[handclap problematic]

I am with you Soda.
I was cussing around my apartment and none of my roommates understood why.
Bull****.
WE should have won that game.
In my opinion, Theo played really well early on, but he got tired..... take him out in the 4th and put in Joel...**** he hadnt played in about 15 minutes. And what about Viktor at the end? Why not Vik and Joel for the final stretch? It is not like they played really well together in the game or anything.....

**** **** **** ****

Prune****

[SheedSoNasty]

What a disappointing loss... We had them the whole 1st half and just let up in the 3rd. What the hell? Do they forget how to play basketball? Do they forget what actually works? Are they Blazers sniffing glue during halftime?

C'mon!

However, when you put things into perspective, we lost big time to these guys at the beginning of the year and we've been playing much better than we did during the first 20 games of the season... But I'm still pissed.

[Dan]

while I'm not nearly as pissed as Soda is (I don't think I ever am) I will agree with most of what he's saying (altho not to the degree)..

Originally Posted by SodaPopinski

REALLY ****ING PISSED OFF TONIGHT. HERE'S MY "BLOOD IS STILL HOT" POST-GAME EVALUATIONS:

Steve Blake: If you want to play in this league, grow a ****ing pair. You let a guy who had four points going into the 4th quarter absolutely ****ing humiliate your pathetitic ***. You sucked tonight and played like you belong in the D-League. Also - when you have an open look, take it. I don't know how many turnovers you had tonight, but it felt like at least 6 or 7.

this was, by far, his worst game so far. He only had 3 assists, and he shot poor, and most importantly, made a couple bone-head plays late in the game (3 turnovers for the game too).

His defense was, at best, suspect. How many easy layups against him did Miller have?

Basically, he played how he normally plays, but this time it bit the team more than normal.

Nate McMillan: Figure out the ****ing rotation, dumb ***. How many straight games does Sebastian have to absolutely blow a double-digit lead before you figure out he's blowing a double-digit lead? Every other team in the league plays its major players 35-40 minutes a game. YOU DON'T ALWAYS HAVE TO ****ING FIND REST FOR OUR BEST PLAYERS. ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'VE ONLY PLAYED 2 GAMES IN THE LAST WEEK. Figure it out. ****ING FIGURE IT OUT.

well, to be fair, both times he blew the lead, they got it back, including the last time when it went up to 10 I believe. The team lost it's last lead when Blake was in the game.

The teams horrible PG play (more so from the starter actually) is what cost the team the game. Miller is good, but he's not 7 points above his average good.

I know people will say I'm just "defending Telfair", but I can't control what those people think.

[FeloniusThunk]

Did no starters shoot a free throw the whole game? I don't think I've ever seen that before.

[mgb]

Come on, Pop, don't hold back tell us how you really feel.

[mook]

Originally Posted by Hap

this was, by far, his worst game so far. He only had 3 assists, and he shot poor, and most importantly, made a couple bone-head plays late in the game (3 turnovers for the game too).

His defense was, at best, suspect. How many easy layups against him did Miller have?

Basically, he played how he normally plays, but this time it bit the team more than normal.

he normally averages 3 assists, 3 turnovers, and crappy shooting?

his defense did stink in the 4th quarter though. it was weird how bad it got, considering he seemed to have Miller reasonably contained for the first three quarters. maybe he got tired or something.

what can you do, though? the guy is 25 in his first job as a consistent NBA starter.

I'm surprised people are really so mad about this game. Denver's a pretty good team, and are 9-1 in their last ten games. good teams beat mediocre/bad teams all the time in the NBA, even when the mediocre/bad team leads for much of the game.

the better team won.

I can't wait for Miles to come back. when Randolph sits (or is consistently denied the ball) our offense becomes a mess. Darius can fix some of that.

[Dan]

Originally Posted by theWanker

he normally averages 3 assists, 3 turnovers, and crappy shooting?

because I said that's his normal game, does not mean that the stats he gets tonite is actually what he gets normally. It means he plays a non-descript game, that basically doesn't change from game to game. It's not that he has to average exactly 3 and 3, but that his game isn't much better than that.

his defense did stink in the 4th quarter though. it was weird how bad it got, considering he seemed to have Miller reasonably contained for the first three quarters. maybe he got tired or something.

I think they had the wrong guy defending him.

what can you do, though? the guy is 25 in his first job as a consistent NBA starter.

same is true of telfair too. They're both streaky, inconsistent players, who have good games, and then bad games (usually 'bout the same %).

I'm surprised people are really so mad about this game. Denver's a pretty good team, and are 9-1 in their last ten games. good teams beat mediocre/bad teams all the time in the NBA, even when the mediocre/bad team leads for much of the game.

I'm not sure why people are mad. Considering the team has 0 free throws from it's starters, and was careless at the end, I think a 3 point loss isn't horrible. I really wish they got the win (and was semi-confident when they were up by 12) but meh..

the better team won.
I can't wait for Miles to come back. when Randolph sits (or is consistently denied the ball) our offense becomes a mess. Darius can fix some of that.

I hope he can, but his shot still isn't his best part of the game. Maybe with Darius creating his offense when Zach is doubled, and then him hopefully passing to Blake/Dixon/Telfair/whoever, it'll help.

and maybe this year, Darius will actually pass the ball to Viktor.

[RipCity9]

How could you not be upset about this game? One player absolutely threw it away! Blake was so awful I still can't fathom just how bad he was - what the hell was he still doing in the game at that point?! Horrible!

Equally horrible were the whole 3 second half fouls called on Denver! I've never seen such a bull**** period of non-calls.

[Fork]

Why all the anger?

We're not that good. Our players will make mistakes. McMillan will make mistakes (especially when you have the benefit of hindsight.)

It's just one game. We've been playing pretty well lately and we hung in against a really good Denver team.

[Blazer Freak]

What I am mad about is that people are so much on Blakes jock. But in reality he keeps us in games just as much as he loses them. This isn't the first time he has made crucial mistakes in crunch time. Look at the pass to no one against Detroit, or this game. Why not just give Telfair the job, when he was kept in the game by Nate his confidence was up again and was back to driving. He looked much better. We need to give him another chance starting IMO.

[Dan]

Originally Posted by Blazer Freak

What I am mad about is that people are so much on Blakes jock. But in reality he keeps us in games just as much as he loses them. This isn't the first time he has made crucial mistakes in crunch time. Look at the pass to no one against Detroit, or this game. Why not just give Telfair the job, when he was kept in the game by Nate his confidence was up again and was back to driving. He looked much better. We need to give him another chance starting IMO.

I don't know if he deserves another spot just yet, but if the team goes through another 6 game losing streak (entirely possible) a change might be good. Maybe not necessary, but good.

[Sambonius]

Telfair penetrating = invincible. Seriously. He needs to start.

[RipCity9]

Originally Posted by Fork

Why all the anger?

We're not that good. Our players will make mistakes. McMillan will make mistakes (especially when you have the benefit of hindsight.)

It's just one game. We've been playing pretty well lately and we hung in against a really good Denver team.

I don't know about you, but my goals for this team aren't to keep racking up moral victories. We just gave away two home games that we should have won.