[KingSpeed]

I just checked the Rockets message board. One fan is calling this game a knockout blow to us. It's true. This is a HUGE game for Houston. If they win, they clinch the season series against us AND they move up to THREE GAMES ahead of us. We flat out have to win this game. I think Roy knows this. I hope the team revs up for this and brings their A game. This is like the last Denver game and the last Houston game. Those were both critical games and we lost both. If we lose this one, we'll start running out of chances of making the playoffs. We'll move farther away from the Houstons and Denvers and move closer to Sacramento.

[TowelBoy]

There is one thing about this team, even in recent weeks when our play has mostly been sub-par...

We always have another run in us; no lead is safe. With the exception I think of the Detroit game, we've had a reasonable opportunity to win every single game. All we really have to do is sustain some decent play rather than turning it on and off throughout the game. If we turn the ball over, say, 10-12 times tomorrow and make a commitment to score INSIDE as well as outside, we can handle the Rockets.

[KingSpeed]

How do we score inside??

Jarrett Jack. (Plus Roy. Frye & LMA. dumping off to Joel.)

[KingSpeed]

90 minutes til game time.

[MARIS61]

!#$^@^#!^!#comcast!

[ehizzy3]

Originally Posted by MARIS61

!#$^@^#!^!#comcast!

true story

[KingSpeed]

Off I go!

Go Blazers

[ProZach]

Got a good feeling about this game, so that doesn't bode well for Blazer fans. But I've been right before, I'm sure of it.

I remember how the Blazers were able to respond earlier in the year and with the return of Roy I think they have a good chance.

[nikolokolus]

Well what better time than now to snap out of this god-awful funk and show that you "belong." I'm not going to go out and say that this is the most important game of the season, but 0-3 is officially a losing streak, and it'd be nice to see this team find it's feet again.

Being the philosophical sort that I am, I understand the team probably shouldn't win and indeed probably won't tonight, but if ever there was a time to start playing professional basketball, this is it.

[VenomXL]

I'm sitting here, anxiously awaiting game time. I'm actually a little surprised by how pumped up I am about this game. After the last two "performances", I feel tonight is the night we bounce back and make a statement. I think Roy will energize this team and the white unit will actually be the difference makers they were during the winning streak.

We did a good job of neutralizing Yao in the last game against the Rockets, and I think if we do that again tonight our guys will actually hit shots and we'll pull this out.

I must have taken my optimism pills this morning.

[nikolokolus]

Originally Posted by VenomXL

I must have taken my optimism pills this morning.

You took something

[VenomXL]

Come on now, I don't need to be on Grandpa's cough medicine to get behind my team!

[crowTrobot]

nice. LP not working

[VenomXL]

Aldridge bringing it back to the good ol' days with the skyhook!