Game Thread GAME# 2: CLIPPERS @ BLAZERS - OCTOBER 27, 2016 - THURSDAY, 7:30 (PDT), TNT

eazy Ed had a terrible game too

 

At least we've got a game of "Who he play for" to help heal our wounds from this L.

 

My biggest concern this year other than defense is shooting. Other than Dame, CJ and Crabbe we have a lot of inconsistent at best shooters. Really think Shabazz should get a chance to prove himself perhaps even over Turner.

 

Yeah that was horrendous reffing. Same old shit.

 

Chris Paul is the dirtiest nut sack in the NBA.
Aminu is the very definition of mediocre.
Reggie Miller is the worst announcer I've ever had the displeasure of listening to.

Those are my take-aways.

 

Ref called a foul with 1.3s left when the Clippers were dribbling the ball out and the Blazers were letting them.

 

The Blazer starters outplayed the Clipper starters. And yes, our bench totally sucked, but we still would have won if it were a fair game

 

Just tired of the shitty refereeing.

 

The team needs to figure out how to play with Turner, and Turner needs to figure out how to play with the team.

I kind of expected this, did not think the transition would be entirely smooth because Turner is a non-threat without the ball in his hands. It will probably work itself out sometime during the season, but I still don't think it was a great signing. He's basically Henderson with a bit better distribution ability. Is that worth twice as much as Hendo?

 

Of course we did stuff wrong. It's basketball. It's game 2 of the season. The Clippers weren't exactly perfect either. The way both teams played, I thought we played the game of basketball better than they did. Then the refs got involved and were totally one sided. You literally can't convince me that the refs weren't a big factor tonight.

 

On the plus side we made it look close towards the end of 4th quarter and we won't have too many final quarters as terrible as this one here. Loss is a loss but we're going to have at least 30 more of these so it's nothing particularly worrying. Also, Harkless did have a good game.

 

ANOTHER HORRIBLE FEMALE REF. WHAT IS THAT, 3 FOR 3 NOW?

 

I haven't felt this miserable since Game 4 of round 2 last year.

Yep, like someone said: same problems we had last year. Will it ever change?

I'm gonna fuck someone up in my fan-fiction tonight. I'm gonna make Glenn's squashed head look like a scraped knee.

 

Bench scoring was non existent for us. Crazy how inept we were when Lillard was off the floor, but we still were in it til we lost all focus offensively.

 

Ridiculous call.

 

Ref crying is awesome. Can't be lack of size up front, or an off free throw night, or giving up 114 points, or a shitty 3 pt shooting night. HAS to be the refs

 

Yea, we shot 68% in game 1, and sucked tonight. You could also say we lost the game on 3pt shooting. That is terrible shooting for this team.

 

CJ got roasted on both ends when he was playing the point guard position with Turner. Dribbled the air out of the ball on offense and missed almost all of his defensive coverage on defense. He looked like a rookie.