Apr 30 2009
Trail: Blazers at Rockets, Game 6
We’re back at it again. Tonight comes down to either two options, life-assuring win or soul-crushing defeat.
As said before, both of these teams know each other extremely well, and really nothing will change in this matchup from the last one. Both will try to execute the gameplan that’s been talked about for the last month or however long this series has lasted. Yao will try to go through us and set up his team. If he does it well, Houston wins. If Artest and Brooks fall in love with their jump shot and it doesn’t fall, we have a great chance of winning.
We need some indifference from the referees for a win. (I use the word indifference because we don’t exactly need help from them tonight, we just need them to call it both ways.) Along with that, Greg and Joel continuing their strong post defense is important, in addition to a scoring option not named Brandon Roy rising to the occasion. Assuming that Rudy will be starting tonight, he’ll be Nate’s designated, “We need a clutch performer, and I choose you.”
Basically, there’s nothing else to say about tonight. We know what will happen, but we don’t know how successful things will be for either team. To put a number on the odds that the Blazers win tonight, I’d probably say we have a 40% chance of seeing Saturday night. We seize this game, that’s when we hold all the cards and have all the advantages. We lose…let’s just not talk about that, okay?
