GAME THREAD: Round 1, Game 5 - Blazers @ Mavericks, 4.25.11, 5:30 PM

[XXPrimusXX]

FTA's --

DAL: 35
POR: 19

That's the game right there. We even shot a higher percentage from the field (43% to 41%)

 

[TripTango]

He's dead tired. He's admitted as much in every interview/twitter update.

And I'm tired of watching shitty basketball in Dallas, but I keep coming back to my television for more...

 

[e_blazer]

Memo to Nate McMillan:

Playing a midget lineup against Dallas is a recipe to get creamed on the boards.

Why he didn't put Camby or Johnson in there through most of the 4th is beyond me. Tyson Chandler should send Nate a Thank You card

 

[maxiep]

He's dead tired. He's admitted as much in every interview/twitter update.

Well, he's about to get a nice long rest.

 

[julius]

Wow their fans are pathetic. The Rose Garden would be erupting right now. How embarrassing!

Imho, when you have announcers OFTEN pleading for fans to cheer, you are a pathetic fan base.

Mark Mason does it a few times. Their announcer did it frequently.

Game 1 was their best chance to win the series. I don't to say they were robbed, but the US government just offered the refs a bailout...

Games 2 and 5, were games where the Mavs were really was challenged. If not for a Brandon Roy once in a life time 4th quarter, this series would be over. It should, realistically, be over.

No idea what to do about this team. They have no superstar, there is no one who gets those "I'm out of control and you breathed in my general direction" fouls that the top teams have. Roy WAS that player, but he isn't anymore and won't ever be again (at least, consistently).

 

[illmatic99]

Memo to Nate McMillan:

Playing a midget lineup against Dallas is a recipe to get creamed on the boards.

Why he didn't put Camby or Johnson in there through most of the 4th is beyond me. Tyson Chandler should send Nate a Thank You card

This was my gripe. When both Johsnon and Camby were on the floor in the first half, DAL looked so confused. When Camby picked up his 4th foul in the third quarter, Nate put Roy in and we went small. Shoulda gone to CJ instead, and put Brandon in later.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I'm waiting for Magnifier's thread entitled "I just booked a ticket for Saturday to Dallas for game 7...we got this"

:MARIS61:

FUCK YEAH!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I'm waiting for Magnifier's thread entitled "I just booked a ticket for Saturday to Dallas for game 7...we got this"

:MARIS61:

ok...it was kingspeed.

 

[Sinobas]

Portland doesn't want this series. Even if they push it to game 7, you know they'd come out and crap their pants and play like shit and get blown out in a like manner as tonight.

 

[geraldwallace]

I don't like NBATV Commentator -.-
it's very boring and the audience sound is very low -.-
and today's POR performance ...
it's very annoying

 

[Rhal]

The refs screwed us for two quarters and eight minutes then the mavericks just killed us after that. If we can won at home we can take dallas out game seven if we box out and don't let them destroy us on the offensive boards.

 

[RoyToy]

Portland doesn't want this series. Even if they push it to game 7, you know they'd come out and crap their pants and play like shit and get blown out in a like manner as tonight.

Then don't watch them.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Portland doesn't want this series. Even if they push it to game 7, you know they'd come out and crap their pants and play like shit and get blown out in a like manner as tonight.

blazer fans on thursday in the RG, if the mavs are up in game 6 and are going to the next round, at least have the common decency to start a BEAT LA chant.

 

[RoyToy]

Portland doesn't want this series. Even if they push it to game 7, you know they'd come out and crap their pants and play like shit and get blown out in a like manner as tonight.

Then don't watch them.

You'll jump back on the bandwagon if they do win, though.

"Fan"

 

[julius]

I just hope that the Blazers show up for game 6. Dallas knows what it takes to beat Portland, and if they get 3 times as many foul shots (before the game is decided), they'll have the game and series by halftime.

I don't want be hyperbolic, but I really hope the Blazers nut up and actually try to rebound. Foul hard, make them earn the win. They didn't make Dallas work hard at all in the 2nd half. They wilted under pressure and stopped playing like a team that cares.

 

[TripTango]

I just hope that the Blazers show up for game 6. Dallas knows what it takes to beat Portland, and if they get 3 times as many foul shots (before the game is decided), they'll have the game and series by halftime.

I don't want be hyperbolic, but I really hope the Blazers nut up and actually try to rebound. Foul hard, make them earn the win. They didn't make Dallas work hard at all in the 2nd half. They wilted under pressure and stopped playing like a team that cares.

Yup -- that first half was a kick to the balls. The reward for taking hard contact while going to the rim is supposed to be free throws, and we got next to nothing for our efforts. A playoff-caliber team would take that first half and keep doing what it was supposed to do, but we backed off and tried to win from long-range. Game over.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I don't want be hyperbolic, but I really hope the Blazers nut up and actually try to rebound. Foul hard, make them earn the win. They didn't make Dallas work hard at all in the 2nd half. They wilted under pressure and stopped playing like a team that cares.

Rep'd

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Memo to Nate McMillan:

Playing a midget lineup against Dallas is a recipe to get creamed on the boards.

Why he didn't put Camby or Johnson in there through most of the 4th is beyond me. Tyson Chandler should send Nate a Thank You card

True on the defensive rebounds... but our guys just stood and watched on the offensive end. No effort at all.

 

[Natebishop3]

I just hope that the Blazers show up for game 6. Dallas knows what it takes to beat Portland, and if they get 3 times as many foul shots (before the game is decided), they'll have the game and series by halftime.

I don't want be hyperbolic, but I really hope the Blazers nut up and actually try to rebound. Foul hard, make them earn the win. They didn't make Dallas work hard at all in the 2nd half. They wilted under pressure and stopped playing like a team that cares.

I would probably stop trying too if I was getting jobbed by the refs like they were.

 

[e_blazer]

True on the defensive rebounds... but our guys just stood and watched on the offensive end. No effort at all.

I go with the "rebounding generates offense" theory, not to mention taking about 10-12 points away from the Mavs due to 2nd and 3rd possessions.

The Mavs have come up with some good defensive schemes to deny Aldridge and Roy the ball in places that they like to get it. They're basically daring our outside shooters to make some shots and they just can't do it.

 

[WillG]

This team is very weak mentally. Everything has gotten into their heads and they're not really doing anything that got them close in the first place.

Not surprising with Nate barking shit at them from the sideline every few seconds.

These guys are over thinking. McMillan is in their heads and it's destroying any sense of free flowing, adaptable & rhythmic basketball they may have had in them.
Till the 'Sarges' regime is uninstitutionalized from our team, they will be a team that is not 'playing' basketball, but 'thinking' about it far too much.

(P.S. Hey Nate: Your playing days are over, so stop trying to play by proxy from the sideline. Shut up & let the 'men' make their own decisions on the court)

 

[TripTango]

Not surprising with Nate barking shit at them from the sideline every few seconds.

These guys are over thinking. McMillan is in their heads and it's destroying any sense of free flowing, adaptable & rhythmic basketball they may have had in them.
Till the 'Sarges' regime is uninstitutionalized from our team, they will be a team that is not 'playing' basketball, but 'thinking' about it far too much.

(P.S. Hey Nate: Your playing days are over, so stop trying to play by proxy from the sideline. Shut up & let the 'men' make their own decisions on the court)

I've seen valid criticisms of Nate-ball, but this one's a stretch.

 

[tlongII]

I ain't giving up. We're due for a good-shooting game or two.

 

[illmatic99]

[video=youtube;DmYS-Bdj12U]

Seems like some of our players took exception to this. Just in case we need any extra motivation for Thursday.

http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/index.ssf/2011/04/words_exchanged_and_bad_blood.html

 

[KingSpeed]

blazer fans on thursday in the RG, if the mavs are up in game 6 and are going to the next round, at least have the common decency to start a BEAT LA chant.

And slight New Orleans? Bad form.

Yup -- that first half was a kick to the balls. The reward for taking hard contact while going to the rim is supposed to be free throws, and we got next to nothing for our efforts. A playoff-caliber team would take that first half and keep doing what it was supposed to do, but we backed off and tried to win from long-range. Game over.

We are in the playoffs, have won two playoff games, and are still very much in the series.

Utah Jazz= not a playoff-caliber team

Portland Trail Blazers= a playoff-caliber team

 

[Mediocre Man]

[video=youtube;DmYS-Bdj12U]

Seems like some of our players took exception to this. Just in case we need any extra motivation for Thursday.

http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/index.ssf/2011/04/words_exchanged_and_bad_blood.html

Figures our team would take exception to a hard pick. God knows they don't set them. Looked like a good basketball play by Cardinal, and the Blazers should have told Patty it was coming

 

[illmatic99]

I don't have a problem with the pick because Patty's teammates should have called it out, but there was no need for that at that particular time and score. I can see why Wes and Co. are pissed.

 

[illmatic99]

@Patty_Mills

Pick on the little bro and deal with the rest of the family #balas #bigbros #uncle #morethanteammates #FANmily

 

[LittleAlex]

I sincerely hope that pick gets them pissed off enough to actually punch Dallas in the mouth a couple of times in the next game.

I was hoping Gerald Wallace would do some of that but he hasn't had much of an opportunity to do so.



This is the type of situation where I really miss healthy Joel.
Not only would he punk Cardinal at the first opportunity, he would get into Chandler's head.

And Joel can actually set a pick.
Not one dude on Portland can really set a nasty pick right now.

 

[TripTango]

We are in the playoffs, have won two playoff games, and are still very much in the series.

Utah Jazz= not a playoff-caliber team

Portland Trail Blazers= a playoff-caliber team

Point taken -- I meant to say playoff series winning team. We certainly belong in the playoffs, and I didn't mean to say otherwise. It's just that it would be hard for any team to advance with the kinds of scoring droughts that we've endured, regardless of the crappy reffing.

If we do win the series (which we still can), it will be because we have either rediscovered our three-point shooting to keep Dallas honest, or we've found some other way to get through those bad-shooting stretches.