Blazers @ Suns Game Thread

[panfolk]

My roommate (loyal Oregonian) fast forwarded half the game on tivo and I don't feel like replaying it (butt kickings aren't much to watch in my book). How did Burke look with his first night of goodly minutes?

 

[jbeecham]

Burke looked competant tonight and he also didn't look bad in the last game. Tonight he had a really nice putback dunk off a James Jones missed 3ptr. He also blocked a shot or two and had some other nice moves in the post. I think he hit a 20ft shot also.

 

[Michael]

Wow. Seven straight.

"Operation hang-in-there" is looking pretty good so far.

With Amare at full strength this team will be hard to beat.

 

[zett]

Not to be negative but that was quite possibly the worst defense I have seen ever! we had open looks all night long. That was more like a shoot around. We moved the ball well but portland is just flat out terrible.
I hope we have something left in the tank for tonight! I remember a pacers team schalacking utah before coming to phx for a spanking, I hope there won't be a repeat of that.

 

[jbeecham]

Fatigue shouldn't be an issue because no one played more than 31 minutes last night. All of the starters and James Jones were in the 29-31 minute range. I think we'll need Eddie House tonight so hopefully his hamstring is feeling better. We actually did pretty well with Diaw, Bell & Jim Jackson handling the ball, but like someone mentioned earlier......the Portland defense was so bad that it was easy to get open shots.