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
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