Game Thread GAME# 19: BLAZERS @ WARRIORS - NOVEMBER 23, 2018 - FRIDAY, 7:30 PM, NBCSNW

Who says we are a good passing team? We're in the bottom of the league in assists every year.

 

I believe Stotts actually wants more ball movement. The question is do cj,dame and Turner want that?

 

Yeah I've had a long couple of days and I don't really have the time or energy for this shit. Must be how the players have felt this entire road trip.

 

Get down. Ignore everyone and let Dame and CJ jack up stupid shot after stupid shot. There’s the Trail Blazers I know and love.

 

Then he needs to not be a limp dicked pansy and do something about it.

 

Started rewatching the wire this wknd. Might just switch over for the second half

 

They need to be benched

 

That's ridiculous. Dame has shown the ability to make the right pass his whole career. He sees cutters. And if players are using other players as an excuse to play lazily and stand on the perimeter instead of moving, then that means they care more about their touches than the betterment of the team, and they need to go. It could also be a product of them not being instructed to, or them simply not listening to the coaching staff, which means the coaching staff needs to go.

 

It’s why I don’t think we need an Otto Porter as much as we need someone like Batum (no I’m not saying get Batum)

We need playmakers. And maybe a coach willing to hold his stars accountable. Then again they’re probably just doing what Stotts wants them to do since he doesn’t trust anyone else.

 

CC and Stren deleting posts.

 

There you go. And of course Stotts never has an answer for it.

I wish Allen were here.....I don't think he would tolerate blowout losses like this. But the way things stand, Stotts will likely be here for the foreseeable future.

Goddammit. I want that man FIRED!

 

Then man up and force your team to play the way you want them to. If certain players won’t (ie. Dame & CJ) then bench their asses until they do.

 

A coach who pisses off his star will have no job. Dame needs to figure it out and take the lead.

 

That's what I'd do. They obviously aren't helping us on the floor. Gotta set a standard somewhere because our effort and intensity is just all over the fucking place from game to game, week to week.

 

Memo to Dame: if you want to stay on your man no matter what and never rotate, you need to guard their best player, not their weakest

 

- The ONLY pass available to Dame and C.J. is to pass to someone standing on the perimeter, who then does nothing productive with the ball.
- If Dame and C.J. drive, they have no passing opportunities because the help defense is so set and ready and collapse so hard that there's no passing windows to other players, partly because they don't get to open space or cut into the open passing window.

So what the hell should they do, exactly? It's easy to say "They need to pass more". Problem is, there's no productive passes to be made.

 

How many different ways are you gong to say the same thing?