Game Thread GAME# 5: BLAZERS @ JAZZ - NOVEMBER 4, 2015 - WEDNESDAY, 6:00 PM (PST), KGW

Vonleh will be good don't worry about that (it will take time, no surprise, @ least to some of us; by the end of this season, he'll start to look more like summer league Vonleh but he'll steadily improve/make nice strides over the next 3 years; I say @ the beginning of year 3 from now, he will have arrived!) Right now though, stats don't have him looking all that great & on the court I'll bet u anything they've purposely told him not to try to do too much; this is standard around the league for what teams ask of their young guys that aren't expected to carry the franchise (once they've proven proficiency w/ the things they do well/what's expected of them, THEN they're allowed to branch out a bit & allowed to do little bits more; also, this's only logical).

 

In the rotation, he's ready & fine... big minutes... no, definitely not yet

 

Yes sir!

 

Yeah... No.... Certainly not on D...

 

You sure do whine a lot... We just spanked the best defensive team in the league in their building for their home opener...

Do you wanna hit this?

 

very impressed with the whole team going at Gobert and Favors. They didn't settle for just the three's. CJ with the floater over Gobert was a thing of beauty. He made it look easy.

 

Lillard has that 5 foot floater down as well. That was the missing piece of his offense.

 

3-0 when I don't watch games. Sadly for you all I'm watching tomorrow so expect a loss folks.

 

For all those interested - my sig has been updated with freshness

 

Were you at the Breakers v 36ers game? I only got to see the second half due to the time difference.

 

nah wasnt there, I've been a few games, but its always kinda weak after watching the NBA :/

enjoy the links

just found out YIFY the torrent dude was a kiwi, lived like 20mins drive from me - taking on the world!!
(lulz)

 

80% of my comments about blazer players are positive because 80% are playing good, but 20% aren't, you're focusing on my negative comments

 

Fair enough. Though 80% seems a bit high.. Lol.

 

I clicked on the link. Does that enable me to watch the whole game? What is that?

 

Because only 1/3rd of my comments are about players in general, and 80% of those are positve, the other 1/3rd are about refs and those are 99% bad, the other 1/3rd just about what happened in the game, so it's about 50% good 50% bad.

 

i gotta give props to Neil, he's done a good job with de-pussy'fying the team so far, we lost some talent but we gained a lot of aggressiveness.
I've seen Alderidge get dunked on twice this week and in both plays he had his dumb smile on right afterwards...disgusting.

 

I think they were trying too hard to escape their jailblazer image. I remember seeing LA in college and hoping the Blazer didn't draft him, because you could just tell immediately by his body language that he was soft.

 

Sinobas, I've enjoyed your posts, especially recently. However, I think you're off base about Vonleh - here's why. When I see him play, especially last night, I don't see a player who sucks - I see a player who is playing very tentatively. He's passed up shots. Sometimes, he'd immediately look to the side for someone to pass to without looking at the basket. He's not playing his game at all. I've seen this sort of thing plenty. It's really the coaching staff's job to get him comfortable, and I have no doubt that he will get there this season and be fine. I'm looking forward to it because only after he's comfortable will we get to see whether he becomes good or actually a borderline all-star, or even better.