Game Thread GAME# 2: ROCKETS @ BLAZERS - DECEMBER 26, 2020 - SATURDAY, 7:00, NBATV & NBCSNW

Safe to say Harden is playing for Neil tonight..showcase time...he had like 7 assists in the first qtr

 

Oh of course not. Nobody else in Portland Trail Blazer history eve has a quarter of the amount of fouls given as gifts during games as James Harden does. That alone would be worth having him on this team.

 

I like Kent....as a person. But why be such a homer and excuse maker? It just makes you sound ridiculous.

Then again, the organization let's Stotts do whatever he wants regardless of outcome and since Kent works for the 'organization', it's blind homerificness.....brutal offense and defense be damned.

 

And this isn't even Houston's team. It's four of there rotation players who really aren't bad at all (Harden, Tucker, Wood and House who I would start over Gordon) but the rest wouldn't be in any team's rotation. This is a damn shame.

 

Lol or Eric Gordon. Imagine if three of the Blazers top 4 weren’t playing , how bad this rout would be.

 

This team cannot pass the ball all one on one. There is a chemistry problem with these players trying to mesh. GM continues to bring in people that turn out to be band aids.

 

Some how Terry Stotts doesn't have a good enough bench.

 

we might see some player movement soon...off court though

 

Even if he's out of shape, Harden is brilliant. Dame and Harden and a new coach...smh.

 

And it won't bring any added player movement on the court, and we'll struggle due to it.

Derrick Jones Jr. was the #1 cutter in the league last year according to synergy. He loves cutting. How much has he cut this game? How many designed sets have we utilized him as a cutter or lob-threat? It's depressing.

 

Melo and Hood shouldn’t be playing at all.

 

I can see the Blazers 0-4 to start the season

 

Honestly Derrick Jones Jr has made me miss Chief in a short two game sample size

 

But weren’t you the one saying “it’s only one game?” The one game is about to turn into at least 4 (with losses to the two LA teams coming). Counting preseason that would make 7 L’s in a row, likely in humiliating fashion. I have no clue how anyone can defend this or that dimwit behind the bench.

 

Except this has been a problem for the past few years at every point in the season (early, late, in-between). When are people gonna realize it's not a personnel issue?

 

No way Houston sends Harden to WC team unless its star for star.

 

Because he's not being used properly. Dude is an elite cutter but our system doesn't utilize that. We don't play aggressive enough defense to get him out in transition. He could be good here, his shot looks improved. But he's pretty much just a bystander watching others go 1v1, and it's hard to get role players to play at peak defensive intensity if they don't feel like they're a part of the offense.

 

Or how about firing the whole fucking coaching staff?! These are talented players who are getting no direction whatsoever. But hey, keep defending your boy Stotts.

 

If Melo plays another minute in this game I want Stotts fired right when he subs him in. Melo (along with Stotts' never ending green light) kill this team every second he plays.