Cup of Joe and a game: Wizards vs. Blazers game thread

Are you fucking blind? LaMarcus and Miller carried us tonight.

LA had 22/15!

 

postive plus/minus, over 50% shooting, 15 boards, 9 offensive, 2 assists, 2 steals. Without him this is probably a 10 point loss.

/king me

 

This might stop those silly threads about how great Nate is. This team wins because of Brandon Roy period.

 

You wanted MORE Rudy today? I love the guy, but he sucked today.

Go Blazers

 

Check the boxscore.

Check the fact that he was the only Blazer fighting for rebounds.

Check the fact that he had 8 offensive rebounds.

Check the fact that 9/17 is still over 50%.

But I guess he missed a few jumpers in the clutch so he had a rotten game. Makes perfect sense.

 

So how did we win those big games that Brandon sat?

Go Blazers

 

Yep, this team really needed more 1-8 shooting to save the day.

 

Hot outside shooting and the Magic playing with their heads up their asses.

 

This is maddening. This was such a winnable game. Washington is HORRIBLE. But with no Roy, our offense looks gross.

Now we have to beat Philly or we are looking at a 1-3 or 0-4 road trip. And we usually get smoked by the 6'ers . . . this was a game we had to have today.

 

Then how did we beat the Magic? And how did we beat the Spurs in San Antonio?

 

I thought the offense looked 'OK', it was the defense today that was abysmal. They absolutely dominated us with points in the paint and trips to the stripe.

 

I hope they let his hamstring get right. If this was the playoffs I'd understand pushing the timetable on his return but today no way. They have plenty of other guards worthy of those minutes

STOMP

 

Forgot to mention we got beat in points in the paint. 46-30 ?

 

Yep.

And for those wanting to know how we have won without Brandon, it comes down to rediculous outside shooting, Jerryd Bayless having the game of his life, and a team playing unharacteristically shitty.

 

If by "Ok" you mean "As good as we can expect w/o Brandon" . . . the Wiz are one of the worst defensive teams in the league. The only points in the paint we could get were from 'Dre or Lamarcus offensive rebounds.

The defense has been abysmal for a while now - I've come to expect that with how thin we are in the front court.

 

I believe the Wiz were 30th coming into todays game. Thats pretty bad that we lost to them.

 

All season long we've been losing games to teams we shouldn't, and winning games we have no business of winning. I have a feeling it's going to take a win in Boston to make this a 2-2 road trip. If Brandon doesn't play Wednesday (hell, even if he does- Philly just has our number) that could be an 0-2 on this trip.

 

This game had trouble written all over it. 10AM tipoff? Who didn't see that as a potential problem? We've struggled with early tips in Toronto for years.

Even without Roy we should've won this game - the offensive execution in the last 4 minutes was atrocious.

 

Truthfully, if it wasn't for Andre Miller we would have seen 48 minutes of atrocious execution. Teams are starting to trap us when Bayless/Blake are in there and that just makes things look ugly. If not for Dre's foul trouble, he might have carried us to a win. The guy is playing phenomenal basketball right now.