Touche> Making the extra pass and not settling for quick shots. The Blazers have finally decided that moving the ball is a good thing. Why it took them all season is partly the “young team thing” and a bit of coaching weakness.

Dah> Keeping focus on team defense. Roy taking a leadership role and using the “shame name game” technique might get these guys to realize the kind of effort required to stop letting teams get easy buckets. I thought SA had very few wide open looks last night. Now if you played this game tomorrow- probably a different result, but I’ll take it because the effort was there.

The Blake Factor> You can pretty much tell if the game is going to be easy if Blake is making shots. Why? Because his replacements, Sergio and Bayless, usually can’t fill his shoes when he is having a rough night.

Defensively we were pretty good last night. Not as good as we may have looked, because SA was missing some shots. However, this is a 100% turnaround.

The offense was also much different last night.

The reason I gripe SOOO much about this sort of stuff, is that if we come with this every night – we are a championship contended.

Granted, I know we won’t win by 28 – as we were shooting the lights out. A lower shooting %, along with them making some open shots – we still win by about 10.

No reason we cannot do this every night.