Biggest Win of the Season?

this was the highlight of the young year. Unbelievable win, GO, LMA, Blake, all of them were huge tonight. I saw a fire in GO that hadn’t been there yet, the Celtics were SCARED of the big man in the middle. Blake kept the team in the game in the first half, Aldridge closed the show, and B Rex will kill you if you look at him funny. Unreal

it showed everyone’s reaction to fielding 6 men, and they were all displaying the funniest grins, like 6 dudes in a row, even Nate! With that coy finger beckoning Oden, about to bust out laughing, coach monty, even Paul Pierce. I almost fell off my barstool.

Is Brandon Roy Patrick Ewing?

If only because the Blazers won with their defense.

and doing it without Roy made it even better. Love how they stepped up and Greg has been just getting better and better. Having a threat down low like that… Well, you can start to believe that that will eventually make us unstoppable.

youngest team in the NBA beating the world champs, what can we say now……

especially after getting pasted in boston, i think this is a turning point in the season, the guys now know they can beat anyone if they play hard

was giving it right back to KG. He was sure throwing alot of elbows at the end of that game I saw, that they never called.

Without your main man you got game

to keep surprising us? I’m sure tons of us were hoping for a win tonight, but I doubt any of us expected this. Just when I thought I had this team figured out, they show me something new. And I LOVE the way we won down the stretch. We got a bucket EVERY time we needed one. Once we got down to the final couple of minutes, I half-expected us to wilt under pressure, but we kept our heads up. Amazing win. This is one of thost wins that will keep me satisfied for a couple weeks, even if we drop a couple of the toughies we have coming up.

this win is a turning point, a huge turning point.

i would have been happy if we we had roy and lost but put in a decent effort. For us to be without him and pull the win is amazing! Sleep well tonight with this one.

You know Boston wanted this one— they had two losses this trip, then seemed to get their mojo back by destroying Sac. Perhaps they overlooked the Roy-less Blazers, or just had their scouting report messed up. Patrick Ewing Theory FTW!

The Celtics have the best record in the league; they embarrassed us on their court. The only thing that could have made this win bigger is if it was on the road or on National TV.

And I’ve seen em all this season. Wow…

defense did NOT know what to do with that. I say that specific lil trick gets displayed versus the lakers as well :). Man what a satisfying win

Sophia

The best effort all season. Not necessarily the best basketball, but the best effort.

If they can continue to channel that effort and continue to learn the game and each other, the sky is the limit. I know, calm down, but that was so darn much fun!

Wooohooo!

that I would be happy if the Blazers lost by less than 10.

But this…. this should be the morale boost the rest of the team needs for any conversation that has taken place regarding being too heavily reliant on Roy. This should quiet that discussion.

When will he return to his early season form? I miss the old Rudy that was on point aggressive and not forcing shots and passes. Can I have my Rudy back? Please. Please. We really need his scoring and playmaking in Roy absences especially!

What was the deal with the Diogu-Bayless-Sergio-whatever lineup they had halfway into the first quarter? I was there and was like “I wish they’d told us they weren’t even going to try so I could have skipped it”. Then they came out COMPETING the rest of the game and gutted out an unbelievable W. So awesome!

But seriously.. rope-a-dope or what?

into the game! That my friends was a glimpse into the future.

Sophia

No Roy. We showed a lot of heart and made it happen defensively. I sat 10 rows from the court with the halfcourt line splitting me in half. Holy smokes. Its a good thing typing doesn’t involve my vocal chords, cause they are shot!!!!

…the giant is waking up. He faced up and hit a jumper. He shrugged off KG and hit a dare-I-say kinda smooth jump hook. He punished Perkins. He intimidated. Hell, he threw us all a bone and smiled. Right after knocking Ray Allen’s whiny little butt into the photographer’s row.

He also caught the ball once, faced up, and took a hard quick dribble baseline. First explosive move like that we’ve seen all year. (It ended in a foul or something inconsequential – but that doesn’t matter.)

He’s not fully awake yet, but he’s starting to rub his eyes and swat some of the little people off his shoulders.

Haters?

Anybody?

That’s what we thought.

the Martell too….jeez….makes you wonder why the ever lose…

was that the blazers have been crucified recently for their defense, and hey presto, we can play good defense.

amazing what some motivation when ur top player and leader is injured can do

Didn’t score much, had some turnovers, had some shots rim out…

But I love love love what I see. Kid’s got a gear very few guys have. Maybe a handful of guys in the league get to the rim that quick from a standstill. Even less of those guys have those kinda hops and that sorta strength.

His EDGE is something the team really needs out there. Roy’s the superstar, but he’s not that kind of leader. Bayless’s intensity is contagious. Naturally reserved guys like LMA and Greg FEED off that.

He let out a roar after dropping that dime to LMA on the break that shook my television…

You know how the crowd gets the team pumped up and that energy translates to wins? Teammates getting other guys pumped up can have the same effect. Gotta find him some minutes.

the underdog Ducks win in a huge game and the Blazer’s pull out an improbable win against the defending champ without their MVP. What a great Day to be an Oregonian!!!

we might have lost. I love him but sometimes at the end of games its Brandon, and everyone else watching. They knew they couldn’t count on Brandon tonight so they moved the ball and pulled it off. I dunno I’m just putting that out there.

for getting creative tonight (did he really have a choice?) .

Yet, that notwithstanding, tonight’s game showed that stud pivotmen like Greg Oden will always have a larger impact on the game of basketball over power soft forwards like LaMarcus Aldridge and defensively mediocre, isolation happy wing players like Brandon Roy. As much as I like Roy, my objective viewpoint is that if the Trail Blazers are to ever win a NBA title with this core it’ll be on the back of Oden.

On a side note, Steve Blake deserves kudos for playing astonishingly well against one of the NBA’s supreme perimeter defenders, Rajon Rondo, which is a hell of an accomplishment.

Hey, where are you “Nate Haters”? Your silence is deafening!!!!!!!!

but this win was a fan favorite because of the dislike for the celtics.

apparently the 6 man score was a major factor in the Celtics loss according to their rundown. Poor guys, makes me remember the dejected look on that one fans face when they lost out on the Oden lottery.

What I still cant fathom is how Lamarcus gets a technical foul when Garnett elbows him in the head.

The point when I realized the Blazers had a VERY good shot at winning was in the late 3rd quarter (I believe), when LMA yelled at Bayless to get out of his area on the left block, demanded the ball, and hit a jumper. I realized that LMA had gotten over his nerves and was confident and assertive. And I could see that the Celtics were beginning to wear down. I don’t care how good you are; the last game of a road trip on the opposite coast is tough.

The other pivotal moment for me was when Oden and Przy were on the floor together. Back in Boston, the Celtics had physically overpowered the Blazers with the Big Baby/ Perkins combo. This time, Nate had something up his sleeve: he countered with his own beefy twin towers. Because neither of those Celtics bigs is a perimeter threat, the move worked like a charm.

I think the Celtics are NOT used to having their “power” lineup get pushed around! The crowd was absolutely giddy at seeing Joel and Greg out there together and you could feel the balance of power in the game shift. Wow!

Biggest win of the season, because this is the best team we’ve beaten so far.

So far, – Elgin

We didn’t win this game by being hot, or by running on them. We just beat Boston in a half-court game by out-muscling them, and WITHOUT Brandon Roy. That’s bigger than any of our other contests where we hit some excellent shots to beat good teams – by far.

I voted yes, and it’s not like me to vote yes in a poll like this. I generally avoid applying absolutes to a game or player. But I do think this was the biggest win so far this season. The Houston game was perhaps more amazing, but this game was bigger. Oden applied himself and showed what he can bring now and hopefully in the future. Aldridge played big the whole game when we needed it. Even players that struggled, continued to hustle and it seemed eventually almost everyone contributed a play or moment that was important. We were playing the Celtics without Roy, for most of the game Rudy struggled. On paper you’d think that would translate into a loss. Everyone stepped up. I especially think it was a great game for Oden and Aldridge. Blake was key and I can’t forget him either. But in terms of what a win against a quality team that has had our number, on a night when our best player was not available means, I think it translates into the biggest win thus far of the season.

that this game has released our two headed beast in the post. Oden and Aldridge dominated this game with some outside firepower by Blake and some surprising drives by Outlaw. I will be the first to admit that I was screaming for Outlaw to be pulled in the 4th only to watch him elevate and dunk over KG on a baseline cut with the good look from GO. All in all I’m calling that this is the break through game we’ve all been waiting for. Oden and LMA have now arrived and I expect them to be forces going forward. They have stepped out from the increasingly large shadow cast by emerging Superstar Brandon Roy. They are now gathering in their own basketball light-filled glory and can begin to take their rightful place among the leagues best.