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Bayless was a nice spark off the bench for us.
 
Listening to Juwan Howard during the post game is so refreshing. He goes out of his way to praise Greg Oden and it comes across sincere. He made Greg sound like he was the reason we won tonight, and I think he knows GO needs his teammates to believe in him. We are very blessed to have Howard on our roster.
 
And he fills the role of Backup PF better than our current alternatives.
 
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The Great Distributor took 18 shots (6 more than anyone else), made only 5, had only 4 assists in 38 mins.
 
Tince said:
Listening to Juwan Howard during the post game is so refreshing. He goes out of his way to praise Greg Oden and it comes across sincere. He made Greg sound like he was the reason we won tonight, and I think he knows GO needs his teammates to believe in him. We are very blessed to have Howard on our roster.
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I am thinking that Howard may turn out to be a much better pick up than any of us could have imagined
 
MARIS61 said:
The Great Distributor took 18 shots (6 more than anyone else), made only 5, had only 4 assists in 38 mins.
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I'd have to double check but at least a couple of those shots were layups on fast breaks.
 
MARIS61 said:
The Great Distributor took 18 shots (6 more than anyone else), made only 5, had only 4 assists in 38 mins.
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And yet he still shot better than Sergio has for this pre-season, had 1 less assist, more points and rebounds than Sergio has had the WHOLE pre-season.

And all that in just 1 game.
 
Miller went 8-9 from the FT line, scored 18 points, grabbed 5 rebounds, and had a steal. He was +/- 0, but Blake (starter) was -7.

And the Blazers won.

Not sure what the beef is.

As an aside, Sergio has played his way to the bench and DNP-CD territory on a shitty team.
 
MARIS61 said:
The Great Distributor took 18 shots (6 more than anyone else), made only 5, had only 4 assists in 38 mins.
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Ok so when he was on the floor so that the lineup was: Miller, Blake, Webster, Outlaw and Pryzbilla, exactly who the fuck do you expect to score? Who are the finishers he is distributing to? That was a lineup a huge part of the game. It's a miracle they didn't get their ass totally kicked while that lineup was in.
 
Idog1976 said:
That seems reasonable. Bad reffing aside, I feel like Nate put Oden right back into his mood from last year. I mean he plays Martell with 4 and Oden gets the hook at 2? What a terribly confusing message to send to Oden.
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Maybe it sends a message to Oden that he is the guy the coach wants in at the end of the game, because he is that good!
 
hasoos said:
Ok so when he was on the floor so that the lineup was: Miller, Blake, Webster, Outlaw and Pryzbilla, exactly who the fuck do you expect to score? Who are the finishers he is distributing to? That was a lineup a huge part of the game. It's a miracle they didn't get their ass totally kicked while that lineup was in.
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All 4 of those guys can score as efficiently, or more so, than Miller, whose job is to see they do.
 
Denny Crane said:
Miller went 8-9 from the FT line, scored 18 points, grabbed 5 rebounds, and had a steal. He was +/- 0, but Blake (starter) was -7.

And the Blazers won.

Not sure what the beef is.

As an aside, Sergio has played his way to the bench and DNP-CD territory on a shitty team.
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Roy was DNP-CD the other night, so I guess Sergio is the Kings franchise player.
 
Just a few things I noticed tonight:

1. I believe Greg Oden gets much more energized on both ends of the floor when you include him in the offensive end of the game.

2. Greg Oden played much better with Roy than with any other guard, and also played better with Howard at PF because of the intelligence Howard brings to that position.

3. Roy finally started to look like Roy tonight. It took a real bad call in the 4th to finally get him pissed off, but once that happened, he looked like the Roy we have come to expect.

4. The SF continue to stink it up. They play good defense for stretches, and that is about it. Are we ever going to get some consistent outside shooting from that position? For all the talk there is about our SF outside shooting capability, there isn't any bite to back it up.

5. When the fuck is Nate McMillan going to figure out not to use a short inbounder on the critical inbound plays near the end of the game? Hello Mcfly. You have been making the same fuckup for 3 years now. Why was Steve Blake trying to inbound to Juwan Howard? Use a god damned tall player to inbound the ball so they can't crowd the inbounder with a taller player.
 
MARIS61 said:
Roy was DNP-CD the other night, so I guess Sergio is the Kings franchise player.
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Well, there's some flaws in this golden nugget you just crapped.

I'll start with the obvious one.

1. Sergio is trying to earn his minutes in Sacramento, Roy is not.

2. Roy is a 2nd team All NBA, Sergio is not even the best guy named Sergio in the NBA.

3. Roy is a 2 time All-Star. Sergio is not even the best PG from Spain in the NBA.

4. Sergio got traded to the Kings and has to prove himself. Roy doesn't.

5. Roy is black and obviously has the coach calling plays for him because of it. Sergio is not black, and his coach, like Nate, doesn't call plays for Sergio because he's, well, white-ish. Otherwise, he'd be scoring 40 points a game (extrapolated from your assertion that Joel would average 20 a game).
 
When Greg, Andre and ROy were instrumental in that run that got us back in the lead did anyone else think to themselves "Breakthrough".
 
hasoos said:
Howard >> Outlaw
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That's probably true and it's pretty sad. That a 36 year old guy who has averaged about 8 minutes a game in his last two years is playing better than a guy in his prime years. I hope Nate has the guts to keep playing him.
 
Rodolfo said:
Sergio got a DNP because his new coach wants him to get used to it for the regular season.
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That was just voted as my sig material.
 
Schilly said:
When Greg, Andre and ROy were instrumental in that run that got us back in the lead did anyone else think to themselves "Breakthrough".
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YES! I had a total feeling of "turning point" during that sequence and it all started with an Oden block.
 
Just think if they put Howard in at Forward instead of Batum or Webster. Then they could call the unit "RAMHO" (Roy Aldridge Miller Howard Oden) :ghoti:

If I see that unit with Miller and Blake in the game again at the guard position I am going to blow a fuse. I am hoping that the only reason it happened tonight was because Rudy was down. The unit with those 2, Webster Outlaw and Pryzbilla absolutely blew ass, and blew the whole lead the Blazers had at that point. Well lets put it this way. They played about as well as any other unit Maris would think would play great. Which pretty much explains it all. :drumroll:
 
hasoos said:
Just think if they put Howard in at Forward instead of Batum or Webster. Then they could call the unit "RAMHO" (Roy Aldridge Miller Howard Oden) :ghoti:
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Yah, but with Batum, they could call that unit RAMBO.

RAMHO sounds like something Z-Bo does at strip clubs.
 
Of course with Batum it's "RAMBO", although I am sure it's already been pointed out so I again am offering nothing new.
 
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