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

DJ sure, but also Aldrich, and Green ( I think it was him..). You have to be able to shake a big out that far. If you can't then we're doing something wrong.

Which brings me to another thing I think Dame can improve on; telegraphing his drives, and not using the rim to protect his shot.

 

Seriously. Why is Game 5 on NBA TV?

 

During commercials, I flipped over to a movie channel showing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which of course I've seen many times before.

Then flip back and see Aminu, Plumlee, Harkless, Crabbe. And find myself asking, like Butch and Sundance

WHO ARE THESE GUYS????

 

And Chris Kaman should not see PT again. Wow he was awful on both ends.

 

What i noticed was he is trying to split the defenders with a pass inside to Plumlee or Davis the minute Jordan comes out to help. He isn't even really trying to get past him. He has pretty much gone with distributing as a better way to score.

 

Or they're hoping to minimize the exposure when the refs completely job us and toss dame in the first quarter, toss CJ in the second, and give the rest of the team flagrant 2s

 

Yes he had a bad outing last night but the other two times he was hitting shots. So i disagree here. Put him in and see what happens. If he does well then that is what you have. If not he can get off the court.

 

TNT will pick it up.

 

Can they do that?

I got Sling TV for the playoffs. I can't watch it if it's on NBA TV.

 

I think that if he hadn't put his hands out, he would have belly flopped on his head and might have actually flipped over him and landed on his own head...like a reverse Jerome Kersey..

The ironic thing is, I had this gut feeling the refs were going to screw us on this play. It seems like they screw us almost every chance they get and I am surprised when they do not. But actually, the refs called it a common foul and the league office called it a flagrant right?

 

The floor officials initially called it a common foul. After reviewing the tape, they (the floor officials) upgraded it to a flagrant. It was the correct call. The refs were not trying to screw us. Davis didn't have any options during the play - as it just happened. But regardless, it was a flagrant foul. The officials made the correct call.

 

Don't forget the stat that hack-a-xxx is more effective when protecting a lead than when trying to catch up.

 

And yet they didn't call the foul by Paul on CJ a flagrant....

Maybe Ed should have laid there for 10 minutes crying.

 

How the hell was it a flagrant foul? He jumped up to block River's shot and River's stopped

 

Apparantly he should have hovered in mid air....

 

From the geasture the ref made to Davis when he asked him about the flagrant, they called it because he brought his arms down. But that is stupid, because bringing the arms down had no bearing on the hard contact, it was his body weight landing on Rivers.

I think if Davis had not not put his arms out to catch himself, he would have flipped over Rivers.

 

That was close, but again I thought the refs made the correct call there too.

 

Now that i look at the entire schedule it seems unlikely as the Warriors and Rockets will be playing at the same time. KGW and NBATV seem to be it?