Oct. 29 vs Denver Nuggets

if it wasn't for the 25 free throws by the nuggets we would be up by 8 or so.

Halftime stats
Fast break points: 2
Team TO ( points off ): 6 (6)
+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court.
PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS
STARTERS MIN FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF +/- PTS
Brandon Roy, SG 12 1-6 0-1 5-5 0 3 3 0 0 0 2 +7 7
Steve Blake, PG 12 0-2 0-2 0-0 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 +1 0
Greg Oden, C 14 2-5 0-0 2-2 4 7 1 0 1 1 3 +12 6
Martell Webster, SG 15 4-9 1-2 0-0 0 2 1 0 1 1 3 +11 9
LaMarcus Aldridge, PF 16 2-7 0-0 0-0 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 -10 4
BENCH MIN FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF +/- PTS
Andre Miller, PG 11 2-5 0-2 1-1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 +2 5
Patrick Mills, PG Has not entered game
Jerryd Bayless, PG Has not entered game
Nicolas Batum, SF Has not entered game
Dante Cunningham, F Has not entered game
Joel Przybilla, C 9 0-2 0-0 0-0 2 5 0 0 0 0 3 +1 0
Jeff Pendergraph, F Has not entered game
Travis Outlaw, SF 13 1-8 0-1 2-2 3 6 0 0 0 1 2 +3 4
Juwan Howard, PF 3 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 2
Rudy Fernandez, SG 12 3-6 0-3 0-0 1 3 0 1 0 1 0 -6 6
TOTALS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A OREB REB AST STL BLK TO PF PTS
16-51 1-11 10-10 12 29 9 2 2 4 14 43
31.4% 09.1% 100.0%

Oh no. Charles Barkely has Kenyon Martin lips printed on his neck.

charles made a good point. The Ball needs to go down low a lot more often. Is that nate avoiding big man ball? Or is it our PGs not creating easy shots for our big guys?

Protland gets that many Offensive Boards and that many more shots and leads by one? TNT crew is exposing the weakness we have in no inside scoring.

I like the better defense and Intensity. Next step is inside scoring IMO.. It is not all the guards or Nate tonight. Oden has fumbled some good opportunites. He is young and will get better

Oden and Webster's energy, along with Rudy's shooting is keeping things close. I think Andre Miller got jacked for minutes in the first half.

Greg Oden has the highest plus minus for minutes played of any Blazer...12

Toby wrote:Oden and Webster's energy, along with Rudy's shooting is keeping things close. I think Andre Miller got jacked for minutes in the first half.

Yep. Blake got 12 minutes, Miller 11. Pretty even. About how Nate played it Tuesday night against the Rockets.

Oden blew 1 or 2 easy shots. but most were early passes, forcing him to force the issue. There are times when big guys force the issue. But for the most part pg needs to help create that oppurtunity. drawing attention. Oden needs some easy points, and the footwork will come. Last year it took a while for his foot work to come around. But again, imo the pg must get Oden easy shots, at least half the time. I think they call it drive and dish...

Juwan Howard hit a jumper. That was awesome.

ucatchtrout wrote:

Toby wrote:Oden and Webster's energy, along with Rudy's shooting is keeping things close. I think Andre Miller got jacked for minutes in the first half.

Yep. Blake got 12 minutes, Miller 11. Pretty even. About how Nate played it Tuesday night against the Rockets.

Told you, that 1 minute is an eternity in the NBA.

ESPN gives you updated stats as the game progresses.
http://espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=291029022

and a line by line play by play
http://espn.go.com/nba/playbyplay?gameId=291029022

Blake has to score, you know Billups will. Take it up strong Blake!

sheesh the refs are killing us. what happened to the home team getting the calls.

bad habit wrote:Oden blew 1 or 2 easy shots. but most were early passes, forcing him to force the issue. There are times when big guys force the issue. But for the most part pg needs to help create that oppurtunity. drawing attention. Oden needs some easy points, and the footwork will come. Last year it took a while for his foot work to come around. But again, imo the pg must get Oden easy shots, at least half the time

Oden has missed three shots and had a turnover. It is also the way it is missed. Near the basket. It will come, but isn't there. Maybe the second half I hope. He has kept the ball alive a lot though