October 27th, 2010
Another season is finally here! Another season of rabid fans watching the Trailblazer's every move, over reacting to dramatic scenarios, and general second guessing of the front office. We do love our team, and sometimes it takes a short time re-immersing yourself in fan-dom to realize yet again how ridiculous we as fans can be. It's the only show in town folks, but we often to forget to act like 'we've been here before'. '
The game itself was a sloppy outing, both good and bad can be taken from last night's events. It was a tale of two halves (actually more like a tale of the first three quarters and the fourth quarter) where in the fourth quarter the defense woke up in a huge way.
Roy looked pretty good with the ball, still kind of lost without it. A great low-post guard with a nice shot from distance, but he is still not looking like much of a distributor.
Roy looked pretty good with the ball, still kind of lost without it. A great low-post guard with a nice shot from distance, but he is still not looking like much of a distributor.
Lamarcus Aldridge looked pretty good, however he is still missing any kind of a 'mean streak' that we've been wishing he would develop these last couple of years. The prevailing thought here at KPW is that this is who he is, an oversized small forward that does not thrive on contact. His trade value is still pretty high now, what are we waiting for?
The most pleasant surprise of our established starters was for me Nic Batum. If this kid can stay healthy (he looks skinnier then Durant!) and in one piece he will be a great defensive complimentary player that will have offensive outbursts regularly. Think 'Tayshaun Prince' with more smoothness to his game. I loved what we got out of Nic last night.
Miller was Miller, a slow start to the season is what we expect out of Andre. Another piece in a trade coming up? You would think so based on Brandon's comments this pre-season and just from his general 'fit' with the team. He is a great passer and ball handler, he can create down low but does not have a reliable shot. That just doesn't fit with this team very well.
Marcus Camby was Marcus. Some nice post moves and put backs, scrappy ball play, just a dependable presence in the middle. He gets his hands in all the passing lanes it seems. Solid.
Wes Mathews, Armon Johnson, and even Oberto (Oh Boy!) showed good things. Overall for the first game it had more positives than negatives. Phoenix played a pretty sloppy game themselves so I don't want to read any more into the win, at least it came on the night that the Heat (mandatory silence to show respect to the 'big three') lost their first game, 82-0 isn't going to happen THIS season!
The situation is what we all knew it would be. We'll be a 50-55 win team by benefit of our conference being a little weaker then last year. Anything more then that, or any post-season hopes, will rely on the return of our two bigs (Greg Oden and Joel Pryzbilla) and how they do.
Overall not a bad game and I liked our urgency in the fourth quarter. It's a long season and it will be an interesting ride, if anything.
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