Good thing we have the Cavs next. Kyrie will probably triple Dame's points and Kyrie/Lebron/Love will probably get 100 points between them.
I'm honestly not worried right now. It's very early and we're still very far from clicking on all cylinders. But there are some good signs, I see TRob and Barton finally made the show, Dame will find his groove, Blake and Kaman are great additions to the bench, Wesley seems poised for a great season. The biggest thing I'd be looking at is Lillard and Aldridge's improvement on defense, that's the biggest thing right now. That's the next step. I saw some positive signs against Sacto and if they are able to take the next step in this aspect it'd be worth the growing pains.
We should be 3-0. We're not. We should be taking advantage of OKC while they are awaiting their stars' return. We're not. We should be playing with more passion, intensity, and emotion. We're not. This is the beginning of the season, not the middle of January. If I don't see some spark from this team against LeBron's Cavs ... color me worried.
Is there a reason for this, or is it just the homer in you? Honest question. What do you see to make that statement
They suck. They probably feel like the won a championship beating the Rockets last year. They were all just playing out of their minds. This year they don't even look like a playoff team. We should be 0-3.
Remember all summer people were talking about the advantage of bringing back, essentially, the same roster? That was suppose to play to our advantage - these guys all knew how to play together so we wouldn't have to go through the process of learning on to play during games that count. To this point that clearly hasn't been the case. That's not to say I'm worried. I still see this team as a middle-of-the-pack Playoff team that'll lose in the 1st or 2nd round.
The Blazers should be 3-0 right now. That they aren't is reason to be disappointed. They had a golden opportunity to get a jump on the division. I had dreams of winning the division and earning home court for the playoffs. That they are squandering this opportunity is cause for worry. They will figure out they need to stop reading their press clippings. They will figure out that what they accomplished last season doesn't mean shit. I hope. Still a shame they are shooting themselves in the ass an squandering a chance for home court.
agree, what perhaps is most disappointing to me is the overall effort level, if you want to become an "elite" team you have to bring it every night and every quarter, you can't expect to be able to play 3 crappy qtrs and then all of a sudden turn the switch and play well and win. These guys should have figured that out by now. They need to start showing us they have, and "effort level" also means "mental" effort/concentration so we can stop making so many sloppy mistakes. No reason to panic yet but certainly reason to be concerned and disappointed.
I 100% agree with this. It's a matter of effort over personnel. That's what pissed me off over anything else
I'm not really disappointed, I try not to jump to a lot of conclusions until later in the season but its pretty easy to see we are getting out worked and out hustled every game and thats something was a problem last year and I was hoping it wouldn't become a problem this year.
As others have said so far Im more disappointed than I am worried. But putting that aside I am done with the talk from the players. Elite this and contender that. I really dont want to hear another word about that because their words on that are meaningless to me at this point. It really is time that actions speak louder than words. Put up or shut up.
I'm not sure I would declare this team 'fine,' but it is way early to freak out - lots of time to sort this thing out and get going.
I've decide to take a deep breath and wait to see how we look 20 games in. I'm very disappointed with the first 3 on a lot of levels. Hopefully our coaching staff is on this
