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So you’re saying there’s a chance

Posted on 18. Apr, 2010 at 2:03 am by SKI in Basketball, NBA Basketball, Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers

Back to back days with a post from THE STER. Consider yourselves lucky because I have to listen to his shit almost every day.

The Blazers face off against the Suns in the first round of the playoffs, and my prediction is a Blazers victory in six games. You may ask why I would make such a bold prediction in a time when Brandon Roy is out for the first round with an arthroscopic knee surgery, and both twin towers Przybilla and Oden out for the season with twin patella ruptures. The bench looks like the Toons bench in Space Jam after a physical first half with the Monstars in Space Jam. Andre Miller is playing like an All-Star point guard averaging almost 16 points and 5 assists in April, and in the same month LaMarcus Aldridge averaged 22 points a game and 8 rebounds; playing like a veteran big man, both inside with an impressively fluid finesse game, and outside with his always reliable jump shot. If Portland can get contributions on the perimeter from The Spaniard Rudy Fernandez, who only played 7 minutes against Phoenix this season, this could be a fantastic series for Blazer fans. When Rudy is hot and twining the 3-ball, he reminds me of Mandy Patinkin in The Princess Bride as Inigo Montoya. It’s like he’s staring down the closing defender as he ices the three, “Hello, my name is Rudy Fernandez. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” If Miller and Aldridge can be as efficient offensively as they have been in recent days, and the Blazers can get quality backcourt play from Fernandez and role players like Jerryd Bayless (avg 12 pts/gm vs PHX) and Martell Webster (avg 8 pts/gm vs PHX), and continue their stellar play defensively against the Suns, who averaged 110 points per game this season, but managed only 98 per game in three games this season against Portland, the Blazers will win this series.

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