Dec 23 2008
We Will Win Tonight
Once again, the Blazers got intimidated by a skinny PF that yells loudly.
Honestly, I cannot understand how the Blazers got outrebounded by over 10 throughout the game last night and still made a push towards the end and had a chance to win the game.
Honestly, I cannot understand how the Blazers shot 20 less free throws that game and were still in it.
Honestly, I cannot understand how Brandon Roy scored under 10 points and the Blazers still had a chance to win the game.
Listen, last night was a horrible conflation of nasty coincidences. They were playing tired after a road trip to Eugene and a flight out of EUG and then they had to deal with that thin Rocky Mountain air, and along with that, they had two of their starters knocked out with foul trouble within the first 5 minutes of the game. That is a deathblow to any other young team. However, the Blazers stuck through it and made a game of it, even if Nate McMillan was resorting to throwing darts at names on a board at the end to pick out line-ups. (This is based on absolutely no research at all, but I think last night’s game was the first loss where Nate played the entire roster.)
The dreary officiating should be minimized during the game tonight, and if it is called evenly, it’s easy to project a rout. Beyond that, any possible intimidation used by Kenyon and Nene really loses its effect when the sound is drowned out by 20,000 cold and win-desperate sons of bitches.
It’s rare when I make projections, because I like them to count. Well, here it is. My projection for tonight is the Blazers will win, and it will be by a larger margin than you’d think.
