Blazers vs Warriors : Oracle Arena curse?

[Nate Dogg]

The last time we beat the Warriors on their court was November 3, 2004 when we had Nick Van Exel (20pts), Shareef Abdur-Rahim (18pts), Zack Randolph (13pts), Theo Ratliff, Derek Anderson, Damon Stoudamire, Ruben Patterson.
http://espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=241103009

I have a feeling the Warriors will beat us again in that arena and we won't snap our slump there until the 2010 - 2011 season. Is it the crowd noise that gets to our teams because we feel intimidated?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I think its the wack ass bay area!

 

[crandc]

It's because they banned my cakes.

 

[THE HCP]

It's the style of play. They kill us down there. The refs did help last season.

 

[andalusian]

Need to control the pace. If we do that - we kill them.

 

[BlazerBeav]

I went to a game down there in 2001 and we annihilated them! There must have been 400 Blazer fans in the lower bowl and by the end of the game we were the only ones there. Clearly the Bay Area Blazermaniacs need to step their game back up.

 

[THE HCP]

Need to control the pace. If we do that - we kill them.

True, but even with Greg it was tough to do. They just get you into that run-n-gun playground style. Anybody can score in that system. Shit, I watched the other night when they played NOLA, and Morrow had 28 and some guy I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF Reggie William....... had 28! I think if LA gets his low post game goin', we will finally get a W!

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

The streak ends tomorrow night!

 

[MIXUM]

im sure barkley is all ready to kill us. he loves trashing us.

also how in the blue hell did this game end up on tnt lol?

 

[hasoos]

im sure barkley is all ready to kill us. he loves trashing us.

also how in the blue hell did this game end up on tnt lol?

I am actually very surprised they didn't cancel it.

 

[andalusian]

True, but even with Greg it was tough to do.

Greg does not control the ball. It's the guards. If they play smart and avoid turn-overs, we control the pace. There are a lot of things we can say about Greg's impact - but controlling the pace is not one of them.

 

[Eastoff]

It's because they banned my cakes.

what were you putting in these cakes?

 

[KingSpeed]

Wow. I had no idea it went back that long ago. Crazy. I do remember our game against them in Portland this season where they scored 40+ in the first quarter but didn't even crack 90 by the end of the game. We gotta bring out that magic tonight.

 

[andalusian]

We gotta bring out that magic tonight.

or better yet - tomorrow night!

 

[MickZagger]

The losing skid there will be snapped, I guarantee it.

 

[crandc]

what were you putting in these cakes?

Just a lot of organic gourmet cream, eggs, chocolate, butter etc. But I would tell them they only got the cake if they won.

BTW, any other NCal fans going tonight and/or tomorrow? I've got tix to both but am uncertain about tomorrow - I've been really sick (got taken from work in ambulance last week - now do I get the sympathy vote?) and unsure if I can handle the drive.

 

[Nate Dogg]

Well I like our chances to keep our record of 11-3 to back to back intact vs the Kings instead of it being the warriors.

But we really need to control the tempo in the game but at least our team does more runs on fastbreaks with miller in there. However our defensive is horrible on stopping it though.

 

[Nate Dogg]

HCP whats the word on SG, Ellis? is he playing tonight?

 

[MIXUM]

ellis will play according to sf gate

how long is another question. nelly said he looked real rusty yesterday to anything basketball related.

 

[maxiep]

I gave my opinion in another thread, but it comes down to the fact that Nellie is so batshit crazy with his approach to hoops that Nate can't figure him out. Nate simply gets outcoached. Nate's approach to stopping the uptempo game is to pound the ball and become uberpredictable. The team becomes low energy and it translates to defense. When the Warriors get a bit of success they up their energy, which gets the crowd in it and it snowballs.

 

[THE HCP]

My boy Craig Sager just told me in the lobby Monta' is questionable......