Pick and Scroll, back to back edition.
Nathan Begley | Friday, March 12, 2010 at 12:12PM Your daily (Mon-Fri) roundup of links from around the blogosphere, typically Trail Blazers related.
• It might not have been a pretty win, but Mike Barrett will take it:
Okay, now as for this win. I realize some of you are wondering why it took a huge turnaround for the Blazers to beat a team that came into this game with 17 wins. Clearly, it would have been more enjoyable had Portland blown this team out. But, considering our recent history in Oakland, and keeping in mind their awkward style of play that always seems to cause the Blazers fits, I wasn’t complaining after this one. And, nothing right now is taken for granted. There are no “easy wins.” Look around. Golden State has had many games just like this one. They just can’t win the close ones. And, you hope they don’t get well against you.
• Bust a Bucket’s Sophia Brugato agrees with Mike Barrett.
• From the Motherblog, Henry Abbott relates the Tao of Roy-Jitsu:
It’s like a martial arts movie: Can the hero really win a one-on-five battle? Not normally. But if the five are going to fight (or not) like that … well then, maybe.
• The Rip City Project has a detailed possession-by-possession look at how Portland came back to overcome the Warriors.
• For the Oakland perspective, check TrueHoop Network sister blog Warriors World.
• Joe Freeman of The Oregonian thinks that we can finally stop asking questions about the Blazers’ performance in Oakland. I disagree. Portland was still pathetic and won the game in a largely unsustainable way. The victory provides a nice band-aid, but there is a nasty wound underneath. The Blazers (sans Roy) played terribly and got their act together just enough in the fouth quarter to pull out a win.
• The Oregonian’s Jason Quick reports that the Blazers have each other’s back, Roy doesn’t care about Monta Ellis’ defense, and he just “had to hoop”:
“It was one of those games where I was just hoopin’,’’ Roy said. “That’s what I said to the guys on the bench: ‘This is one of those games where you just have to hoop.’ You know? Because (Golden State) makes it so funky. So once we stopped thinking and worrying about the refs, we started to hoop. And that’s the way I was the whole time, like, ‘So what.’ Just play. Go back to when we were just kids. Hoop.’’
• Nic Batum blocks, they rock, they rock…
• What is Rudy Fernandez plotting?
• Dave from BlazersEdge answers some mail.
• And for tonight’s game, be sure to head on over to TrueHoop Network sister blog Cowbell Kingdom, where they like PRS’s take on the ROY race.
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