Sorry all, busy morning, and wasn't really home yesterday to blog about the game last night. But a few different articles to check out, I already pointed you towards the Jason Quick blog about chemistry, but here is the article that was in the Sunday paper about chemistry, it is going to be a five part series I guess, but I also saw that parts 1 and 2 were already printed, on the same day, weird. Anyways also click the polling item at the top of that article to see the Blazers list their best friends on the team, good stuff, what caught my eye is that LA and Serge are best buds, 0nce again, weird, but cool.
Also Henry Abbott of TrueHoop apparently catches some flak for writing about the Blazers, but I like how he defends himself as being a fan as well as a sportswriter and being honest about it. And honestly, he hasn't had too many great stories to write about concerning the Blazers the last few years, so I say more power to him. Along that same line of thought, I mean if you go to any blog, most bloggers show who they are fans of and often do team-centric blogs, I mean look at me! So I don't begrudge him for doing it, and it is one of the main reasons I started reading TrueHoop religiously in the first place, I was excited that he was a Blazer fan. I would say it is easier to find Blazer fans now, but not when he started.
One word: Amazing.
I will say this, I was watching that game (in HD, sweeeet) and the entire thing was miserable until about four or five minutes left. I mean we kept scoring in the second half but so did they, and then once again with a fever, Brandon Roy just took OVER that game. I mean I watched some highlights reels here and they don't even show the drive he had where he dribbled in the lane, took the ball up right and then brought it back to the left and layed it in WHILE Al Horford was holding onto his left arm, I mean this kid is insane! That was one of the best game changing performances I have ever seen and just tells me that Roy is indeed one these great superstars who not only will their teams to victory but play them there as well. He played some of the best perimeter defense I have ever seen on Joe Johnson at the end of that game (see 'Amazing' above), blocked a shot by elite shot blocker Josh Smith, and just literally didn't want to lose. The way he slowly starts to drive and then just bursts past defenders once he reaches the key is uncanny. The kid is amazing! Yes, I'm gushing, and yes, it's alright that I do.
One other thing of note late in the game, LaMarcus Aldridge had some HUGE rebounds, kept us in it, and I was glad to see it.
Here are this weeks Power Rankings from Mark Stein.
And from NBA.com.
Finishing up with a little housecleaning, I realize my readers are few (thanks Nat and Jimmy and any other faithfuls lurking), but I noticed that my links don't show up with the text they are in, I don't quite know what to do about this yet, but obviously whenever I am writing and say something is 'here' you should find the correct link. Anyways thanks again, and I will get better at this as time goes on.
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This is off topic, but I feel its important to bring back the hatin:
which brings me to this past sundays game with the Cavs and Lakers. after watching about 6 minutes, I was stumped-- which team do i hate watching more?
i mean the cavs just suck. lets watch a bunch of CBA caliber players and one gifted ball hog. but it dawned upon me that they stole that page out of the new look lakers. they have one A*hole ball hog and a bunch of greasy scum bags (i was referring to rick fox but his spirit lives on in lamar "the original kwame brown/ never lived up to my potential" odom).
So I'm putting it out to the public? Which team sucks more???
I can't help you with that hate, Jimmy. All I can say is I hate LeBron less than Kobe. But I think I hate the rest of the Cavs more than the rest of the Lakers. It's tough. But you know who I hate most of all? The Suns. The Suns with their whiny, histrionic "coach" and their overrated PF playing as a C.
But back to the true spirit of the blog...
Notice that only TWO players name franchise building-block LaMarcus as one of their top 3 "best friends" (awww, how sweet!). Doesn't appear that there's any love lost between Roy and LaMarcus - neither is on the others list. I think LaMarcus is jealous of all the attention Roy is getting. Maybe he'd get some too if he wasn't such a nancy.
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