Sources: There's fear Lakers star LeBron James is likely to miss an extended period of time with his right foot injury. Might miss several weeks

[VegetasHairline]

What’s lebrons official injury?

Gout

 

[ReggieFlare]

EDIT: Wrong thread

 

[jericho]

What’s lebrons official injury?

A broken heart

 

[JP_614]

What’s lebrons official injury?

Goat

 

[Professor Emeritus]

I EXPOSED THAT BEFORE...

DUDE DIDNT HAVE ONE SINGLE POST
IN THE BLAZERS/WARRIORS WCF SERIES THREAD.

NOW HES BEEN PUTTING IN
MORE WORK TO KEEP THE ACT UP
SINCE nikkaS ARE NOTICING
ALL HE DOES IS TALK ABOUT BRON.


​

@Rhakim rebuttal?

Don’t just spew random jeopardy facts about the blazers please

Why you ruining his fun? He didn't tag me because he didn't want me responding, now you're going to expose him like that?

I frequently don't post in the Coli series threads no matter how important they are to me. I only posted ONCE in the 2016 Finals thread once that series started. The greatest comeback in Finals history, the defining series of Bron's career, some of the most etherous chances to quote people who were talking shyt earlier in the series only to have to come back on their face, and yet in that entire classic series thread I posted.....once.




But his suggestion that I only started talking about the Blazers "now" is pure bullshyt. This thread is from 2017 and is probably the most obscure Blazers thread in Coli history. How the hell would I EVER even know this game existed if I wasn't a Blazers fan? Who would even talk about the team that way besides a devout fan?

The Perfect Quarter

Golden State's 50-point quarter had me thinking about this one for a couple weeks now. Their scoring is nice, but it ain't all that. This is the story of the true greatest quarter of basketball ever played: It was 1991, and it was only the 11th game of the season. On one side you had the...

www.thecoli.com

Golden State's 50-point quarter had me thinking about this one for a couple weeks now. Their scoring is nice, but it ain't all that. This is the story of the true greatest quarter of basketball ever played:


It was 1991, and it was only the 11th game of the season. On one side you had the Portland Trailblazers, 10-0 on the year already and cooking behind Clyde "the Glide" Drexler and a balanced starting lineup. On the other side you had the San Antonio Spurs, 7-2 and starting 1st-team All-NBA David "The Admiral" Robinson at center. The Spurs were looking to avenge a Western Conference Semifinals loss to Portland the previous year that had gone to overtime in Game 7. This was not a lopsided matchup, but a heavily anticipated clash between two elite teams.

And then the game began.


San Antonio wins the tip, misses a jumper, Kevin Duckworth comes right back with a jumper on the other end.

San Antonio makes an ill-advised pass, Drexler grabs it and glides to the other end for an easy lay-in.

San Antonio misses a shot and can’t get the tip, Duckworth-to-Terry Porter-to-Buck Williams and Portland is dunking on the other end.

After a made San Antonio free throw, Portland pushes again, Duckworth open for a jumper again, barely a minute gone by in the game and it's 8-1 Portland.

A Drexler three followed by a behind-the-back pass from Drexler to Buck Williams for another dunk, and it began to look like Portland was just fukking with them. 13-3 Portland.

Less than 10 minutes later, the score was 49-18.

Portland was up by 31 points before the 1st quarter ended and they hadn't shot a single free throw.

The Blazers went 22-25 from the field for the quarter and 5-5 from three, with 18 assists on the 22 made shots.

They shot 90% from the field and 100% from three!

To put that in perspective, two years later Portland would go only 10-60 from three against Chicago for an entire 6-game Finals.


Individual box lines were ridiculous.

The legendary Kevin Duckworth, matched up against superstar David Robinson, went 6-6 for 12 points. In one quarter.

Terry Porter nearly had a double-double before the 2nd quarter started, going 3-3 with two threes for 8 points and 10 assists.

Blazer star Clyde Drexler put up the kind of stat line in a single quarter that Draymond Green would be proud of for an entire game, blocking four San Antonio shots and grabbing two steals while putting up 15 points and 3 assists on 7-8 shooting with his broke-ass jumper humming to perfection.

The crazy thing about it was at the same time the Blazer offense was cooking, their defense was making the Spurs look pathetic. San Antonio shot 8 for 23 for the quarter with 8 turnovers.

Larry Brown had called two timeouts before the quarter was even halfway over. It didn't make a difference at all. There were no real runs, just constant consistent domination from beginning to end. 13-3 became 28-9 became 37-15 became 49-18, with almost perfect pacing. Reserves Danny Ainge and Cliff Robinson swished a three each to end the quarter, just to make the final score as stupid as possible.


The domination was so extensive that Rick Adelman called it a night, telling his assistants that he’d done his work and letting them coach the final three quarters of the game. Portland ended up only winning 117-103 as the Spurs slowly chipped away at the lead over the course of the game, but it wasn’t really that close as everyone was treating the game like garbage time from the second quarter on.

By the next morning a hundred thousand Blazer fans had already independently created the moniker “The Perfect Quarter” to describe what had just happened. Spurs coach Larry Brown said it was the best period of basketball he had ever seen, as did several other players and coaches who watched it. In his autobiography Clyde the Glide, Drexler referred to it as the best quarter a team of his had ever played.

Portland would go on to face the Pistons in the Finals that year, and lose. I don't remember the score of a single one of those Finals quarters. But I won't forget The Perfect Quarter.





Here are the full highlights. Craziest thing - watch Portland make 22 of 25 shots, and I dare you to find any of those 22 shots touching the rim.

Second craziest thing - you have NEVER heard an NBA crowd in your life be that loud, that consistently, from the opening tip to the end of the first. That White-ass Blazer crowd was wilding the whole time.

Dammit, my beloved presentation of classic Blazers lore is in danger of flopping.

These ARE the Blazers, as far as I'm concerned. They kept the same starting lineup and 6th/7th men for like 7 straight years and had the greatest success of my lifetime.

I was going to say "sucks to be you that you only know the JailBlazers, the FrailBlazers, and the No-D Blazers. But then I remembered that I never got to see 1977, so sucks to be me.

I could post dozens of comments from 2015-2017 where I talk about obscure-ass Blazers moments.

 

[CHICAGO]

Why you ruining his fun? He didn't tag me because he didn't want me responding, now you're going to expose him like that?

I frequently don't post in the Coli series threads no matter how important they are to me. I only posted ONCE in the 2016 Finals thread once that series started. The greatest comeback in Finals history, the defining series of Bron's career, some of the most etherous chances to quote people who were talking shyt earlier in the series only to have to come back on their face, and yet in that entire classic series thread I posted.....once.




But his suggestion that I only started talking about the Blazers "now" is pure bullshyt. This thread is from 2017 and is probably the most obscure Blazers thread in Coli history. How the hell would I EVER even know this game existed if I wasn't a Blazers fan? Who would even talk about the team that way besides a devout fan?

The Perfect Quarter

Golden State's 50-point quarter had me thinking about this one for a couple weeks now. Their scoring is nice, but it ain't all that. This is the story of the true greatest quarter of basketball ever played: It was 1991, and it was only the 11th game of the season. On one side you had the...

www.thecoli.com

I could post dozens of comments from 2015-2017 where I talk about obscure-ass Blazers moments.

OF COURSE YOU
WERENT A DEVOUT BRON STAN
IN 1991.

nikka THOUGHT HE HAD SOMETHING.

WHERE ARE ALL THE POSTS
ABOUT THE MODERN DAY BLAZERS
THAT PLAYED IN BRONS ERA?


​

 

[Professor Emeritus]

OF COURSE YOU
WERENT A DEVOUT BRON STAN
IN 1991.

nikka THOUGHT HE HAD SOMETHING.

WHERE ARE ALL THE POSTS
ABOUT THE MODERN DAY BLAZERS
THAT PLAYED IN BRONS ERA?


​

So now that I've proved I've always been a Blazers fan you're going to ignore the suggestion that I faked it, now you're just randomly making up new criteria to show what?

Of course I've stanned modern day Blazers who played in Bron's era. I fukking love Brandon Roy and he came into the league when Bron was already the NBA's biggest young star.

People who didn't watch the Blazers sleep on Roy because his skills don't show up on the typical highlight reel and he didn't fill the box score the same way.


But if you watched Roy, you saw that he had some of the most incredible bball IQ in the league. Up with CP3, Bron, and Kobe in the top 5.

He also was the most efficient guard in the league. Portland played the slowest offense in the NBA, so he had to get everything he could out of half-court possessions with the defense set. Yet in his prime he was shooting 48% from the field, 38% from three, and only turning the ball over 1.9 times a game. He made every possession count.

And he as clutch as anyone I've ever seen. I'm pretty sure he led the NBA in game-winners in 2009. Just insane how whenever the game was on the line, it was like he made EVERY shot. He knew exactly what to do and he did it.


Roy basically played like Wade in a sense, but everything Wade did with athleticism, Roy did with craftiness. He'd get the same jumpers, get to the rim unbelievably well for a guy of his athleticism, set up his teammates the same way...even though he did it all 50% slower. The comparison with Harden is good, in that he uses his bball IQ and perfect body control to get places that no one moving as slow as him should have been able to get. He just didn't do that flopping bullshyt and was much better than Harden at pulling off the things he needed to do in pressure situations.


There are a lot of incredible Roy highlights in the clutch, considering he only got two peak seasons.

The greatest trifecta of "game-winners" in an game, ever. These shots are works of absolute beauty:





Way too many clutch shots in this mix when he basically got hurt after his 4th season in the league:





And Roy could yam it too when he wanted to:









Here are a couple of duels in just his 2nd year in the league, matching up against Wade and Kobe. Watching Roy controlling guys in the post, nailing jumpers, and just getting by prime Kobe at will as only a 2nd-year player gives you an idea of the range of his game. He was already elite.








The incredible comeback game, where post-injury Roy on one-leg singlehandedly overcame the 2011 Mavs with 18 in the fourth.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Trash forum ain't even letting me post these in the same comment:

99% of the time I don't believe in "clutch" players. There are players who either always want to take the shot, but don't make it very often (Kobe), players who make the shot a decent percentage of the time because they're just generally good all the time (Lebron), and players who have the exact perfect skill set to hit the kind of shots that come late in the game (Carmelo). Everyone I've seen labeled as "clutch" fits one of those three categories, but they aren't actually clutch, they're just playing their game.

Except Roy.

Watching Roy play, he would literally get better when the game got stressful. It was like that crazy season where Tim Tebow could only hit passes in the 4th quarter...except Roy was already good during the game, he just became perfect at the clutch moments. Buzzer-beaters on any quarter, close games in the final 5 minutes, last-second shots...he was still a new player in the NBA, and he was just incredible. I've never seen a player who you were so confident was going to make absolutely everything. By his 3rd season he already had something like 8 game-winners.









You either never watched Roy or you're an idiot. He was already a top-ten player by his 3rd season, and his game was clearly consistent and strong - he wasn't falling back from that for anything other than injury.

His numbers that year (23-5-5) don't look as good as they really were, because that Blazers team played literally the slowest in the entire league. But they also had the most efficient offense in the entire league, and that was because of Roy. If they played at a more typical pace (say like Cleveland this year), those numbers would translate to 26-6-6, and on fantastic shooting/turnover efficiency.

A 23-year-old Aldridge was the 2nd-leading scorer on that team. Outlaw, Blake, Fernandez, and Oden were #2-6 (all but Blake 24 or younger). THAT was the most efficient offense in the NBA.

Roy led the NBA's top offense in both scoring and assists while posting a TS% over 57% and turning the ball over less than twice a game. He was the most efficient, effective guard in the NBA not named Chris Paul.

That gives you an idea of how good Roy was. And it was just his 3rd season.






Holy crap. I talk about the potential of that team all the time, and I never realized they were already that good.

Nicolas Batum, Rudy Fernandez, and Sergio Rodriguez were the 2nd-round draft picks for that same 2-year stretch the Blazers drafted Aldridge/Roy/Oden. Batum just signed a $24 million/year contract, Fernandez was a fantastic 3pt-shooter/scorer off the bench until he got hurt and is now killing it in Europe, and Rodriguez is back in the NBA and starting again. That team also had Blake, Bayless, Outlaw, Webster, and Channing Frye.


Blake-Roy-Batum-Aldridge-Oden starting.
Bayless-Rodriguez-Fernandez-Webster-Outlaw-Frye-Pryzbilla as the bench.







I was going to post that. The roar of the crowd when Roy hit that shot is the greatest sports noise of my life.

Portland had one of the GOAT two-year draft streaks if not for injuries.

In 2006 they flipped fukking Tyrus Thomas at #4 into LMA at #2, finessed Boston for the #7 pick with Sebastian Telfair (how?) and then Minnesota let them flip it into Brandon Roy at #6, then Phoenix gave them Sergio Rodriguez for straight cash at #27.

In 2007 they drafted Greg Oden #1 and then paid Phoenix cash to get Rudy Fernandez at #24.

Sergio
Brandon Roy
Rudy
LMA
Greg Oden

They drafted an entire starting lineup in just 2 years and the only player they had to give up was Sebastian Telfair. They had like 4 second-round picks those years too to fill out the roster cheap.

If only they could have drafted knees for Roy/Oden and a back for Rudy.

I'm just saying, that's literally exactly what they said about Roy before he was drafted. "Good at everything, great at nothing". It was the main knock on him and the reason he fell to #6 despite having arguably the most NBA-ready game in the draft. Andrea Bargnani, Adam Morrison, Tyrus Thomas, and Shelden Williams were all picked before him.

Reminded me of this game. Roy had been hurt for more than a year, reduced to a bench role, it looked like his career might be over, only had 3 points and 0 assists in the first three quarters...and then:




21 points and 5 assists in the last 12 minutes of the game to bring them from 23 points back and tied the series against the eventual NBA champs.

4-point play to tie the game with a minute left followed by the game-winner with 43 seconds left.

Retired two games later.

I don't know how many people outside of Portland realized this. If "clutch" actually means, "playing better in the last five minutes than you do the rest of the game", then Brandon Roy was the most clutch player I've ever seen play basketball.


Other guys are "clutch" because they are always great shooters (Ray) or because they are particularly difficult to defend in iso spots (Dirk, Carmelo) or because they're simply better than everyone else all the time (MJ, Lebron). But Brandon Roy was like a different ballplayer with the game on the line. I have never seen another player who would be so zeroed in and just making everything when the game got tight.

Of course, probably the greatest three-shot clutch sequence in NBA history....two guys make 8 points in the final 2 seconds of the game.

You can't help taking L's here, can you? Your only move is to make shyt up, then move the goalposts and make more shyt up.

 

[Tony D'Amato]

Bout time father time stopped acting like his real father

 

[bigde09]

So now that I've proved I've always been a Blazers fan you're going to ignore the suggestion that I faked it, now you're just randomly making up new criteria to show what?

Of course I've stanned modern day Blazers who played in Bron's era. I fukking love Brandon Roy and he came into the league when Bron was already the NBA's biggest young star.

Why does a Blazer fan have the most posts in this thread or any Bron thread?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Why does a Blazer fan have the most posts in this thread or any Bron thread?

Most my posts in this thread are replies to folk @ing me about shyt that ain't even about Bron. Ask them.

But Bron my favorite player. Something wrong with that? Policing who posts on which threads is weird as fukk. Half the first page is Bulls fans talking about Bron, MOST Bron threads are started and dominated by posters who don't even like him, but his fans shouldn't post?

Posting on you favorite player seems more natural and healthier then spending your energy on a player you don't even like.

But i forgot for a sec that most of you don't even like basketball, you're only here for the narratives.

 

[madness]

That same bytch avoids posting in the team thread when the Lakers and Lebron is doing well

 

[Greenhornet]

 

[10bandz]

These losers going out so sad Disingenuous Essays and Kobe gifs are all they got

 

[THE 101]

@Rhakim would you rather see Dame get a ring with the Blazers or Bron get's his fifth? Be honest now.