Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Green Coming In, Blake Left Calf Contusion
Green is coming in at next dead ball! Thanks coach. Blazer braintrust reports that Blake has left calf contusion; return doubtful.
Bring on Taurean Green; If not now, when?
Keep this lead for a few more minutes and I think it's time to bring on T. Green. The rookie deserves it and it would give the crowd something to go nuts over. If not now, when? It's raining in the Rose Garden, threes that is. Come on coach, put in Green, the shortest player on the youngest team in the league.
Steve Blake Is God; Roy Looks OK; Blake Down
Sigh of relief on Roy's return from rolled ankle. And it's a good thing, I just voted for him three times for the All Star team.
Blake is hot as it gets, 23 points early in the 3rd. Is this just Blazers shooting lights out from the three or terrible Warriors' defense? Doesn't matter much. 24 point lead. Not much to analyze here. Let's see if Roy can get triple-double with bad ankle and tailbone. That would be Jordan-like.
I'm sitting in PDX Magazine's chair...don't tell anyone.
Blake's down with what looks like knee to calf. Probably just a bruise.
Lead is 18 now. Need to hold it up to show to league that you can't come back on this team anymore.
Blake is hot as it gets, 23 points early in the 3rd. Is this just Blazers shooting lights out from the three or terrible Warriors' defense? Doesn't matter much. 24 point lead. Not much to analyze here. Let's see if Roy can get triple-double with bad ankle and tailbone. That would be Jordan-like.
I'm sitting in PDX Magazine's chair...don't tell anyone.
Blake's down with what looks like knee to calf. Probably just a bruise.
Lead is 18 now. Need to hold it up to show to league that you can't come back on this team anymore.
Blazers v. Warriors (16 minutes to tipoff)
Ok, Blazer Beatniks, I'm in, scaled the Garden walls and snuck in through the back door, the media entrance. What are they thinkin'? I'm not media, I'm a blogger.
Saw H. Semler on the way in. He's working audio for the telecast. Good to know that Kristin Rogers-B will be in the bowl as well. I'll text her later. All you Sentinel writers and Blazer maniacs better start chiming in later.
Tonight's game against Warriors should be a tough test, a true Western Conference rivalry. This is a full-chested, guard-oriented Warriors team with Baron Davis carrying the load, but don't look for the boys of winter to do much double-teaming, at least at first. According to the coach's chalkboard, one-on-one defense is the priority. "We just gotta keep our hands up," says J. Jack, my secret weapon down the stretch in the fourth quarter. Strength versus strength against Davis, and Jack carries the most muscle at the guard position.
Sports Ilustrated is in the room, interviewing Lamarcus Aldridge before the game.
I asked Taurean Green about what characterizes this team and he like others couldn't put words to the Blazer's style (Roger's Anthony's question). Still, he said, "We just keep learning, getting better, sort of like a college team." Green reports that his worst rookie initiation so far was being thrown in the cold tank in San Antonio. Water was 20 F. but he didn't have much say in the matter.
I asked Raef and Chaning to describe the Blazer's style too, and they couldn't come up with any specific words. "We just play 'our game," said Green. What exactly "our game" is remains elusive though.
Channing Frye reports that he loves Portland and says that a couple of his favorite spots are OBA and the Horsebrass Pub. Maybe I'll go over to Horsebrass after the game. Frye goes there after every game. His girlfriend lives in Portland. We need to get him over to NP.
I'm situated up in section 2007, the overflow media section. Nothing like being overflow media.
And the beat goes on.
(Black) and Redpen.1000
Saw H. Semler on the way in. He's working audio for the telecast. Good to know that Kristin Rogers-B will be in the bowl as well. I'll text her later. All you Sentinel writers and Blazer maniacs better start chiming in later.
Tonight's game against Warriors should be a tough test, a true Western Conference rivalry. This is a full-chested, guard-oriented Warriors team with Baron Davis carrying the load, but don't look for the boys of winter to do much double-teaming, at least at first. According to the coach's chalkboard, one-on-one defense is the priority. "We just gotta keep our hands up," says J. Jack, my secret weapon down the stretch in the fourth quarter. Strength versus strength against Davis, and Jack carries the most muscle at the guard position.
Sports Ilustrated is in the room, interviewing Lamarcus Aldridge before the game.
I asked Taurean Green about what characterizes this team and he like others couldn't put words to the Blazer's style (Roger's Anthony's question). Still, he said, "We just keep learning, getting better, sort of like a college team." Green reports that his worst rookie initiation so far was being thrown in the cold tank in San Antonio. Water was 20 F. but he didn't have much say in the matter.
I asked Raef and Chaning to describe the Blazer's style too, and they couldn't come up with any specific words. "We just play 'our game," said Green. What exactly "our game" is remains elusive though.
Channing Frye reports that he loves Portland and says that a couple of his favorite spots are OBA and the Horsebrass Pub. Maybe I'll go over to Horsebrass after the game. Frye goes there after every game. His girlfriend lives in Portland. We need to get him over to NP.
I'm situated up in section 2007, the overflow media section. Nothing like being overflow media.
And the beat goes on.
(Black) and Redpen.1000
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Welcome Back to Blazer Beat Blog
Blazer Loyalists:
Welcome back to the Blazer Beat blog. After some winter hibernation and holiday cheer, team Sentinel returns to the court of basketball commentary.
Let me first confirm that the era of Blazermania III is here. I lived through the first two versions, first with Walton and then Drexler, and can say without question that the disease has taken the town under its infectious grip. It’s like the flu; you know it when you got it and Portland’s got it good.
This Wednesday will mark my first turn at in-game blogging. Check it out here. I intend to feature some pre-game discussions with the players, quarterly reports and real-time exclamations as the game goes along. Let me know what you think during the game…I’ll need some company sitting there on press row, me and my laptop broadcasting to the world.
Down the road, look for fellow Sentinel writers to do the same.
BTW, I have a great suggestion to the Blazers for a give-away bauble…small, cheap AM radios with Blazer logos on them. How cool would it be to know that the entire Garden crowd is listening to the play-by-play by Wheels and Rice? The commentators themselves could orchestrate some pretty cool fan actions without the opposing teams knowing it. For example, they could incite the crowd to yell “brick house” just at the right moment during free throws or tell everyone to stand and turn their back after a particularly bad officiating call.
If I don’t see you at the game, I’ll see you in cyberland on Wednesday. Golden State will be a tough challenge, but the boys of winter will be rested and ready. --- (Black and) Red Pen 1000
Welcome back to the Blazer Beat blog. After some winter hibernation and holiday cheer, team Sentinel returns to the court of basketball commentary.
Let me first confirm that the era of Blazermania III is here. I lived through the first two versions, first with Walton and then Drexler, and can say without question that the disease has taken the town under its infectious grip. It’s like the flu; you know it when you got it and Portland’s got it good.
This Wednesday will mark my first turn at in-game blogging. Check it out here. I intend to feature some pre-game discussions with the players, quarterly reports and real-time exclamations as the game goes along. Let me know what you think during the game…I’ll need some company sitting there on press row, me and my laptop broadcasting to the world.
Down the road, look for fellow Sentinel writers to do the same.
BTW, I have a great suggestion to the Blazers for a give-away bauble…small, cheap AM radios with Blazer logos on them. How cool would it be to know that the entire Garden crowd is listening to the play-by-play by Wheels and Rice? The commentators themselves could orchestrate some pretty cool fan actions without the opposing teams knowing it. For example, they could incite the crowd to yell “brick house” just at the right moment during free throws or tell everyone to stand and turn their back after a particularly bad officiating call.
If I don’t see you at the game, I’ll see you in cyberland on Wednesday. Golden State will be a tough challenge, but the boys of winter will be rested and ready. --- (Black and) Red Pen 1000
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