Game Thread GAME# 59: GRIZZLIES @ BLAZERS - APRIL 23, 2021 - FRIDAY, 7:00, NBCSNW

The more I think about this game the angrier I get that Stotts is still our coach.

Not playing Nas and even RHJ against a team that likes to run and is great in transition??

Abandoning Nurk in the fourth (minus that late bunny on an attempted high low, maybe the only actual play in terry’s book btw) when nobody could stop him, only so your guards can take isolated, contested, jumpers, I mean what the fuck?? And this wasn’t a one off incident either. Our “strategy” late in games is always, and I mean ALWAYS Dame, CJ, Dame, CJ, Dame, CJ, Dame, Dame, Dame. And we wonder why we’re so inconsistent?

End this fucking guy already.

 

Just finished the game.

I just...

sooo much talent.
Sooo little discipline.

i iust want to cry....

This cant keep happening can it?


No. Can Stotts. Now....

my two year old box of captn crunch in the back of the cupboard isnt this stale....

 

Yea you might be right but how how he misses especially when the game on the line this not Dame as I know him as player. Something going on with him and the way he missing and missing free throw too there might be something else. People talking about his injuries might be it but this guy beat before and never shot this bad. Not only Dame CJ too one these players always come up big when the other don't at the end of games.

 

Won't be the last time you probably see it the rest of the season Stotts jobs on the line and any playoffs hope on the line too.

 

I haven't watched the last 4 games. This is the fist time since I started watching the Blazers

 

its like a really really bad remake of the movie Groundhogs day with no Bill Murray and a bunch of B rated actors...with an F rated coach...

getting hard to watch.

 

They’ve all been “fist time” games and my hand is getting really sore from punching the wall.

 

Thank God for MLB.....and BG’s league pass access..........

 

The point I was trying to make is that Stotts only has one inbounds play under the basket, so of course the other team knew what was coming.

 

plenty of discussion about the Kanter/Melo pairing so I thought I'd check lineups at bbref. First, the two man lineups ranked by net points/game:



this pretty clearly shows the problem, IMO, and it isn't really Kanter. Sure, he has his flaws, but he also brings strengths that greatly help the team and offset his defensive weakness. Obviously, this isn't every combination, only the 20 most used by minutes. But after watching this team over the 'Melo-legacy-era' is it really any surprise that he dominates the minus numbers?

but would 3-man lineups tell us something different?



I guess not really? Kanter makes plenty of appearances in the plus combo's. Melo doesn't show up until the 14th best combo and that's with Dame. Kanter and Melo were slightly plus with Trent. But Kanter & Melo together with Dame was bad, and dropped pretty significantly into minus territory. Obviously, if they compiled the next 20 combos, all minus, Melo would show up all over the place

of course, teams play 5 so you have to gauge the 2-man and 3-man lineups against what you see in the 5 man lineups. You also have to gauge net points against the minutes sample sizes:



I guess it's no surprise that Dame appears in the best 6 lineups and 9 or the top-10. CJ only appears in 3 of the top-10 and all 3 times was with Dame. But Kanter appears in 6 of the top-10 lineups. Melo appears in one, but that's with Hood, Little, and Simons so I have to think there was some garbage time involved there. Melo does appear in some plus lineups, but looking at the combos, I'd say it was more due to teammates or him just being hot like he gets about every 4t or 5th game

but Melo really starts to show up, again, when the lineups drop into minus territory. Is this really a surprise though?

the one other 'disturbing' lineup is ranked 19th. That's 4 starters + Kanter and they gave up a net -10.5 points. Looks like some major miscalculations by the GM about the quality of fit

and speaking of major miscalculations by the GM...how's that Melo-legacy bullshit working out for everybody but Melo, Neil?

 

my doctor says: "don't do that"

 

Brooks had Dame pretty much locked down and was in his head. His numbers nearly matched Dame. That's extremely troubling. Dame has to be able to beat him on his own more than he did.

 

@wizenheimer ... my goodness is MElo bad in those charts. Stotts HAS to be aware of those, right?

 

Is Dame really the best leader in the NBA? just curious what a guy like Jimmy Butler would do to this team

 

Who says he is? I've not heard it.

Right now he has to do it to the Heat:

(Last ten games)

 

Somethings not right with Lillard. He seems pissy on top of everything else. If I was a ref, I'd be getting tired of the haranguing.

 

After making the finals with this team and only had two months of offseason

 

What this tells us is ROCO = MVP!!!!

 

So you're talking about a hypothetical Jimmy Butler, not the actual right-now Jimmy Butler. Gotcha. Can I talk about the hypothetical Dame-of-the-Bubble?

RIGHT NOW the "best leader in the NBA" looks to be Russell Westbrook.

 

Nothing is going on with dame Jesus.. he does every year single year. He’s feast or famine. Long stretches of hot shooting then looong stretches of slumps that we blame on “injures”, or he’s a “new dad” lol

This is who he is as a player. Great but streaky inconsistent player