Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for April 10th (better known to local Blazer fans as ‘the day we’ll deliver the Lakers yet another Rose Quarter smackdown’…!):
- Dwight Jaynes: Rudy Fernandez is trying to put that nasty incident with Trevor Ariza in the past
Dwight writes: "I didn’t see anything that indicates Rudy has ”forgotten” about it. What he said was, he didn’t want to talk about it. It’s in the past. He’s putting it behind him.
But trust me, he hasn’t forgotten about it. The Trail Blazers haven’t forgotten about it. The fans who were in the Rose Garden that night haven’t forgotten about it.
Nor should they."
Nor have I, for that matter.
- Behind The Blazers Beat: Behind the Locker Room Door
If you're a Blazer fan and you're *not* reading Jason Quick's regular Behind the Locker Room Door reports on OregonLive? You're truly, truly missing out…! (Note: there are those over on Dwight’s blog who definitely think otherwise, of course…!)
- Speaking on Behalf of a Western Underdog – TrueHoop By Henry Abbott – ESPN
Sure, it's full of stats and probabilities interesting only to true basketball stat geeks. But there's some great analysis and perspective in there for the rest of us, and the numbers themselves are revealing.
Abbott writes: "But the key to Portland's status as a candidate to win a playoff series is that their offense is the most efficient of all playoff teams (now the Suns are out of the picture), and their team rebound rate leads the league, too. So they get extra opportunities, and most nights use them very efficiently.
They have also been, thanks to Roy, Outlaw, and Nate McMillan's system, demonstrably effective in close games all season. They are young, but not at all scared of crunch time."
I have only one thing to add here: BEAT LA!!!
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