Blazers @ Grizzlies 01/04/2013, 5:00 PM (PST) - GAME THREAD

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Sinobas said:
Wow, so on this road trip we beat 2 teams that had a combined Home record of 26-5.

Also, Blazers are now 7-2 in games decided by 4 points or less (including OT).
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Many of those games were on the road.
 
KingSpeed said:
Kings and Raptors are both teams on the rise. Raptors had won 7 of 8 before they played us and were at home.
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Some people would have you believing that the Blazers are a team on the rise.

Losing every time you play a shitty team is a battle on that point.
 
just a random hypothesis, but isn't the mark of a young team that you play to the level of your competition?
 
I thought I read Batum had a couple of blocks? The box score doesn't give him any.
 
BBert said:
I thought I read Batum had a couple of blocks? The box score doesn't give him any.
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He disrupted a lob, which didn't count as anything, really... but it was so high up it looked like a block.
 
BlazerCaravan said:
Guess what though... that's an improvement over last season. Let's just make sure it's just a phase.
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Barely. We started last year shocking the world. Then, we lost a ton of games to less-talented teams, beat superior teams, and everything blew up.
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
Don't disagree at all.

Just saying we're already back to being stuck in anonymity/mediocrity.
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It's a process. How many team's go from lotto pick to championship in one year? Rose took his team to a first round and out in his rookie year. Did that doom them to mediocrity forever? Of course not. Thunder lost to Lakers in first round 2.5 years ago. Are they still wallowing in mediocrity? Mavericks lost in first round in 2010 but they didn't linger in mediocrity. You have to take it step by step. Step 1, get into playoffs. We can take that step this year and it's necessary if we are to ever win a championship.
 
Again, I don't disagree. In fact, i totally agree. Can peeps not read? Y'all not edu-ma-cated?

Where have I disputed the performance? Just not going bi-polar, cream-my-pants over every up-and-down. Sorry for that. Am I wrong for not joining the KingSpeed train? I don't get too high, don't get too low. Nothing personal. I prefer the long-term over the short-term.

Blazers have been a team of ups and downs for a few years now. I'll settle in when the Blazers do the same and become consistent.
 
Love that the game thread is 11 pages. Let's keep it up tomorrow.
 
Agreed. Lets keep winning, too. I expected us to be 1-2, or even 0-3, at this point of the trip. Lets not disappear as in game two.
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
Again, I don't disagree. In fact, i totally agree. Can peeps not read? Y'all not edu-ma-cated?

Where have I disputed the performance? Just not going bi-polar, cream-my-pants over every up-and-down. Sorry for that. Am I wrong for not joining the KingSpeed train? I don't get too high, don't get too low. Nothing personal. I prefer the long-term over the short-term.

Blazers have been a team of ups and downs for a few years now. I'll settle in when the Blazers do the same and become consistent.
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Us: "Yay! We won!"

You: "Great, now we're mediocre again..."

Us: "Fucking wet blanket."

You: "Was it something I said?"

Us: "Yes!"
 
Whats up with you whiners? NO ONE in the media even predicted this team would go .500.
 
Just touched down in Minny! Fucking 10 degrees out! Everybody's in good spirits!
 
Even though my team came up with the L, this was a fun one to watch.

Coach Hollins really pissed me off with the play he drew up for the last shot of the game though. He always puts way too much trust in Rudy Gay and continues to give him the ball with the game on the line, but he's horrible in the clutch. I don't think I've ever seen him make a game winner, but I've sure seen him miss a lot. Hell, looking back to the Clippers/Grizz playoff series last year, he actually bricked two potential game winners, yet he's still Lionel's guy in the clutch for some odd reason.

Two things happened that no one could have predicted ahead of time - Tony Allen got absolutely burned by Wes Matthews and Marreese Speights wound up leading the game in scoring. Weird...

For as good of an offensive game as Speights had though, I think not having Z-Bo is the elephant in the room when you talk about this game. Speights might have put up the rebounding numbers, but the difference is that he missed out on a lot of game deciding boards in crunch time and failed to put in the type of tip-ins that are Z-Bo's bread and butter.

I also agree that Gasol's blocks were pretty inflated. I saw maybe 5-6 legit blocks, but 8 seems a bit excessive.
 
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I just got back from ER, feeling much better now, but reading this page I thought we must have lost,,,but no we won! GO BLAZERS!!!
 
NOVoodoo said:
Even though my team came up with the L, this was a fun one to watch.

Coach Hollins really pissed me off with the play he drew up for the last shot of the game though. He always puts way too much trust in Rudy Gay and continues to give him the ball with the game on the line, but he's horrible in the clutch. I don't think I've ever seen him make a game winner, but I've sure seen him miss a lot. Hell, looking back to the Clippers/Grizz playoff series last year, he actually bricked two potential game winners, yet he's still Lionel's guy in the clutch for some odd reason.

Two things happened that no one could have predicted ahead of time - Tony Allen got absolutely burned by Wes Matthews and Marreese Speights wound up leading the game in scoring. Weird...

For as good of an offensive game as Speights had though, I think not having Z-Bo is the elephant in the room when you talk about this game. Speights might have put up the rebounding numbers, but the difference is that he missed out on a lot of game deciding boards in crunch time and failed to put in the type of tip-ins that are Z-Bo's bread and butter.

I also agree that Gasol's blocks were pretty inflated. I saw maybe 5-6 legit blocks, but 8 seems a bit excessive.
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At least one Raptors fan thinks highly of Rudy Gay in the clutch. :lol:
[video=youtube;eHuKES9QKDE]
 
Darkwebs said:
At least one Raptors fan thinks highly of Rudy Gay in the clutch. :lol:
[video=youtube;eHuKES9QKDE]
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Haha, that's great! The funny thing is, I'm usually yelling the same thing when Rudy gets the ball in the clutch but as a Grizz fan.

I still can't get over his bricks in games 1 and 3 of the Clippers/Grizz series. Shooting 40% and 38% in those games, Lionel went to him in both games, he bricked both potential game winners, and we lost both by a single point. That will really stick with you after losing a close seven game series.

Just earlier this week on New Years Eve, we went to Rudy down 3 at the end of the game, and he took a really bad, contested shot with five seconds left on the clock. As sick as I am of Rudy Gay, I'm just as sick with Lionel Hollins going to him in the clutch during every clutch game, especially when we have a legit seven footer that has range out to the three point line and an All-Star power forward that consistently knocks down the midrange.

I'm impressed with the Trail Blazers though. The Grizzlies played a pretty decent game, all things considered, but I never expected an L, even sans Z-Bo. Lillard didn't even have that exceptional of a game.

Rudy was a hack, but the only thing that I can really point to for the loss was Tony Allen's play on both ends of the court. Usually Allen is the reason we win the close ones, but letting Matthews go off for 21 points is inexcusable for Tony Allen, and while everyone knows that he's a horrible offensive player, the thing that stands out about his 2-9 FG is that he actually took nine shots. He's had a little too much offensive confidence lately, and both coach Hollins and Mike Conley should stop encouraging him to shoot.

Allen was absolutely burned by Matthews though, which is the biggest letdown, because in my opinion, he's best defender in the game (although comparing post defenders and perimeter defenders is a complete apples and oranges scenario). His role is to go out there and lock down the opposing team's best player, and he'll lock down All-Stars all year long, yet he let Wes Matthews burn him? That's a head-scratcher.
 
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Speights should be Batum's number 88 to rhyme with his name.
 
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