Brandon Lang 4-05-09
15 Dime Trail Blazers - They just keep blowing teams out, and tonight will be no different. Four straight routs, and the Blazers are now on the verge of their first postseason appearance in six years. Portland sits one half-game ahead of Houston for fourth place in the Western Conference and needs a win or a Phoenix loss going into today's action to make the playoffs for the first time since 2003.
And there is no better time to get hot like this. Portland has won its last four games by a minimum of 20 points, and catch a Houston team that has been inconistent on offense, scoring anywhere from 81 points to as high as 110 over its last five outings. Yet while the Rockets' defense has stepped up lately, they've still lost three of their last four outings.
And with Portland winning four straight and covering eight of their last nine, I don't see any better play except the Blazers in this one tonight.
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NOTE: Wow, 5-for-27 from beyond the arc.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would see that from Villanova.
Defensively, Nova played well but to see their offense implode like that from behind the arc was one of the most frustrating things I have ever witnessed.
Corey Fisher, Cory Stokes and Dewayne Anderson go 0-13. How is that possible.
Live by the sword and die by the sword and this loss by Nova tonight will be a very hard pill to swallow.
If Nova played North Carolina again on Monday, I would back Nova again. Bottom line is you can't handicap 5-27 from behind the arc.
Uconn, that was just a bad call but the 3-point shooting display by Villanova is truly unexplainable.
I will rally here. I did in March and got the winning month making it 2 of 3 winning months in 2009 and with so much time left in April, no need to hit the panic button.
One top play winner at a time, one winning day at a time. Nothing more and nothing less.
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