I'll never understand why Nate changed his mind to go back to his plotting boring ass offense. Portland was 14-10 when Nic, Gerald, Jamal, Ray, Elliot, etc were playing the up tempo basketball. Since he stopped they're like 6-13 or something.
Check the teams they beat in that up tempo ball too. Lakers, OKC in OKC, Denver twice, Clippers, and Memphis. Plus they came back from 23 down vs Orlando to just barely lose by 3 points in a game that could have went to OT and possibly won if whoever missed the final 3 hadn't missed.
Should have beat the Clippers in LA too but the ref made the awful call with 1:01 left or so that CP3 had called a TO when he was clearly out of bounds before calling TO.
Also should have beat OKC in the RG but Scott Foster's an awful referee.
EDIT: Another thing. Why the hell would Portland want Blake back? Already had him and he did jackshit for them.
EDIT again: Crawford was out during shoot around earlier in MSG but as it got closer to game time he was called off the court and is not currently participating the warmup.