Grey Matters wrote:
>> SkippyPB wrote:
>>> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 17:13:31 -0800, "Terraholm"
>>>
hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Feb 9, 3:41 pm, "Terraholm"
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>>>>> wrote:>>>>>>> Nice game by the bench. Yes, Portland was without Roy, but
>>>>>>> definitely a good game from Stuckey. Amir looked good too. --
>>>>>>> Joe
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They were terrible... but you do not need to turn them into the
>>>>>> pacers.... ;-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Oops! I'll attempt to fix the subject line. -- Joe
>>>>
>>>> Without Roy again today they are turning themselves into the pacers
>>>> in the Indiania gym...
>>>
>>> Trail Blazers had no answer for Granger who is a rising star in the
>>> league and they couldn't crack the Pacer defense in the 3rd quarter.
>>>
>>> Blazers didn't have Roy but the Pacers lost Dunleavy in the second
>>> half with a knee injury, Tinsley sat out the game injured and
>>> Jermaine O'Neil is still out. That's three starters and a bunch of
>>> points!
>>>
>>
>> Roy makes them a different team. Mostly the kids are out of gas,
>> when a whole team of good FT shooters can not make them it is
>> apparent.
'Sheed is absolutely right.
Was fun watching the look on his face finding his mirror image face up high
release fade away jumper just as unstoppable on LMA as is his own.
Billups gave them props...
"They play right," "They play together, they play hard, they
play defense. It don't seem like nobody is out there trying to be 'the man.'
A lot of different guys have big nights for them. I love their team, I
really do."
>
> Any chance they'll win 60 next year, though?
I doubt it. That would not prove anything either.
I think more like 2 or 3 more years before they are an elite team...
That of course IF the potential holds true building around Roy, Oden and
LMA.
I predict they will be someplace between the hyped 'next decades dominant
team' and the East's next great team turning into this year's bulls... =)
2009 the blazers will be able to dump the bad contracts they had to take to
get this team and move others... and if Allen is still willing to spend big
a year later... add a max level free agent as well as hand out the needed
extensions.
--
Laurel T
