Portland Trail Blazers: Game-Time Blog

DOUBLE-DOUBLE!

posted: Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 8:15 PM

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Early in the season, Mel Kiper, ESPN's NBA draft specialist, called Sergio Rodriguez "the steal of the 2006 draft."

Tonight, Sergio has lived up to his top billing, scoring 23 points and dishing 10 assists. He found LaMarcus Aldridge with a no-look pass off of a pick-and-roll for his game-high 10th assist. Aldridge turned the pass into a dunk and two Trail Blazer points.

The Trail Blazers, however, could not overcome the hot shooting of the Denver Nuggets. Denver hit 7 three-pointers in the third and when a team comes out firing that hot, they'll be almost impossible to beat.

Juan Dixon continued to play well off the bench for the Trail Blazers, and if he continues his dominance on the offensive side of the floor, he will garner serious attention for the Sixth Man of the Year award. Dixon finished with 15 points and 3 assists.

Webster also played well, scoring 12 points and grabbing 4 rebounds. Webster was a huge part of the amazing Trail Blazers second quarter, hitting a couple threes and playing tough defense, while Portland built a solid lead heading into halftime.

Final score- Trail Blazers 93, Denver 109...

8 Comments:

Juan_isho said...: If Coach MacMillan trust in Sergio, he will report many positive things to the team, not only assits, he is a leader and one of his marvelous assits can rise mental blocking of the team.

Sergio is one of the best playmakers I've ever seen.

Good luck Blazers; 9:52 AM
Rafa said...: Sergio no hay nadie como tu dando asistencias, el mejor del planeta. Sigue con tu juego y la nba se tendra que rendir a tus pies. Un saludo desde España; 3:44 PM
Unknown said...: Coach, sergio is your Playmaker; 8:35 AM
Unknown said...: Coach, sergio is your playmaker,,, sure; 8:35 AM
Unknown said...: sergio is the best. If mcmillan trust in sergio the trail blazers will be a better team.

pablo from spain; 11:20 AM
Ba-tis-ca-fo said...: Just hoping that there's no envy playing in your coaching,Mr McMillan.Everybody remembers Isiah,Tim H.,Magic,"the Glove" or "Pistol Pete",but no one does it when it comes to guards named Nate,even if they've played for 12 years in the league and their uniform is retired(this ain't for you, "Tiny")Just give him minutes and even the defense will top and be outstanding.; 7:54 PM
Janz said...: Is the coach the only man that don´t see that with Sergio playing the team go very good ? He is fantastic giving assists .Is the best in NBA in minutes played /assist ? he is very good shotting of 3 points , very fast ,and a player that arise people of the chair .Sergio need minutes , and the team need Sergio .is the medicine to the team .Coach open your eyes . With Sergio you have a gold mine , extract it; 11:10 PM
Paes said...: GM expects 1 or 2 sellouts as the season progress, but if Sergio starts playing an important role, maybe he will be surpised. Sergio Rodriguez is the kind of player that I would go to Rose Garden to watch him playing.
He's just SPECTACULAR!!!; 4:12 PM