by Nicholas Filipas on April 27, 2012
Well Blazer fans, the 2011-2012 season is in the history books. Does it sting? Leave a bitter taste in your mouth? Do you feel relieved?
I feel a little about everything, disappointed is a word that will be thrown a lot around Portland this summer whenever this season will be brought up. Sure it stings that the Rose Garden won’t be buzzing with playoff indications while teams like the Thunder, Nuggets and Jazz are representing the Northwest Division. But to as much of a roller coaster season full of highs and definite lows, I am kind of thankful for our summer to start early. We knew midway through (and up until after the trade deadline) that the lottery was in our future.
by Nicholas Filipas on April 17, 2012
As anyone could imagine, Steve Nash ran circles around the Portland guards in route to a 125-107 demolition.
The Suns (32-29) eyeing for the last playoff spot as they got a lift from the Houston Rockets losing to Denver, the Trail Blazers (28-34) treating this game and the rest of their five game stretch as prime time for the rookies to strut their stuff and possibly earn a role on the roster next season.
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Phoenix Suns Burn Trail Blazers 125-107, Knock Portland Out Of Playoff Race
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by Nicholas Filipas on April 12, 2012
Bummer news came out Thursday afternoon from Trail Blazers headquarters in downtown Portland as news broke that All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge would sit out the remanding of the season and will undergo a hip surgery.
Aldridge sat out in yesterday’s home win against the Golden State Warriors to a sore hip and got an MRI done a few days ago, the results came back and found a labral tear on his right side that will require arthroscopic surgery. With seven games left on the Trail Blazers schedule as the Dallas Mavericks visit the Rose Garden on Friday and 4.5 games back for the eighth seed in the Western Conference, it’s pretty safe to say that the Blazers hope for a late playoff push is all but over. At least it gives Aldridge plenty of time to heal and get into beast shape for training camp and be ready to go for next season.
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Portland’s LaMarcus Aldridge To Have Season-Ending Hip Surgery
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by Nicholas Filipas on April 12, 2012
Depending on who you rooted for, anyone could agree that this game didn’t have much riding on as both clubs are most likely not heading into the postseason, and are destined for the lottery, but hey, a win is a win.
The Portland Trail Blazers welcomed in the Golden State Warriors for the last meeting of the season, the Blazers would be without All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge to a hip injury (more about that later), leaving J.J. Hickson to take his place in the starting lineup.
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Crawford, Hickson Lead Trail Blazers Over Warriors 118-110 In Shoot Out
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by Nicholas Filipas on April 10, 2012
by Israel Harden on April 7, 2012
Close games are bad luck for the Blazers this year. Last night’s game in Dallas had all the makings of another Portland fourth quarter collapse. The Blazer turnover at the end of regulation gave Dallas a chance to win but Jason Terry missed the rushed three pointer and the Blazers had to prove themselves in overtime. The Blazers proved to their fans and the NBA that they aren’t dead yet and they haven’t given up on the playoffs. The Blazers have rallied around Coach Canales and they’ve showed the hustle and dedication they’re going to need to make one final push in the last ten games of this year.
by Nicholas Filipas on April 5, 2012
by Nicholas Filipas on April 3, 2012
Just when it felt like the Portland Trail Blazers (25-29) had fought off their tired legs and climbed back to tie the game at 94, all the hard work and hustle instantly went down the drain so fast their heads where probably spinning.
After coming off an 10-0 run that was capitalized by one of many threes by former Jazz Wesley Matthews, the Blazers tied the game with more than three minutes to play after trailing as much as eleven to the Utah Jazz (28-26). Another division rival, the Jazz circled this game on their calendar as a “must-win” that will help them in their positing to recapture the 8th seed in the playoff standings.
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Utah Jazz Squeak By Hot-Shooting Wesley Matthews To Beat Blazers 102-97
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by Israel Harden on April 1, 2012
There used to be a time when this match up meant an easy win for the Blazers, but those days are long gone, and now both of these teams are sitting toward the bottom of the standings in the West. If either of these teams is going to make a run at the playoffs this game could be the spring board that launches that run. The winner would gain a full game over the other in the West standings and the loser would drift further into obscurity. The best way for the Blazers to avoid a season sweep by the Timberwolves is to make sure Kevin Love has a bad game.
by Nicholas Filipas on March 31, 2012
Just like what happened the last time these two teams met in Portland, All-Star point guard Chris Paul switched from distributor to deadly scorer in the fourth quarter, with the Clippers (30-21) down by one after a tough make by Jamal Crawford on the other end. Paul drives inside and gets a lay up that passes three Blazers to give Los Angeles the lead and eventually the win despite one of the most entertaining games the Portland Trail Blazers (24-28) have put up all season.
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Chris Paul, Clippers damper huge night from J.J. Hickson as Clippers get the 98-97 win
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Well Blazer fans, the 2011-2012 season is in the history books. Does it sting? Leave a bitter taste in your mouth? Do you feel relieved?
