Game 8: Portland vs Phoenix 7:00pm Root,Root+

[Dame Lizard]

Good win, your team wanted “IT” more and led majority of the game before finally prevailing. Blazers are Phoenix’ kryptonite, I’m just glad we won’t have to face the blazers until later part of the season. Good riddance for now!

Thanks. I do like the Suns so hope you can build on your early season success this year.

Chris Paul seriously needs to up his FG attempts though. He should be scoring at the 15 ppg mark, everything considered.

[Dame Lizard]

This teams for real. That is all.

Yep, they've proven me wrong absolutely.

I'm confident that this isn't just a fluke stretch, as the offense has been ugly at many times. The defense and hustle is what is winning us games. And some heroics by Dame and others!

[Blazinaway]

The Blazers are just so much more fun to watch with "Chauncy ball", watching guys play hard all the time, and the defense, and who fit into his style is a joy to watch. Kudos to Cronin for getting the guys who fit so well. Wonderful to see our bench develop and play so well and how they "fit" as well.

[zzaj]

Was it a travel? Probably…but honestly the league has shifted so far away from calling these types of things, it’d be hard for anybody to get too up in arms.

Under Stotts, the team had a very “stay in your role” and it’ll work out approach. Under Chauncey there’s a very “help out outside of your role” feeling surrounding everything. I gotta say, the Chauncey vibe is much more fun to watch…

Although it might just be not having to watch CJ dribbling it 300,000 times and taking contested mid-range shots.

[red_power]

Needless to say it's a very surprising and encouraging win. The more games like this we get till the end of December (when the Blazers' schedule is going to be absolutely brutal) the more optimistic about this season we should be.

[GEE]

Too bad we weren't able to get GP2 back for these PHX games. Would have been the perfect time to get him into the mix. Nonetheless... No Dame, Simons or GP2 and we still had 30 Assists. Unbelievable! Winslow and Keon running the PG duties nicely all game long resulting in 7 of our 9 players in double figures. That's fun.

The scary thing is... I think this team is just scratching the surface and will get a whole lot better. The Walker sighting was surprising and nice to see. He only had a handful of minutes, but was really good while on the court. Any one else noticing the kid is built like an OX?

[DaVoiceMaster]

Just finished watching last nights game. AMAZING!!!

I really did not expect them to win either game without Lillard and then Simons. There were a number of bonehead plays, but I could live with most of them. I expect Phoenix and Booker to be pissed off for tonight's game. That is probably a bad thing for the Blazers, but let's see what the Blazers defense can do about that.

I'm lovin' the D!!!