06.02.00
Forcing Game 7
Oh yeah, baby! Game 7 on Sunday, at 4:00pm. Tonight’s game *so* rocked. Everyone played hard. Bonzi had more points than Shaq. Smith was on top of every shot, Sheed was nearly perfect inside. It was an incredible game. The Blazers led by 10 points for nearly the entire game.
I even took a 3 foot by 4 foot banner that had ‘Drive Scottie, Drive’ on one side and ‘Drain the Lakers’ on the other. It was a very professional poster as I had it printed out on our HP2500 at work which is a full color plotter that can print up to 3 feet wide and any length. I got some pretty high quality JPEGs off the net of Scottie taking it to the hoop and placed them in opposing corners on one side. On top of that I put the Drive Scottie Drive text, using the official Blazers typeface that we have because of some work we did for them a while back.
On the back was the Drain The Lakers text plus “From your fans at Exact Imaging”, which was a bit cheesy. The only problem was that the poster was WAY TOO BIG and I couldn’t hold it at the seat with me, and I couldn’t hold it up without risking thrown drinks from the people I was blocking the view for.
So the sign was relegated to the very back row, without me for much of the game. But I learned my lesson. Next time I won’t take anything larger than my chest. Unless it’s really long and I can have lots of help holding it…
Anyway it was a great game and I’m on the edge of my seat for Game 7. Go Blazers!