Game Thread GAME# 36: BLAZERS @ NUGGETS - JANURARY 3, 2016 - SUNDAY, 6:00 PM (PST), CSNNW

We were down 20 in the 4th quarter

 

We made a run though.

 

in garbage/blowout time.

 

Jokic is an annoying player to go against.

Jokic > Nurkic

 

Those offensive similarities are awesome, but... Butler was primarily known as an elite defender who developed into a legit offensive player. (Much like Sprewell back in the day, as I recall.) CJ, not so much.

 

Only 8 point game with 1:33 left.

 

He deserves to be in the discusion but I doubt he makes the team.

The Lillard injury gave CJ a bigger opportunity he's cashing in on. But it hurts Lillards chances of making it. If there was only one of them all year that player would have a better shot of making it. I'm not too worried about it though. Would be great if we are above Houston in the standings when coaches vote.

The Kobe circus is something I've never seen in my 25 years of following the NBA but at least it'll end in April.

 

So they had a 99 percent chance of winning. I agree thats a blowout.

 

CJ is playing at All Star level but there are too many All Star level guards out West. Curry, Harden, Paul, Dame, Westbrook, and Klay are in. CJ Is better than Klay but GS has a better record so they'll want GS to have 3 All Stars. Maybe if Klay or Harden are forwards then CJ makes it?

Starters: Kobe, Durant, Griffin, Curry, Westbrook

Bench: Harden, Paul, Dame, Klay, Kawhi, Draymond, and either Gasol or Aldridge probably.

No room for CJ

 

MJ had TWO circuses. He had a final run with the Bulls (2 actually but everyone thought he was coming back in 1993) and a final run with the Wizards.

 

huh? Outscoring a team by 8 in 93 seconds is not so far fetched. Not at all. Happens all the time.

 

Dame won't be an all star. Just watch. He will get snubbed.


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I honestly don't expect him to be either. Doesn't bother me but I bet it bothers him. I've also wondered how he might react if CJ gets picked over him some day.

 

Mike Barrett asked him twice if he would do the post game interview if he was still not playing.

 

Ironically, last year's all-star snub, Dame's response that came across as whining (one of his few PR missteps), and subsequent adding to the roster without a ton of public support at that point, seemed to be the turning point in his season...for the worse. I feel like he's been trying too hard to prove himself ever since and has yet to regain the pre-all star snub efficiency that we loved him for. Maybe getting snubbed a second time will snap him back into shape.

 

I know

 

I think you missed the "/s" part of his post.

 

He had already fallen off before the snub. Hard to keep him off this year. He and Westbrook are only players in NBA in top 9 of points and assists. Maybe Harden gets snub if we have better record than Rockets.

 

Now that would be epic.

 

Slipped, but not fallen off, as I recall.