“Rec’d what?”

“THAT one.”

but if we’re all this excited about one preseason game, I can’t wait til next Spring!

This was exactly my feelings leaving the Rose Garden tonight. I was in awe through the entirety of this game. We aren’t paper tigers. We are, or at least can be THAT good. Rudy is amazing, Greg did enough to comfort everyone and make us realize it wasn’t all hype. Martell legs must’ve recently been infused with jumping juice. This is one of those performances, no matter what happens from here on out, you’ll remember. This is the start of something great, something historic. Years from now, we’ll be telling our kids about these guys. And it has just begun…

……………………………. 7 points and TWELVE rebounds in 22 minutes!

I was completely slack jawed by this game.

If this was even a very small indicator of what this season will be like – whoooeeeeee!

I want to press rewind and live this night over and over and over again.

Simply incredible.

KP, you made a me a believer.

how you wrote this up. my hat off to you.
I’m in LA, but I feel the Rose Garden excitement even here, thanks to BEdge.
Huzzah!

In one preseason game. We’ll be seeing some of those plays over and over this year. They deserve to be replayed forever. I’m in awe. Totally in awe. I laughed so hard at one point that I cried. I got asthma. I thought I had a stroke from yelling. I spilled part of an $8 drink on myself. It was heavenly.

Great post. I was lucky to be witness, albeit up in the 300 section, one of the most memorable nights in the Rose Garden.

It’s safe to say your post exudes most of our reaction after attending this game. Tomorrow’s game might not be the same, but tonight will always be unique.

I won’t be sleeping much tonight, and I don’t care. Blazers were the first highlight and section on SportsCenter tonight. You can see the King’s reaction when Oden started playing, “holy crap, he’s a rookie and he’s that big…” and after Rudy takes down the house with the alley-oop, “that white kid can jump???”

Dave, love you and all, but I’m not tempering exectations…

82 and 0 baby!!!! That’s why we love the Blazers and love our sports…It fulfills something that’s hard to find nowadays: hope, dreams, loft goals, unrealistic expectations, prosperity, unity, community, and the inability to express one’s happiness…

Go Blazers!

I felt the same way. What a joy!

It was just an exhibition game, but it was a night to savior the pure thrill of the game, of seeing our team do amazing things. Passing. Dribbling. Dunking. Defense. All of it.

The alley-oop reverse layin by Rudy is the one that sent me over the edge. Saw it coming. Saw Rudy cutting to the basket before Sergio made the pass. I thought, “nah, it’s too obvious. They already got one alley-oop dunk. The Kings can’t let the Spaniards show them up again.” And, yet, Sergio makes the pass.. With the ball in the air, it still looks like it won’t work… like it’s too good to be true (just as this team is too good to be true), but somehow Rudy catches the ball and flips it over his head into the hoop. I screamed, “No f————— way!” Giggled. Kicked my feet. It’s too good to be true, but it’s true. At least for one night. A great night.

as I was watching the game on that hacked stream from Sacramento and startling the baby every time the Blazers made a play.

It just won’t go away.

fyi

I have seen Rudy play live twice now. And in both games he did a through the legs of a defender pass. I think im in love. Cannot wait to go back to the Garden and see what our boys have in store for the warriors.

Too oooo ooooo amazing.
I’ve never been so amped … well, not that I can recall.
Had trouble sleeping.
Still jazzed this morning.

…That was amazing fun. That was pre-season. That was one loud rocking Rose Garden. What is the regular season going to be like? How many times was I left shouting “OOOOOOOOOoohohooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!” last night while thinking, “Did I just see what I think I saw?” and looking up for the replay to verify what just happened. Last year, Brandon made me do that a couple times. Last night, the team (and Rudy in particular) had my head on a swivel and my voice hoarse.

OMG!

And will always remember the game that showed how skilled this team really is. Brandon Roy had 1 miss, but otherwise was PERFECT. Oden is too big for teams to handle. LMA had a bad game and still impacted the game. Rudy…speechless. Travis and Pryz had very solid efforts as well, Webster had great d, Bayless was typical bulldog self, and Ike was…ah forget it.

BTW, our defense will win 45 games alone this season. It was that tight. The shots in the first half the Kings made? Meh, most were contested. But they couldn’t even breath without someone in their face from the second quarter on. Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

Rise with us, rip city is returning!

see you tonight

We had the perfect first quarter in 1990 against San Antonio. We followed that up with three more last night against Sacramento…18 years later.

Good things (like scotch) take time to mature.

Sometimes in life there are things that are billed as “special.” Marketers and salesmen will pitch these things to us as the greatest things since sliced bread and many times they are slight improvements on previous things.

Only rarely is there a quantum leap forward in a synergistic way that the previous incarnation is not just the previous item with some things taken off and some better things added on, but rather a completely new product alltogether.

This may be blind homerism on my part and if it is I apologize, but seeing what this team transformed into last year, the 3rd youngest team all time almost having a winning record, the character of the team and the coach. The genius of the Gm and the wealth and willingness of the owner to do what is nessicary.

All of these things are leading me to believe that the hype is slowly starting to fade away and what we really have is coming into view: Such a collection of young talent that has grown with each other as to maximize their abilities and strengths. A culture that will overachieve rather than underachieve.

To put it shortly, something very special.

Detractors will point out that we beat the kings and without Miller and Martin, but as the games go on, the detractors will slowly realize that as this team grows and matures in front of our eyes, it will be like a tidal wave, slowly building far offshore gaining speed and momentum until one day it will hit with devastating force the NBA.

The wave has already started and we just have to wait for it to hit and when it does there will be nothing to stop us.