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The way our guys played tonight, they just looked completely flat. I don't want to believe they weren't trying, so I think it was exhaustion finally catching up to them. We've been playing without a bench this whole post season, playing almost every other day, and I think it finally caught up to us.
 
I don't buy it. Every team's starters have been playing about the same.
 
It sorted of reminded me of how we looked against Houston - Roy/Aldridge's first playoff series. They kept commenting how exhausted they were, where every possession took something out of them. It was probably more mental this go around. Hard to ramp up any confidence for a relatively young team playing a dissecting team like the Spurs.
 
Playing fewer games than in the regular season. That was just bad basketball. The Nets put up a better fight.
 
Tired or tight, or the Spurs turning the screws? Who knows, but this team definitely needs more depth and probably has to think long and hard about some of their role-players; this team isn't quite built for a deep run yet and it isn't just a matter of letting things gel.
 
The season ended with The Shot. No problem with that. This is epilogue. This is gravy.
 
BlazerBeav said:
Playing fewer games than in the regular season. That was just bad basketball. The Nets put up a better fight.
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The Nets are done though. That was their last hurrah. We will be contender for years to come.
 
Nikolokolus said:
Tired or tight, or the Spurs turning the screws? Who knows, but this team definitely needs more depth and probably has to think long and hard about some of their role-players; this team isn't quite built for a deep run yet and it isn't just a matter of letting things gel.
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I grimace every time I hear how young we are and that we should take consolation from it. We're not THAT young. 3/5ths of our core or starting lineup has played 4 seasons together. Lillard and Lopez have done a great job of blending in, but I'm skeptical just how high a ceiling this unit has with a few more years of seasoning. Of course, they've surprised me before.
 
This team shot their wad in the first round. They just weren't there mentally this series. Didn't help when SA drained everything for entire quarters at a time.
 
Whatever happens this team has to get better defensively if they're serious about competing for anything beyond "feel good" playoff moments.
 
Drttimmy said:
I grimace every time I hear how young we are and that we should take consolation from it. We're not THAT young. 3/5ths of our core or starting lineup has played 4 seasons together. Lillard and Lopez have done a great job of blending in, but I'm skeptical just how high a ceiling this unit has with a few more years of seasoning. Of course, they've surprised me before.
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I was surprised when I heard that eight of our players are in their first or second year in the league. That means seven bench guys and one starter. That's pretty insane.

It's not the starting five that's our limiting factor. Even if they don't get any better than they were this year, if we get league average bench performance, we can be a 55+ win team with rested starters.
 
Everyone forgets that we got by Houston through pure luck, and didn't deserve to face the big dog, San Antonio.
 
jlprk said:
Everyone forgets that we got by Houston through pure luck, and didn't deserve to face the big dog, San Antonio.
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Nobody forgets it, because you remind us at every opportunity.
 
I'd like to see the bench play more next year, even if they are struggling. Especially on back to backs and road trips. Stotts stuck with the same rotations regardless of those circumstances.

LaMarcus doesn't need to play the entire first and third quarters. Get him a quick breather. I'm not sure if this is the reason for any of our playoffs losses, but it was a small factor. Playing the bench more will prepare them for when they do have to play. I think this was a big reason for the team fading down the stretch of the season and at the end of a number of those close games.
 
We threw last game to close out at home(more $$$) and so that we wouldn't have too much time off with the CLippers/Thunder going 6 at least.

Good series, you guys have a promising future.
 
Easy. Blazers just got run off the floor by the Spurs machine and couldn't pick up the pieces in the second half. That's okay. They are
the best team in the NBA and will probably win the title.
 
Exhaustion probably played a part. Pop is the master at keeping his players rested during the season so they're fresh at playoff time. We however are the complete opposite. And it showed.

That said, even fresh we still don't win. San Antonio played on another level. It was a great learning experience for the Blazers, and one every championship team goes through.
 
ripcityboy said:
Easy. Blazers just got run off the floor by the Spurs machine and couldn't pick up the pieces in the second half. That's okay. They are
the best team in the NBA and will probably win the title.
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YOU. I like you.
 
We got out coached, and out worked. Due to the systems we run, the lack of depth we have.
 
blue32 said:
We got out coached, and out worked. Due to the systems we run, the lack of depth we have.
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The Spurs played us like they'd just spent seven games scouting our system... Which was true because they'd just played Dallas. I know Stotts does have original thoughts, but it's still based on Dallas's book, which Pop had just solved.
 
See? We should have tanked for a draft pick. Now we are stuck in NBA hell.

/gf

Go Blazers
 
SA is a much better team than we are. They have a gazillion more playoff experience than us as well. We lost because they were better, and that's what happens in a series.

Charlotte beat us by 40, but if we played them in a series we probably would have won in no more than 5. Almost every single time the best team wins a series. If to teams are evenly mathced, it can go either way, (Portland vs Houston total points 667-665)
 
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