Blazers are not good enough to look past anybody. After seeing the Utah score I don’t feel as bad.

Fire Nate!

The Jazz lost to the THUNDER tonight by the same exact amount (21 points).

He was one of the only people doing a solid job out there.

darius miles…

Was seeing Shav get a couple of minutes of playing time.

1st row at the entrance tunnel…

I took 267 pictures…

I’m staring at the Izod Center out my window now…

My good friend got to go back to Philly and score points – - it was a true “event” in the arena .. ..and in his career… I got to thank Nate for remembering..I met GO’s mom, Nates kids(?), Nates cousin, hotstffdb(?) was getting autographs after the game…I’m going to put this on the post I started …it will take awhile…

Both Bayless and Sergio looked bad tonight. Brandon was the point guard running the offense for the most part in the second half and he did okay. Just wish Bayless could make a pass inside without it getting stolen and maybe we win. Ugh

I had to work late, but caught part of the game. Just about everything that could have gone poorly did. Hopefully Blake isn’t down long, bad night all around

Bad game, tough break for Blake. Every team has to deal with injuries. Lots of people leaping off the Bayless wagon in other threads. The guy’s got serious minutes when it counts in, what, three games?

I’m amused by the highs and lows. Beat Chicago, dancing in the streets. Lose to Philly, everyone but Brandon Roy is a bust and needs to be traded for someone’s else’s retreads.

Had to have been that one play.

Yeah he got 15 and 9, but he wasn’t really in attack mode. He never (warning: cliche inc) “put his stamp on the game” like the second superstar should. Looked like he was content to stand back and let Brandon do things.

Typical Travis, superstar one game, dud the next. In year 6 we should have some consistency and yet we don’t.

Bayless wasn’t really that bad. I was watching hsi defense closely and it was far better than anything our other two PG’s could ever muster. He was attacking the rim, and he shot two open 3’s – he just couldn’t make anything.

Sergio was awful. Can we stop pretending?

Dave cites Sergio’s 4 fouls as a factor to consider his performance poor, but neglects to factor that two of them (HALF) were coach-directed fouls that we had to give when Philly was running last plays of the quarter. So, Sergio really had two fouls. And one of them was a good one, stripping the ball from a big man who was about to score an uncontested dunk under the basket, making him at least shoot 2 free throws. So, Sergio committed precisely one foul while playing defense against his man. ONE.

Also, Sergio’s third turnover, just like Bayless’s only made shot, came in the last minute or two of the game and was pretty irrelevant.

Everyone is crapping on Sergio for this game, but I just can’t see it. A travel call and a single bad pass? He also got 2 assists and could have easily got 4 more if our team could make a jump shot, and Joel could have dunked a ball he caught right underneath the rim.

I’m pretty much beatdown trying to advocate for Sergio when people like Leeroy above can say Bayless wasn’t bad with 1-11 shooting, ZERO ASSISTS in 24 minutes, and 2 TOs, and that Sergio was awful. Give Sergio those extra 10 minutes that Bayless got and I guarantee you he adds 5 more assists and 5 points—it’s rhythm and you don’t get it playing 5 minutes stints and having the coach take the ball out of your hand on more than half the possessions.

that Bayless has done anything this season to deserve the start tonight and I really don’t think Nate can do it in good conscience. However, if Sergio starts he will have to be looking over his shoulder the whole time, and will be yanked in favor of Jerryd should he falter in the least.

This next game or three is such an ideal opportunity to finally assess what Sergio can contribute to our team. Give him some rope, let him shine or hang himself. My feeling though is that Nate does not want Sergio to shine and will make it difficult for him to do so. He just simply is not Nate’s boy.

BTW, although his performances as a PG have been pretty horrid – and he sure is looking only like a 2 guard to me – I agree that it’s far too early in Bayless’ career to be making concrete judgments regarding his abilities. However, it is a little perplexing to see how easily his sub-par performances are excused away on this site. If it were Sergio who experienced the same performances, fans here would have had him tarred, feathered and run out of town by now.

Question. Why are people saying that Sergio doesn’t work with the starting unit? Has there been evidence of this so far this season?

was already the least-experienced in the history of pro hoops. Without Blake, it’s the least-experienced in the history of college hoops.

My guess is that Nate will feel more comfortable— er, less UNcomfortable starting third-year pro Sergio than rookie Jerryd.

what seemed to be a re aggravation of BRoys hamstring last night? I haven’t heard any further reports on it. Wonder how serious it is. Maybe we’re really down to two guards. Or maybe at best Roy will play but we we may not be seeing him able to play with aggressiveness. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Rudy in uniform tonight ….. just in case.

Start Bayless AND Sergio and run them both 48 minutes!