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This was another heart-breaking loss where POR beats ATL at the end. How many times is that now? I couldn't believe it and the sad thing about it was you saw it coming slowly but surely. MAn o' man this is so FRUSTRATING!!!

yeah, it sucks to be a Hawks fan again. Lets hope it turns around. Tonight was really frustrating

I did a little bit of research on this after the game, because I too remember a lot of really close games between Portland and Atlanta in the past few years. Out of 7 matchups since December 17th, 2004 (Blazers win by 16 in Atlanta) and now, there has only been 1 game where there the final score had more than 2 points separating the teams. That 1 game was December 4th of 2006 was when the Hawks won by 11 in Portland. Here is the results of the 6 other games from that 2004 date and down onto today...

Feb 25th, 2005: 102-101. Blazers Win, Randolph GW shot with 9 seconds left.

Nov 5th, 2005: 94-93. Blazers Win, Randolph GW FT with 0.2 seconds left.

Nov 27th, 2005: 77-75. Blazers Win, Miles GW shot with 1.3 seconds left.

March 23th, 2007: 102-100 OT. Blazers Win, Roy gave Portland a 5 point lead on FT's with 4.3 left, Salim Stoudamire hit 3 point at buzzer.

Jan 21st, 2008: 111-109 OT. Blazers Win, Outlaw GW shot with 0.9 left.

Jan 27th, 2008: 94-93. Blazers Win, Roy GW FT with 2.3 seconds left.

The last 3 games have been really good. I remember the game last March..that was the game w/o Randolph and w/o Joe where Aldridge went crazy. I was actually rooting for the Hawks to lose so we could get the 1st pick..Ironic isn't it

HoopsGuru25 wrote:The last 3 games have been really good. I remember the game last March..that was the game w/o Randolph and w/o Joe where Aldridge went crazy. I was actually rooting for the Hawks to lose so we could get the 1st pick..Ironic isn't it

I was probably rooting for the same thing from the Blazers perspective.

I was definately rooting for that last year. Ah memories.

I read today that Portland has beat Atlanta in 12 of their last 13 meetings. That's quite a bit.

Blazers made the plays when it counted. I can't hate on them.

It'd be nice to see one Hawks game where they keep pouring it own regardless of the time left. That stretch early in the fourth when the defense seemed lost an Portland stroked a couple of 3s in a row to cut the lead in half. That was a critical time for Atlanta not to lose momentum like they did. I've got to stop posting and go to sleep, this stuff is beginning to make me insane.

So when is spring training?