Top 15 Important Games Of The Season

MAS RipCity · May 14, 2010

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#15 is Andre's 1st start when we played and beat the Spurs. Also, we debuted our Rip city jerseys in the process.

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Andre Miller, by his own admission, did not sign with the Portland Trail Blazers to come off the bench.

“If I was told right out when I had my meetings that I would be a backup, then I wouldn’t have come here,” Miller told Yahoo! Sports’ Marc Spears back in October 2009.

But backing up Steve Blake is exactly what Miller was asked to do in the early days of the 2009-10 season. Maybe Miller, who had started 768 of the 815 career games he had played prior to the start of the 09-10 season, should have known there would be some reluctance to immediately change the starting lineup of a team that had won 54 games the prior season. Maybe he should have been starting from the get go. Either way, after coming off the bench for the first five games, Miller was inserted into the starting lineup for the first time of his Trail Blazers career in a home game against the Spurs on November 6, 2009.
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MAS RipCity · May 19, 2010

#14- Letting The Jazz Come Back

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There's a running joke between Trail Blazers head coach Nate McMillan and the Portland media that covers the team. Someone will ask McMillan if a particular upcoming contest is "a big game." McMillan replies, as he always does, that "every game is a big game." In response, the reporter will give any number of reasons why said game feels bigger, say a game against a division rival, to which McMillan responds that he doesn't understand or agree with that line of reasoning. Despite whatever the perceived magnitude might be, a win or loss in a "big game" counts the same as in a "little game."

It's a good thing that the NBA agrees with McMillan, because if for some reason bad losses did count more than once, Portland's overtime loss to Utah on February 21, 2010 would have been worth at least double in the Trail Blazers' loss column.

The Trail Blazers looked like their were on their way to one of their best victories of the season, at least for the first 29 minutes of the game. Portland had built a 25-point lead with just over seven minutes to play in the third quarter against a Jazz team that had won 17 of their last 20. Portland had lost all three of the previous games of the season to the Jazz by an average of 14.3 points. This was a chance to get one back, beat the hottest team in the league and avoid a season series sweep.
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Very important in my opinion, because after that fiasco, we won 16 of our next 20 to close out the year. It didn't make that loss any easier to swallow though..I still remember that feeling in the RG that night..ugh

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