But tonight the world came crashing down on Blazer fans

While the article came off as extremely negative, keep in mind they were on pace for a 5-75 season at that point and it was still unclear how close, exactly, Mr. Love was from coming back from injury.To be fair, I followed it up with this article, coming off a loss. The team is now on pace for an encouraging 12 wins, something I questioned was even possible a few weeks ago. Now we just need that winning streak.Now I'm not saying he's a cure all, but as coach Kurt Rambis said, adding Love "will help our bench as well, because it'll push one of our starters to the bench so we have some support there." Through two very early games, one win and one loss, this has proven more true that I had initially imagined All Love has done is average 14.5 ppg and 10.5 rpg. If his scoring is up, look out.But it hasn't been just Love, for the whole team looks better.Brewer, having been most affected by Love's return had only three points, a season low, in Love's return versus New Orleans Friday night in a respectable loss by nine which not only saw Chris Paul return and dominate for his club, but Jonny Flynn also had the worst game of his young career with just six points and a -14, meaning that when he was on the floor, the Wolves were outscored by 14 by their opponents.How does this look better Consider, rookie Wayne Ellington, who many believe to be the Wolves best new player this year and best draft pick, had a career high twelve points off of a career high 31 minutes and 5 of 7 shooting. Additionally, Brewer responded with the twelve points we've come to expect from him. Best part of all, the game was a Jazz's 4-game streak ends" target"blank">near sellout at 18,466 unofficially, many fans, certainly, wanting to see Love for the first time all season.Not only did the Wolves beat the Utah Jazz who were fresh off a four game winning streak, but with their next three games at Torontohome versus New Orleans where I am convinced they only won due to venue, and at Los Angeles where, while they won't win, they also will no longer get blown out by 25they may be able to win 2 of 3 to improve to 5-18 on the season.They not only won with their biggest margin, seven, over Utah, but Jonny Flynn had arguably his best game with just 16 points but on 7 of 12 shooting and a career high 9 rating and career-low one turnover.In any event, the Wolves are 2-2 in their last four games and have held leads late into each of those four games.

With any luck they could be on their own four game winning streak but in a year of basically a year-long tryout, I am seeing the improvement that once lackedthanks in large part to Love.Statistics and information from ESPN and the Star Tribune directly contributed to this article.. DALLAS(Business Wire)Alexander Muse, co-founder of Big in Japan, the developer of the breakaway hitAndroid application ShopSavvy, will present the keynote address atAndroidDevCamp Amsterdam on January 8. The day-long event will be held atPakhuis de Zwijger in the Netherlands capital city. Muse, through his SpringStage startup, organized the first AndroidDevCamp inDallas in October as a way to encourage developers to build new mobileapplications for the Android platform.

The Amsterdam event, organized by T-Mobile Netherlands, is being held inanticipation of the release of the Android-powered T-Mobile G1 phone in theNetherlands in early 2009. More than 250 developers have already registered forthe event. Interested members of the public can sign up for the free eventat "Were proud to have hosted the first AndroidDevCamp, and I am honored to begiving the keynote at this event," Muse said. is a Dallas-based idea factory for mobile applications,building software for Google's open-source Android platform and Apple's iPhone.Big in Japan's ShopSavvy application - a personal shopping assistant - is one ofthe most popular applications on the Android-powered T-Mobile G1. For moreinformation, visit The Idea GroveCathy Baradell, Copyright Business Wire 2009. "They became really, really super, super crazy upset about it. Saying stuff like, 'You're crazy! You're the biggest idiot! Don't come here for your book tour!' It's like, 'whoa, settle down, I just picked you to go 41-41, it's not like I built a Brandon Roy voodoo doll or something.'"Why the outrageBefore the season, the Sports Guy dubbed the Blazers as the "You-Thought-We'd Take-Another-Leap, But-Instead-We-Went-Backward-Because-Expectations-Were-Too-High, We-Tinkered-With-Our-Chemistry-And-Our-Young-Guys-Tuned-Out-Their-Coach" Team.Not something a city with only one professional sports franchise wanted to hear.But with each passing day, Simmons' prophecy is gaining momentum and casualties.First, it was Nicolas Batum, then Travis Outlaw, and then another LaMarcus Aldridge.Bad luck Sure.But tonight, the world came crashing down on Blazer fans.Greg Oden, the player they are awkwardly forced to love despite not being anywhere as good as he was supposed to be, or the guy he was drafted in front of came down with the most brutal injury in sports since Shaun Livingston's Achilles tendon exploded two years ago.Simmons describes the phenomenon like this: "It's like watching 15,000 parents rooting for their kid, only all 15,000 parents fathered the same kid."Except their kid drops three fourth-down passes, catches a six-yarder on 3rd-and-13, and then gets hurt in the game's final minutes.The Oden injury is unfortunate for the Blazers, but even more of a dagger for the psyche of their fans.