Spurs lost their first 1st round games in 2003, 2005, & 2007

[KingSpeed]

And they won the championship in all three of those years.

We can still win it all.

 

[ABM]

We can still win it all.

I still feel good about this team but, for now, I just want to win a game. That thrashing really infected my mojo.

 

[LameR]

Winning it all is unlikely, but then again so was HCA at the beginning of the year to me. Let's start with winning a game, then the series, and go from there.

 

[RoyToy]

Call me crazy but I feel like the Blazers will win the series still. Take away Yao and Houston struggles badly.

 

[Stevenson]

I still feel good about this team but, for now, I just want to win a game. That thrashing really infected my mojo.

I agree, one win will make a huge difference. My uncle says that often, life is like a jar of pickles. It is really hard to get that first pickle out because its jammed in there, but once you do, all the other ones come out easily.

We just need to get the first pickle out of the jar.

 

[KingSpeed]

Call me crazy but I feel like the Blazers will win the series still. Take away Yao and Houston struggles badly.

How do we take away Yao? Also- the Rockets won in NO without Yao last month.

 

[ABM]

We just need to get the first pickle out of the jar.

or we'll be in a real pickle.......Ollie.

 

[ABM]

How do we take away Yao?

Three ways come to mind:

1) Foul him HARD as many times as possible

2) Take it to him in hopes of getting him into foul trouble. (That somewhat worked in game 1 as he had 4. The Blazers just failed to capitalize - i.e. taking it to the paint - when he was out.)

3) Send a hit squad

 

[Денг Гордон]

And they won the championship in all three of those years.

We can still win it all.

That means the Spurs are winning it all this year, right?

 

[Sug]

I still feel good about this team but, for now, I just want to win a game. That thrashing really infected my mojo.

I found a picture of a young ABM with his Mojo!

 

[Sug]

or we'll be in a real pickle.......Ollie.

Did someone want a pickle?

 

[KingSpeed]

That means the Spurs are winning it all this year, right?

It means it's still possible.

 

[MARIS61]

How do we take away Yao? Also- the Rockets won in NO without Yao last month.

I believe he is nursing a sore foot.

Shit happens.

 

[MARIS61]

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[alex42083]

It's far from over. I don't expect all those home teams who lost Game 1 to lose all of the series. Hopefully we catch Houston a little overconfident and get back into it.

 

[Deebag]

You bring up the silliest of stats. Next "interesting statistic" thread you make is probably when we're down 0-3 and you'll bring up that the Boston Red Sox were down 0-3 in the MLB Playoffs, but rallied back and eventually won a championship. That's happened once in all of MLB. I suppose I should go buy a lottery ticket, because somewhere across the country there was also another college kid that loved basketball but didn't quite have enough money to go to a playoff game, yet somehow won the lottery. There's a chance, right?

 

[DaRizzle]

How do we take away Yao?

The National Basketball Association play-offs are taking place, and the Boston Celtics are facing the Utah Jazz in a crucial series. This is also the last year that any games will be played in the Boston Garden, which is going to be torn down after the end of the season. Mike and Jimmy, two die-hard sports fans who will risk anything for the Celtics to win, are really getting into the games. The Celtics would be a sure win if it weren't for Lewis Scott, the cocky, loud-mouth star of the Jazz. After Scott himself punishes the Celtics in a bad loss, Mike and Jimmy decide to take things into their own hands by kidnaping Scott and holding him until after the crucial game takes place.

 

[Wheels]

Home alone guy, and Dan Akroyd cannot front Yao.

 

[BlazerBeav]

I know we can stop, or at least slow, Yao - we did a much better job in all three previous meetings. It's not going to be easy and he's going to get points, but we have to at least make him work a lot harder for them.

 

[JE]

And they won the championship in all three of those years.

We can still win it all.

By this criteria, so could they.

 

[JE]

Love that movie so much, and yes I'm aware that its a parody of Celtic fans.

 

[crandc]

God, Maris, talk about blast from the past.

But I won't go that far back. Just to 1999. The Blazers lost their first second round game vs. Utah. Badly. They got killed. I was totally disconsolate.

We know how that turned out.

I think this team, making the playoffs and home court, relaxed. They had come so far, now they were at home. Playoffs are different and they, hopefully, learned that.