Game Thread GAME# 44: BLAZERS @ NUGGETS - JANUARY 13, 2019 - SUNDAY, 5:00 PM, NBCSNW

Discussion in 'Portland Trail Blazers' started by Darkwebs, Jan 11, 2019.

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Biases aside, who is the better overall basketball player?

Poll closed Jan 18, 2019.

  1. Jokic

    37 vote(s)
    71.2%

  2. Nurkic

    15 vote(s)
    28.8%
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  1. TorturedBlazerFan

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    It is, but I can tell you for a fact Altitude plays a big part of Denver's home court advantage. Not saying Denver won this game because of it, but if you aren't used to it, it makes a difference.
     
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    He was setting a screen under the rim against a defense that was ZONED UP around the 3pt line? Makes sense.

    If you want a big screen, have Meyers in, because at least he's a 3pt threat......
     
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    Stotts needs to go.
     
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    Really? I saw him score at least 40 against Knicks two years ago.
     
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    I swear. Layman got 13 points and that's with almost no looks. Why the hell don't we feature him more?
     
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    About time he had a good game against Nurk. Nurk has seemingly eaten his lunch almost every time since the trade.
     
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    Might have been a season high then? I may have misread the graphic.
     
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    What about when we win? Like the 6 out of 7 we just won?
     
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    Yep he tried to take over and took outside shots when he shouldn't have and rushed/forced the ones in the lane. He played a stupid 4th quarter.
     
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    Hey. When are you going to do your mid season player grades?
     
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    Well the good news is it was a good game, could they have won it? Maybe. I bet in this type of game both teams feel like they could've done things better.
    Denver's 1st in the west right now at home, and yeah they've had a lot of games recently but they're a very good team. You're going to lose some games, it's not a bad loss. Guess you just move on to the next one.

    I don't really get why Layman didn't get more 4th quarter minutes, or why Nurkic was out there at the end of the game, and there are of course things I thought they could have done better.
     
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    Terry Stotts was their biggest advantage tonight. Maybe Jokic… It's hard to tell.
     
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    Really? When did I say that? I definitely thought we would though.
     
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    And his defense was really poor. He forced ET to switch onto Jokic because he couldn't fight through a pick. Led to an easy Jokic bucket. Nurk got in his own head.
     
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    A lot of home games against mostly scrubs. This was a game that they really had an opportunity to win. Nuggets had played a TON of games and were on tired legs. Then Jake was smoking hot. Nuggets only had 2 players over 13 points.

    Missed opportunity and Stotts is a big part of that.
     
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    All-star Break.
     
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    What's that. Feb 17th I think?
     
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    Something like that.
     
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    But All Star break is less than 2 months before the end of the season.
     
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    Sigh.
     
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