Boy was I wrong!

Clang! This was the sound on the Trail Blazers side of the court in the second half, even though both teams played exceedingly sloppy the Blazers just could not buy a shot. The game started off well, except for the amount of foul calls, and both teams and coaches were bitching at the ref's the entire game, but Roy was hitting his shots, Channing Frye was playing pretty well off the bench, I thought things would be okay.

But then the second half came and the Blazers just fell apart, one thing of note that I thought of was right before tipoff (which they didn't even show the actual tipoff, huh?) was a piece with Blazers assistant coach Monty Williams in which he said that they had told the Blazers to run as much as they could. Well in the second half they did that but it was so sloppy, so many times Houston would turn it over, the Blazers would run and then.... (hold your breath) turn it over.

That to me was the deciding factor of this game, horrible transition offense in the second half, and they were rushing shots, making poor shot selections, just not playing typical Blazer basketball. Now we will see how they respond to this on Sunday, game at 3:00 PM against Atlanta, I will try to get a preview up later today or early tomorrow.