Game Thread 2023-24 Game #33 - BLAZERS @ MAVERICKS - JANUARY 3, 2024 - WEDNESDAY - 5:30 PM PST - ROOT

We won the 2nd half!

 

Trying to get that third injury for Dallas.

 

Sharpe looked better in this game. That's a big positive to me.

 

more rookies will right the ship. I think the Blazers get to draft 4 this summer.

 

If he's so good they should call him up.

 

HUGE mistake for the Blazers.
Miller should have 100% been the Blazers pick.

When I was scouting Scoot's Gleague games - Miller looked like the best prospect to me

 

They said the rebuild would be more fun!

 

the Blazers were down 20 when got Reath tossed.
Down 30 when Walker had an injury.
But according to Coach Billups, the team was back to being shorthanded, which is why the Blazers weren't playing hard and let Mavericks blow right past them.

 

well, this kind of shit is what the people advocating for a Dame trade wanted

I didn't want Dame traded but if it happened I also wanted Nurkic traded (but not for twice as expensive Ayton); Ant traded (instead the Blazes are making him the poster boy for post-Dame era) and Grant traded or not re-signed (to be determined). I knew the team was going to be bad but I didn't think it was going to be this bad. Billups is a good tank commander

I'm thinking that the Blazers will never trade that 1st round pick to Chicago. Just 5 more years in the lottery (likely) and they get out from under Olshey's fucking idiocy

 

Geez, the rebuild is only 33 games in and people have already lost patience. It’s going to be a LOOONG journey but the right journey.

 

#FireStotts #TradeMeJ

 

the rebuild actually started 25 months ago when Olshey was fired; definitely got going 23 months ago when CJ, Powell, RoCo (3 starters) and Nance were traded. It was a wishy-washy-half-assed 18 months of fence-straddling bullshit following that. But again, the rebuild started chugging down the road when the Blazers finally shit-canned a decade of Olshey idiocy

 

That’s your opinion. To me the rebuild started when they traded Dame. They were still trying to build a winning team around Dame.

 

We should have traded Dame on draft day and saved ourselves the pain of having been good recently.

 

I never envy billups for having to stand and respond to questions about why his team is getting housed. I don’t think there’s a version of this game where Portland wins given their personnel.

but.

This did feel like one of those baseball games where you sorta want to see the manager run out and performatively yell at the ump—if only to show his players that he has their back. That’s definitely what the fans were feeling (the ones who were still watching, anyway).

but that’s not Chauncey’s vibe, and so much of Chauncey’s focus (all of it) is around mentorship and development—and usually in these blowout losses Chauncey has taken the tack of ‘we need to be better’ vs ‘we got jobbed.’

that’s why it’s frustrating to see Chauncey so subdued during these games and after. maybe we don’t think Chauncey should be canned, but we wish he’d… you know… show a little fire. Part of Chauncey’s job as the coach is to take the heat after terrible losses like this one. I’m not sure he needs internetters to come to his defense. He’s not above completely above reproach here.

 

I think they were straddling fences, but they were at least 33-40% rebuilding. And in the meantime, their bets were flopping (nas, gp2, nurkic) and the partial rebuild left them zero room for error when guys started getting hurt.