Game Thread PLAYOFFS - ROUND 1, GAME 4: CLIPPERS @ BLAZERS - 4/25/16, MONDAY, 7:30 PM (PDT), TNT & KGW

Seriously. What was Davis supposed to do, land on his head?

 

And on the play Paul got injured, he should've been called for a foul, and if not, DeAndre DEFINITELY should have.

 

How Gerald didn't get to the foul line on that drive is beyond me.

Though the flagrant on Ed was still worse.

 

Knowing what a flopper crybaby Paul is I expect he's not really hurt but not man enough to take the loss standing up. He'll start the next game with a splint.

If he's truly hurt, good. He has intentionally tripped Dame several times. Karma for a very dirty player.

 

This Dawkins guy on youtube is GOAT, always top notch - dude knows how to cut a highlight.

 

This team plays much more confident at home. I guess that's to be expected, but I hope they realize they can replicate that intensity and success on the road as well.

If you watch that Chief highlight above you can see that once the ball starts moving the Clippers are willing to stand around and hope that there is an available rebound. I don't think that is going to change on the road.

 

People that don't think hack a Jordan can work.....Blazers hacked him in the second quarter and he went air Jordan. On the ensuing timeout doc had to take out Jordan who was beasting on defense.

 

Jay Allen said game 1 of round 2 would start on Sunday if both series finish in 6 games.

If there is a game 7 Sunday then the next round would start on Tuesday.

 

I think a big part is the Clippers were rested for game 1 and have been significantly more hobbled and fatigued every game. We've played better every game. Hopefully the trend continues with a blowout win for us in game 5!

 

Good point.

Even when we were turning it over on fast breaks I couldn't help but thinking that it was good to be out running the Clippers. I think we will win every game in which we out run them. After all there's a pretty good team which once won 73 games in a season by out running their opponents.

 

But we have no chance, right?

 

This is hilarious. From the Blazers Twitter account -

After showing a Jordan free throw air ball - "Our staff is currently looking into the wind issue inside the arena. Should have a report soon."

 

Luis Montero has been a playoff superstar.

He's scoring 43.2 points per 36 minutes
0.0 Turnovers per game
over 14 made 3's per 36 minutes

He has a PER of 52.6
True Shooting percentage of 150%
An offensive rating of 300

If he wants to stay on the floor he needs to work on the fouls; he's averaging 7.2 per game.

Way to go Luis!

 

That's outstanding!

 

Agree. It's worrying, considering..... Austin fucking Rivers is a scrub.

I hope so, we really need him to actually do something next game. LUCK (no way Redick and Crawfull miss that much again) and a some great step-ups from our role players saved our fucking bacon last night.

 

Maybe. But that doesn't bode well for us if our all-star can't score on him.

Another thing that worries me is that Dame can't seem to shake the big that comes up in the double, like the big's sidestep is faster than Dame's angle to the hoop. I was seeing this over and over last night wondering if he's doing that on purpose or just slowed down/tired?

 

By big do you mean DeAndre? He might be the best rim protector in the game. Yeah he's going to catch up to Dame on drives and erase them.

This has probably been the most traps Dame has ever faced; he's making a lot of improvements as the series has gone on. I'd like to see him continue to move the ball to the open man and avoid difficult shots. He still forces a few more shots than he should. But overall he's made big improvements. I'm not worried about DeAndre and CP3rdMeta making those great defensive plays because their two of the best defensive players in the league.

 

Great game from Aminu - all hail the Chief!

Nice game from Plumlee - guy is relentless.

Nice to see AC stick some shots.

Dame needs to pull his head out of his ass.

Henderson needs to fall out of love with the 18-footer.

The tide has shifted - time to KO a staggering Clipps team.

But mostly, 2-2 - hell yeah. Good times - just look at Slypokerdog go: