[MJG]

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr><td></td><td width="20"><center>@</center></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><center>9 - 12</center></td><td width="20">
</td><td><center>6 - 16
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9:00 PM on WB

Washington leads season series 1 - 0

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr><td></td><td><center>- Key Match: C -

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9.3

</td><td width="50"><center>PPG</center></td><td width="34">6.8
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6.6

</td><td width="50"><center>RPG</center></td><td width="34">8.1
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0.7

</td><td width="50"><center>APG</center></td><td width="34">0.8
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0.4

</td><td width="50"><center>SPG</center></td><td width="34">0.4</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">
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2.1

</td><td width="50"><center>BPG</center></td><td width="34">2.5
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27.4

</td><td width="50"><center>MPG</center></td><td width="34">27.6</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td></td></tr></tbody> </table>

[MJG]

Sorry about the non-activity the past couple days, had a lot of moving to do. Should be okay from here on out though.

This'll be an interesting one. Portland isn't a good team, but right now, we're not all that much better. We nipped them in our own gym not too long ago, this one being on the road makes it more interesting. Also, how about Steve Blake? Didn't do jack the first six weeks of the year, then suddenly had 19 points and 13 assists in their last one.

[MJG]

No Miles. No Telfair. No crowd. (Edit: No Przybilla.) If we lose ...

[One on One]

Dixon & Blake are giving it to us.

[MJG]

This game is terrible. I shouldn't be sitting around grateful for us to have nine wins, but when we play like this, how can you do anything but?

[byrondarnell66]

In one word, Pathetic. Blazers missing 3 starters and we still lose. Jamison looks horrible out there. This team is lottery bound and screw EJ.

[MJG]

Originally Posted by byrondarnell66

In one word, Pathetic. Blazers missing 3 starters and we still lose. Jamison looks horrible out there. This team is lottery bound and screw EJ.

Just what I was thinking. I've held on to my playoff prediction through some pretty rough times in the opening quarter of the season, but this game broke me. We're just not a good team, simple as that. We've got the potential firepower to beat anyone on any given night, but if it's one of the nights when we're not going off on all cylinders, we're probably in the bottom half dozen teams in the league. It's totally impossible to imagine this team winning the 42ish games that will be necessary to get into the playoffs -- the .250 ball we've played in the sixteen games since the 5-1 start (of which four of the wins came against probable non-playoff teams) suggests something in the low 30s seems a lot more likely.