Gameday Open Thread: Blazers vs. Mavericks

By the way, jscot, we're 1 and 1 against them this season.

If that trade were to happen today, none of the players involved would be eligible to play in tonights game--according to rumor, the players Dallas is losing are Harris, Stackhouse, Diop, Devean George, and Maurice Ager.  The players that Dallas gets back in the deal (Kidd, Malik Allen) won't be eligible until after physicals and such--in other words, not tonight.

Plus J-ho is reportedly out.

Dallas may have a hard time suiting up a reasonable team tonight--a perfect chance to steal one.  

However, I'd be surprised if he came to us because he can go most anywhere and I'd think he would go to a contender.  

Stack would be nice.

The leaves the mavs with only 7 players to use in this game.

No way does dallas risk this trade on anyone getting hurt (Harris, Dampier and Stackhouse are already hurt.)

Oh and SergioFTW DON"T ASSUME A VOTE FOR GREEN IS A VOTE AGAINST SERGIO!!! Seriously, there are other talented point guards in the league other then Surge!

I still place Green 3rd in the rotation behind Blake and Sergio in that order. I'm excited that Jack maybe moving to a better team for his skill set and that Green and Sergio can finally get some burn!

P.S. thank god Rebbecca got rid of that nasty Farah Fawcett windswept look. She looks quite pretty with the current style.

Deavean George is playing tonight, and he's in the trade talks.  Jason Terry is starting.  Both according to local Dallas announcers, who say they don't know what's going on.

They'll be depleted, if we're gonna win we gotta win it's as easy as that!

Ever notice how some folks regard all the Blazers' wins this season as tainted?  

  *  The Blazers won mostly in home games against weak teams.

  *  The Blazers won because they were lucky.

  *  The Blazers won because they got hot from outside.

  *  The Blazers won because of bad calls.

  *  The Blazers won because their opponents were missing key players.

I look forward to the day when the Blazers win without taint.  

That said, they'll win this one.

I'm gonna focus positive energy towards the game more and type less.  Don't turn into Negative Nancys, everyone!

I dont want to do real work

Devean George exercises a no-trade provision in his contract to block the deal. You can't make this stuff up.

Die Trenton Hassell

Not a good quarter.

So why is there no backup low post player at this stage in the season?

Yuck.

Luckily we have a player that combines them:

MCROBERTS

We got dunkers, but only one guy I trust to make decisions (Roy).

This is a team we should beat.  Dallas without Howard, Harris and Stack is not a good team.

I'll put the best 6 or 8 in a BE poll tonight.

Wow, that was a nice block by Aldridge. Play of the game if you ask me.

The awesome shooting during the streak looks more and more streaky.

Not good.

You need bittorrent however.

What I get on your case about is proposing ridiculous solutions (i.e. playing Joel is the answer to our fast break woes...)

Ummmmm.

This is one of our worst efforts of the season- Dallas is missing their 2nd, 4th and 5th best players.

What's that- there's an allstar break?

Thank god- we all need it.

So disappointing.

fumbles a rebound out of bounds

I can't believe I'm watching the team that was the darling of the NBA.

Deactivate Sergio. Send him to the D league. He can eat a lot of potato salad while he's there. They make good potato salad in Idaho. I know 'cause my aunt used to live there and she won a blue ribbon one time at the county fair. Now she lives in Albany. I think she doesn't enter her potato salad anymore, but last year she got an honorable mention for her mint jelly. She likes to serve that with lamb, but I'm a vegetarian so I had to say no thank you.

ouch

That was before tonight.

I don't expect the type of play we saw during the streak, I just expect some decent, competitive ball.

Getting blown out to a team missing 3 of its 5 best players is not acceptable.