Portland vs Houston Game Thread?

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craigehlo said:
I'll enjoy the home games. This team is still brutal on the road.

Not making a deal pretty much sealed our fate for one and done in the playoffs.
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a top 4 seed means 4 home playoff games which means the blazers likely would advance to the 2nd round. and even if the blazers are brutal on the road, if they can take care of business at home all it takes is one road win per series to advance(if they don't have homecourt).

to say it's not possible for the blazers to advance and that the blazers playoff fate has been sealed would be silly.
 
whats done is done...time to regroup an move on.
Honestly, I'll be good if we dont dig ourselves another double digit hole
 
rocketeer said:
a top 4 seed means 4 home playoff games which means the blazers likely would advance to the 2nd round. and even if the blazers are brutal on the road, if they can take care of business at home all it takes is one road win per series to advance(if they don't have homecourt).

to say it's not possible for the blazers to advance and that the blazers playoff fate has been sealed would be silly.
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You are a Rockets fan first and a Blazer fan second right? I'd like to hear your opinions on the game and who you really believe is a better team.
 
While that's probably true, I don't think a trade would have made Portland have a great chance at not being one and done. Wallace/Butler/Carter aren't going to help this team play better on the road.

This team needs a real PG more than anything. Someone to set the flow of the game and keep it that way. None of the PGs on the team can do that.
 
B-Roy said:
You are a Rockets fan first and a Blazer fan second right? I'd like to hear your opinions on the game and who you really believe is a better team.
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yeah. rockets are my favorite team. roy is my favorite player, blazers my 2nd favorite team.

it's hard to say at this point who the better team is. i'll have to see more of the rockets with tmac gone and lowry instead of alston to really make a judgment. but so far as long as artest isn't playing selfishly and throwing up shots, the rockets have looked very good. both teams are much better home teams than road teams.

as far as this game, it would be a lot easier to tell had the refs not taken some guys out of the game with bad foul calls. all the stars struggled shooting. these two teams matchup pretty well though and i'd love to see a playoff series between them(in the western conference finals of course). rockets have artest and battier to throw at roy and a good group of pfs to give aldridge trouble while the blazers have a lot of big bodies to throw at yao.
 
rocketeer said:
yeah. rockets are my favorite team. roy is my favorite player, blazers my 2nd favorite team.

it's hard to say at this point who the better team is. i'll have to see more of the rockets with tmac gone and lowry instead of alston to really make a judgment. but so far as long as artest isn't playing selfishly and throwing up shots, the rockets have looked very good. both teams are much better home teams than road teams.

as far as this game, it would be a lot easier to tell had the refs not taken some guys out of the game with bad foul calls. all the stars struggled shooting. these two teams matchup pretty well though and i'd love to see a playoff series between them(in the western conference finals of course). rockets have artest and battier to throw at roy and a good group of pfs to give aldridge trouble while the blazers have a lot of big bodies to throw at yao.
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Yeah, it did seem like the refs took the stars out of the game. (Or rather, the stars took themselves out of the game) It's harder for Portland to play without Oden obviously, but Houston didn't have Carl Landry either, so neither team was playing at full strength.

I think what's interesting about the Rockets is that they seem to play so much better without McGrady. Every time I watch them, McGrady just dominates the ball, but just isn't good enough to take over games anymore. He also doesn't seem to play well off the ball.
 
rocketeer said:
yeah. rockets are my favorite team. roy is my favorite player, blazers my 2nd favorite team.

it's hard to say at this point who the better team is. i'll have to see more of the rockets with tmac gone and lowry instead of alston to really make a judgment. but so far as long as artest isn't playing selfishly and throwing up shots, the rockets have looked very good. both teams are much better home teams than road teams.

as far as this game, it would be a lot easier to tell had the refs not taken some guys out of the game with bad foul calls. all the stars struggled shooting. these two teams matchup pretty well though and i'd love to see a playoff series between them(in the western conference finals of course). rockets have artest and battier to throw at roy and a good group of pfs to give aldridge trouble while the blazers have a lot of big bodies to throw at yao.
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I don't think it's even a discussion. The Rockets are the better team. In a 7 game series, I take the Rockets every time...........this year.
 
On a positive note, Batum is progressing nicely but needs to box out more and Travis is still clutch in the 4th.
Why not play Bayless more? When he gets in there as a 2 guard, he is not very effective.
 
B-Roy said:
Yeah, it did seem like the refs took the stars out of the game. (Or rather, the stars took themselves out of the game) It's harder for Portland to play without Oden obviously, but Houston didn't have Carl Landry either, so neither team was playing at full strength.

I think what's interesting about the Rockets is that they seem to play so much better without McGrady. Every time I watch them, McGrady just dominates the ball, but just isn't good enough to take over games anymore. He also doesn't seem to play well off the ball.
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yeah. with tmac there was a lot of standing around, wasn't good ball movement, and the team would go through stretches of not getting yao involved. now yao clearly is the focal point, but the ball and players are still constantly moving trying to get good shots.
 
rocketeer said:
at this point, i'd take whoever had homecourt.
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I wouldn't.....before or after tonight's game. I wouldn't.

I was hoping the Blazers would pull it out tonight, make a statement to the league, and propel themselves in to the upper echelon of the Western Conference. Wishful thinking, to be sure. We are what we are. But I want more, obviously.

8th in the west. And I have absolutely no problem with that. 50 wins. 9 game improvement from last year. I'll take it. Here's to Phoenix finding a way to continue to lose.
 
The Professional Fan said:
I don't think it's even a discussion. The Rockets are the better team. In a 7 game series, I take the Rockets every time...........this year.
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Of COURSE it's a discussion. They're only a half game above us and we've each won on the other's court in very close games. I can see you liking the Rockets more but to say it's not a discussion is ridiculous.
 
The Professional Fan said:
I wouldn't.....before or after tonight's game. I wouldn't.

I was hoping the Blazers would pull it out tonight, make a statement to the league, and propel themselves in to the upper echelon of the Western Conference. .
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It was just one game. What if we won tonight and then lost 4 in a row? Tonight's game is just one game. We are 1-1 against Houston and we're only a half game below them. And we're only 1.5 games behind 3rd place Denver. We're still right there. Don't give up on the team merely because of one game.
 
KingSpeed said:
It was just one game. What if we won tonight and then lost 4 in a row? Tonight's game is just one game. We are 1-1 against Houston and we're only a half game below them. And we're only 1.5 games behind 3rd place Denver. We're still right there. Don't give up on the team merely because of one game.
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Big picture, Speed, big picture. We could easily go 0-3 on this trip. That would be huge in the standings, and, huge for the Blazers confidence (in a bad way). The Blazers just aren't good enough to beat the better Western Conference teams on the road. In fact, without looking at the schedule, the Blazers haven't beaten one Western Conference Playoff team on the road this season. That's troubling, man.
 
The Professional Fan said:
I wouldn't.....before or after tonight's game. I wouldn't.

I was hoping the Blazers would pull it out tonight, make a statement to the league, and propel themselves in to the upper echelon of the Western Conference. Wishful thinking, to be sure. We are what we are. But I want more, obviously.

8th in the west. And I have absolutely no problem with that. 50 wins. 9 game improvement from last year. I'll take it. Here's to Phoenix finding a way to continue to lose.
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portland won't drop behind dallas.
 
The Professional Fan said:
Big picture, Speed, big picture. We could easily go 0-3 on this trip. That would be huge in the standings, and, huge for the Blazers confidence (in a bad way). The Blazers just aren't good enough to beat the better Western Conference teams on the road. In fact, without looking at the schedule, the Blazers haven't beaten one Western Conference Playoff team on the road this season. That's troubling, man.
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New Orleans man, New Orleans.
 
B-Roy said:
New Orleans man, New Orleans.
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Yea the whole second half of the game tonight I kept thinking to myself........ "Top the New Orleans Comeback," "Top the New Orleans Comeback!"

Sadly the shot's just weren't fallin...
 
How anyone can argue that Houston is clearly better than us when the two games have been decided by 2 and 4 points, with one team winning each, and the two teams being apart by 1/2 game is beyond me. Get that crap outta here.
 
BlazerBeav said:
How anyone can argue that Houston is clearly better than us when the two games have been decided by 2 and 4 points, with one team winning each, and the two teams being apart by 1/2 game is beyond me. Get that crap outta here.
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Exactly! Repped.
 
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