Every game win or loss can be summed up with these words: We play no defense. Playing no defense does not win you championships. Until we learn how to play, get a new coach or whatever, we just won't get over the hump.
we played decent enough defense to be up one with the ball with 14 seconds left and the ability to run out the clock to 2.3 seconds. We gave up 89 in the first 47:51 to a team that put up 127 last night. This one comes down to not scoring as efficiently as we're supposed to, and having a meltdown in the last 15 seconds.
I watched a very deep team that is poised to win the West possibly. Golden State has got better and they are playing at a very high level even on the road. They play tough both ways and the Blazers for the first time this season seemed like they were not the better team that just played poorly.
Two games in a row, sour ball movement. The Spurs are supposed to be the model, well they always make the extra pass. Not so much for Blazers tonight, with a team playing as aggressive on D as the Warriors did, fast and furious ball movement is key.
I saw a lot of missed opportunities to take this game. Some poor decision making on the court and one of my pet peeves, bricked layups and lazy passes. Against GS you aren't going to win if you keep giving them the ball.
The overturned call was bad, but it shouldn't have come down to that. Same problem we had last year closing out games showed up tonight. 1) Inbounding the ball at the end of games. 3 straight turnovers inbounding the ball in the last 24 seconds. It's debatable whether this issue is coaching, personnel, or combo of both. Whatever the reason, this continues to be an issue. 2) When the game slows down & it's 1 half court possession at a time, we struggle. Other teams can break down our defense and get decent looks, like KT did tonight. When was the last time the Blazers had a possession at the end of a game like that one? Klay comes off a screen and gets right into the lane to hits the game winner from about 8' over Wes. Contested, but makeable shot. Us? IF we are able to inbound & IF we get a shot off, it's Dame from somewhere in the parking lot or LA fading away from 20'. Not high % shots compared to the ones we give up. As good as LA & Dame are, for different reasons they aren't able to get those types of shots off with the game on the line. Dame has hit his share of 30'ers to win some games, but that's not sustainable. Did anybody think we were going to score when we got the ball back with 8 sec left down 1?
As a rookie, Lillard excelled at the end of close games because he felt in charge, as if it were still Weber State. In Years 2 and 3, he's looked unmotivated, having to split ballhandling duties with Batum, Mo, and Blake and be a bit player. Hey Stotts, get Batum off of Lillard's back and let Lillard get into the game mentally.
I often don't get to watch the game and I'm trying to use these threads to learn insights on what happened. I'm not sure the motivations for your posts, but I am asking you to refrain from commenting if you don't want to genuinely add to the conversation.
Huh?? He is adding to the conversation. He's expressing a point of view that makes a lot of sense, in fact. What exactly is your issue with him?
Dame needs to figure it out. Even a mediocre game from him, and we win this. I've never seen him this bad
