Game Thread GAME# 51: BLAZERS @ MAVERICKS - FEBRUARY 7, 2015 - SATURDAY, 5:30 PM (PST), CSNNW

Strenny be like...

 

Aldridge has been terrific since the thumb injury. If he had been playing like this all season, I'd not complain about him. He's hardly taking any of those lazy fade away jumpers anymore, and he's really going inside and playing with some heart. But the rest of the team has gone to pot. This team just can't fire on all cylinders.

 

Now Damian is the one who is jacking up shit.

 

Sinobas we need to be on the same page. Batum is the scapegoat no one else.

 

Yes, but Batum has sucked all year. If you look at Damian's shooting percentages each loss, and calculate what the final score would be if he had shot his season average, many of those losses turn into wins. And like that last shot at the end of regulation tonight was shit. 20 seconds left and you do that?

 

Well he is. Teams can play 3 on 2 at the 3 point line because thye don't have to defend Batum. Starting to show up with Dame and Wes.

When you have 3 guys that can nail it from behind the arc, Blazer's ball movement destroys teams trying to cover ground. Now they can play off Batum, give him the 3 and close on Dame and Wes easily.

 

well in all fairness to his last shot, he seems to make more of those than when he drives in and tries a layup.

 

Damian really did not have a bad game tonight and the last couple of games, he's been good going to the hoop, but that brutal stretch of his cost us a lot of games.

Damian needs to take the next step in becoming a better PG, by creating for his teammates and running the offense.

 

Difference at the beginning of the year teams didn't know Batum was going to suck and played defense on him. Now they realize they don't have to.

Teams are content letting LMA get his and then making Dame's life hell. That has been the recipe for beating us this stretch.

 

He needs to learn to run a break. That is where he is really brutal in. He cost us some gimmes with his attempt at shots and though he was probably fouled on everyone, we cant depend on the refs for fucking anything.

 

Claver's shot looks good, and he seems to be a smart player. I'd like to see him get a shot at the starting job. Batum's 3pt shot is a big handicap.

 

I think the coach can take ownership on this loss. Terrible game mangement by him and the players. More so him.

Also, there was way too standing around and watching in OT. Team let one get away from them. Just aren't very good right now.

 

And Wes is looking pretty ordinary of late. I just don't think they have enough. There is a lot of time to turn it around. But even tonight. They are playing hard and in many ways tapping themselves out. Yet...coming up short.

 

Well only having to guard 2/3rds of the 3 point line Wes is getting the same treatment at Dame. Need a 3rd 3 points shooter out there or our ball movement offense won't work. We can't "swing the gate" and make perimeter defenders work hard if they can lay off Batum. That is a lot of ground to cover when you have 3 40% 3-point shooters.

 

You really want to trade Kaman now? I would trade him to the Rapters if we could get back Terrence Ross back in a trade.

 

I second this

 

Toronto wants a big bad and they aren't super fond of ross from what I've heard on real gm. Obviously a third team would have to be involved for everything to workout though