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Batum needed more minutes.
 
Well it's apparent that we are not as good without both our starting shooting guard and small forward.
 
Tough game for Travis...he's a love/hate player even when his tough shots are dropping...when he shoots like tonight it's damn painful to watch.
 
blue32 said:
I wish we would have left Batum in there besides TO.
Once TO came in w/the subs we lost our o-rythym
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I think the worst thing about Travis is, if he's not hitting, he is absolutely useless. Utterly and massively useless.

I really doubt they're a trade, but in a way, it might just be the kick in the ass the team needs. Hopefully it's a Mark Aguirre trade, and not a Walter Davis trade.
 
[video=youtube;Yw7KijRfU-c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw7KijRfU-c[/video]
 
We actually outscored LA 20-19 in the fourth. I couldn't tell with Travis bricking, Frye dribbling off his leg, and us playing stupid.
 
Biggest surprises of the night:
Nicolas Batum: Where have you been since the Detroit game a month ago?
Bayless: 4 assists and 0-4 shooting (but hey at least he gets to the line).
 
How did that get play of the game, and not Nicolas' dunk over Pau?
 
Bayless should not be playing the 2 unless Roy is the point. Sergio and Blake are not big enough threats to loosen the D for JB. Just let Bayless run point until Brandon returns, its the only way he will get better.
 
Someone transcribe the Bobby Knight tirade, hand it to Nate and tell him to go at it
 
MAS RipCity said:
Bayless should not be playing the 2 unless Roy is the point. Sergio and Blake are not big enough threats to loosen the D for JB. Just let Bayless run point until Brandon returns, its the only way he will get better.
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So who plays SG then? I don't like the Sergio/Bayless tandem either, but it's tough with Roy out.
 
Aldridge was, other than Batum, the only bright spot for the Blazers. But how does he get 19 FGAs and only get one free throw? Both of the starting bigs for LA were on the borderline of being in foul trouble all night, but when we have a floater (not the odendenied avatar kind) and a bunch of three point shooters, we're NEVER going to get opponents in foul trouble.

Oden's energy level was down. I don't usually comment on that, but he was looking really aggressive in flashing to the ball in the key in the first half... but he never touched it except when the defender had established position and I think he kind of gave up on it in the second half.

Frye is terrible. Outlaw had one of the most consistently bad games I can remember any Blazer having in a while. Blake had a couple late shots drop, otherwise he might have been worse than Outlaw.

I'm glad that I got to watch the Lakers broadcast, because I don't think I could have stomached MB's standard sugarcoating...

Ed O.
 
LameR said:
So who plays SG then? I don't like the Sergio/Bayless tandem either, but it's tough with Roy out.
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Until Roy went out, I didn't really miss Webster. I thought he'd be useful, but his presence or absence wouldn't have any impact in the W/L column. But without him and Roy, we just have zilcho depth at SG. It's killing us right now to run these wretched two point guard lineups.

Two point guard lineups suck. They sucked with Jack and Telfair, Damon and Van Exel, and now Sergio/Bayless. It sounds nice in theory to have an extra playmaker out there, but it just seems to lead to confusion and a lack of clearly defined roles and size disadvantages.

Not really a lot Nate can do though. Our first string and third string shooting guards are out.
 
Ed O said:
Aldridge was, other than Batum, the only bright spot for the Blazers. But how does he get 19 FGAs and only get one free throw? Both of the starting bigs for LA were on the borderline of being in foul trouble all night, but when we have a floater (not the odendenied avatar kind) and a bunch of three point shooters, we're NEVER going to get opponents in foul trouble.

Oden's energy level was down. I don't usually comment on that, but he was looking really aggressive in flashing to the ball in the key in the first half... but he never touched it except when the defender had established position and I think he kind of gave up on it in the second half.

Frye is terrible. Outlaw had one of the most consistently bad games I can remember any Blazer having in a while. Blake had a couple late shots drop, otherwise he might have been worse than Outlaw.

I'm glad that I got to watch the Lakers broadcast, because I don't think I could have stomached MB's standard sugarcoating...

Ed O.
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Nice summary. I generally don't have a problem with Outlaw, but I can't think of one good thing he did tonight. Usually he's a sweet-and-sour mix of really good and really bad. Tonight he was a turd sandwich, with the bread also being two thinly sliced pieces of turd.

And Frye? Ugh. He's a one-trick-pony who somehow can't do his one trick anymore (shoot jumpers--like we need another guy to do that.) Which makes him a dead horse that we need to stop flogging. I don't like Ike, but at least he doesn't make the back of my throat taste like throwup.
 
Ed O said:
I'm glad that I got to watch the Lakers broadcast, because I don't think I could have stomached MB's standard sugarcoating...

Ed O.
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MB was in fine form tonight, praising Blake for being there against Toronto like a month ago. And calling it a mini-rally when we cut LA's lead from 20-something or whatever to 17. Stuff you can't make up. It's embarrassing...
 
alex42083 said:
MB was in fine form tonight, praising Blake for being there against Toronto like a month ago. And calling it a mini-rally when we cut LA's lead from 20-something or whatever to 17. Stuff you can't make up. It's embarrassing...
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Ha Ha. My favorite moment of the game was the 60 offensive boards we had on one play to finally make a 3 pointer -- embarrassing -- for BOTH teams! LoL.
 
alex42083 said:
MB was in fine form tonight, praising Blake for being there against Toronto like a month ago. And calling it a mini-rally when we cut LA's lead from 20-something or whatever to 17. Stuff you can't make up. It's embarrassing...
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Jeez. I found myself thinking, "I loath the Lakers, but I have to admit they've got a decent announcing crew. Pretty even handed, and not inclined to whine about officiating like our guys do. They even point out some flaws in their own players."

It's such a shame franchises hire such rah rah stooges to broadcast the games. I'd much prefer it if each division just had a pool of broadcast talent that reported on multiple teams. Just cut all the propaganda bullshit out.
 
Zybot said:
Ha Ha. My favorite moment of the game was the 60 offensive boards we had on one play to finally make a 3 pointer -- embarrassing -- for BOTH teams! LoL.
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That was truly a battle of wills. "They don't want to rebound, and we don't want to score."

An uninterested object meets an unstartable force.
 
mook said:
Jeez. I found myself thinking, "I loath the Lakers, but I have to admit they've got a decent announcing crew. Pretty even handed, and not inclined to whine about officiating like our guys do. They even point out some flaws in their own players."

It's such a shame franchises hire such rah rah stooges to broadcast the games. I'd much prefer it if each division just had a pool of broadcast talent that reported on multiple teams. Just cut all the propaganda bullshit out.
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It sounded tonight almost like there was some tension between Meyers (who I HATED as a massive homer with the Spurs) and Lantz (who was willing to be more negative about Rudy than anyone I've heard in the media yet, which was interesting). They disagreed a couple of times a quarter, and they let the disagreements go without conceding or smoothing it over.

That, coupled with their lack of overt homerism, makes them a better experience for me as a fan of the Blazers and the NBA than the Blazers' guys. I would imagine it's cultural more than anything, given the transformation of Meyers and the consistency in "rah-rah-dom" of the Blazers broadcast crews.

Ed O.
 
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