Houston; you have a problem, and its name is Rip City

Thats right, the rockets are in town and im putting a memo to Blazers fans; get loud! make the Rose Garden unbearable to play in. its gonna be a fun series and Im hopefully optimistic. in my opinion, the Blazers should run the ball against them. i know in the playoffs, the game is supposed to slow down and teams are supposed to play more of a half court game. My reasoning however is that Houston is a great defensive team, but they aren't all that mobile. Yao Ming has never been all that mobile and Ron Artest is getting older. Aaron Brooks is so much shorter than any of our guards, I think if we can keep Houston on their heels and backpedaling, we can keep them from getting their defense set and we can get some easy baskets. Lets challenge this team to score with us, get the game into the 100's and see if they can keep up. i also think i like Aldridge on Yao, fronting him, i think the quicker Aldridge would give Yao fits if he fronted him, Yao has historically struggled when teams try to front him. All in all, I think Nate will do whats best for the team, and i dont know that the team really has to change much, they just need to play the way they've been playing to close out the season and i think they'll be fine. alright, check back here for a review of game one, hopefully you'll like the outcome! Go Blazers! Rip City Uprise!

Doc