Friday, February 20, 2009

February 20th Open Thread: Atlanta (32-22) @ Portland (33-20)

TIP-OFF: 10pm

TELEVISION: SportSouth

RADIO: Hawks Radio Network, Audio League Pass

GAME NOTES:
Hawks/TrailBlazers

ATLANTA INJURY/TRANSACTION REPORT:
Othello Hunter has been assigned to the D-League and will be with the Anaheim Arsenal through Saturday. Thomas Gardner's been assigned to the Arsenal also.

PORTLAND
INJURY REPORT: Greg Oden and Martell Webster are out.

FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY: Portland -4.5, 192.5 o/u

OTHER PERSPECTIVES:
Blazer's Edge (game preview), The Rip City Project

PREVIOUSLY, THE PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS...beat Memphis 94-90 on Wednesday playing without Greg Oden. Kevin Pritchard didn't make any deadline deals.

MAKE IT A DOUBLEHEADER WITH NBA ON ESPN360: NBA Shootaround (7:30pm), Dallas @ Houston (8pm)

WANT TO DVR ALL OR PART OF THE GAME AND WATCH IT SATURDAY MORNING? Friends of the blog, Second Shift are playing a reunion show at the Star Bar tonight with Y-O-U, Lowry, and Hot Pipes.

Consider this an open thread for all pre-game, in-game, and post-game (but pre-recap) thoughts.

2 comments:

McHouse said...

Hey I don't know if you take this personally, but Mario West doesn't really count as a player anyway. So here's a look at his layup the other night. http://lakerlogic.blogspot.com/2009/02/shannon-brown-welcome-to-la.html

Anonymous said...

+/- tells the story for this one: We played the Blazers even while Joe was in the game (+0 over 41 minutes), but were -10 over the 7 minutes where he wasn't...