Trail Blazers @ Suns - Game 5 - Game Thread

No, but KP will get fired because he cannot prove results and then Nate will leave and we'll just be the next Bulls/Hornets/90's Cavs/Warriors. Young team full of potential but never going to win a thing. $%&#!!!

 

Nate leaving is a good, good thing.

 

Hey troll, your fly is open.

 

It is pretty crazy that Alvin Gentry is out-coaching him this series.

 

Since it was 23-9 Blazers . . . Phoenix is on a 92-52 Run.

We knew they'd make a run, but that's tough to overcome.

 

LOL ...thanks for the laugh...

 

Joey Crawford is tough to overcome. We've seen this song and dance before.

 

This is a 22 point blowout... this game was lost by our players not the refs...

 

This game was lost by our players (notably Camby) being taken out by bad calls, which then leads to blowouts. This garbage quarter aside, those calls were killing us when this was still a game.

 

Inexcusable to get beaten on the boards that badly. That was the difference in the game.

I have a feeling there will be a game 7 so the Blazers should be right back here and hopefully they bring it for a full 48mins.

 

Nate is just incapable of making in game adjustments ... I think he's OK when he's got a couple of days to think about something, but I'll be damned if I've ever seen him try to exploit a mismatch.

 

CHANNING FRYE HAS A 20 POINT PLAYOFF GAME!!!! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME????????

 

Bah... we blew a 14 point lead in no time by playing crappy D. That's not the refs. We continue to let them shoot uncontested 3s...again not the refs fault... any game you can point to a suspect call here or there, but we just got our ass kicked for the 3rd time in the series. We were not playing well tonight and we got another world class drubbing...

 

And what changed between the great D we played early and the crappy D that followed? A certain foul call removing a certain all NBA defensive player perhaps?

 

maybe writing it just isnt enough

 

Blaming this game on the refs is a joke.

 

the refs are not why we lost

 

I mostly agree. But it is amazing how much refs can play a part. They completely took Roy out of the game. When was the last time an all-star guard played only 6 minutes in a playoff game due to foul trouble? That would never happen to the Kobes of the world. And Camby had some phantom calls go against him. Every time he was on the bench, the Suns took over. Just those two guys being "allowed" to play heavy minutes and get into the game would have made a huge difference - which is why just a few whistles can make a huge difference. And if we had 14 more free throws than them, instead of the other way around - well, that would have been nice too. Maybe the refs didn't cost us the game, but our players would have had to play PERFECTLY to win despite them.