Game Thread GAME# 64: BLAZERS @ GRIZZLIES - MARCH 5, 2018 - TUESDAY, 5:00 PM, NBCSNW

Have we seen the current approach to the playoffs yet?

 

So your answer is that you're simply hoping this year will be different?

 

I don't see it as the same at all. Nurkic wasn't even here 4 years ago and he helped change this team a lot. Are you suggesting that we haven't changed or improved at all in 4 years especially when factoring in new personnel?

 

My answer is we are not the same team and that very few teams that will be in the playoffs aren't the same team. Pelicans are significantly different and won't even make the playoffs. We also don't know who we will face and who has home court Too many variables.

 

I answered it sort of...I think we're deeper and not only that but hopefully we have a healthy Mo to shore up defense which we sorely missed last summer

 

To me it's simpler than this...we get teams to play our game or we get stuck playing theirs....when we get stuck playing their game we struggle..they play ours, we dominate... I don't think we execute or respond the same way at all...some nights we're on and some we're not...we've started to win some games when we're not for a change....Dame is going to always getting doubled....what I see are guys we don't game plan for having career 3 pt shooting nights against us because we leave them open...that is just pick your poison....if Rodney or Mo or Jake make them pay for doubling Dame will get some breathing room. Nurk is already making teams pay for bottling up the guards. We need more than 3 players in double digit scoring...when we don't get that we struggle.

 

The Blazers should not have lost this MEM game! In the 4th Q the Blazers were looking tired and 0 of 6 swish3s, in spite of the fresh legs and record Playoff shooting Meyers left on the bench. Blazer coaches need to pay attention to who can score swish3s in the 4th Q and this game, future late challenges, and the Playoff games can be wins. The NBA Championship is still possible if the Blazers can optimize the use of talent and better assess signs of tired legs to avoid late game losses.

 

I just want to note that this is what frustrates me and leads to threads going off the rails. Myself (and @BonesJones) name specific examples of coaching deficiencies that worry us and the response we get often questions the expertise level of the poster and that this season isn't the same as last season. At least @riverman stated that he thinks the added depth, Nurk improvement, and Mo's health will help in the playoffs. We can then have a discussion about whether or not that will help. Everyone is entitled to their opinion so it's fine for me to then disagree that depth really helps in the playoffs if a team takes Dame out of the equation. Either of us could be right when the playoffs come around so it's fine for people to think differently.

What I don't think is alright is for people to try and discredit someone's opinion citing reasons like "you aren't in every practice", "you're not an NBA coach", "you need to get a life and not waste so much time on the Blazers", or "we don't know what will happen in the playoffs yet". Those comments don't add anything to the discussion.

 

I think this comes from disagreements in philosophy being characterized as mistakes or a lack of preparation on Stotts. Those are two very different things and anybody claiming differently are blatantly ignoring the limited information we work with as fans where the action on the floor / result of a play or game is nearly all we have to form our opinions of Stotts.

Arguing about and hearing the same shit also gets just as annoying (more imo) than watching it play out in games for those that don't agree with some of Stotts' strategic choices, which imo is the root source of some of the angsty responses people have during these Stotts "discussions".

 

This is to all of us...Wouldn't it be best when you convey an opinion or take, rather than come across like the official experts, and a matter of factly, don't question my expertise, to just preface your comment or opinion by stating, imo or I believe? Or, I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel or see, blah blah blah.

 

hmmmm


in my view, my guess would be, if I'm reading things right, which I might not be, that a 50% increase in qualifiers like 'IMO' & such would result in a net decrease in arguments of exactly 0%....I might be wrong though

shit that was painful

 

I have it on good authority that if we had played Meyers in the 4th quarter we would not have lost the game last night.

 

Your probably right...

 

I believe that it's my opinion that Terry Stotts is a turd of a coach. Anyone who says differently can eat a Terry Stotts!

 

PP just let the cat out of the bag! S2 Moderators are, in fact, NBA refs!

Can we wager on a Mod's game thread, like the over/under until it goes off the rails?

As I recall, Dunleavy was the one exception to that rule, being flexible enough to do things like continually put Kobe in the post and expose his defensive liabilities, forcing the other team to adjust. Not surprisingly, that coincided with Trader Bob being the most non-conservative GM we've had. Even Adelman become known as one of the most innovative coaches after Portland. Face it, it's the Portland mindset. This franchise is great at staying relevant, but paranoid about the backlash of bold moves that don't pan out. Like minds get hired.

 

I think feelings are not right or wrong, there just feelings!

 

If you don't like readingv my posts and you don't think i add anything, ignore my posts and move on rather than trying to stir the pot. I do it quite often with your posts. Especially the ones that are laced with fuck almost every other word. You are far from perfect.

 

The last 3 years we have played 3 different teams in the playoffs and one of them has been NBA champs twice in the past and lost only 1 game the year we got swept by GS. The other team is out of the playoffs and only a shell of what they were last year so do we really know how we will compete this year? And the 3rd we beat in the 1st round. I don't think so. It seeems there is a faction in this f ch orum that works way to hard in discrediting this team. I'm having a blast watching this team. Learn to enjoy the team rather than nitpicking the negatives and dwelling on them.