Game Thread GAME# 77: BLAZERS @ NETS - APRIL 6, 2015 - MONDAY, 4:00 PM (PST), CSNNW

Blazers vs Nets pregame

Kind of telling how much influence the NCAA has in the sports world when you look at this game and see it is the only NBA game being played tonight. It's good that it was a east coast game and they could at least start it early enough to miss the championship game kind of.

This is actually a fun game to look at from the "Pregame" view. Resting 2 starters and the 6th man makes it pretty tough to say what you got. Vegas is not giving the Blazers much chance but i think some will lose their money. Take Portland to beat that spread.

The original "L' Train Lionel Hollins has the Nets starting to play his way. They take good care of the ball and have good shooters. the reason they make shots is because they do share the ball well and DWill is one of the best in the league. Williams is bigger and stronger than Lillard and usually gives him a tough game. However the last time these two teams met Crabbe and Leonard started and Lillard torched them for 28 and 10. Brooklyn made the mistake of letting Lillard have open looks from 3 and he went 4-6. The Blazers went on to win 97-87. Do you think maybe that game had some impact on coach Stotts decision to rest Batum and Aldridge again? I think so. Leonard and Rolo pounded them for 20 boards and combined for 17 points with a couple blocks and 2 steals. Meyers Leonard is light years better now and they have some film on him so i don't expect him to be overlooked.

The next man up is CJ. Not sure who Stotts goes with on this game at the 3? Listed as McCollum but a little cool breeze might blow through the Barclay's center tonight. It really doesn't matter who gets this start really because we all know coach is going to plug in who is making things happen and that very well might be CJ the way he has been playing. The thing here is the bench is going to feature Joel Freeland and a mix of small ball that might include Gee and Crabbe. The biggest problem i see is matching up against Mason Plumlee and Jarrett Jack. Steve Blake actually needs to step up and keep the second unit together as the Coach will have to rely more on deeper bench players and will not have Kaman to buoy that unit.

BroLo matchup. Who got the best brother? Robin is more colorful that is for sure. Have fun with it. The fact is these guys are twins and they really play hard against each other. To say one is better just doesn't work with me.

Pick tonight is AAA. No question in my mind here. He should torch Markel Brown. This is a total mismatch and i would bet Hollins has to switch Johnson or even Williams on to him. This will give Portland an offensive advantage either at the 1 or the 3. Anyway you slice it if they want to stop Afflalo they will have to give somebody an open look. Again. Portland just matches up well against this team and they very well could win this game with Aldridge, Batum and Kaman resting.

Go Blazers!

kjironman is a fan!!!

 

Having our bench outscore their bench by 20 points just might work!

 

Seriously though, if Stotts pulls this off, will this board give him some respect?

 

I will.. But I know if it doesn't we should with the same amount blast him too. With home court advantage being controlled with our destiny by winning out, and we white flag this game I'll be pissed..

 

I hope no one told the Nyets that Laimbiebs can hit the three.

 

I'd love to watch this game.

 

Why can't you?

 

No comsuck and I don't do pirated sites anymore since the last time I had to get disinfected.

 

There are never NBA games on NCAAB championship night. The only reason we have a game is because of the cancellation due to the blizzard that never happened.

 

I'm admittedly more excited to watch Wisconsin than the Damian Lillard and friends show.

 

I realize this is a little bit of a reach, but I was at work and getting anxious for the game to start. And it felt like it had been a long time since the Blazers won one of those East Coast early games during the work week. Sure enough, the last one was way back on December 9th at Detroit. Over the stretch, we lost to Cleveland, Atlanta, Washington, Miami, and Orlando. Again, just M-F games (we beat Toronto and Indiana over the course of that same stretch).

 

Well, it is nice that for those so inclined, they can watch the entire POR-BRK game and still catch most of the NCAA championship game. Blazers vs. Nets starts at 4:00pm PST and the NCAA championship does not tipoff until 6:18pm. I"ll miss most of the first half of the Blazes game (stuck at work), but will watch the entire second half and then switch over to the Duke-Wisconsin game after the Blazers are done beating the Nets.

It's not often that you get to see two teams take down the nets on the same night!

BNM

 

Ah that sucks. I would give you my league pass log in, but I don't think its works when you have black outs

 

Clever.

 

Announcer on big screen just now said we are missing Will Batum and Wesley Johnson. What a fucking idiot.

 

Tim Frazier is little

 

Hahahaha!

Did he say anything about Bo Outlaw?