Game Thread GAME# 25: BLAZERS @ PACERS - DECEMBER 10, 2016 - SATURDAY, 4:00 PM (PDT), CSNNW

Why do we have such an inexperienced team? It's because Olshey invented the rule that he will take only players of Lillard's age. Something about aging along with Lillard. (If I know anything, it's that you don't plan 5-10 years ahead. You build a roster for one year.)

Pritchard had the same delusion of grandeur. Homers felt so proud to earn the title of Youngest Team in the League, but I said, why self-handicap?

Conventional wisdom has always been that you mix ages on a team. You want experienced players to impart wisdom to young players. You want mid-age players at their peaks. You want them all, not a one-dimensional team all at the same stage of experience.

Also, conventional wisdom has always been that you don't depend on outside shooting. Red Auerbach used to say that he loved to play such teams. He would just stay even until they ran out of bullets, then swoop in for the kill. Muhammed Ali called it "Rope a Dope" against the hard-hitting George Foreman, who had never had to fight beyond 2-3 rounds till he fought Ali. The flashy team/boxer had no endurance.

 

In my game play-by-play, I kept saying that it's the players' fault, not management's. I hope readers were smart enough to see the obvious sarcasm against posters saying that. The players are playing as hard as they can. When most teams meet us, they must increase their normal energy level to match us. I usually listen to the other teams' broadcasters, and they are excited by the pace.

 

That wasn't Tunchi...that was Sinobas

 

I agree with everything you said. Meyers is just awful and why he is playing is beyond me, I can't fathom why he we signed either. I just worry that we won't be able to just give him away - probably will have to take back a bad contract.

 

I have noticed there seems to be a real love fest growing between those two.

 

JLPRK, have you thought about taking over from Hunter Thompson as America's Gonzo journalist?

 

-I loved how that dumbass Pacers commentator rambled about Leonard yet somehow summed him up pretty well:

*Leonard takes a 3 and misses*

"That's the guy you want to have the ball because he's not accustomed to having to make these shots, he can make them, but that's not what he's accustomed to do".


-Nate McMillan be like: "Really Paul? you replaced ME with this CLOWN?!

 

nate would be a decent coach with the current team. play defense and let lillard do everything on offense.

 

Haha

Told ya but I'll let others like Lowe and the Blazers trash play show ya

Can't wait for the draft and mini rebuild this team is broken as fuck

I hate non defensive teams

 

Good job getting it verbatim. I had strained to remember it as I typed it. The colorman (who was he?) seemed to know our roster well. Another time, he was naming our names with specific evaluations, and all I could remember as I summarized fast was:

 

Sometimes, you don't have to announce to people around you that you smell dog turd in the air.





Unless you're next to KingSpeed, definitely tell him, because he might mistake it for peanut butter.

 

...how's that working out for ya?!

 

...pretty sure you celebrated a bit too early on this one --> "Week 7 Results Won 6 - 5 vs RipCityDSCPL"

 

What? I check at about 12 midnight and it showed 6 for me and 5 for you. The 6 was by the blue jersey(that's me) and the 5 was next to your avatar. I won by getting the assists category from you last night.

*Scratches head confused and goes to look to see what's up*

What the hell? Last night it said I won the match and I won the assists category that gave me the 6-5 win. Why is it saying differently now?

 

...so Yahoo! does this really weird thing with basketball scoring and official stats where at some point leading up to midnight it doesn't have that days stats in there, then all of a sudden it will update with the total cumulative stats. It's terribly delayed and can be very frustrating. Ask @KingSpeed about it

 

That's total bunk Yahoo does that. Last week was the worst sports week, Blazers lose and Cowboys lose.