Last night the Warriors used us as tune up chum. In the first Q, 17-3 must have been really painful for those in the expensive seats.
I can honestly say that this was one of the hardest games to watch for me. One of my friends is a warriors fan ( born in Oakland ) we watched the game together. I couldn't hold my attention to the screen. The only one who looked like that gave a damn was Lillard, Napier and Aminu. The rest looked like they had granny panties on and didn't want anyone to know they were loaded with with shit! I'm looking forward to this summer! I want a huge roster change and I can say for the first time i'm done being a homer! I believe that this year made me realize that you can't fall in love with every player. I guess as a fan you have to treat your fandom as a business too. Nurk was a tease I'd love to see a roster full of people like him, Lillard, McCallum and I bet we have a badass water boy! Let's make this happen I'm tired of the embarrassment I just watched!
I didn't even watch one second of the game last night. I knew the team had no chance. Looks like CJ was really off tonight, but I wouldn't bash him for that, he's been very good, even stellar this series. Crucify the supporting cast. No one else in the series did jack shit. Really Aminu was the only other one that looked like he really cared about winning.
I can't get over how many types of ways we lost games. Those games against Philly (Covington), Memphis (Dame fouls Toney Douglas), Phoenix (Bledsoe buzzer), New Orleans (blown out), Dallas (Yogi Ferrell), Washington (refs, blown lead), @ Minny (Dame's miss at the buzzer), MIL/DET/TOR/ATL/BOS (blown leads), Orlando at home (smh). Just so much garbage this year. Nurk was our only positive.
I see you've been a fan for about 4-5 years then. Jesus, what a ridiculous statement given this franchise's history.
Yeah, I've been a fan for 4 or 5 years. From a perspective of pre-season expectations, to the horrible effort we were given game in, game out, it ranks way up there. Guys with the actual potential to be good and play as a team (yeah, remember San Diego), looked more like a bunch of guys who do not want to be in Portland but we paid them enough to stick around. So they will collect their paychecks, but play with absolutely no passion or awareness. We had 2...maybe 3 guys actually playing hard last night. On an elimination game at home to avoid a sweep. Just fucking embarrassing. And the thing is, save Jusef Nurkic, this has been more of the rule than the exception.
It is really shocking how after so much talk about "flexibility" and retooling that Neil got us in this luxury tax pickle. Too bad because I do think he's an above average talent evaluator and drafter.
Theyre all expensive seats. It was painful for everyone. My family splits a season ticket with a couple other families and so we sit around the same bunch of season ticket holders and when it got up to 22-3 this old guy next to me just goes..."it's over" it was like 7 minutes left in the FIRST FUCKING QUARTER. Fuck this blazer team honestly I hope someone from the team reads this. You guys are a fucking disgrace.
If you had watched maybe you'd have a legit opinion about things this is just speculation about a stat line. If you watch the game (and I would suggest it) you would see someone with a foot out the door and eyes on his 25m contract coming in next year. If I was GM I would package him for a real star instead of paying that POS.
Disappointing to see them get crushed like that but the Warriors are simply a way better team and there's no way anybody can be surprised. That doesn't negate the fact that there were some positives to take away from the season, namely Nurkic but also Lillard's gradual improvement and Vonleh showing some signs of competence. This also is not even close to the most disappointing season in team history. Hell, as recently as 2014-15 things were worse from that perspective.
Aside from our own pain, what we saw last night was a thing of beauty. The Warriors played and are playing championship basketball. That was maybe the best first quarter of basketball I have ever seen. Flawless.
By pretty much by ANY means necessary get rid of: -Evan Turnover -Meyers Leonard -Al-Farouq Aminu Given our cap situation and history of not being able to lure Top tier talent, here is the moves we should make: -Aminu's contract is appealing and can be easily traded in my opinion, this would give Layman more playing time. -Package Evan Turner with a draft pick and get ANYTHING else in return. -Test the market if any Team would be willing to take on Meyers contract for a 2nd round pick, if not package Meyers with a pick for ANYTHING else in return. -Don't Keep Ezeli, he is way to fragile. -With the highest pick the Blazers have, Draft a Power forward that has some defensive skills and can score. [Jordan Bell] Yes the roster looks close to the same as the current roster, which is because the Blazers options are limited, however I believe if these changes are made it could a "addition by subtraction" situation. PG: Lillard, Napier SG: McCollum, Crabbe, Connaughton SF: Harkless, Layman PF: Vonleh, Draft pick #1 C: Nurkic, Davis
