Blazers 107, Pacers 105: Pacers Come Up One Play Short

Another great offensive showing from B Rush, how many donuts is that for him on the season?

1. Those easy missed layups at the very beginning of the game ended up haunting the team.

2. Brandon Roy got some serious star treatment on the last Blazers possession. I always hated how if someone falls down, it’s a foul on the other side.

3. It would’ve been really great to have Danny last night, if only for the last shot. No doubt in my mind he would’ve gotten a great look, and possibly another buzzer beater on the road.

Tough loss. Team was in control, but just made too many little mistakes. Too many fouls, too many turnovers, not enough stops. Blazers defense stepped up tremendously at the end, so they deserve a lot of credit on that.

Oh well, sucks we couldn’t move within a game of the playoffs, but at least we didn’t lose ground. Just need to take care of business against the Clips and hope we can stay in the race.

BRoy WAS bumped (although I know it was very very minimal) on that last play. We lucked out that they called the foul, but Brandon does not get “star treatment” like Kobe or LeBron.

Sometimes it gets so bad, I wonder if he has to have blood dripping down his body or a compound fracture out of his leg for calls to happen. But, he is a little louder when making contact this year than last, so I guess you can consider it special treatment…but it is VERY rare.

This was a very good game for Indy and the Blazers did exactly what I expected them to do; come out into the game without any energy or effort because of your record. They have a serious problem doing that this season. Then we realize that maybe the team is better than the record shows and they have to make up for all that lost ground. We rely so much on our second half play, it’s going to wear us down come playoff time. They better shape up soon.

I knew this game was going to be a great matchup, and I have a feeling you will get your revenge in two weeks :)

and the Pacers couldn’t get to the line and Portland could. If you let the other team double you up on free throw attempts, it’s hard to win. The game is stopped and you let the other team back in the game.

1. In the 4th, there were those 2 possessions where the shot clock was winding down and Indiana couldn’t get a shot off.

2. As much as I didn’t like all the fouls, especially the one against TJ Ford, you can’t really complain because Portland was going to the line all night. Jarret had a decent look on the 3 despite Outlaw flying past him like a bird.

3. I’m glad the Pacers play every game, but the little mistakes eventually add up.

4. I missed Danny. If anything, he would have gotten to the line 10 times on his own and maybe there would be no need for last second 3. (Who am I kidding – it’s the Pacers, of course there will be a last second shot.)

5. My fan-girl crush on Rudy Fernandez was tempered for one game because home team trumps skinny Spaniards with scruffy face hair.

6. I was expecting 2-1 road trip. Now we need to make it reality when we face the Clippers on Saturday. I’ll be in Chicago then so hopefully when I get back home, I’ll see good news when I turn on my computer.

Outlaw is bald and Aldridge has hair.