When we face the Rockets in the playoffs...

all i know is that kevin mchale is one hell of a basketball mind, you are lucky to have him huckleberry

 

We're famous.

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=252915

 

Haha good post. But I don't see why so many of them don't like that blazersbmad guy. I'll never forget all the priceless basketball knowledge I gained because of his clearly thought out and easily interpreted posts.

Thanks to him I now have an understanding of the game.

 

Maxiep just posted there, respectfully.

Maxie, don't start a war.

 

Wars can be very profitable.

 

I don't troll other boards. I've been a member there since our last PO series with them. I was interested in starting a dialogue to get their viewpoint.

 

Your new post says you have 1 post, so this is your first.

"Don't start a war" was a double entendre. I was thinking of this post. Sometimes I write things that I don't expect others to get.

http://sportstwo.com/threads/260617...es-like-this?p=3303872&viewfull=1#post3303872

 

Note my join date.

 

I'm not a pacifist. If many of them go overboard here, then I'll say, go get them. I'm just saying, don't start it.

Oh and as for the other thing, the Houston board...

Okay that was too easy.

 

Back to the actual series. I just heard Haynes on talking ball saying "do you remember how much smack beverley was talking after that game?" Was this highly publicized, because I don't remember it. I guess dame said he wants Houston... If beverley did indeed piss Lillard off then he better watch out. Us blazer fans know that the worst thing you can do is get under Lillards skin. If dame really said he wants to play beverley in a series then my confidence is through the roof, I would never bet against dames competitive spirit.

 

1977

 

They're right. We look like idiots already making excuses for a series that hasn't started yet. I hope our players aren't like that. Stop bitching guys. Why would they fix it for Houston? The league knows the Blazers are going to be an elite team the next 5 years or so, so they are heavily promoting Damian Lillard as an All Star. Put him in 5 All Star events to showcase his talents for the casual fan. They need Lillard to get ratings so they must starting selling him during these playoffs.

 

I had one too. I referee (sprinting my ASS OFF. Not like some of these other lazy ass refs) 200+ games per year. My knee is fine.

 

I've never bought into any of this bullshit. Bad calls happen, they happen in the blazers favor too.

As far as all this grooming nonsense. What came first, the chicken or the egg? It directly discredits Lillards body of work to say that he was "put" into all star events. Were we paid to draft him where we did? No. Dame has worked his ass off to be where he is. Was dame as big a name on all star week because the nba was high on him? Or has the nba been high on him because of what he's done to be such a big name on all star week? I believe it is the ladder, and to think anything else is practically saying that dame doesn't deserve what he's got.

 

Those Rockets guys are reading. Don't tell them about Lilliard's temper.

 

Dame was in the dunk contest even though he had only 8 in game dunks up to that point. The word you're looking first is latter not ladder. Yes, it starts with greatness. Blake Griffin came into the league putting up great numbers so the league pounced on that and groomed him for superstardom. Lillard is an up and comer who will compete for MVP one day so the league is going to promote him so that people care about nationally televised Blazer games.

 

Seeing how the refs allowed players to slap and grab last night, I wouldn't be surprised. As long as they allow us the same, it will be fine.

If they give harden the typical ghost calls, we are in for a long series.

 

I think most refs/players hate Beverley. Dame's been getting more calls lately (that one last night at the end was a gift). I think he'll get the better of that matchup on the refs' front.

 

Allowing Houston to do it at all is bad, even if it's called both ways. We don't play that way. We're not cheap. We don't flop. We don't hold. The lack of calls favors the dirty team.