I admit it, I gave the Blazers no chance to win tonight

[ILOVEODEN]

I just thought the Heat would come out all fired up cause everyone is talking smack about them. Best win I have seen in 2 years. With a healthy Oden this team could be scary good on defense. Cross your fingers.

Camby and Rudy have to play way better though to make noise in the playoffs. playoffs? PLAYOFFS?

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I thought we'd probably lose, but with Wallace I felt we'd match up very well. LA & Camby on Bosh, Batum & Wallace on LaBron and Matthews & Roy on Wade. Granted LaBron & Wade had good games, neither stole it away from us at the end.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Wallace is exactly the physical wing that LeBron hates. I didn't think we'd win, honestly, but I figured we had a better chance now than we did last time.

 

[Kaydow]

I just thought the Heat would come out all fired up cause everyone is talking smack about them. Best win I have seen in 2 years. With a healthy Oden this team could be scary good on defense. Cross your fingers.

Camby and Rudy have to play way better though to make noise in the playoffs. playoffs? PLAYOFFS?

If only we would have put Orlando away in the 3rd quarter last night. Instead, we let them creep back in the game and had to expend a bunch of energy to hold on for the win. It really cost us tonight. Oh wait, we won tonight?

 

[BlazerBeliever]

I admit I picked us to win. Just look at my prediction in the predictions thread!!

 

[OdenHoF]

Found this on a Celtics board and the last post is by someone called LakersFan_33 with (Rajon Rondo) as his sub-title. This is just after the win tonight:

Brandon Roy and Gerald Wallace off the bench. Scary!

Blazers are stacked with talent. They would have been the #1 seed in the west and contenders if Oden and Roy were fully healthy. I think they are missing some other pieces also.

Oden
Aldridge
Wallace
Roy
Miller
With Fernandez, Matthews, Batum, and Camby off the bench.

What other pieces would they need?

Yeah, they are unbelievably deep (they have been for years), and are very dangerous. The problem is who do they have up front? Aldridge is great, and Camby is decent, but that's it. They have really nothing after that, since they traded away joel przybilla.

http://forums.celticsblog.com/index.php?topic=42251.1380
Just sharing...I know it's not good to get caught up looking ahead(/patting ourselves on the back), but it's nice in moderation.

 

[THE HCP]

I thought we would lose by at least 20! Great win!

 

[maxiep]

I thought we would lose by at least 20! Great win!

Is there much conversation/cheering/complaining going on in the truck, or are you too busy working? A couple of the Wade fouls were ridiculous and not reciprocated on the other end. I imagine you get good looks at whatever you guys want to see.

 

[THE HCP]

It depends. I see at least 6 or 7 angles of each play. We could show every questionable call if we wanted. A lot of times if the Mikes start to bitch, we let them know it was a good call.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I didn't think they'd get blown out, but I was pretty sure tonight was going to end up in the loss column.

Hopefully whatever comfort level Wallace has achieved carries over and they are finally, truly, in a 'real' groove. Good times.

 

[Rhal]

I didn't expect us to get blown out but I expected us to lose. I figured the heat would be all heated up over the crying comments and would want to come out and silence there critics. I also expected a lot of cheap fouls to constantly put the heat at the line.

 

[maxiep]

It depends. I see at least 6 or 7 angles of each play. We could show every questionable call if we wanted. A lot of times if the Mikes start to bitch, we let them know it was a good call.

What I was looking for was more the characterization of what the truck is like during the game? Does it sound like a group of people watching the game at home, or is it pretty much serious business?

 

[maxiep]

A lot of times if the Mikes start to bitch, we let them know it was a good call.

What about the opposite? Wade made a circus shot layup, but the problem was that he took a step, jumped, spun, landed then took two more steps to the basket to make it. I watched the Heat broadcast, and they said nary a word.