31 Mar
(Let’s see if I can get through these pre-thoughts without expressing my hatred towards the Jazz.)
And here….we……GO.
All jokes aside, this is it people. This is the beginning of the stretch run for Portland. Only nine games remain and after tonight there will only be three more home games. We find out during this nine game [...]
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30 Mar
We know there is quite the log-jam in the Western Conference playoff race. There has been for quite some time. As I write this on Monday afternoon, the gap between the #2 spot and #7 spot is 2 and 1/2 games. That means back-to-back losses—not even a streak—can send you tumbling all the way down [...]
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30 Mar
On Friday, I talked about my favorite wins of the season. It was fun thinking back to all the good wins of the season, even though I temporarily blanked and forgot about how we beat the Lakers. There is a flip-side to winning and success and that is the agony of defeat. The Blazers have [...]
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29 Mar
Just to piggyback on what Coup wrote about last night’s game. It took a long time (about 70+ games) but Portland finally went out, grabbed an inferior opponent and went to work like Beatrix Kiddo did on the Crazy 88’s in Kill Bill. Don’t get me wrong there have been some blowouts. But there’s also been a [...]
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28 Mar
That was…not the most competitive basketball game I’ve seen all year. The Grizzlies look like they’ve pretty much thrown in the towel on the season and are playing for summer (was it just me or did Mike Conley look miserable?). This is where I write that you can’t read too much into this game, but [...]
Posted in Blazers by: Coup
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