Game Thread Game #10 - BLAZERS VS LAKERS - NOVEMBER 6, 2021 - SATURDAY, 7:30 PM, ROOT SPORTS, NBATV

Discussion in 'Portland Trail Blazers' started by Chris Craig, Nov 6, 2021.

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If you were going to buy a jersey of a new Blazer, which would you get?

  1. Cody Zeller

    9 vote(s)
    21.4%
  2. Larry Nance Jr

    21 vote(s)
    50.0%
  3. Tony Snell

    2 vote(s)
    4.8%
  4. Ben McLemore

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  5. Dennis Smith Jr

    1 vote(s)
    2.4%
  6. Greg Brown III

    8 vote(s)
    19.0%
  7. Trendon Watford

    1 vote(s)
    2.4%
  1. SlyPokerDog

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    On Anthony Davis’ illness pre-game and how that evolved…


    “Yea he was battling a thumb trying to figure if that was going to inhibit him from playing and then he woke up this afternoon with a bit of a stomach bug and came back in and said the thumb felt pretty good, probably good enough to play and then he went and threw up in the back. He still wanted to give it a go but by the time tipoff came around he had already thrown up four times. He wanted to try to see if getting out on the floor would change it, but he wasn’t able to go.”

    On what he saw once AD went out, different defenses & personnel groupings, what was he trying to get together…

    “We’re struggling to contain quick, deep shooting guards. You know with this personnel and the way we like to bring double teams, so we pulled back on it some and those guys took advantage of it before we pulled back on it. We weren’t tough enough you know with our low man and our rotations and we weren’t containing their guards in the trap well enough. So neither one was happening so we pulled them back to our base coverage and that’s risky with shooters like Dame and CJ and they got going a little bit and then at that point when we were down we tried to jump the game up.”

    On what Russell Westbrook not playing well and evaluating his performance at the 10-game marker…

    “He’s shown flashes of being great for us. We all didn’t have a good night; the whole team didn’t have a good night. We’ve got to find ways as a coaching staff to help him and to put him in positions to succeed. And it’s on all of us to make sure that happens, make sure he gets comfortable and feels good about the environment around him and that’s what we’re working towards. We’re all sticking together; we’re all believing in the same thing and we’re going to get through nights like tonight.”

    On what was not occurring on the defensive end that needed to…


    “Well like I said we pulled back on our double teams because we weren’t executing them well enough like we had in the last two games, so we fell back to some of our base coverages. And you know Dame’s [Damian Lillard] been cold and Dame got hot, that’s the biggest thing that sticks out and obviously we tried to go on a run and try to jump the game up again, played a little more zone and we weren’t very good in the zone during that stretch either; so give credit to the Blazers for playing great.”

    On evaluating the team after the first ten games…

    “Yea, I don’t keep 10-game markers, there’s a constant evaluation going on, all year. And every time this group is in front of us we learn something more about what they can and can’t do and look at ways to put them in a position to succeed and that’s what our coaching staff is focused on and tonight we just didn’t have enough, didn’t play well enough.”
     
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    On finding cohesion when the rotation is changing frequently…



    “Just playing basketball. I think for the most part tonight we just didn’t play basketball. Just go out and compete, we didn’t play hard. We only played in spurts. Those guy came out hitting on all cylinders, especially in that first half to get that big lead. It’s going to be like that, its part of the game. We don’t know who’s going to be in here – we don’t know – we can’t control injuries. We can’t control what guys are going through physically. It is next man up, it sounds cliché but it is what it is. We still got to go out there and compete.”


    On team’s effort being tied to uncertainty of rotation and player availability…


    “Yeah, I seen it. I mean, I’ve been here nineteen years [in the league], I’ve seen everything. I’ve seen it not once or twice, but a lot of times where guys go down and guys are trying to search and figure out what they are supposed to do. Lineups change but that’s the luxury of being in the NBA. You just never know what’s going to happen, you never know who’s going to get injured, you never know when your number is going to get called and that was the case tonight.”


    On how they can evaluate the team right now with inconsistent lineups…


    “I don’t think you can [evaluate the team] to be honest. But, it is what it is. We still go out there, we still play, we still don’t have guys some nights, [some nights] we have full rosters, some nights we don’t. We really haven’t had a full roster the whole season, the whole preseason, except maybe one game. As of yet we haven’t had all our guys out there and we think about that but when you’re out on the court it’s hard to think about.”


    On Russell Westbrook’s overall fit with the team through the first ten games…


    “We’ve seen him in some games that we’ve had at home. We’ve seen him fit right in, we’ve seen him lead the charge, we’ve seen him do what he does when he’s in attack mode and we’ve seen nights where he hasn’t been that. That’s the give and take with Russ [Russell Westbrook]. That’s throughout his whole career he’s always figured it out. He’s always figured out how to adapt, how to make adjustments. What he has to do physically, personally, mentally – we can’t control that – that’s something that he controls. Only he knows what he has to do. We got to be there just to support him and that’s what we’ll do.”
     
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    I don't like to see players hurt - but given the Blazers' history with injuries I'm not going to cry for opposing teams that have guys out.
     
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    See, there are 16 players better than Lillard! This just proves how much he sucks!

    - @AldoTrapani
     
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    My 41-41 prediction looks fantastic right now.
     
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    We shot 15/55 on 3s which is 27% and overall fg% was 38. We won because Lakers were missing Lebron and AD and the drop off after those two is crazy bad. All old guys.
     
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    Is Nurk first guy in ten years that said "championship" in the interview?
     
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    2nd night of a b2b and your apologizing for the Lakers.

    This is sports. Next man up.

    At the end of the year no one looks back and says they were missing so and so…
     
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    But I swore we had met each other before.
     
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    Feels like he lost some of his aggression tonight. As much as I enjoyed the win tonight, it was hard watching him pass up a one-on-one against Carmello on the perimeter with tons of time left on the clock. He just looks really passive out there a lot of the time in that second unit.

    Luckily, it seems like an aberration. Overall his performance off the bench has been pretty good. Especially the rebounding and TS%:
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    It really does feel like we need to make some kind of consolidation trade to get an upper tier 3/4 in exchange for some combo of CJ, Ant, Norm and Nas.
     
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    Sorry, a lot more unlikable people exist.
     
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    I don't think I've ever seen NO starter score in double figures before...

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    "I been tellin ya"
     
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    There has got to be a way i can change my prediction to 42-40 just so i can say i didn't have the same prediction as a Lakers fan?
    I really should have read through the thread and figured that out before making that uninformed decision.
     
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    Really not a very good game for the Blazers....and yet they dominated the hapless Lakers. When you can shoot THAT poorly and still stomp the Piss out of the Purple,
    .....that is a good win.
     
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    I have not seen the Lakers play till last night and with Lebron and AD out, I guess I still haven't seen the Lakers play

    but it sure looks to me like the Lakers made a miscalculation. They decided, apparently, that 3 elite talents would be the ticket to another championship. But there were two problems with their calculation: one is that 3 elite talents can win a championship, but not 3 alpha-dogs. Getting the fit right in that kennel might be impossible

    the other error is that you still need a supporting cast and the Lakers gutted their supporting cast in order to land Westbrook. KCP, Kuzma, and Harrell are averaging 42 points and 23 rebounds on great efficiency. That's a lot of supporting cast production missing from the Lakers

    looks like a pretty stupid trade at this point
     
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