Remember earlier in the season when Portland’s intensity level was often in question? Well, the Blazers pretty much killed that theory within twelve minutes on Tuesday.
On a night when Portland desperately needed to show a division rival like the Utah Jazz how legit they are, the Blazers accomplished that and then some. They started aggressive, were [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Greg Oden’
That First Quarter….
Posted in basketball, home game, tagged Brandon Roy, Greg Oden, LaMarcus Aldridge, Nicolas Batum, Steve Blake on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shaq Speaks, I Listen
Posted in basketball, home game, writing, tagged Greg Oden, Shaq on March 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It’s tough to beat a good Shaquille O’Neal story. It really is. Even having covered the guy a number of times before, I’ve learned if Shaq is going to talk, then you better be around to listen.
After Portland put the hurt on Phoenix last night at the Rose Garden and on TNT, Shaq held court with [...]
Meanwhile….In The E.R.
Posted in basketball, writing, tagged Greg Oden, Nicolas Batum, Rudy Fernandez on March 18, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The last place I thought I’d find myself on St. Patrick’s Day morning was the emergency room. Guess that’s what I get for not wearing green – or drinking enough liquids before and during working out at the gym: a little dehydration.
So after some dizzy spells, nausea, a little vomiting, almost passing out, a quick [...]
Brush It Off….
Posted in basketball, writing, tagged Greg Oden, Kevin Durant on February 14, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Every time I see an ant hill, I can’t help but think back to when I was in high school. I was a sophomore. Maybe a junior. All I know is there must have been a couple hundred ants crawling all over me and I hated it.
It was in Nebraska. I was working with my dad trying [...]
Six On The Floor, One For The Ages
Posted in home game, writing, tagged Brandon Roy, Doc Rivers, Greg Oden, Kevin Garnett, LaMarcus Aldridge on December 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Doc Rivers sat in his office in the visitor’s locker room at the Rose Garden staring at the sheet of paper. It was hard to tell if he couldn’t believe the black ink popping off the page or if he was trying to memorize it. Either way, Doc wasn’t happy.
Rivers was quick to credit [...]
One Of Those Weeks
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brandon Roy, Dwight Howard, Greg Oden, Jeff Van Gundy, LaMarcus Aldridge, Rudy Fernandez, Travis Outlaw on December 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
If back-to-back games are the killer of an NBA schedule, than the Portland Trail Blazers are deadman walking. It’s bad enough to drop a game in always tough Utah. But now you have to come home against a rested Los Angeles Clippers? Brutal anyway you look at it.
“I think the back-to-back thing is by far the [...]
Still Kicking It
Posted in away game, writing, tagged Brandon Roy, Courtney Lee, Greg Oden, Jack Dempsey, Jerry Sloan, John Stockton, Karl Malone, LaMarcus Aldridge on December 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There have already been four head coaches fired eight weeks into the regular season. No wonder the unemployment rate is soaring in this country. But there is one guy who seems to always have job security: Gerald Eugene Sloan.
“I know how volatile this business is,” Jerry Sloan said recently. “I just think how lucky [...]
Let The Oden-Howard Talk Begin….Again
Posted in basketball, home game, tagged Dwight Howard, Greg Oden, Nate McMillan on December 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Greg Oden as Dwight Howard: Nate McMillan went there before.Will he go there again?
After spending the past three summers with Howard on Team USA, McMillan knows Dwight’s game intimately. But can Oden transform himself into that kind of player?
Last year when Orlando rolled into town, McMillan said he (and the organization) envisioned Oden being Dwight [...]
Beantown Beatdown
Posted in away game, basketball, tagged Brandon Roy, Greg Oden, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen on December 6, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Sorry to be a voice of objectivity but it is probably best Portland lost to the Boston Celtics on Friday night. They won’t forget that loss. In fact, it will make the Blazers that much stronger as the season grows older – as the team grows older together.
We are, after all, talking about the Boston [...]
Growing With Greg
Posted in away game, basketball, tagged Brandon Roy, Greg Oden, Joel Przybilla, Nate McMillan on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While Nate McMillan was busy giving referee Joe DeRosa the business, his young Blazers were two minutes away from another growth spurt.
On a night that saw Brandon Roy’s late game heroics continue, Greg Oden flash promise and Portland take care of the Washington Wizards on the end of a back-to-back, it’s clear the second youngest [...]
