XCLUSIVE BLAZERS BREAKDOWN, plus nuggets stuff

best win of the year monday nite in portland. toughness and moxie and not getting ejected are some of the emotions our little powder blue soldiers showed up there.

even so, it's a ridiculous team to watch. like a really good pickup team that has never practiced together. seriously, every good play is like a long baseball pass for a layup or a mad scramble that leads to an alley-oop. they might not even be playing basketball anymore. they might be playing space jam.

i luv them tho.

ON PORTLAND: this is a team you wanna be a fan of. brandon roy is reality. outlaw is potential. channing frye is making softness work for him (imagine camby shedding a single tear as channing strokes another jumper). for some reason i never see much out of aldridge, but he's better than our dude with cancer (get better big fella).

jarret jack isn't fast or explosive, he just bulls in there and wills it up. i picked that georgia tech team to win the tourney and won lotsa money offa my roommates when they almost did it. i thought sergio rodriguez would be more exciting, but he plays like juan jose barrea. COMPETENT BABY!

and stevie blake. a.i. and melo got you rich, and then you come back and hit threes against them and finish once at the rim (!) and play some of the best D a.i.'s seen all year. ah, i can't stay mad at his little face. i love me some steve. (a.c. is now feasting on the same shit that got steve rich last year)(sam cassel would look like half-speed steve nash over here, i'm telling you)

pryzbilla is funny. i'm surprised he doesn't get into fights more often. and they've got oden scheduled to take his role next year. i'm assuming, at worse, greg oden will be a rich man's pryzbilla. so, upgraded already.

i was trying to think of who brandon roy is like and i came up with a little mathemetics for yall:
Kirk Hinrich + Ben Gordon + = Brandon Roy. ask bulls fans. combining those two dudes would solve all their problems. plus he's three or four inches taller than either one. dude does everything well, nothing great, nothing bad.
roy is so fucking under control. no moves, just a smooth handle with both hands, a smooth jumper from anywhere, nice touch around the rim, good defensive fundamentals.

players more controlled than B-Roy:
Steve Nash
Tim Duncan
Sam Cassell
Robert Horry (the wheels might be falling of on bob, though)

there are some others, i'm sure, but not more than i can count on my two hands and maybe my penis. my penis is probably sam cassel, to be honest. i would upload a pic, but i'm at work.

bye everybody.

OH WAIT: UTAH TONIGHT!

if i secretly love the blazers, there is no team i loathe more than utah. in the division, portland is what i secretly wish the nugz were, then utah is who i would rather die than become. they are just gross.

i will take our NBA LIVE 03 nuggets than the jazz any day of the week.

LK won't go for 41, they'll gameplan him. look for a.i. and melo to both shoot a good percentage, redeeming the other night. hope camby plays. hope karl gives j.r. minutes (he was fucking great in portland, and vs charlotte before that). hope we can occasionally throw a hand up at their three point shooters. should be fun.

division seems like it's got some substance to it, now, doesn't it? portland, utah, and denver. it will be a battle.