We played right into Houston’s D all series long by walking it up the court and facing a fixed D.

LOL JK JK

great job :)
Sophia

Looked at Steve’s body this way before….

he was the best point guard on the court most of the series.

I can handle the turnovers, but Blake refused to shoot. The starting PG can’t be afraid of shooting the ball.

you might as well include the 4 other Rangers and the special auxilary White Ranger, too… Rudy, Travis, Oden, Batum, and Sergio/Channing (special).

Our two main guys did their job and did it well, especially considering that they both were matched up against players who’ve shown a great ability to shut them down before.

Our much ballyhooed, vuanted depth is what didn’t show up in this series. Our bench and role players couldn’t provide the necessary kick game after game. The games we won? Our bench and role players brought it.

I don’t find it particularly fair for people to be pointing out single players at this point. Houston was feared for the matchup concerns they give us. What I expected was for them to shut down Roy and LMA and make everyone else beat us. I didn’t expect them to let Roy and LMA get theirs and to shut everyone else down. No Blazers except Roy and LMA were a credible scoring threat in every game.

Well done by Houston. Any other of a handful of teams we likely could’ve gotten by… maybe even Houston if they had home court advantage.