This is a simply amazing fact (re: Blazers record)

[THE HCP]

Taking over down the stretch in a tight game is a whole 'nother story! End of game situations demand a certain type of player with that killer instinct. I don't think LA is there yet, and I mean YET! I love him, but BRoy was a killer down the stretch!

 

[Mediocre Man]

He certainly killed any offensive flow we might have had

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I love what LMA is doing - but he does not had the ability to take a game over as consistently as Roy did - and that's not just a end of the game situation. Roy had plenty of good 2nd or 3rd quarters where he would just take over a game - and the rest was history.

Anyway, as I was saying...

I think we're seeing that consistency more than you think.

 

[MIXUM]

if la osnt consistent then batum is a fluke

 

[andalusian]

Anyway, as I was saying...

I think we're seeing that consistency more than you think.

I would love for it to happen. I am just not ready to call it that way. Would love if it continues.

 

[jlprk]

It seems to me that some people have forgot that fact that we had a huge part of the middle of the season before we got Camby where we lost quite a few games and didn't perform that well, before winning quite a few games near the end of the season.

After we got Camby, our CoolStandings expected wins improved only 3 (from 47 to the final result of 50). Those 3 wins can be credited to: McMillan always surges at the end of a season, McMillan & Miller got used to each other, McMillan learned his other personnel, Batum & Rudy & Pendergraph returned after missing half a season, etc.

I don't credit Camby for the 3-game improvement, unless you mean that he added depth at center. Now we had two, instead of just one, Juwan Howard.

 

[KingSpeed]

Last year, the injure situation was much worse. Outlaw went out immediately and never played again. Batum was out the entire first half of the season. In December, Oden and Joel went out for the year. Rudy missed an extensive time as well. Then Roy had a hammy problem and missed a big patch of games. Even Aldridge had a short patch where he couldn't play. Finally, Roy needed surgery at the end of the year. Not to mention Pendergaph and Patty Mills both had substantial injuries and Nate McMillan missed a stretch of games because HE got hurt. Oh and Bayless tripped over something and Blake got hospitalized with the flu.