Game thread: Blazers vs. Mavericks

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julius said:
Well there goes the playoffs.
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No, it's worse than that! They'll lose every game this season! 30-52, and get shut out of the lottery. What a disaster this one game caused! :crazy:

30-18. 4th place in the conference by 1 game. Four very winnable games before the all-star break. Big picture, people.
 
Start Bayless. Sergio is much better with the second unit.
 
Lottery party May 19, Julius. See you at Schonz's place?
 
I saw no effort, and worse, very little teamwork.

Either most of the team has the flu, or they should refund Paul Allen for one game's pay.

If the first half looked this pathetic, I am glad to have missed it.

Joel and LaMarcus played some great D, but nobody else even tried.
 
MARIS61 said:
I saw no effort, and worse, very little teamwork.

Either most of the team has the flu, or they should refund Paul Allen for one game's pay.

If the first half looked this pathetic, I am glad to have missed it.

Joel and LaMarcus played some great D, but nobody else even tried.
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Not even Sergio???!
 
Travis played great tonight. FOUR assists! 13 points. 4 rebounds. ZERO turnovers. Great cross court pass to Rudy for three.
 
I thought the whole point of drafting Greg Oden was to stop people like Brandon Bass. Oden seems to always be wanting to get out of everyone's way.
 
maxiep said:
That we played a "nice, comfortable game". That we "let Dallas play their game and the Blazers didn't do anything to disrupt Dallas' flow".
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Again, I would agree with this. I don't know who to blame, but I do know that's exactly what I saw for the MAJORITY of the game. Not ALL the game. By the time the Blazers decided to put the clamp down, it was a little too late. I have no answers for why this happened, or has been happening (the NO game was the same way until Paul went down).

Anyone care to guess? Hahaha.....yeah, perhaps......I'll duck out now, and watch.
 
KingSpeed said:
I thought the whole point of drafting Greg Oden was to stop people like Brandon Bass. Oden seems to always be wanting to get out of everyone's way.
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He keeps fouling randomly.
 
Nikolokolus said:
Yeah that sounds about right.
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When Greg and Sergio start off the game playing that badly on defense, you are already digging yourself a hole. If you noticed Sergio didn't get much playing time tonight in the second half. And.......wait I think our guards just switched on the pick and roll again.

Our Pick and roll defense absolutely killed us tonight in the second and third quarters
 
we had assists on 42% of our FGM's while they went for a 65% clip on theirs. they moved the ball and got open looks, we didn't. sometimes it's as easy as that.
 
Wow. Tony Luftman and Michael Holton = FAIL.

"This wasn't on what the Blazers didn't do, but what the Mavericks did do."

Bullshit. Blazers played no D, that's why they lost.
 
ppilot said:
When Greg and Sergio start off the game playing that badly on defense, you are already digging yourself a hole. If you noticed Sergio didn't get much playing time tonight in the second half. And.......wait I think our guards just switched on the pick and roll again.

Out Pick and roll defense absolutely killed us tonight
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and yet we were up two at the end of the quarter. i'm not saying they were playing great or even good but it bugs me that people think sergio is the only one switching on P&R's, it's everyone of our guards. i thought our coach was supposed to be a defensive guy?
 
B-Roy said:
Wow. Tony Luftman and Michael Holton = FAIL.

"This wasn't on what the Blazers didn't do, but what the Mavericks did do."

Bullshit. Blazers played no D, that's why they lost.
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I heard that as well, and chuckled. Not entirely true, I would agree.
 
B-Roy said:
He keeps fouling randomly.
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The whole fouling thing takes him completely out of the game. Even if he isn't in foul trouble, he does nothing so as to avoid getting into foul trouble. Games like this just upset me. It's like okay.. am I supposed to wait til season 3 and just forgive everything right now? I mean, what is his excuse for not playing better tonight? Just being young?
 
bigbailes said:
and yet we were up two at the end of the quarter. i'm not saying they were playing great or even good but it bugs me that people think sergio is the only one switching on P&R's, it's everyone of our guards. i thought our coach was supposed to be a defensive guy?
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It's not just that. I know Bayless and Blake switch on the PNR as well, but both their man defenses are better than Sergio's. Also, i like watching players play defense off the ball, and Sergio loses his man on almost every play. That's another reason why there's always someone open.
 
lots of grousing about the officials tonight... I don't blame the loss on them but I will say I'm not optimistic or enthused when Bob Delaney is in charge. Dude is consistently heavy handed in calling the game and seems to make a lot of terrible calls against Portland. The early season GS matchup I attended this season put me on alert to how bad he is.

STOMP
 
MAS RipCity said:
We won every quarter but the 2nd where we got ran out of the gym, dunno why but that has always been a Blazer trait since I have been watching (90)
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Hate to point fingers but...

We were down by 4, Bayless comes in and finishes the half leaving us 12 down.
 
bigbailes said:
and yet we were up two at the end of the quarter. i'm not saying they were playing great or even good but it bugs me that people think sergio is the only one switching on P&R's, it's everyone of our guards. i thought our coach was supposed to be a defensive guy?
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Bayless actually makes an effort to get through picks and it shows. Overall we are not very smart about playing defense as a whole, that might have to do with the fact we are basically the youngest team in the NBA. Defense is much harder to learn than offense. As for the coaching comment, it has been quoted numerous times that Nate does not want to switch on the pick and rolls. That is a player decision.
 
chris_in_pdx said:
On a last-second Rasheed Wallace three pointer off of a rebound.
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Or a 3 pointer with 1:05 left in a 4 point win.

http://www.nba.com/games/20030430/PORDAL/recap.html

DALLAS, April 30 (Ticker) -- Rasheed Wallace let his shooting do the talking.

Wallace's second-chance 3-pointer with 1:05 remaining lifted the Portland Trail Blazers to a 103-99 victory over the Dallas Mavericks as they again staved off elimination in their Western Conference first-round series.
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