in game 2
Expected. Don't tell me you actually thought a team with 0 playoff experience will do anything other then get curmstomped in its own home? Btw, You are hereby named the portland failblazers.
Don't you just love the way L*ker fans can get away with anything? This diseased little vermin is far more obnoxious than Mixum......and the "powers that be" just let him run amuck. (now watch - our comments about him WILL get edited)
LA could not buy a call to save his life. Steve Blake got nailed on a three point attempt, no call. Shane Battier comes down on Brandon's foot after a three-point attempt, gets three free throws. Anyone who says the refereeing had no impact on the game did not watch the game. I am not saying we deserved to win with the lousy effort we brought, but the officiating was atrocious.
I was more annoyed at the number of offensive fouls we had, and the fact that LMA and Outlaw had to resort to using them.
Yeah, I don't think the officiating had anything to do with it tonight. We got outplayed every way from Sunday. When Scola went in for that offensive rebound, there were three Blazers standing around flat-footed and not boxing out.
Crazy thing is, Houston only had 3 more field goals then us! This was an old fashioned ass woopin'! Hopefully our boys learn from it!
C'mon, HCP, that's just not good enough. You've got to give us some inside dope here. How are the Blazers feeling after the game? What's their attitude? Pissed? Depressed? Dazed? Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore! (I hope it's the last one).
I'm really dissapointed that we didn't make a defensive adjustment on Yao earlier in the game. I thought the game was over in the 1st quarter. When Yao went off, you could see it just relaxed the WHOLE Rockets team. Like a collective "okay, we go this". It's one thing to get down 10-15 points early against a team like Utah or Memphis, or . . . but when you pin yourself in that kind of whole against a defense like that you're screwed. It's almost impossible to put together one of those 36 point quarters you need to take the game back over. Yao does what he does REALLY well. But he's got flaws. He's slow and not athletic. Why didn't we front him earlier? He starts off 5-5 and we're down 10 points. You can see he's getting ANYTHING he wants with Joel playing behind him and even worse it's opening things up for everyone else like Brooks, Scola, and Ron Ron. I just can't believe we didn't change that earlier. Game 2? 2 late. I know, I know . . Mr. Doom Gloom. I don't think we can come back from this. We might win game 2, but I think they'll be happy with that and go to Houston and get pounced twice. Then maybe we win one more at home, or not. 5 or 6 games and we're gone. 79% of teams that win game 1 win the series. Probably even higher when you win game 1 on the ROAD. The whole tone for the series is set now. Houston is big and bad and physical and we are wide eyed and happy to be here. I thought we needed this game. Hell, we could have lost game 2 and I'd still feel that way. We needed to believe we can beat these guys. And they came in and whipped our buts worse than anybody has all year (on our home court) in the biggest game of the year. How do you come back from that? Maybe if you're a battle tested veteran team you can. We wet the bed as Kobe would say. And it's a big one. I won't be mad if we lose. We probably overachieved to get home court in the 1st place.
