Jan 29 2009
About Last Night’s Game
The Blazers are a better team than the Bobcats when their best player had his lung collapsed by a clumsy man-child the night before. That’s not saying too much.
Tonight was probably the most vanilla game you could have without having Joel Przybilla play more than ten minutes. It was over as soon as Jerryd Bayless came in off the bench in the first quarter. The big guys continue to to feast on the soft middles of the Eastern Conference and Greg Oden continues to prove that he’s anything but a bust. He took former #2 pick Emeka Okafor (from the 2004 Devil Draft where the Blazers picked Sebastian Telfair, VEEK-tor Khryapa, Sergei Monia, and Ha-Seung Jin) to the wood shed last night.
To be honest with you guys, I really lost interest in the game as it went on, because the final outcome was never in doubt. The Blazers won because they’re a good team, that’s that. I was more interested in the new episode of Lost that came on at 9 than the 14 point fourth quarter the team put up. I don’t think anything during last night’s game could beat the surprise reveal of Charles Widmore on the island. I mean, if somehow Jerryd Bayless was revealed to be Nate McMillan after traveling back in time, I’d be down with that, but honestly, do you think they’d reveal that plotline during a Bobcats game? Me neither.
