| 27 April 2009
As the Portland Trail Blazers left Houston on Sunday night, you know they all wondered if they would be making the return trip for Game 6 on Thursday. To be determined? Hardly. History shows they’ll be heading back.
Game 5 on Tuesday could be their last home game of the season. It could be the last game period. No one wants to go there – again. But knowing how Game 3 and Game 4 losses hurt in Houston – being so close but so far away twice – it is safe to assume the Blazers will take Game 5 against the Rockets at the Rose Garden.
Pencil it in.
It’s not in Portland’s DNA to lose three-straight games. It’s just not.
You’d have to go all the way back to December to find the last time they lost back-to-back-to-back games versus Orlando, at Utah and against the Los Angeles Clippers. It was the only time they lost three in a row all season long.
All season long.
As we've all witnessed, the postseason is a different kind of beast, but even Portland won’t go out like playoff punks – not on their own floor - despite going through these recent growing pains. Not in their own house. Not after experiencing double heartache in Houston.
Game 5 goes to the Blazers.
Game 6?
Let’s not go there.
pic via: zimbio
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