chris_in_pdx
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WTF, Orlando? Nice choke job! Jesus!
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whats the worst a team has ever been beaten in a playoff game? because houston is pushin it im sure
whats the worst a team has ever been beaten in a playoff game? because houston is pushin it im sure
It's not a great comparison, IMO. Howard still doesn't have anything close to the offensive game Shaq had even as a rookie. Howard is a better leaper, but Shaq was just so much bigger and stronger than anyone else that you had to doubleteam him or it was points. Howard throws up ugly Oden-esque hook shots in single coverage.
If I were Orlando, I'd jack a lot of threes too. The primary weapon of their best offensive players is the three ball.
I wasn't comparing Howard to Shaq. I was comparing the teams making the same mistakes of not getting their big established early. In other words, playing live by the 3, die by the 3 ball.
Yeah, but if by "establishing your big" you mean giving the ball to Howard in the first quarter so he can miss a variety of ugly hook shots, maybe they are better off not establishing him.
I'd be inclined to agree with you more if they had a PG who could set Howard up for easy dunks like Nash always did for Amare. But they really don't have that guy, so you have Howard trying to pretend he's Yao Ming as they dump the ball in the post. And it's kind of ugly. The players realize that, so they jack up threes until they start missing. Then they give it to him because there aren't any other options.
It's just not a really good team. If Portland were in the East, we'd beat either Boston or Orlando in 5 or 6 games.
Are you fucking high? Howard is scoring at a .615 clip so far in the playoffs. When a guy is scoring at that high of a rate, you feed him the ball.
How the hell does a PG get 16 boards with Dwight Howard on the floor!?!?!? When is the last time that happened?
Rondo is ridiculously good. Best PG in the Playoffs?
Looking like a Rockets victory tonight, to force a game 7. Blazers are looking better and better!![]()