Post Spurs Geek Out Thread
by Magnum on Apr 8, 2009 6:50 PM PDT
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PrintThere are plenty of things to be excited about after the game today.
We locked up a 50 win season. How many people thought we would be a 50 win team? I know I didn't predict 50 wins.
A 3-1 road trip that includes a 35 point blow out, two come from behind (double digit deficit) wins and a solid win against a Western conference playoff team.
The Blazers finally beat the Spurs at home after 11(?) straight losses in San Antonio.
The Blazers earned the tiebreaker against the Spurs.
I know there are a lot more things we can be excited about, but that's a good start.
What are you most excited about after this great win?
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it has been a long time
this is like the first good thing to happen there since LMA’s mom conceived.
by tominrehab on Apr 8, 2009 6:54 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I agree!!!!!! Win Out Blazers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Amen to that
during that sequence where we started pulling away at the beginning of the fourth, he was defending the post when Gooden moved inside, moving his feet beautifully when he got switched onto a guard in the pick-and-roll, and vacuuming up EVERY single board after snuffing out the Spurs’ offense. The announcers couldn’t say enough good things about him.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Yup, someone called him the quaterback of the Dee and that's what he looked like.
GO was good too!
by QuebecBlzrFan on Apr 8, 2009 7:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah
Greg had some great minutes there in the first half. I almost started crying when he fouled Udoka on that pump fake though. Thorpe hit the nail on the head in his chat today when he said that Greg’s overeagerness to make a play is the biggest causal problem for his foul trouble right now.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:05 PM PDT up reply actions
All of a sudden, Spurs-Blazers looks like a dream 1st round playoff matchup
If Duncan can’t get healthy, the Spurs would be in trouble with that one. Especially without home court advantage.
When we looked at this road trip, how many thought the Spurs game—a back-to-back at the end of the trip in a building the Blazers had lost 11 straight in—would be a Blazers’ win? Of course, no Manu and a gimpy Duncan helped. But still…
I loved how the Blazers kept their cool after the Spurs jumped all over them. They realized the Spurs would tire, and sure enough: the Spurs never scored over 18 points in a subsequent quarter.
"We don't back down to nobody." --Joel Przybilla
Yes, a Spurs matchup does look very favorable
No Manu, Duncan at 75% or less, plus the confidence that comes with beating the Spurs by double digits twice in one season.
"It’s a good ol’ fashioned Rip City beat down!"
They kept their cool a lot better than I did
I was texting my brother that I was reduced to drinking in the dark and making snarky comments like, “Hey, that’s the fourth time the Spurs have had more than double our score!” while my housemates laughed at me. When we were down 18 against the Griz, I was utterly confident we were coming back. Down 19 against the Spurs? Not so much. I’m thrilled to have been proven a negative Nancy.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I sure wish that I could have joined in the game day thread sooner, but....
I don’t get off work until 4:30 then I have at least an hour commute plus I needed to get gas, blah, blah blah…..
I just watched what was left and then came here.
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Am I being too subtle?
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You are absolutely correct......I shall redouble my efforts......I shall bring my "A" game.....I shall....
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Ok
Portland’s remaining schedule:
LA – on a back to back, Portland on the first game back from a road trip. I say Portland has a 60% chance of victory.
@ LAC – both teams on a back to back. This game scares me. 55% chance for Portland.
OKC – 90%. Late game against a bad team. This has to be a win.
DEN – I expect Denver to have clinched the division by this point. They’ll rest their starters. 95%.
Now, if we win out, and Houston and San Antonio each lose a game, then we have the third seed.
San Antonio schedule:
Utah
@Sac
@GS – b2b
New Orleans
They’ll lose one, right?
Houston schedule:
@Sac
@GS – b2b
New Orleans
@ Dallas
They might just win out.
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I don't care
if we’re third or fourth, honestly. In the scenario you describe it means playing the Spurs either way, and that’s trouble for San Antonio.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Sorry, we can't play them in both scenarios!
If we finish 3rd and they are 5th ;)
by QuebecBlzrFan on Apr 8, 2009 7:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Ooops
in my head them being fifth = playing us. thanks for the correction. so let’s say we’re third and the spurs are fifth. who’s most likely to be sixth these days? the hornets, the jazz, or the mavs?
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Hornets
are a game up on the Jazz, who are a game up on the Mavs.
Jazz or Hornets matchup is probable.
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so we actually want
the jazz to beat the mavs tonight, because that makes it more likely that we’ll play the jazz if we make it to the third seed?
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:08 PM PDT up reply actions
not me
I want the Jazz to fall to 8th so they can give the Lakers all kinds of fits in the first round. If we miracle into 3rd (highly unlikey), I don’t mind a mathup with New Orleans. Heck, I’m not nearly as afraid of Dallas if they somehow rise up to 6th as a lot of other people are. but honestly, right now I’m just pulling for Houston to take the 3 seed leaving us with a 4/5 matchup with San Antonio. homecourt or not, I like our chances
How did you guys win that?
"We scored enough points. We scored 107, they scored 105.
-Nate McMillan Postgame, 3/4/2009
if we're third
we play the Hornets, a matchup I like. We’d then face either Denver, not a scary team, or Utah in the second round. Against Utah we’d have home court.
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So the hornets
are pretty well locked into 6th?
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:07 PM PDT up reply actions
wouldn't we probably face Houston in the 2nd round?
look at us going through the rounds… gotta love it!
by QuebecBlzrFan on Apr 8, 2009 7:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Houston would be in the 4-5 bracket in that scenario
so we’d face the 2-7 winner.
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if 7th seed wins they have to face the 1st seed if they win...
no?
by QuebecBlzrFan on Apr 8, 2009 7:08 PM PDT up reply actions
what are the two brackets?
1-8 2-7 and 3-6 4-5? sorry for the barrage of questions. my blazers fandom demands that I begin figuring out all the playoff permutations that’ll get us to the WCF is all.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:09 PM PDT up reply actions
the NBA doesn't reseed like the NFL
the 1-8 winner plays the 4-5 winner, and the 2-7 winner plays the 3-6 winner. Very similar to the NCAA tournament.
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meant ato reply about the seeding
the NHL reseeds too… I thought all the pro sports did.
by QuebecBlzrFan on Apr 8, 2009 7:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I would rather meet LA in 2nd round
Meeting them sooner would give them less time to work Bynum into rotation thus, giving the Blazers larger blowouts, against the lakers.
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by Garden of ODEN on Apr 8, 2009 10:28 PM PDT up reply actions
aha
so if we end up fourth OR fifth then we’ll have to face the Lakers in the second round assuming we and they advance. Thanks.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow
if we made it to the third seed….
we’d have homecourt advantage against the Hornets in the first round and face the Nuggets in the second round. THAT’S the path I want. WCF isn’t even a pipe dream in that scenario.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:14 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah
Denver isn’t that good, and Utah could beat them in a seven game series.
We want the third seed, bad.
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Slight correction to your original post
I think anyway. We don’t actually need the Spurs to drop a game if we win out, right? Because we’re tied with them now and ensured the tiebreaker goes our way with the win tonight.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:16 PM PDT up reply actions
if they win out
they’ll win their division, which will be a superior tiebreaker to our head to head advantage.
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Boom
Cablinasian ftw. Thanks for all this info; I’ve been so wrapped up in what the Blazers are doing that the tiebreakers and such have been escaping me.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:18 PM PDT up reply actions
What if we are tied with SA for 4-5th...
Houston is in third place… does the tiebreaker work?
by QuebecBlzrFan on Apr 8, 2009 7:22 PM PDT up reply actions
denver isn't that good?
imagine where they’d be if they had billups to start the year. they are everybit as good if not better than we are.
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by Philthyanimal on Apr 8, 2009 8:02 PM PDT up reply actions
they are tied for 3rd
with 3.8…
i’m sure if you look at the pt diffs with iverson and billups it’d be drastically different in favor of billups.
either way i think teams 2-9 are so tight that anyone can beat anyone on any given night. you can’t definitively say that the Xth place team is better than the Xth place team by a large margin.
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by Philthyanimal on Apr 8, 2009 8:42 PM PDT up reply actions
they only played four or five games without Billups
so it wouldn’t skew the number by a huge margin.
They are three or four games better than their point differential suggests via Pythagorean win predictors.
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your right
i kept on thinking he was a predeadline trade acquisition for some reason.
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by Philthyanimal on Apr 8, 2009 9:47 PM PDT up reply actions
As I recall
they traded for him after like the third game. It’s hard to imagine him having a much bigger effect than he has had as is.
Or the Jazz
WITH homecourt advantage if they were to upset the Nuggets!
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:15 PM PDT up reply actions
The Jazz are currently proving again they are awful on the road
and their victory against the NOH was either a fluke or NOH really isn’t playing good basketball right now
by Peteyhasnohead on Apr 8, 2009 7:17 PM PDT up reply actions
NO has hit two buzzer beater 3s in their last 3 games
one to win against Sacramento and the other to tie against Miami
by trailblazersfan on Apr 8, 2009 7:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Nuggets are losing at half
in all likely hood they win that game anyway but ifffff they don’t it could put the 2nd seed back in other teams grasps
by Peteyhasnohead on Apr 8, 2009 7:09 PM PDT up reply actions
i was following the game on
my itouch during the first half cause i was stuck in class. And i thought for sure this was a loss after the 1st quarter so i turned off my itouch. then at the end of class i started to follow it again and it was a 2 point game. awesome win
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by Heymoe on Apr 8, 2009 7:04 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
My story
My blazer sced-g said the game was at 5. I turned the game on exactly as the Spurs were up 41 to 22 or some such scary number than I got to watch might P town work there way back into it culminating in Blakes three that I called out “get in there” putting us down by two.
Who didn’t play good in the come back? Everyone who played contributed.
50 wins… Called it. LaMarcus an All Star caliber super stud… Called it. Oden not a bust… Called it. Rudy = Rudy… Called it.
Conrats to the Trailblazers and all us super star Trailblazer love’n fans.
This blazers
team has a lot of heart, they dont give up no matter what…AND I LOVE IT!!!!!
LMA is a man
Roy and Outlaw are so clutch
Momma.....der go dat man
LaMarcus
is straight beasting these days. What on earth lit a fire under him? The concussion must have jarred him into “Destroy all opposition” terminator mode.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:11 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I love this quote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The concussion must have jarred him into "Destroy all opposition" terminator mode.
May I use it?
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please do
I’m flattered.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:)
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks!!!!!! I decided to embellish it slightly..........
What do you think of it now?
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Wish I'd said it like that the first time
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions
That game was proof
Of which direction those teams are heading. The Spurs started strong but the Blazers finished. One team is headed up and the other down….
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Fun game.
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by RoodiePhirnandizz on Apr 8, 2009 7:19 PM PDT up reply actions
beautiful
…I think anyway. Now that I’m cheering for the Jazz tonight, up is down and I don’t even know what’s going on in this crazy world of ours.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Suns winning is good
Mavs winning also good (because they’re so far back)…
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we dont' want the Mavs winning
because then they’ll move up to seventh… could move up to sixth. We do not want any part of them if we’re in third.
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with NOH and the Mavs winning
its becoming a clustered mess at 6-8
by Peteyhasnohead on Apr 8, 2009 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions
ya meant, them losing and falling back ot the rest of the pack behind them
and the Mavs closing the gap also
by Peteyhasnohead on Apr 8, 2009 7:34 PM PDT up reply actions
New Orleans and Dallas play a home and home coming up
NO is 2-0 in the series. We are rooting for NO to win at least one game.
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disagree
I’m not that afraid of Dallas. we didn’t bring our A game any of the 3 times we played them. Besides:
1) I’d LOVE to see Utah in the 8th slot, as I think they could give the L*kers some trouble, and
2) I wouldn’t give the Mavs much chance to win a series over Denver, so seeing them in round 2 is highly unlikely, even in the highly unlikely event we get the 3rd seed.
How did you guys win that?
"We scored enough points. We scored 107, they scored 105.
-Nate McMillan Postgame, 3/4/2009
Now this contradicts
what Cablinasian and I were just talking about up above in the thread. He said, and I agreed, that it’s good for the Jazz to win tonight because if we get the third seed, we want to play utah or the hornets and not dallas, so dallas staying entrenched in that 8 spot is good for us.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:24 PM PDT up reply actions
of course
this is from an utter neophyte, so take it with a shaker of salt.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:24 PM PDT up reply actions
who has the tiebreak with Utah and DAL
by trailblazersfan on Apr 8, 2009 7:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't care who we play in the playoffs
I know we can win, and that’s including the K*bes. Team > Individual
Wow Memphis almost beat Orlando
… maybe we weren’t as bad against them as it looked… I mean I thought they played some good dee.
Memphis has been really good recently
Another lottery pick and they’ll be a decent team next year.
Yeah with SAS on the decline
And PHO as well, there’s a spot in the West’s playoff picture….
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that Duncan three
in the first game of the Spurs-Suns series last year might go down as the Suns’ Game 7 2000 WCF. They’ve got a long, painful road ahead of them.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Well
the three won’t go down as the Game 7. A pox on poor phrasing. But you get the idea.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:32 PM PDT up reply actions
That or the Horry hip-check incident
I still feel like the got the raw end of all that too
by Peteyhasnohead on Apr 8, 2009 7:34 PM PDT up reply actions
no we kinda were ...flat? for the first half....but thet are getting better and better
Mark G + gay + mayo = pretty good trio with alot of upside…oj with upside is scary
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Hornets lose to PHX
Little more cushion (worst case scenario)
Just an FYI
Denver is losing to OKC. They play in LA tomorrow. If they lose both games, we would be tied in the loss column.
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Denver
oh wow. they lose tonight and tomorrow and we win out….we’re the second seed. if san antonio and houston lose too. god, my heart and my head can’t take the pressure….
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Just keep winning
That’s all we need to do. We will get home court against someone if we win out…
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And we can win out
3 home games and a road game against LAC left, possible to win out…
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Just got home from watching on the west fork big screen
We are going to have a rowdy crew for the playoffs,quote of the nite"I love it when Rudy smells blood in the water"
If OKC holds on
and Denver loses in LA, we will have at least the third seed if we win out.
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Jalen Rose just jumped on our bandwagon
said he expects us to pull out the 3 seed
I saw that but 4th an SA in the first round would be fine with me
That would have sounded delusional last fall
by southern oregon on Apr 8, 2009 7:51 PM PDT up reply actions
totally delusional
i agree, but with this hesitation – i think Timmy will bring it in the playoffs. Every night. A big reason why we won this one was because Pop sat him most of the game. That won’t be happening.
Still, I’d rather see San Antonio than Houston, the way Houston’s been playing lately. And seems like everyone’s overlooking Denver. Those guys are hot, and will be on a mission in the playoffs. Lakers-Nuggets-Houston are the teams I don’t think we stand a chance at beating in a 7 game series.
by LicketyBrindle on Apr 8, 2009 8:05 PM PDT up reply actions
huge three from green to close the quarter
don’t give them more than a ten percent chance to pull it out, but maybe they’re too young to realize that they shouldn’t win so they’ll just go ahead and do it.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Utah is really struggling down the stretch here.
Actually a lot of teams are
NO is 5-5
Utah is 6-4 (and about to lose again)
Mavs are 6-4
San Antonia is 5-5
I hope I can get a bunch of championships, like 15. " - Greg Oden
lots of infightin there though
I’d like to see their records removing games against each other.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:55 PM PDT up reply actions
West is weak this year...
Looks like the East winning the head to head is no accident.
Who’d have thought at the start of the season that Utah, New Orleans and San Antonio would be mediocre going in to the playoffs? It may be left to us to give the Lakers a little trouble on what looks like a smooth ride to the Finals. Are Houston or Denver any real competition for LA?
I think I get it.
If all three 50-28 teams go 3-1, Houston is #3 and we are #4 by of the head to head tie breaker over SA?
Thus we have HCA against the Spurs for round one, then, please, the winner of the 3 vs 6 seed in round2?
Bedge or go home.
winner of 1-8
meaning you know who.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 7:55 PM PDT up reply actions
no
Houston would be fourth, as SA holds the tiebreaker over them. We would be fifth.
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Different rules apply to a 3 way tiebreaker.
And we lose pretty much every single tiebreaker except the head to head with San Antonio.
Thunder down one
atdhe has a great feed. 10 to play in the fourth.
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Uhh... do you happen to know the passcode?
by QuebecBlzrFan on Apr 8, 2009 8:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I didnt need one?
I just went to WWW.atdhe.com and found the link for the game
try doing that
by Peteyhasnohead on Apr 8, 2009 8:08 PM PDT up reply actions
billups beautiful look on
the fast break to nene, dunk. Heart, meet dagger. ballgame.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 8:16 PM PDT up reply actions
anyone else going to watch the replay tonight?
i want to hear mike and mike’s take.
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by RoodiePhirnandizz on Apr 8, 2009 8:11 PM PDT reply actions
I chose to watch them instead of ESPN in HD
probably the wrong choice
by Peteyhasnohead on Apr 8, 2009 8:15 PM PDT up reply actions
the ESPN picture was great, but the announcing was so boring. I love my homer Mikes
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The replay is starting - GAME ON!!!!!!
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At the beginning of the season I said 50-51 wins and a 5 seed
I’m looking to have under-bid …. wow
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well, maybe
the jazz can come surging back here. at least new orleans lost.
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oh baby
i love that. me encanta, je l’aime, love it!!!
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions
well
the first paragraph is nice anyway. :) don’t have insider.
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by BlazersOrBust on Apr 8, 2009 8:23 PM PDT up reply actions
check out the fanshots there is a link
by trailblazersfan on Apr 8, 2009 8:23 PM PDT up reply actions
AGREE.
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by RoodiePhirnandizz on Apr 8, 2009 8:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not 100% sure but it seems at least 2 years old
Damon just said he was still playing. Very interesting though.
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Amazing win! Unbelievable. The spurs are not a team that lets you come back easily, no matter whos on the floor.
The difference tonight was the return of our secret weapon, the two headed monster that is Greg-Zilla. They dominated the paint after the first quarter. The spurs just had no answer. This team looks like a real, honest to god playoff team. Rip F@#$%$g City!!!!!!!!
yeah...that was the difference
then their 2nd team came in and tried to push people around….cheap shotting Greg & such . . .it didn’t intimidate anyone. We played right through them…Duncan will be sharper – - but only so much. LMA is faster and elevates higher ’ ’ I liked the respect Duncan showed for Pryz…well deserved but also classy
Joel OWNED the boards for awhile there…made it look almost too easy
"Sergio and I obtained chalupas to understand their power. Then Sergio showed that each one has 427 calories and 27 grams of fat. Leaping upwards, we reviled the accursed chalupa and its pressure. – Rudy Fernandez
Amazing that the ESPN stat geeks
Have SA 3 Hou 4 and Blazers 5 in the west when we own the tie breaker with SA and all 3 teams have the same record
SA has the tiebreaker with Houston so they are a division leader so they have the tiebreaker with us
ESPN has it right
by trailblazersfan on Apr 8, 2009 8:52 PM PDT up reply actions
SA has tiebreaker over Hou, who have the tiebreaker over POR + a better conference record than POR
The NBA: Where Amazingly Bad Officiating Happens.
what a convulted mess...
intransitivity in action!!
SA>Hou and Hou>PDX, therefore SA<PDX…
"Slum dunk? You just go to the rim, and crush.. crush the ball in the rim."
- Nic Batum
Since you put it that way
It still dosent make any sense
by southern oregon on Apr 8, 2009 9:06 PM PDT up reply actions
if SA wins the division
that is the ultimate tiebreaker. Then, we are matched with Houston, who has the tiebreaker over us.
Five seed.
draft dejuan blair
Houston has a good chance of getting the tiebreaker over SA
SA has a one win advantage in division record, but they only have 1 division game left while Houston has 2. So there are 4 possibilities:
-Houston and SA both win all remaining division games. In this case it goes to the next tiebreaker(see below) and Houston wins the tiebreaker.
-Houston wins both division games while SA loses. Houston wins.
-Houston wins 1 division game while SA loses it’s division game. It goes to the next tiebreaker(see below) and Houston wins (actually NO might be able to catch up and complicate things if this happens).
-Houston wins 0 or 1 division game while SA wins its division game. SA wins the tiebreaker.
*Next tiebreaker: conference record. Houston and SA are tied in conference record, and will still be tied at the end of the year if their overall record is still tied.
*Tiebreaker after that: conference record against playoff teams. Houston has a 1-win advantage. Since Houston needs to be at least equal to SA in remaining games against western playoff teams to tie the division record, Houston will win in this category in all cases where the tiebreaker has to go this far.
Basically, if Houston can match SA’s division record (and the chances of that are should be close to 50%), Houston will be able to win the tiebreaker. If Portland, Houston, and SA all end up tied (behind LAL and Denver, but ahead of everyone else) and Houston has the tiebreaker over SA, then it will be #3 Houston, #4 Portland, #5 SA
by trk on Apr 8, 2009 11:01 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
put simply:
go houston
How did you guys win that?
"We scored enough points. We scored 107, they scored 105.
-Nate McMillan Postgame, 3/4/2009
You mean jersey number?
According to the official roster, no.
But I considered doing a lmgtfy for this question. :)
hahahahahahahahahahah
rec
"Sergio and I obtained chalupas to understand their power. Then Sergio showed that each one has 427 calories and 27 grams of fat. Leaping upwards, we reviled the accursed chalupa and its pressure. – Rudy Fernandez
I dont follow Nascar
But this leads me to believe there is a 3 car
by southern oregon on Apr 8, 2009 9:09 PM PDT up reply actions
o yeah there is....
and there is all kinda 3 gear all around here in NC….but I don’t know who it is – - not from ’round ’nar parts . . . .
"Sergio and I obtained chalupas to understand their power. Then Sergio showed that each one has 427 calories and 27 grams of fat. Leaping upwards, we reviled the accursed chalupa and its pressure. – Rudy Fernandez
the guy who died in a seemingly mild crash was 3 i think
or maybe 7…never liked watching cars turn left enough to follow it that much
Support those in crisis in Portland www.give10tell10.org
Now that's a race fan! Ghastly image that it is...
If I sat behind him for that race, my psyche would’ve been scarred for life..not to mention blocking the view to the track with hair… ugh! and I’m a (local race) fan!
Set course for NBA Playoffs......Engage! -Captain McMillan USS Trailblazer
I just threw up a little in my mouth
It's spelled "PRZYBILLA."
vanillathrillagorillaprzybilla
by RenoBlazerFan on Apr 9, 2009 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
i love mythbusters!
thank you sir.
"I don't know Twitter" - Rudy Fernandez
by RoodiePhirnandizz on Apr 8, 2009 9:04 PM PDT up reply actions
about time!
How did you guys win that?
"We scored enough points. We scored 107, they scored 105.
-Nate McMillan Postgame, 3/4/2009
im shaving my beard.
knew everyone would like to know.
"I don't know Twitter" - Rudy Fernandez
by RoodiePhirnandizz on Apr 8, 2009 9:03 PM PDT reply actions
I knocked my beard down..
From a “Grizzly Adams” to a “Rudy Fernandez” Winter over! It’s still spring! I’ll bring out the razor for summer!
Set course for NBA Playoffs......Engage! -Captain McMillan USS Trailblazer
thank you for the condolences.
it is time… i will link to some pictures when i do the deed :)
"I don't know Twitter" - Rudy Fernandez
by RoodiePhirnandizz on Apr 8, 2009 9:34 PM PDT up reply actions
playoff beard = gone.
link
"I don't know Twitter" - Rudy Fernandez
by RoodiePhirnandizz on Apr 9, 2009 12:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Link?
"I don't know Twitter" - Rudy Fernandez
by RoodiePhirnandizz on Apr 9, 2009 12:35 AM PDT up reply actions
LINK?!?!?
"I don't know Twitter" - Rudy Fernandez
by RoodiePhirnandizz on Apr 9, 2009 12:36 AM PDT up reply actions
i give up.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1677049&id=517736748&ref=nf#/photo.php?pid=1677052&id=517736748&ref=nf
"I don't know Twitter" - Rudy Fernandez
by RoodiePhirnandizz on Apr 9, 2009 12:36 AM PDT up reply actions
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1677049&id=517736748&ref=nf#
"I don't know Twitter" - Rudy Fernandez
by RoodiePhirnandizz on Apr 9, 2009 12:36 AM PDT up reply actions
that one works ^^^
"I don't know Twitter" - Rudy Fernandez
by RoodiePhirnandizz on Apr 9, 2009 12:38 AM PDT up reply actions
-timbo
"I don't know Twitter" - Rudy Fernandez
by RoodiePhirnandizz on Apr 9, 2009 12:38 AM PDT up reply actions
i guess if you want to stretch the definition of the word "great"
Magneto was right
MEMO TO KP-GET BIRDZILLA!
I sometimes wish we could see their financial bottom line in retrospect
Was it a matter of them really not expecting any financial advantage to making 1 or 2 more runs to the title? Or were things simply that tight?
Hopefully a book is written later.
Their owner did pay the luxury tax for a while, but after they failed to win a title he went into cost saving mode
And that is never a good prerequisite for winning a title in the current NBA.
a book about the Suns' books?
that would be awesome….not…..7 Seconds or Less was good though
Magneto was right
MEMO TO KP-GET BIRDZILLA!
i'm not a suns expert
but it seemed as if he was unhappy in his situation there and was probably going to go anyways. i think the firing of dantoni was worse than trading marion in the end. when they went back to SSOL kerr basically admitted he was wrong.
The most hated Blazer is like the least hottest supermodel - Sabonis4Ever
by Philthyanimal on Apr 8, 2009 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions
they were great
you could only wonder what would have happened if cheap shot rob didn’t take out nash that one game.
The most hated Blazer is like the least hottest supermodel - Sabonis4Ever
by Philthyanimal on Apr 8, 2009 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions
That whole sequence actually reduced my opinion of the NBA as a whole slightly
Even if it’s technically correct, as a league you should never let the “bad guys” get away with one in such a tight series. It was one of the most frustrating non-Blazer moments of the decade for me.
Suspending the Suns during the altercation was unnecessary and reeked, even if technically correct (it depended on your definition of the incident on the court).
Does anyone else think Shaq's befriending of Brandon Roy...
…and his comments about Portland’s team reflect the fact he’d like to sneak up here to piggyback on one last attempt at a title in a year or two?
I’ll enjoy the fact that Shaq is watching the playoffs the same way I’ll be: on TV.
link?
The most hated Blazer is like the least hottest supermodel - Sabonis4Ever
by Philthyanimal on Apr 8, 2009 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Here's the original source at Hoopsworld
http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=12126
Back in February, Shaq befriended Roy at the NBA All-Star game in Phoenix, with the Blazers star guard standing in awe that he was actually sharing a locker room and eventually the floor with someone who once hung on his bedroom wall.
thx
The most hated Blazer is like the least hottest supermodel - Sabonis4Ever
by Philthyanimal on Apr 8, 2009 9:35 PM PDT up reply actions
at the ASG
when the West was feeding Shaq during that stretch in the 3rd quarter, Roy was getting in on it and enjoying the show as much as anyone. I’ll bet it was a pretty cool experience for him.
How did you guys win that?
"We scored enough points. We scored 107, they scored 105.
-Nate McMillan Postgame, 3/4/2009
I imagine so
I also figured that when Kobe and Shaq (among others) talked about getting the young guys some time, it likely was related to their bonding before the game.
that would be the best center 3 some in the league
I’ll just let you all picture that……….
"It’s a good ol’ fashioned Rip City beat down!"
What to do with Shaq is a major issue for them
He is too expensive for a rebuilding roster. If they want to speed things up, they need to find a team that takes him on, but nobody will give up much young talent for him. The best they could hope for is probably for something like Eddy Curry or Erick Dampier in a package. Or the owner has to bite in a really bitter apple and buy him out.
It's going to be VERY hard to move Shaq.
I think that if shaq’s contract was movable, KP would have taken Dave’s advice, traded Raef+filler for him, then flipped him next year for a better available player.
But Shaq’s contract is so enormous, it’s likely impossible to make anything good out of it, and KP never gave it a second thought.
I still contend that was the second dumbest thing I've ever read at Blazer's Edge, with fatty's ...
off-the-wall, unintelligible rant — which somehow made the main page — easily taking home the gold in that category.
I honestly think KP would have considered acquiring Shaq as a player/mentor...
… if he didn’t have that contract. The contract is an albatross. But a very nice albatross for Shaq, of course.
there's a fat joke to be made here
something about a 10 foot pole not being enough to actually get away or something……..
I’m tired so let’s just pretend I made a good joke and move on
"It’s a good ol’ fashioned Rip City beat down!"
Once again, this insane thought of Portland acquring Shaquille O'Neal has bad idea written all over it.
At any rate, I bet that O’Neal will get traded to the Dallas Mavericks this off-season — which is something I wrote an in-depth fan shot about earlier tonight — so y’all can take that forwhatever it’s worth.
Shaq in Dallas would be entertaining.
I’ll say that much. Cuban and Shaq together. It’s like Twitter’s dream.
BTW keep in mind that I meant Shaq would want to come to Portland...
..after his current contract expires, and he reconsiders on retiring.
My guess is that after Shaquille O'Neal's contract expires, he'll either retire or latch onto a ...
team that’s in win-now mode, will let him start when he’s healthy, and feed his need for attention.
I'm curious if Shaq will retire gracefully, or hang on 1 or 2 years too long.
I imagine he’s befriending people he thinks might help him later.
Think Shaq would play backup and mentor to Oden in order to get one last shot at a ring? Seriously. I think he would. (I’m not sure I’d want him, just talking out loud)
Joel Przybilla is under contract though the 2010-2011 season, so I'm inclined to stick ...
with him ‘til that point and, in the meantime, try to bring in a third-string center via either free agency (e.g., Rasho Nesterovic, Robert Swift, et al.),the 2009 NBA Draft (e.g., Cole Aldrich, A.J. Ogilvy, et al.), or the team’s $2,912,823 trade exception (e.g., Josh Boone).
I'd be incredibly disappointed if we traded Joel during his contract.
Barring an unforeseen event of course.
that's actually not a bad idea
Dallas is pretty much in win-now mode. If they can come up with enough expiring salary to send to Phoenix, and then resign Kidd, they might have a hope to make one last run built on the Dirk/Kidd/Shaq threesome.
How did you guys win that?
"We scored enough points. We scored 107, they scored 105.
-Nate McMillan Postgame, 3/4/2009
ESPN Cover that you probably all seen that needs a better caption....hahaha
if it wasn't for food, baby-making, and Blazers playoff tickets, i wouldn't be working
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