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Not sure how I feel about this; I think we'll be okay if we secure home court advantage tonight.
 
They're a bad matchup for us.

Artest and Battier are physical with Roy, and Hayes and Scola are the same with Aldridge.

Our bench has to step WAY up for us to win. Let's hope we get HCA, and sneak out in 6 or 7.
 
The thing that I don't like is the pressure being on us in the first two games.
 
We need to review how Dallas ran the pick and roll against HOU--that was the difference in the game.
 
Yao and Scola are going to murder us. We need to play out of our minds when we're at Houston. Damn Hornets!
 
Now we get to see how good of a game planner Nate is. Can he come up with a scheme to make the Rockets pay for the way they defend Roy and Aldridge.
 
I think we'll be ok, provided we hold serve at home (if we have HCA).
 
The one nice thing about playing Houston is the pressure might just be on them to get out of the first round...
 
HCA is sooo key right now. With it, we can do this. Without... we're really in trouble.
 
Houston was probably the last team I wanted us to (realistically) go up against. We needed a prayer 3 to beat them in Portland, but I think we're also a better team than we were then. How in the world are we going to stop their front court? Oh well. Go Blazers!
 
The way we are playing now, Houston or anyone else isn't a problem. The only question is, can we keep it up?

barfo
 
With history being on our side in having Houston not getting out of the first round in nearly a decade combined with the stellar way we've been playing, I'm not as scared about playing Houston as I might have been a few weeks ago.
 
barfo said:
The way we are playing now, Houston or anyone else isn't a problem. The only question is, can we keep it up?

barfo
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Roy and Aldridge aren't going to have a lot of games like they did tonight.
 
This is what got us HCA;

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Who woulda thought that shot would cost Houston HCA in the first round?
 
Houston struggles when teams front Yao. They are strangely unable to adapt to that. They aren't able to lob over the top and Yao's hands aren't good, he fumbles passes that aren't right on his hands. True to form, Dallas turned the game in the second half by aggressively fronting Yao.

Artest didn't help matters by playing a pretty bad game, something he's well capable of doing.

If Przybilla and Oden work hard and front Yao effectively all series, Portland may actually win the series easily. It really mitigates Yao. And Houston is not a good team when Yao isn't an effective focal point on offense.
 
Well, we're about to become the most hated team for 1.33 billion people, and 1/5 of everyone on Earth. Thanks, Yao.

Hey China.. :mooning:
 
we can take houston! fuck them..the refs wont call petty bs on greg and joel.
 
Artest will sit at home on Roy. Scola/Landry also matchup well with LaMarcus.

Travis and Rudy are going to be key, they need to attack and create offense for us.
 
Bring on Houston! The way we're playing, and having home court, they're going to have come in here and play their best to steal one. GO BLAZERS!!
 
we're coming into the playoffs very hot, the rockets just choked home court advantage and the third seed away. hope we play saturday
 
Where's rocketeer at? How nervous are you of Ron Artest continuing his recent chuckings in to the playoffs?
 
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