[Xericx]

BASSY GOES DOWN!!!!


Relax, he just got hit in the face by SARs by accident...

[PorterIn2004]

Virtually a perfect game. Telfair, Outlaw, Frahm, Khryapa, and Miles all had a good game, the Blazers look pretty good much of the game and still manage to pull off the loss. Presuming the injury to Telfair isn't very serious, all's gone pretty well.

[Xericx]

Miles didn't play a lot 2nd half (only caught the 2nd half).....

[DrewFix]

what was the final?

[Fork]

Originally Posted by DrewFix

what was the final?

114-106

Another nice game by Khryapa

[Tince]

Originally Posted by PorterIn2004

Virtually a perfect game. Telfair, Outlaw, Frahm, Khryapa, and Miles all had a good game, the Blazers look pretty good much of the game and still manage to pull off the loss. Presuming the injury to Telfair isn't very serious, all's gone pretty well.

And it looks like GS is going to win....


That's puts us behind the Warriors by 1/2 game, with Utah only 3 losses behind.

[Target]

How in the hell can a starting 2 guard go 0-0 from the line and have 0 personal fouls???

He must have cooties or something.

[MAS RipCity]

Man I wish this one was tv. Seemed like all the young gunz played excellent. As much as I love Ruben, Viktor shows why Ruben is expandable. If we could only add Bogut or Marvin to this team next year

[Oldmangrouch]

I didn't catch the game, but looking at the boxscore, it seems real obvious why we lost. Hughes and Arenas just abused our midgets on defense!

This is the biggest reason I won't miss Damon. Nearly anyone we bring in has to be an upgrade on defense. I will cut Telfair some slack for lack of experience, but does Damon even *try*?

[hasoos]

I think that Damon does try, he just is physically limited. He can't fight through screens, he can't keep his guy in front of him, and at SG most guards just shoot jumpers over him like they are in practice. When Portland finally starts stopping guys from coming down the lane at will so the shot blockers only have to kick into action when somebody actually truly breaks down the defense, that is when the team will start to turn things around. They can already score enough points, and if they can cut down on turnovers (which has happened lately), then all they have to do is get some stops, and the wins will start again.

[MAS RipCity]

Do you think Outlaw will ever get a start along side bassy this season as Damon comes off of the bench? Prolly not because the organization has a full on boner for Mouse. I love the guy but he is no 2 guard. If management wants to go youthful and have a better chance of being competitive, you want a bigger palyer at the 2.

[Ed O]

Outlaw had some nice dunks. It seemed like he was shooting the ball every time he touched it (and he got off 13 shots in 13 minutes).

Sebastian hit his first 4 jumpers, and he had a couple nice passes (one on a transition fast break after a Etan Thomas dunk, and another one where he got it close enough for Outlaw to reverse dunk it on the oop)... but I didn't like the way he played tonight. He fell in love with his jumper a little bit and he didn't attack the basket as much as he should have. He also is starting to remind me of Damon II a little bit with his inability to convert at the rim. One big difference is that Telfair gets to the line, at least, whereas Damon usually fails to convert when he's in the key but he does so while managing to avoid contact.

One other thing I noticed: Kwame Brown has horrible hands. I've read, and noticed before, that he has small hands (like Rasheed Wallace) but last night he was fumbling and stumbling on tons of rebounds and catches. He was in the right places, and when he got two hands on the ball he seemed to be OK, but I don't know if he's going to be able to compensate for an apparent physical shortcoming like that.

It's sad that the Wizards can beat us in Portland without 3 of their top 6 or 7 players (Jamison, Haywood, and Hayes were all out). But that's the way life is nowadays for the Blazers.

Ed O.

[Sambonius]

Originally Posted by Ed O

It's sad that the Wizards can beat us in Portland without 3 of their top 6 or 7 players (Jamison, Haywood, and Hayes were all out). But that's the way life is nowadays for the Blazers.

I think Zach Randolph and Van Excel would have made the game more competitve. I don't think its fair to point out that they were missing Jamison, Haywood, and Hayes while ignoring the fact that we were missing our best player and a guy who will be remembered as one of the clutchest player to play the game.

[Ed O]

Originally Posted by Sambonius

I think Zach Randolph and Van Excel would have made the game more competitve. I don't think its fair to point out that they were missing Jamison, Haywood, and Hayes while ignoring the fact that we were missing our best player and a guy who will be remembered as one of the clutchest player to play the game.

It's "not fair"?

What person reading this board doesn't know that Zach and NVE weren't playing tonight? Do you think anyone?

I doubt it.

Is it possible that some didn't know that those three guys from the Wizards weren't playing, especially since the game evidently wasn't broadcast in the Portland area?

I think it's possible.

I don't know what's unfair about it... but if you'd like to amend my statement so that it would have been "more competitive" if we had all our guys healthy and the Wizards had three of their top six or seven players: go ahead. It's equally, and perhaps MORE of, a sad statement about the current level of our team.

Ed O.