Event Jailblazer doc

[BlazerWookee]

Blech.

 

[Orion Bailey]

^ Good post! That 4th quarter continues to give me nightmares. I can remember exactly where I was at watching it and the feeling of utter disbelief and heart broken. It was horrible.

I was in the 9th floor of the King County Jail downtown Seattle. And I was in for... wait for it.....

Possession of less than a gram of marijuana. But for the next hour after that ugly 12 minutes, I was able to be angrier at something else than myself for the situation I was in, which was actually a relief to have something else to foucs on, cause time goes sloooow behind bars.
So I have a love hate relationship with those 12 minutes. lol

 

[mook]

Whenever I think of that fourth quarter, my main memory is early in the quarter, the Blazers up 15 and the Lakers missing a shot--Brian Grant has position and seemed to have the rebound. Then Shaq ripped the ball out of his hands and went back up and scored. Probably unfairly, I've always thought of that as the turning point in the game. Grant secures that rebound and the Blazers have the ball with a 15 point lead and all the momentum. Instead, it's an instant 2-4 point swing and the Lakers get some momentum.

Lots and lots of other stuff had to happen, like the Blazers basically missing every shot from then on out, but for some reason that moment seems most significant to me.

It's interesting that you have specific memories of that collapse. I remember Shaq dunking and that fucking look on his face, and I remember feeling utterly crushed. But all the other details have been kind of blanked out.

I've never watched it again. Kind of scared to.

You were more of a Pippen fan than a Blazer fan back then, so maybe it didn't hit so hard?

 

[Blazers Roy]

Pip's wife:


Looks kinda like MJ in this pic:

Why don't American women have faces??
I mean, it nice to at least have a face.

 

[Minstrel]

It's interesting that you have specific memories of that collapse. I remember Shaq dunking and that fucking look on his face, and I remember feeling utterly crushed. But all the other details have been kind of blanked out.

I've never watched it again. Kind of scared to.

You were more of a Pippen fan than a Blazer fan back then, so maybe it didn't hit so hard?

I have only that specific memory of the game. I don't count the alley-oop because I've seen it replayed as a highlight so many times since then, that I'm not sure if my memory of it is from the game or from the endless depictions of it.

The only other memory I have "of the game" is my parents calling me, late in the fourth when the Lakers seemed pretty sure to win, concerned about my mental state, ha. I was pretty invested by then. Possibly not as much as Blazers lifers but actually probably more then than now because as I've gotten older, I've reduced my overall investment in sports across the board. When I was younger, I cared pretty deeply, even though I was new to Blazers fandom. That loss remains one of the deepest disappointments in my sports-watching life--up there with certain 49ers losses, a team I was invested in since around age 4-5.

Thinking back, I think that internet forums can kindle an investment much faster, both due to the community you immerse yourself in about the team and due to how quickly you can grow to detest fans of a rival team.