Under-performing is the pits. I was yelling for the entire second half (in a Buffalo Wild Wings, no less) at every player on our roster. Either someone was getting beat off the dribble, failing to box out the other team, or fouling like it’s a stat you want to accumulate. Seriously, my ridiculous yelling and lamenting went on for 24 minutes straight.

Oh, and when are we giving Hilton his two weeks notice? He’s more useless than steak sauce in India… goddammit anyway!

STEPH!

I mean cmon guys, just admit you got destroyed by the better team on their home floor tonight. That’s not to say the Blazers are a better team overall, but this game they were.

Sour grapes anyone? QQ

Interesting, if harsh criticism of our second unit. #1, I still maintain our second unit has been its best when it comes out as once (currently Brown, Butler, Ju-Ju, Pose, and Hilt). But with Mo out, Butler starts, and while he’s been great, this screws up the rotation. #2, based on how quick Byron yanked Hilt and Ely back and forth last year, I’d expect to see Mike James given another chance, and maybe, just maybe, I’m willing to give it to him (and selfishly want him to succeed so I can repeatedly scream “I’m Mike James, bitch!”). #3 the fouls on our big men were strange tonight. Several were so blatantly non-fouls I wanted to claim they were wronged, but the remainder were such bone-headed fouls, you felt the refs probably just assumed they were going to play stupid all night. And once they stared getting in trouble, then it seemed as if our team rhythm was off.

I don’t know, man. This was a hard loss to swallow. Luckily I was good and drunk last night, and immediately went to show Mikey the Lakers-fan.com Machine clips over Youtube on my iPhone. I was crying I was laughing so hard. Or maybe it was the inevitable emotional catharsis that comes from such an ass-whooping. Whatever.

To Wednesday.

Blazers fans should be this boastful after a single game, and even think we should NEVER be boastful by the way.
I don’t think, leeroyjenkins, it brings anything to anyone to come on others’ teams’ forums and claim that our Blazers ‘destroyed’ (????) another team…

the Hornets are currently a better team. We have a lot of respect for the Hornets.

First of all, no matter the foul language that comes to mind when your #2 PG comes in it continues to remain that Your #2 PG > Our #2 PG. Sergio is making strides this year namely not turning the ball over 18 times a game and not turning the ball over 18 times a game :). Secondly, the rest of your bench outplayed, in my opinion our 2nd unit. It was hard to pinpoint as Nate’s 10 man rotation created some momentary mismatches but honestly Channing Frye refuses to rebound, Travis Outlaw is our worste individual defender, and only because he lacks the will to play defense and Rudy had a mediocre game, for him and that’s b/c , as Dave from BEDGE pointed out he is being forced to put the ball on the floor and isn’t left wide open anymore.

The first half was weird. I was sitting in my Inches from the Moon seat thinking, “they are gonna come back and kill us” “LMA cant keep guarding West like that, Paul is gonna smoke Blake and ROY, OH GAWWDDDD!” I had this perpetual feeling of impending doom that only a Blazer fan can understand I think . The point is, The Hornets are an awesome team and in my opinion are better than the Blazers are right now. Chris Paul is one of my favorite NBA players and my son has a poster of him on his wall. Paul and West play well off eachother, and when they are insinc, holy crap that’s an inpossible team to beat. I look foward to some good games in the future.

Now the obligitory never-gonna-happen trade idea:

RLEC + Travis (bench scorer) Blake (PG ) Bayless(backup PG) for Chris Paul :)LOL

Sophia

Sorry, I need to disagree.

I didn’t realize the foul calls were that far off, and the Hornets have a legitimate complaint there. I saw quite a few calls that weren’t called by the refs that were committed by the blazers. I was 12 seats away and I probably had a better view than the refs did as I was behind the basket.

The blazers have depth. This means they can run you into the ground. While other players get tired, the blazers pick up the game. This isn’t an accident, it’s intentional. That fraction of a second a player loses because they’re tired is all the difference in the world.

The blazers played incredible defense on Paul. He still got some points but the blazer point guards were DASHING like crazy refusing to let Paul do anything. he did anyways because he’s so darn good, but that’s not the hornets dropping the game, that’s the blazers REFUSING to let down their fans at home.

This game was physical. Lots of grabbing and holding by both teams. The blazers didn’t back down, like they might have in the past, and instead did it right back and stood their ground. The blazers were the team that wanted it more. The blazers were the team that was meaner. The blazers won this game and didn’t let New Orleans take it away because when that door started opening up, they kicked it shut right in the Hornets face.

You did disrespect the Blazers because the Hornets may have not played the best neither did the blazers and yet they won the game. Rudy struggled on offense as did travis. Oden looked for other avenues to help his team because he recognized that he was over matched on offense. Good teams find ways to win. The blazers were a VERY good team last night. Neither New Orleans or the Blazers played their best, but if you think New Orleans and New Orleans only lost this game, then you’re going to be in for a VERY big surprise come the end of the season.

If you single coverage Greg, he’ll score on you. If you double or triple him, he’ll pass out to a three point shooter. As the defense scrambles to cover him, he’ll pass to another and another. Check out the blazers 3pt shooting percentage.

If they don’t like the shot then it’s dished to someone who will attack the basket. The pass goes to Greg or back out to a 3 pt shooter that is definitely open at this point. You can’t single coverage because Aldridge or Roy or Oden will own you. You can’t double team because those threes will start chinging like vegas on an elderly retreat night.

I think you should take another look at the blazers. They’re starting to finally click and move as a team. The scary thing is they’re not even there yet. There’s still some mistakes that are made, open players not passed to, defense plays messed up, a center that is still figuring out his foot movement and how to be effective offensively, when double and tripled, in the NBA. This team can be very very good, and they’re starting to figure out how.

The hornets are also very good, but they lost to a better team tonight. They also lost to a different team, playwise, than the one they beat on their court. The team they played last night is finally starting to get it. Next meet up I expect will be close and in the Hornets favor. Even the best defenses can’t shut down players like Chris Paul and I expect both he and Wade will have a burning grudge against this blazer team. Please do note what the blazers did against Wade. It’s not New Orleans… this team is just that good and will only get better.

i remember telling her at just barely over two minutes 30 seconds left, that we couldnt relax yet. basket ball fanz no nola

Watching the game, the Hornets lost it. It’s that simple. The Blazers took advantage of a bad game by a better team.

Blazer fans, Rohan is right. This is a Hornets blog and he will analyze the game from a Hornet perspective. How would the Blazersedge readership respond if Dave wrote last Monday’s game recap all about how much the Kings miss Kevin Martin?

Bottom line, this blog has great writing and does an excellent job breaking down the New Orleans Hornets. If you are looking for Blazer analysis, Dave and Ben do that quite well at Blazersedge.