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

We're back to an awful .500 mark against the Eastern Conference. We are killing against our own conference, but failing badly against the weak sisters.

 

Blazers are fun to watch . . . but without a proven big man down low, they aren't going to go very far this year.

 

Especially not with Brandon Roy nursing his hammy . . .

 

when the D turned it up a notch down the stretch the team didn't have anyone who could separate. They flat missed open jumpers as well... they lived by that sword the previous game vs the Magic

STOMP

 

Other than Miller, there just wasn't any playmakers out there. Andre kept us in that game.

 

3 easons we lost the game..

1. rudy was awful 1-8 and not close

2. bayless sucks

3. no defense and no rebounding

 

fucking okc has a better road record then us.

unreal

hmmm 9th seed by saturday?

 

Could Be. No Roy killed us today. If he's out this hole trip, it could be 0-4.

Okc does have a better road record than us, but Dallas and the Lakers are the only teams in the West that have a better road record than Okc. So in reality, we have the 4th best road record in the conf at 9-10.

 

Is KP still saying he gets a lot of calls about Rudy? Trade him NOW while the league is still fascinated with him. All he can do is shoot, and once or twice every couple of weeks he sneaks back door for a lob. His ball handling is suspect and he's too careless with the ball, if you play him physical he shrivels up in the fetal position, he has no off the dribble game (not exactly ideal when you are a SG), and his defense isn't all that good. So when he's not knocking down 3's, he's pretty much worthless. Bayless drives me nuts at times also, but at least he has the ability to make a play.

 

Rudy can go 8-10 and I still feel the same way. The guy just doesn't have a very well rounded/SG game. I'm not saying trade him for the sake of getting him out of here, but if there IS interest around the league . . . of all of the "prospects", he's the easiest one to part with for me - by far.

 

last year we beat bad teams....

this kind of loss with the bucks loss and 2 grizz losses could cot us the playoffs.

you cannot lose to the wiz.... at this point

 

Dammit! Why didn't you say so before the game? The team really needed to read that.

 

So Nate gets a team full of scrubs, with no true center and you're expecting him to win? And if he doesn't that just shows the people who are okay with Nate how wrong they are?????

Ridiculous. Borderline insane.

Why is it so hard for you to admit that part of the team's success may be due to Nate? I don't think anyone who is okay with Nate (which apparently around here is akin to being a devil worshiper) wouldn't also admit that part of the success is due to the players. I think that's pretty much the standard definition of how good teams become successful.

 

What the hell do you have against Devil worshipers?

 

Yak was probably referring to "Mediocre" ones.

 

I think a lot of the way the team plays is because of Nate. I thiknk almost all of the way the team wins is because of the players.

 

I would say that's Roy's fault. He should know when to go, adn know the play that was just drawn up. They just called a full timeout, and drew up a play. He's been in that situation countless times. I can't imagine why they would say THIS time, hey, we'll signal for you when to go. Maybe they threw a different look than we expected, and he turned to get an opinion, but that's entirely on Roy. No reason to turn like that and not pay attention to the defender.

 

So I guess our record now means nothing, eh?

People want to write off last year, and the improvement from the year before, and the record this year and and and... so what exactly is the basis for a success by a coach? If it's championship or nothing then there are MANY failed coaches.