Game Thread GAME# 2: CLIPPERS @ BLAZERS - OCTOBER 27, 2016 - THURSDAY, 7:30 (PDT), TNT

Stotts was irritated in his post game presser but as we would expect from a class act, he ultimately took the high road. I really love him

 

Good game if you thought we are outclassed against the Clippers. Bad game if you think were on the same tier or just under the Clippers.

 

Just guessing. im prolly wrong. lol i was yelling it at the tv

 

Clippers shot 46 ft's. They made as many as we took, and some of our ft's came near the end when the refs attempted to make it look a little more respectable in the box score. We actually made 2 more baskets than they did.

 

Just because they shot poorly does not mean we actually played well. They gave up so many open shots to good shooters, especially Reddick, who went 1/5 but actually all 5 of his shots were wide open.

If I rewatch the game I don't know how many times I can count the Clippers getting wide open shots because the Blazers didn't know who was supposed to guard who.

 

We won. Fuck the score.

 

That's insane. That is 8 more than the blazers and jazz took combined in game 1

 

Because they fall for the same crap that griffin does all the time he makes it worst then it really is they baby him.

 

Hendo is a much better shooter.

 

Go ahead. Also count for me how many times we contested them well and they missed. I thought we fought hard against Griffin. The only one getting open shots, who we don't want shooting them consistently, was Paul. That's on Terry's system. PGs always get all the wide open mid range shots they want. I've ranted and raved about that for years now. It's not going to change. I do remember a stretch at the beginning of the 3rd where we dodged a few bullets on missed open looks by them. Overall, I thought our D was better than theirs. They tightened up in the 4th by being very handsy and physical until the refs started calling fouls on them to even up the count and they backed off and we got back into striking distance. We got a ton of dunks and layups this game. They got lucky that we shot worse than normal on open 3s.

 

Dnp cd, meyers leonard.

 

It could have been worse . . . Although I'm not sure quite how . . .

 

Clippers played well, especially the ones wearing stripes.

 

Well need to get ready for Denver but what need to shore up is the off ball defense I know alot of times when they going to the rim we have no rim protection the key is always know where the ball is not having your back facing away. But overall we contest a lot of shots and have them forcing shots.

 

That's a $41 million DNP-CD, thank you very much.

 

Dude, get off it. You can't tell me the officiating had nothing to do with it.

 

With the way they called fouls on both teams, it looks like a typical Tim Donaghy game.

 

The reffing was pretty questionable tonight, I don't have any complaints on CJ's flagrant, but I do have a very serious complaint on the fact that they called the flagrant on Plumlee for pushing Blake but didn't automatically eject DJ when he grabbed Plums by the throat during their scuttle. The two offensive fouls called on Lillard miway through the game, one when he got pushed by CP3, and the other when he ran into I believe Speights were also just terrible. The CP3 falling over and nearly breaking Aminus ankle and getting a foul was also horrible, in fact I cannot think of that many horrible calls that actually favored us.

That said, the Blazers let their frustrations get to them, and although I can certainly understand why it shows the level of maturity between the two teams. CP3, Blake, and even DJ admittedly kept their calm and soldiered on even through the frustrations of the game. This is pretty much to be expected with a young team without a lot of veteran presence, I think losing Hendo and our resident Caveman may hurt us a bit more than I first was prepared for. Anyway it was a tough game, the Clips definitely got the better end of the reffing stick tonight, by a long shot, but sometimes that just how it breaks - we need to roll with it and game plan for Denver.

 

It was a frustrating game but I would not read too much into it. We ran them close until 8 minutes from finish line, and the reason why they won is we simply bottled it in those last 8 minutes. I wouldn't say they outclassed us, they just showed more experience dealing with the final few minutes of a close game. We had the game at 90-89 and started missing everything from there. We're still a very young team, the average age of the side that took them in the last 8 minutes must have been around 24, plenty of room to improve and I'd prefer to take the positives from the first couple of games. Last night it was definitely a huge game from Harkless, if he can continue playing like that, Vonleh can build consistency to perform like he did versus Jazz and Crabbe is at his best, then we'll be in amazing position.