Our projected starters: 46 to Golden State's starters 32

No contest if you ask me.

--Dave

Clearly all signs point to a blowout Blazer win.

Fill in the blank:
Blake
MarWeb
Trout
The Unstoppable Joel
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Well?
(I'd post this with a POLL, but it really doesn't warrant a diary entry.)

Just like the Wiz, the Dubs got more going for them right now and also need the game a lot more.  But, they can pooh out a turd of a performance at a moments notice and give us the win on a pooh-free platter.  Without Roy and maybe LMA, we definitely got plenty of reasons to excuse the loss.

This is a big TNT nightcap game, sure to be lots of people watching, so I hope our boys put on a good show.  Martell did well on NBAtv last game, did some nice post game interviews with the NBAtv post game crew, and made more of a name for himself.  Doing that on TNT would go 500 times further, so I hope Trout/Jack/Marty and hopefully LMA get the common fan to love them as we love them.

I'd like a win if at all possible.

Mortimer

GO BALZERS!

"The Team with Caricature!"

Can JHo lead Dallas without the Dirkster?

The NBA, where ?!@$!@ happens.

We'd have to do some SERIOUS upsettulatin' in April, though. YOU all know the sked.

And if we lose tonight, no matter what happens to Denver, we're 7 games back, with 9 games left.
Insert fork.

The "Button Boy" must be stalked and taught what it means, to screw with a Blazer Maniac!

"The Team with Caricature!"

I don't need no steekin' personal breaks. A true fan will suffer when needed.

"The Team with Caricature!"

Steve Blake + Jarret Jack....

Monta and Baron are going to kill us.

Her (Doesn't follow basketball closely): "Jarrett Jack?"

Apparently I've yelled about him before.

Whoever had the  "NBA only bought the rights to a few songs" theory had the right idea.

3Ns

Webs foul!

For some reason Przybilla just dismantles the guy.

Pryz draws the charge at the other end!

I would be so excited if Marv Albert never did a game again.

Let's win this quarter and the next, so on and so on.

"The Team with Caricature!"

Blazers - Last.

The refs just bailed him out with a goaltend call.

Nice.

Anyway, woohoo Blazers!

Looks like the hot shooting from the Washington game has carried over so far. Woo!

Portland cannot forget GS's swarming defense and play sloppy against them. It killed them at the end of the 1st.

I saw the WEB HAMMER, Baby, Oh Yah!

"The Team with Caricature!"

Fart, fart, fart, la, la, la.

The shot chart is interesting; you all should check it out.
Basically, except for . . . 4 perimeter shots (including that buzzer heave) and two missed mid-range attempts,
the Worriers' shots are ALL right at the basket--but they're an even mix of misses and makes.
Or: They're getting to the hoop all the time, but frequently getting denied once they're there.

The Blazers' shots, on the other hand, are a nice even distribution of made shots all along the baseline, corner-to-corner.
Plus four top-of-the-key misses, and one shot from each elbow of the trey line--one made, one missed.

FRIGHTENINGLY even distribution for both teams.
Just a "Here's where we're shooting from" pattern, diff pattern for each team.

And the Blazers' baseline shots, corner-to-corner, are hitting, whereas the Worriers' 2-feet-and-under shots are a mixed bag.

REALLY cool.

I'm no +/- guy, but we're -6 so far with him in.

Might need to throw Joel at him.
Let's see if that happens after the timmy-oot.

He drives me nuts playing people out of position like this. It's BASIC.