at least we’re not phoenix/dallas though.

Thanks for deleting the thread.

Greg Oden was Greg Oden.

I’m happy.

and Roy complaining, missed call or not, while letting Iguodala run the floor and dunk (in OT!) was part of that…

if I am prone to irrational postings and rude insults, but do like negative comments and rants about my favorite team… does that mean I can keep reading? or what?

Rudy with MB’s “Where is Ariza” comment

LMA’s “Im not soft”

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Didn’t find one of Greg’s putback and last-minute slam so far.

Oh, and I still hate the AP recap for giving enough credit to the key Blazers.

And I still want Sophia to read Sophie’s World :)

and has surpassed practically everyones expectations. their next challenge is to be focused and prepared for 48 minutes against teams in the playoff hunt. teams will be bringing their A game whether its to close out the season or throughout the playoffs, and we can’t be digging outselves out of deep holes all year.

i took 3000 oregonlive.com/blazer comments out on you.

There are a lot of teams, some of them good, who would have started mailing it in during the second quarter.

They can’t win every game, but they play hard right down to the wire,

Remember three or four years ago when the Blazers were sleepwalking through the season?

Some random thoughts as they come to me:

-Fourth quarter we are up five have all the momentum and Sergio on the break decides to drive into three sixers turns it over and philly proceeds to get a three. We never can maintain anything after that.

-One of Roy’s worst games of the year, a lot which can be attributed to the sixers defense….they match up really well with him. The last possession of the night summed everything.

-It’s hard to say Blake had a bad game when you score 20 but he probably game up at least 40 in shape or form. He was Andre Miller’s bitch the entire night….to an extent that was truly astonishing. It’s been a long time since I have seen one player abused that blatantly and him not being able to keep Miller from penetrating was one of the keys to the loss.

-I didn’t understand our defensive philosophy tonight. Instead of packing in the middle and forcing PHilly to take outside shots our guards overplayed their man and ended up getting beat off the dribble over and over and over

-LMA’s outside shot hasn’t looked right since the concussion. However the rest of the was pretty much awesome. Great game

-Greg Oden was beastly, it really is amazing how good he is and yet has barely scratched the surface of what he can become….too bad our guards didn’t show up

-Rudy played a decent game but tossed up waayyyyyy too many threes, some of which were really bad shots.
-Refs were Horrible no way around it, but they did not lose us the game….that would be guards inability to keep their man in front of them.

- Teams in the playoffs will use this game as a template on how to play us, still if we get a below average game from Roy instead of horrible one, we win

-This game is over it’s time to start thinking about PHX

since women are so overly prone to involuntary emotional outbursts. Its our weaker mentalities that cant countenance any undue strain, else we FREAK OUT causing men a terrible headache!.

Good night all

Sophia

We actually lost because my Brother-in-law attended the game. he has bad mojo and the blazers loose everytime he is in attendance.

I however have only been to wins.

Tonight we both went and let our mojos battle it out. Needles to say his Dark forces were greater then mine.

I won’t let him go to any playoff games this year. He is done.

Blazers are fighting for the 7th/8th spot. Beat PHX, then everything is good.

Sixers are a bad matchup. Blazers played terrible, but still had a chance to win. Need a PG who can run a pick/roll or a SF who can penetrate. Same old holes in the lineup. Roy is asked to carry too much burden on creating offense. He’s probably dead tired.

The 76ers brought the defensive intensity. Sergio was stupid with his missed three that led to a 76ers 3 at the end of the first quarter. Channing Frye’s defense was atrocious. The Blazers didn’t make the big defensive stops at the end when they needed to the most. The officiating was lousy as well.

And I was thinking about calling 911 because Wheels was about to have a heart attack through the entire 2nd half and overtime. He was riding the emotional wave of the comeback, and then crapped all over the officials for what sounded like horrible calls (at least listening to Wheels on the radio; I didn’t actually see anything).

Hey, anyone else really encouraged by how well Oden played with 5 fouls?

Oh Roy… aside for a couple of good steals he had a really poor night on both ends. I would almost have rather seen what Blake, Rudy, Batum, LMA, Oden could have made happen during the last minute of OT. It’s ridiculous that you don’t go with Roy with what he has done, but he was entirely nullified in this game. I would have thought that iggy was ron artest and raja bell combined the way he stopped roy one-on-one.

…when it was eight on five.

The odds are just too tough. I’d like to know how the Blazers have fared over the past three years when Leon Wood is reffing. Three shots on what should have been an offensive foul on Igoudala? Brandon and LaMarcus completely unable to get a call inside, despite very heavy contact, in OT?

The Blazers did not play their best basketball, but when you are repeatedly hammered and the final foul tally is only 22 on the other team over 53 minutes of play, you have to wonder if some guys in stripes were padding their expense accounts on the results of bet placed on tonight’s action.

I went back and counted 10 highly dubious calls over the course of the game against the Blazers, and three against the Sixers. Are we in Philadelphia? WTH?

disappointing loss for sure… loved the “Javie Sucks!” chants though. hahaha.

GO was beastin tonight.

At the bottom of the invasion thread, he requests if we do that again, to do a fanpost instead of contaminating a game thread, and also too bad the Blazers didn’t pull out the game.

FYI

HEY GUYS: I don’t mind if you all need a place to chill, but in the future please create a new FanPost for your ‘road thread’. Even if i dont get much traffic in the Heat GameThreads, I’d like to keep them to just the Heat.

Glad you all had fun. Too bad the Blazers couldnt pull it out…

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by DolPhanDave on Mar 23, 2009 11:45 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

We should send him a nice bouquet, or a box of chocolates or something for being relatively cool about it

NBA refs are bad. If you haven’t realized that now, you’re not smart. Expecting a well-called game by NBA refs – EVER – is dumb. It’s like betting on a one-legged man to win a swimming competition.

So enough with the ref whining, my God. If you don’t want to see bad refs, don’t watch the NBA.

This was the worst reffed game I’ve seen all year. Though I’ve never agreed to anything LeeRoyJ has ever said (humorous exaggeration) including these two posts, but he does have a point. We know the Reffing sucks in the NBA, we know Stern won’t do anything about it and we know we’ll keep coming back for more. We love the game, we love our team, we can’t give em up just because the NBA is a poorly run, corrupt, profit first business. We should, but we won’t.