Insofar as you can need a win in December. I think it would be really, really nice to have, and a huge boost to this team, but if we lose it is not the end of the world.

But four in a row would be ugly.

will open her i <3 rudy tee on xmas day. i’ll hit you up, blazersedge-ben-batphone.

I want to see Oden get fed and get dunks. Dude’s never going to learn to hold on to the rock if he never gets any touches.

because we have to win all these games against inferior opponents on our home floor. – Elgin

Very Portland too. Is she going to that Blazers Edge thing in March?

Sacramento has centers who can hit the three, for whom Oden is really inexperienced in defending.

Plus we’ve beat them twice, and humiliated them in their own house in one of them.

Plus they want to impress their new coach, after apparently quitting on their previous one.

Portland has to be rested and ready to play. They’ve been neither of those recently.

is this story on the L-k-ers by Geoffrey C. Arnold that is in today’s print edition. If you click on the link it just says that the story has moved and they’re working to fix it. Maybe later today it will work. If not, check out the hard copy. (This link takes to recent Arnold stories,the one I’m referring to – title below – is dated 12/14, but was in today’s paper. Guess the guys who take care of the web site are taking snow days.)

It’s pretty interesting; talks about the team perhaps starting to fall apart – Odom OK coming off the bench now, but will he be OK all season …

Here’s how it starts : "Watch it, Lakers; don’t become Cowboys
12/14/2008
I f the Los Angeles Lakers aren’t careful, they risk transforming themselves into the NBA’s version of the dysfunctional Dallas Cowboys. Yes, the Lakers have posted a 20-3 record, the best in the Western Conference and appear on track to…

I get the Batphone next! Dibs! Dibs!

—Dave

because this place is the best.

<3

Sophia

We can’t lose back to back home games to bad teams. If you wanted to compile criteria for what should make a comparatively easy game this game is where you would start.

1. The Kings played last night.
2. They’re missing their best player.
3. We’ve had 3 days of rest with no travel
4. It’s a home game
5. They’re a sub .500 team

Good teams don’t lose games with this many things in their favor.

the blazers were the top tag in a number of those blogs on there. the Knicks dominated but portland was definitely the second most popular team based on the stats provided there.

but man, we MUST win this game. Not as if, the season is in doubt if we lose, but we’ve lost 4 of our last 5 and 3-straight. There were circumstances – two games lost on last-second makes (or misses…), one that simply got away, and one where we got beat by a better team.

But there are no excuses for tonight’s game.

but it’s not really.

If they lose I’ll be more worried about their confidence than anything.

strange