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I always was a Kerr fan, and I appreciated what he said about the team, the franchise and the fans of Portland.
 
High praise. I especially loved that part where he said this was the toughest opponent Golden State has played since their title run of 2015.
 
Still can't believe how close Portland was in the last two games. I think perhaps we just match up really well vs GS. I was not impressed with how we played vs the Clips, but man....I honestly think the Warriors were lucky to win this series.
 
I hope Neil and Stotts work well together, because look at how much Stotts got out of this team. When he first came to Portland, he took a core that hadn't made the playoffs in years and got them 50+ wins and a 1st round victory. This year he takes 2 stars and a bunch of rag tag casts offs and was narrowly defeated by what was supposed to be one of the best teams of all time.
 
Sinobas said:
But it's cool how much national attention this series got. Portland's effort was not ignored...should help us in our FA quest.
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This series could have been completely ignored; a west coast series where the number 1 team beats the number 5 team in five. Whoop-dee-doo. But we benefitted from (a) playing our asses off with five high quality, high scoring games, and (b) the Miami/Toronto series looking like JV basketball performed by blind mimes. That series has been so bad, and ours was so good that nobody wants to cover the other series at all.
 
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Sinobas said:
But it's cool how much national attention this series got. Portland's effort was not ignored...should help us in our FA quest.
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I have to admit I was surprised at how much praise and respect the Blazers got after game 5, having got little to none before then...they deserve it
 
Sinobas said:
I hope Neil and Stotts work well together, because look at how much Stotts got out of this team. When he first came to Portland, he took a core that hadn't made the playoffs in years and got them 50+ wins and a 1st round victory. This year he takes 2 stars and a bunch of rag tag casts offs and was narrowly defeated by what was supposed to be one of the best teams of all time.
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This team has seriously overachieved two of the last three years under Terry Stotts.

And the one year we didn't overachieve and surprise everyone, we still won 51 games in spite of injuries that caused 4 of our 5 starters to miss at least 11 games. When Wesley Matthews tore his Achilles, the team was 41-19 with the second best record in the league, on pace to win 56 games.

Stotts has done an amazing job. He's far exceeded my expectations and is a vast improvement over Nate McMillan. Great hire!

BNM
 
BlazerCaravan said:
It's a little like the end of Rocky. We took the champ the distance, even if we didn't win.
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YES!!
Perfect comparison. The cocky Warriors are our Apollo Creed. I think the Wolves may well be our Ivan Drago...
 
Chris Craig said:
I have to admit I was surprised at how much praise and respect the Blazers got after game 5, having got little to none before then...they deserve it
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I think a lot of people thought we'd just roll over and die in game five. We did not. We fought until the very end. People respect that. They see a team that was never supposed to be there. They see a team that was supposed to be significantly less talented than the Warriors. They see a team that was supposed to cower in fear and crumble once Curry came back. We did not. We fought and we fought and we fought. In the end, Curry is just too good. Without him, I think we have a legitimate shot at winning this series. He is the MVP. He played like the MVP, but we made them earn it. People love that. This is basically the plotline of Rocky.
 
Boob-No-More said:
Yep, without Steph Curry and his heroics, right now we're up 3-2 and heading into Game 6 in PDX with a chance to close them out.

BNM
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Yup. If Curry doesn't go HAM, we win game four for sure. Actually, if Curry had sat out that game, we would have blown them out. They looked completely defeated in the first quarter. We were CRUSHING them. Curry came in, they immediately gained confidence having him on the floor, and they slowly turned it around. Ugh.... so many missed opportunities in this series. And the free throws.... :sigh:
 
Sinobas said:
But it's cool how much national attention this series got. Portland's effort was not ignored...should help us in our FA quest.
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The praise of Stotts should help, if some of it filters to the players. I have no idea what players would even see this article. But they probably watch the TNT clowns. I guess their agents should be paying attention if nothing else and feeding the good, good, good, good vibrations along to the their clients.

Fingers crossed.

:cheers:
 
If I were Olshey, I'd go to Stotts and ask him to give me a wish list of players. Then I'd have Dame and CJ vet it as well.
 
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