Dec 27 2008
Who’s Afraid of the Cartoon Dinosaur?
Growing up, the only tickets we could get from friends were the non-marquee match-ups, so that usually meant we were seeing one of four different teams: the Clippers, the Grizzlies, the Bucks, and the Raptors. I even managed to catch Damon Stoudamire in either his rookie season, or the season directly after that. My step-brother and I kept chanting “DA-MOOON” every time he was at the free throw line in an effort to psyche him out. He probably shot like 70% for the game, so we attributed it to the power of tweens yelling in the 300 section. What’s sad is that I still do this today.
Tonight we have the cartoon dinosaurs again, and the hope here at Trail Post as that we won’t need a last-second bomb from Steve Blake to win it for us. That Dallas loss was all kinds of nasty, and it’s definitely left Blazer Nation in disarray. No one knows who’s supposed to do what any more. Some of us probably feel dirty for questioning the skill of Brandon Roy. All of us are aching for the return of Martell Webster. How sad is this situation now that we’re calling for a guy who has been nothing but the punchline for not drafting Chris Paul his own career? Still, anything is better than Travis Outlaw or the now-disparu Nico Batum. Some new action is needed.
But hey, I think tonight will turn out alright. Hopefully Sergio can at least pull even in the batalla des bases espanols against Calderon tonight, and then it would just come down to Jermaine choking and Bosh being horrible again. Okay, I really don’t like our chances.
