OTHER VIEW

Horror films vary in length from the feature to the short-subject; sometimes they’re only about half an hour long.

The horror film starring the Blazers Sunday strings from the 10:28 mark of the fourth quarter through a final minute featuring 18,997 people in yellow shirts making thunder in Staples Center.

It features a 7 1/2-minute swatch where the basket snarls and throws back every Blazer shot attempt. It will rerun in snippets for weeks, for months, for years to come.

It’s bizarre. It’s inexplicable. Viewer discretion is advised.

This relentless, uncompromising scare begins with the viewer lulled into a false sense of safety. The Blazers look like an NBA championship team. The score is 75-60. The building is serene.

The people are thinking of leaving. Minds easily can picture Reggie Miller’s lanky frame in the Rose Garden Wednesday night for the NBA finals.

The beast comes back from the dead.

IN QUOTES

“Game 7s are very interesting, but I’ve never seen any quite like that one before.”

PHIL JACKSON

Laker coach

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“I realize that we sort of made cowards of ourselves in the fourth quarter.”

SCOTTIE PIPPEN

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