Game 76 Recap: Blazers 88, Houston 102 Blazers Clinch Playoff Berth, Jersey Contest Playoff Update

But then, looking better than his stat line isn’t unusual.

I almost got nubbed after a poor showing against OKC

I’m not going to defend him completely as he still brings many fouls on himself via poor positioning and needless hacking, but he also gets hit with ridiculously ticky tack fouls as well. Stop the hate refs!

Otherwise it will be a short run.

Enjoy your time as a Blazer fan. Maybe we’ll do enough to convince you to permanently change your allegiance. – Elgin

I know Americans don´t complain, so I complain in his name, in his place or in whatever. Give him a break!!!!!!! ;)

if not the worst game recaps, I’ve read on the site.

Is “recaps” supposed to be plural, or singular??? Hmm.

Not the best criticism of a game “recaps” I’ve ever read. You come in here telling Dave to write better, but you undercut your credibility by not being able to decide which words are plural versus which ones are singular.

Not your best effort Max. I probably won’t read your comments tomorrow, but “I say this as a fan.”

Then come back and apologize.

I blame you.

What else did you want from the recap? We lost. We didn’t play well but not awful. Houston was better and we were worse in all of te predictable ways. Please add what you would have liked addressed in further detail if there is anything and we can all hash it out together.

Nitpicking Dave, who has provided YEARS of amazing free content and established the most successful online community for an NBA team, over a standard recap for a standard loss, is amazing to me.

Now don’t you get sensitve about us being sensitive for Dave, just re-look at what you’re saying and what you’re expecting from the recap. If we face them in the playoffs I’m sure Dave will do a complete rundown that didn’t need to be in this recap.

Mortimer

I didn’t know him very well. and knew several others there not at all. But when one of the other guests, while eating the host’s food and enjoying the friend’s stunning view began criticising both; new friendships forged quickly. The rest of us l shared a universal displeasure with the complaining party’s egocentrism and sense of entitlement.

By chance where you at a barbeque in Gig Harbor yesterday, maximillian?

I don’t necessarily agree with Max, but he’s entitled to his opinion and he being a jerk about his comment.

Personally, I wouldn’t call out someone who runs a site as awesome as this one, but if Max wants to throw some constructive criticism out we shouldn’t start a lynch mob.

all the time when i first joined, you’ll learn that getting other people’s opinion before doing so is usually a good idea, the volume of comments is just too huge for you to expect him to read or reply to all of them. Plus, you didn’t say what about the recap you didn’t like, you just called it ‘tired.’ I think that the lynch mob would leave you alone if you your comment didn’t come across as lazily hypercritical.

what does this accomplish?

Welcome to the site, Max!

Your observation is probably technically correct. I would offer that in a meta-sense the recap reads pretty much how the Blazers played. It was an OK game, the loss was expected, there wasn’t much more to say about it that wouldn’t be a bog-standard repeat of our games against a ton of other good teams on the road. There were few surprises here and thus not much traction for a long or passionate (overwrought?) recap. If you want a more detailed look at why the outcome went as it did you can scroll down a little and read the “Keys to the Game” in the preview and see how many of those things actually happened.

If you observed things you thought were missing you are always welcome to add them here in the comments. That’s part of the fun of the site.

—Dave

Compare that to, don’t know, Luol Deng? Gerald Wallace? Richard Jefferson? I like those guys, but their charts are much spottier, and with far fewer shots from outside (made or attempted). Heck, even super forward LeBron is mostly between 30-40 percent from mid-range and outside, only his saving grace is hitting 68% around the rim.

As for clutch/crunch-time, http://www.82games.com/0809/CSORT11.HTM has him ranked again this season second only to Roy on the team. Right behind late-game luminaries like Ray Allen, Nash, KG. And ahead of Gay, Artest, or even inside player like Amare, Howard, …

there is only 1 word for Oden’s rookie season: UNDERWHELMING.

Even the conservative predictions had Oden getting 12 and 8. Ha, would be a dream right now.

A day ago you were talking about winning a playoff series.

which seems more efficient that running it through McGrady.

I hope Bayless is still a happy guy. – Elgin

I’ve been mentioning this for months now. The second unit looks like trash only when Frye is in. Without a REAL body down low takinkg up room, Outlaw/Rudy can’t do their thing as well.

If Frye was in at his real position we might not see this, but when Frye/LMA is the center, we get crushed defensively and offensively.

our defense is pure turds with frye against a true center. I was really disappointed to see the old blazers when the new ones looks so sharp. To portland’s credit, Yao was created in a lab and fouled our centers for every rebound on both sides of the floor, getting call like once or twice.

why do we play the game with no center for that much time… and yet both of them finished with only 4 fouls?

Is it really so bad that either of them ends up fouling out? Isn’t the true benefit of having two better than average centers that you can afford more fouls?

I question McMillan’s conservative approach tonight. Of all the games to be questioning him about his rotation, this is the one that clearly jumps off the page to me.

Also, I seem to recall a scouting report somewhere not long ago stating that Yao shrivels against physical play… why not just sic our bigs on him to minimalize his game?

This is the first game this year I’ve felt McMillan had a poor performance.

who have a hobbled timmy and manu, we could gain just as much as if we would have won yesterday, i think, or at least some post told me so.

too conservative.

Some are just an older age than others.