Jan 16 2009
After The Nets
To start. Yes, that’s Keith Van Horn. He lit the ball on fire during a game, and no one in the crowd even cares. As if it’s normal for a guy to turn things into fire with sheer basketball pyrokinesis. Girl with a scarf should be worried. I mean, if you’re wearing a scarf and a guy is dribbling a flaming ball near you, first thing on your mind should be, I can’t have acrylic near this.Anyway, pleased to meet you, Jerryd Bayless. You still can’t hit a shot outside of the paint to save your life, but that dunk was insane! You were doing that primal guttural war scream before you even slammed that ball down. Game ball for the breakout performance. Now the question about who’s starting with Steve Blake out has been answered to a degree. Jerryd should start. It’s not because he’s better than Sergio, it’s just that he’s better with the starters than Sergio. Sergio’s at his best with guys like Rudy and Travis, but running Jerryd as an off-guard with Brandon at the 1 is just too sweet. It’s like having a smarter version of Jarrett Jack. (By the way, has anyone once mentioned missing Jarrett this entire season? He was the first guy off the bench and no one cares about him. Talk about burning bridges. Travis has to be the most mad about Jarrett leaving, though. No one likes becoming the team scapegoat by default.)
So basically, the Blazers are hot again, and it’s nice to see. It must be tough to overcome your worst loss of the season in a game the next night, but the team did it. Brandon scored like a billion points like usual, and LaMarcus kept icing the with outside shot after outside shot. Also, don’t you wish we took that trade offer that was something like Travis Outlaw and Jarrett Jack for Devin Harris? Me too. Also, in strange +/- news, Rudy and his 6 points had the highest number at +15, beating out Travis at +14. Good Travis has been showing up half the time, now. Congrats.
For those of you looking for something tonight, Darius Miles will be going for his tenth game and the most expensive screw job in NBA history tonight. Goddamn dolphin.
