So NOW do you understand what I'm talking about??? We are a better team this year.

I was ridiculous

 

Bullshit.

This team was way better. They didn't quit, they played like a team all year, better effort, better D, and we didn't have players who forgot to show up emotionally half the time. We would have beat the Clippers with or without injuries. Better TEAM.

You're batting .000 this year, give it up. For a guy who spends a lot of time around basketball you're not learning much. And if that isn't enough logic for you, try this: Sinobas and Mediocre Man agree with you!!

 

Yes, you were. Thanks for being big enough to admit it.

BNM

 

Good for you, you found a typo

 

For a few moments, we all got to see the team the way Mags and KingSpeed see them all the time. It's fucking intense, man!

 

Oh, did I? Seemed like a pretty accurate response, to me.

Yeah, you're right. I should have known it was a typo.

BNM

 

You honestly believe this?

 

I for one think so. We were going to tie the series 2-2 with or without Paul and Griffin. In fact, they didn't go out until the end of the 3rd and we never trailed in that game against them.

So yes they would have home court in a best of 3 series from that point but at worst it was going to game 7 if they didn't get hurt and Dame and the team would have had no fear in that game. In fact, Griffin was getting worse and worse. He was already injured before the series so it wasn't like he magically got hurt. He was going to be in-affective the longer the series went.

 

Yeah I do; we'd figured them out. Maybe they do some super-cool coaching adjustment and make it harder for us, but I think we still win in 6. Blake was hampered even if he continued to play, and that changes everything. If both lineups are 100% healthy, that's different, but totally hypothetical.

 

I would have liked to ha

I would have liked to have seen that, but that Clipper team was too talented to lose 2 out of 3 to us. Sorry.

 

I think that is what we were debating. I said we would NOT have gotten passed a HEALTHY Clippers team.

 

You did see it. You saw them lose 2 in a row with Paul and Griffin. So only reason to be sorry is because you are wrong.

It is just like the GSW series. We get killed in game 1. In Game 2-5 we lead more quarters then they did. If we played GSW in another 7 game series tomorrow then it easily goes 7. We figure teams out the longer the series goes.

 

We would have had a Lillard with no plantar fasciitis, and a Meyers Leonard, though... if everyone is 100% healthy.

 

That is the hypothetical. We never got to play a healthy Clippers team. Blake was hurt before the series started. It got worse cus he played period when he shouldn't have not because we purposely injured him.

So we can only go with the freak injury that happened. If Paul gets hurt but Blake keeps playing we still beat the Clippers in that series.

 

Good point.

 

I don't buy into the injury hypotheticals; every season, by the end of the season, players are not likely to be 100%. You play the games in front of you, the Blazers won those games.