Blazer Chatter: Biggest Moment of the Year?

a tough season with physical play & determination.

There is a possibility that a trade will be one of the biggest moments of the year. Barring that, maybe LA making some big plays in LA on the All Star stage. I do not anticipate a playoff series win so I am watching LA’s emergence and Looking to see which other guys will develop consistency: Batum, Patty, Wesley, Rudy all seem to have growth potential but need to do it every night.

A very impressive performance by LMA, and a scrappy and dogged showing by the rest of the team, combined to a victory over one of the best that the NBA has to offer. All of this left the RG faithful feeling good about our team. I can’t see how it will get any better than this.

with teammates Dejuan Blair, Kirk Hinrich & Kevin Durant (swung to portland in a 4-team trade deadline Cho-slap) at his side.

our first round series victory over the l*kers is gonna be very memorable. that will in turn be overshadowed by our 2nd round advancement, our conference championship, and of course, our surprising finals victory over leheat. can’t wait!

Would be to see Camby, LMA, Nico, BRoy and Dre on the court together and healthy. It could happen. Now, I didn’t say 100% healthy, I meant as healthy as Camby, Dre, and BRoy can be. Matthews playing in place of Batum would also be OK.

Almost unargueably one of the biggest wins of the season. But I don’t like to evaluate a season until it’s over.

With shots of Brandon in street clothes, and Aldridges monster performance, it almost had a transitional, symbolic, feel. If there was a “face of the franchise” torch, Aldridge lit it, lifted it, and ran around the Rose Garden with it.

great win last night. The kind of game that makes you forget all the rumors and chatter and just enjoy watching the Blazers play. I love that with Dante’s ability to guard Richard Jefferson our small lineup was still considerably bigger than theirs. When we play like that it makes you wonder if it isn’t worth making a push with this group of guys. If healthy, we wouldn’t be an easy out in the playoffs. Then again, I guess being mediocre means you play great some of the time and not so great other times. Last night we definitely played great…tremendous energy and effort in the second half. Way to go LMA, way to go Blazers!

but it may not be the biggest. After we lost to Boston everyone was talking trades. Now Rudy wants to stay in Portland and we beat the best. So now if Cho makes a big move as promised and Miller, Fernandez, Przy etc get traded like we all wanted then that will be the big moment and a FTW spelled backwards to go with it.

Biggest moment is when LA figured out he didn’t want to be a chronic underachiever anymore and began to play like an allstar.

Something along the lines of ’why should Paul Allen upgrade the team if people keep filling the arena for a non-contending team?"

Well last night showed exactly why. 1.) Because LMA is suddenly a top tier, franchise-leading beast and he’s fun as hell to watch when he plays like this and 2.) because the ceiling on this team might be higher than I and others originally thought.

I’m still puzzled about Batum, but I’ve never been happier that I can no longer make fun of LMA. I always knew he had the tools, a 7 footer with long arms who can run the floor and shoot from 20 feet – are you kidding me?? but I had just about given up on the mind. Fantastic to see that he’s finally turned the corner, and this time I truly believe he has. Even his mid-range jumper lacks the OMG CONTACT SCARES ME fall-away action it once had.

Yeah maybe I’m reading a lot into one game. But that was the NBA’s best team record-wise on game 1 of a long road trip. Not game 5 or 8 or 12. The Spurs can’t have any excuses. That was a high quality win. I was disappointed with the efforts vs. Sacto and to a lesser extent Boston, so this was very nice to see. Better still to see LMA dominate.

If Oden comes back next year and actually puts in a full season, and Brandon can be 75% of what he once was…this roster could be something again. I still think getting rid of Miller, Prz, and Camby is wise. Any of of the three you can move, I think you do it with Miller as the hardest to part with. And nothing against any of those guys, I just think any potential window has moved out 2 or 3 years from what it was originally.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/24448/not-the-same-old-spurs

Wishful thinking?

How about when we all learned the extent of the health of Roy’s knees? Or when Greg Oden went down…again perhaps signaling an end to an era.

Last night was just a game in the middle of the season, it doesn’t mean anything at all.