First Round Playoffs: Blazers/Rockets Game 2 Thread

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MARIS61 said:
Most succesful lineup of the night was Joel, Greg, TO, Rudy and Sergio.

When Nate pulled Sergio after 2:59 it immediately stopped working due to the towers being frozen out on offense.
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So your sample size is a 3 minute run of the game against Rockets scrubs?
 
MARIS61 said:
Most succesful lineup of the night was Joel, Greg, TO, Rudy and Sergio.

When Nate pulled Sergio after 2:59 it immediately stopped working due to the towers being frozen out on offense.
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It's the Portland Trailblazers, not the Portland Sergios
 
Once again, they almost choked the game away at the FT line. If they want a chance to win in Houston they have to MAKE THEIR FUCKING FREE THROWS!
 
Brooks is 9 for 13 from downtown in the first two games of the series. Granted he's played great so far, but there's no way he can keep this up, right?
 
Nikolokolus said:
It's the Portland Trailblazers, not the Portland Sergios
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It's the Portland Trailblazers, not the Portland Roys.

Sergio plays as a team, in the playoffs Roy has played selfishly and neutralized his teammates.

These both should have been easy wins for us. Lack of, nearly total absence of, team offense and ball movement almost cost us this game just as surely as it cost us the first game.

No way we win in Houston riding 2 guys on offense, and I doubt Nate is happy how we won the game.
 
MARIS61 said:
Nice that we won but look at this and tell me that's not a recipe for disaster 9 games out of 10:

http://www.nba.com/games/20090421/HOUPOR/boxscore.html

Nate, Blake, and Roy need to include the rest of the team. Depth is what got us here, not just Roy and Aldridge saving our bacon.
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When your best two players both shoot over 55% from the field, shoot a combined 20 FTs and commit a total of ZERO turnovers in over 85 minutes of playing time, I'd say that's a recipe for winning 9 out of 10 times.

The Blazers took what Houston gave then. Aldridge, presents a big mismatch for the Rockets. We didn't see it in Game 1, but we certainly did tonight. Roy was the only Blazer penetrating, getting into the paint, knocking down shots and drawing fouls. With his ability to get around Artest and Battier, he made two of the best perimeter defenders in the NBA look rather ordinary.

They are our best players for a reason. When they both have it going, you ride them for the win. Yes, we will need other players to step up to win the series, but every game is different. Adjustments will be made. If Houston decides to focus more on Roy and Aldridge, it will create more opportunities for their teammates. And when that happens, I'm confident Roy will find them. It's not like he's a selfish prima donna. He's smart enough to see when he has an advantage, and when he doesn't, he's smart enough to find the teammate who does.

BNM
 
MARIS61 said:
These both should have been easy wins for us. Lack of, nearly total absence of, team offense and ball movement almost cost us this game just as surely as it cost us the first game.
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Bullshit.
 
Boob-No-More said:
When your best two players both shoot over 55% from the field, shoot a combined 20 FTs and commit a total of ZERO turnovers in over 85 minutes of playing time, I'd say that's a recipe for winning 9 out of 10 times.

The Blazers took what Houston gave then. Aldridge, presents a big mismatch for the Rockets. We didn't see it in Game 1, but we certainly did tonight. Roy was the only Blazer penetrating, getting into the paint, knocking down shots and drawing fouls. With his ability to get around Artest and Battier, he made two of the best perimeter defenders in the NBA look rather ordinary.

They are our best players for a reason. When they both have it going, you ride them for the win. Yes, we will need other players to step up to win the series, but every game is different. Adjustments will be made. If Houston decides to focus more on Roy and Aldridge, it will create more opportunities for their teammates. And when that happens, I'm confident Roy will find them. It's not like he's a selfish prima donna. He's smart enough to see when he has an advantage, and when he doesn't, he's smart enough to find the teammate who does.

BNM
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A-fucking-men.

Sure it would be nice to see a little more ball movement, but if those two are taking and making high percentage shots then go for it.
 
MARIS61 said:
It's the Portland Trailblazers, not the Portland Roys.

Sergio plays as a team, in the playoffs Roy has played selfishly and neutralized his teammates.

These both should have been easy wins for us. Lack of, nearly total absence of, team offense and ball movement almost cost us this game just as surely as it cost us the first game.

No way we win in Houston riding 2 guys on offense, and I doubt Nate is happy how we won the game.
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All I've got to say is "Scoreboard."

Your obsessive man-crush on a mediocre player has reached comical proportions Maris; only you and Mixum can find something to complain about after the first playoff win in 7 years.
 
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Ball movement WAS lousy. 11 assists in all? meh. Didn't see great team ball, but as the team regains its confidence, I think we will.

Silver lining was only 5 turnovers. Is that a playoff record for Portland?

iWatas
 
Boob-No-More said:
When your best two players both shoot over 55% from the field, shoot a combined 20 FTs and commit a total of ZERO turnovers in over 85 minutes of playing time, I'd say that's a recipe for winning 9 out of 10 times.
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Except that the odds of that happenning 10 times even in an entire season are about 1 in a trillion.

Hindsight says it worked.

Common sense says it would be foolhardy to expect it to be a repeatable occurence in this series, or the next if we get there.

Sharing the ball and trusting the entire team won us 54 out of 82.

I like those odds a lot better.
 
Boob-No-More said:
When your best two players both shoot over 55% from the field, shoot a combined 20 FTs and commit a total of ZERO turnovers in over 85 minutes of playing time, I'd say that's a recipe for winning 9 out of 10 times.

The Blazers took what Houston gave then. Aldridge, presents a big mismatch for the Rockets. We didn't see it in Game 1, but we certainly did tonight. Roy was the only Blazer penetrating, getting into the paint, knocking down shots and drawing fouls. With his ability to get around Artest and Battier, he made two of the best perimeter defenders in the NBA look rather ordinary.

They are our best players for a reason. When they both have it going, you ride them for the win. Yes, we will need other players to step up to win the series, but every game is different. Adjustments will be made. If Houston decides to focus more on Roy and Aldridge, it will create more opportunities for their teammates. And when that happens, I'm confident Roy will find them. It's not like he's a selfish prima donna. He's smart enough to see when he has an advantage, and when he doesn't, he's smart enough to find the teammate who does.

BNM
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Pretty much sums it up, but I'd still like to see our other guys getting involved.
 
well, the rest of the guys NEED to get involved for us to win this series. Tonight was a freak occurance of awesomeness by ROY and LMA. The other guys need to step up BIG TIME.
 
MARIS61 said:
Except that the odds of that happenning 10 times even in an entire season are about 1 in a trillion.

Hindsight says it worked.

Common sense says it would be foolhardy to expect it to be a repeatable occurence in this series, or the next if we get there.

Sharing the ball and trusting the entire team won us 54 out of 82.

I like those odds a lot better.
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I know you don't watch basketball outside of Blazers games, but Houston is one of the best teams at defending the pick and roll (and pick and pop) as well as closing out on 3 point shooters which are all major parts of this team's offensive repetoire and one of the reasons they get so many assists out of their half-court sets, they weren't letting us have many passing lanes or open looks in the corner or at the wing so the team adapted and got the ball into the hands of its two most dominant scorers and they delivered.
 
Piss and moan after a loss. Piss and moan after a win.

Typical for this board.
 
chris_in_pdx said:
Piss and moan after a loss. Piss and moan after a win.

Typical for this board.
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Would you be happy if it was just:

"OMG BLAZERSSSS RULLLLLLE!!!!!"

"ROY IS A GOD! A GOD!!!"

"HOUSTON SUCKS! WE OWNED THEM!"

"YAO MING IS TERRIBLE! ODEN > YAO"
 
MARIS61 said:
Except that the odds of that happenning 10 times even in an entire season are about 1 in a trillion.

Hindsight says it worked.

Common sense says it would be foolhardy to expect it to be a repeatable occurence in this series, or the next if we get there.

Sharing the ball and trusting the entire team won us 54 out of 82.

I like those odds a lot better.
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You seem to be confusing cause and effect. Roy and Aldridge shot such high percentages BECAUSE they were both getting LOTS of good, high percentage shots. If Brandon Roy wasn't getting so many, easy, high percentage shots and drawing fouls on the defense that got the Blazers in the bonus, do you really think he would have taken 27 shots?

Hell no. He's not an idiot. He's one of the smartest players in the game. Give him some credit. He saw what the defense was giving them, and tonight they were allowing him to get into the paint for some easy looks. He would have been stupid not to take advantage of that.

You're so pissed that Sergio was a total non-factor that you're actually complaining about a win - a PLAYOFF WIN.

BNM
 
AgentDrazenPetrovic said:
well, the rest of the guys NEED to get involved for us to win this series. Tonight was a freak occurance of awesomeness by ROY and LMA. The other guys need to step up BIG TIME.
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That's all I'm saying, but they have to actually have the ball to do that.
 
MARIS61 said:
It's the Portland Trailblazers, not the Portland Roys.

Sergio plays as a team, in the playoffs Roy has played selfishly and neutralized his teammates.

These both should have been easy wins for us. Lack of, nearly total absence of, team offense and ball movement almost cost us this game just as surely as it cost us the first game.

No way we win in Houston riding 2 guys on offense, and I doubt Nate is happy how we won the game.
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Nate's very happy with how we won the game.
 
Lemme hear some props for Outlaw. Artest was torching us in the first quarter. We put Outlaw on him and that was it. He never got it going again. Plus, Outlaw had the big steal and dunk.
 
MARIS61 said:
Yao, Lowry, Von Wafer, Battier and Landry.

I doubt anyone in the league calls those guys scrubs.

They scored a combined 49 pts tonight.
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ah. ok, during that stretch of 3 minutes....

started off

26-28 Portland

afterwards

29-32 Portland

oooh!
 
KingSpeed said:
Lemme hear some props for Outlaw. Artest was torching us in the first quarter. We put Outlaw on him and that was it. He never got it going again. Plus, Outlaw had the big steal and dunk.
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I give Outlaw props at the end, but he was god-awful-terrible the rest of the game.
 
MARIS61 said:
That's all I'm saying, but they have to actually have the ball to do that.
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Yeah, if Blake didn't run the team like a fucking piker all night, maybe the ball distribution would have been better. I don't get why Sergio or Bayless didn't get more burn.....Blake was fucking AWFUL at getting the offense rolling.
 
Also, when your big men are going to get in foul trouble, why do you play them at the same time? That was a disaster waiting to happen, Joel is goddamn lucky not to get that foul towards the end of the game. The twin tower concept was primarily a DEFENSIVE one based on stopping easy Yao buckets. Yao was in foul trouble a good part of the game...the wing defense should have been better. Also, a lot of space on many of the shots from outside too.
 
AgentDrazenPetrovic said:
Yeah, if Blake didn't run the team like a fucking piker all night, maybe the ball distribution would have been better. I don't get why Sergio or Bayless didn't get more burn.....Blake was fucking AWFUL at getting the offense rolling.
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Blake is not a point guard. I don't see why it's not obvious.
 
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