[Storyteller]

The Van Exel play pretty much epitomizes the entire second quarter:

He shoots a layup, misses, gets the rebound, shoots again, misses again, Sheed with the rebound.

Even when something goes right for the Mavs, it turns wrong.

[Storyteller]

Originally posted by <b>Gym Rat</b>!
SPEED!

Yeah, Speed is looking pretty good right now.

He predicts the Blazers will come back after being down 3-0 and most of us say that he's being TOO optimistic.

Then he predicts a blowout for Game #6, and takes some heat.

Well, if the game continues along the same lines, he'll be looking pretty good.

Props to Speed!

[Gym Rat]

GOOD NIGHT! I am going to watch the rest of this masterpiece from the comfort of my bed!!!

WOO FREAKING HOO
Go Blazers!

SPEED

[Speed]

Alright, So Cal. Thanks. We have to play a BIG HALF here to get it done.

Let's go.

22 minutes of Kick Butt Basketball and we can tie the series!

Go Blazers

[s a b a s 11]

Shut Up Zach.

Shut up.

STuart

[Beaverton]

I didn't see that Patterson Tech? What was that all about. You're going out of bounds, you throw the ball at the defender to save it. Didn't look intentional.

[Speed]

Reason For Concern?

We shot 80% in the third and only won the quarter by 5 pts.

Go Blazers

[eckô]

see dallas has nothin'

if you just put some pressure on defence they collapse, if you let them shoot they will destroy you, make it a little thougher and they choke, cause their shots aint fallin

[loyalty4life]

Eh, it was an okay win.

[Ed O]

Originally posted by <b>Beaverton</b>!
I didn't see that Patterson Tech? What was that all about. You're going out of bounds, you throw the ball at the defender to save it. Didn't look intentional.

The ONLY thing I can think of is the timing of the whistle; did RP throw the ball off Griffin after the whistle had been blown?

I didn't think so, and I don't care enough at the moment to TiVo back to see. It was a weak T considering Griffin was so OBVIOUSLY bodying up to foul RP as the instigator.

Ed O.

[Speed]

Shawn Bradley + Dirk Nowitzki = ZERO REBOUNDS

[Speed]

I hope the Blazers educate the Mavs in Game 7. We've had our Game 7 trauma and now, we get our second chance!

We need to teach Dallas a lesson on Sunday!

GO BLAZERS

[brewmaster]

I think the ref called a T on Ruben because he tried to throw it off the guy's head. If he had tried to throw it off the body, probably no T.

[Ed O]

Originally posted by <b>brewmaster</b>!
I think the ref called a T on Ruben because he tried to throw it off the guy's head. If he had tried to throw it off the body, probably no T.

I don't know why that's a technical foul... guys throw the ball off of other guys' groin areas all the time, and that's worse than the noggin.

You might be right, though...

Ed O.

[brewmaster]

Just call it a judgement call, in the ref's opinion. I can see where a toss off the head (even though Ruben is going out of bounds) can be pretty antagonistic (sp?).