Game Thread GAME# 47: BLAZERS @ NUGGETS - JANUARY 22, 2018 - MONDAY, 6:00 PM (PST), NBCSNW

Changes coming

 

That official was certain the ball was off Plumlee, they weren't going to review it, and then Stotts calls a f-ing timeout. Hilarious.

 

Huh? We are 1 game ahead of the Nuggets. And we play them again. Your math is off.

 

Dame slowed in the 2nd half by the double, so we have other guys shoot and it hurts us. Their big scorer sees no such double team defense, gets 38, we lose. Stotts must go.

 

Fouling Will was the right thing at the end...he'd been shooting blanks all game...he was clutch at the end from the line

 

This is the same team we've seen all year. If Dame and CJ aren't both having a good game offensively it's an L. Sprinkle in a single guy killing them with the total refusal to double and baby you've got a stew goin'.

 

Tough loss on the road. We've won games at home like that too.

 

Bullshit. That fucking asshole is half the reason we're in this mess. You can't tell me he hasn't seen this shit before, and still no changes made.

 

Yep. Aminu missed shots he usually makes.

 

If you allow the best player to score as much possible but lose the game without doubling.... who cares? You still lost. It's like loading the box in football and then getting killed on passing. You didn't give up 100 yards rushing but gave on 300 yards passing and three TDs on bombs.

 

Another point I have seen is that timeout by terry stotts. Gave refs time to review that play and overturn the call. Should of just gave it to Dame, no timeout

 

During the broadcast you could see the official shaking his head as Denver argued, he was not going to review it. If Terry hadn't called timeout we would have had possession down 1 with 9 seconds left.

 

Dame shot 2 free throws. Denver had 24 in the second half. 15 in the 4th.

 

Give this team a consistent forward who can make an open shot and defend somewhat adequately for 25 mpg, and we win 50 games. Teams are just loading up on Dame these days. And when CJ is off, it's that much more noticeable.

 

CJ is supposed to make them pay if they load up on Dame...he couldn't throw the ball in a swimming pool all night

 

Not sure how many more games it will take for people to see that Stotts is part of the problem. It's easy to single out Neil for handing out those contracts, but is Neil running his offense through Aminu late in the 4th with the lead? Is Neil letting Jamal Murray beat him single-handily without making any sort of defensive adjustments? Does Neil not have a contingency plan when teams, inevitably, begin to double-team Dame?

I'm not saying Neil is immune to any blame, but at least on Twitter, it feels like Neil is getting nearly all of the blame. Terry's a GREAT player's coach but we've lost way too many games down the stretch this year, many of them with a multiple possession lead.

 

Blazers lead by 5 with less than four minutes but manage to lose. I feel like I've seen this before.

Cj and Stotts cost us this game. Aminu isn't good enough to shoulder blame. He's a role-player. When he's off, you pull him for someone else. No idea why Collins wasn't put in instead of him. Cj had a bad offensive game while being bad (and not getting any help, by design) on defense. Credit to Murray for turning into a flamethrower.

Blazers are 10-10 in games decided by 6 or less at the end of four quarters. Which is better than I thought. Aminu has hit 18 of his last 57 three point attempts, which is worse than I thought (about 32%). Blazers need and upgrade to our starting four spot. Hopefully Zach can be that guy soon!