Game Thread GAME# 54: CELTICS @ BLAZERS - FEBRUARY 9, 2017 - THURSDAY, 7:30 PM (PST), TNT

Or losing more

 

Win one, lose one = Purgatory

 

ugh


Can we end this misery already

 

Yeah, why would he be high on Ed Davis, a guy that shoots layups, 5-ft jump hooks, and dunks at a career .562 %, plays pretty good team D, and is probably our best rebounder?

I guess because he can't stand at the 3-point line with his thumb up his ass.

 

Noah killed us last night. Those 7 minutes in the third quarter were fucking brutal. We were playing 4 on 5 on offense, and 3 on 5 on defense with him and Dame. We kept bleeding with that lineup, and Terry didn't do a thing to change it.

I still don't see what some of you guys (and apparently Terry) see in the guy. He's 21. Been in the NBA for three seasons now. There is nothing there. He has horrible touch, 0 bball IQ, and can't even box out. Can't believe we traded Nic for this scrub.

 

Vonleh hustled down a few rebounds int he 1st half, but that was it. He's lost on offense and doesn't have good instincts around the rim if the shot isn't a dunk. It's like management is trying to convince themselves he isn't a bust so the Batum trade won't look so awful.

 

We are 4 wins/losses away from having the 4th worst record. Had we not beaten CLE, BOS, MEM, and...say...DAL, we'd have the 4th worst record right now. Those wins are going to bite us in the ass.

 

He has regressed.....defensively. He was better before. I realize some only consider offense when ranking a player which is why Dame/CJ get so much love. But offense is only half of the game and Crabbe's defense has definitely regressed.

 

Would not surprise me one bit if the mandate to start him came from Neil.

 

He's a walking foul. Can't move his feet, reaches every play down. We have 2 of these guys who are notorious in him and Ed.

 

Vonleh wasn't that bad on defense in the 3rd other than the Blazer guards kept switching everything so he ended up being stuck on Isaiah Thomas 25' from the basket. Vonleh plays perimeter D better than any other Blazer big but to ask him to navigate against the 5'9" Thomas is probably a bit optimistic.

 

ah the clever "player development" tank

 

Because Olshey spent up to the luxury tax on Crabbe, Harkless, Turner and Leonard, he almost certainly won't be able to retain Plumlee--a much better player than any of those four. The idea that you should wildly overpay your own free agents because "you can't spend the money on other players" is pretty obviously wrong unless this is the last season in franchise history and you will never again have players reaching free agency.

 

Do you know how often is that lineup playing compared to last year?

 

Last night's starting line-up should be the starting line-up for as long as this roster exists. But Noah needs to play in the 2nd & 4th quarters too, rather than just the first 6 minutes of the 1st and 3rd.

 

I don't like making excuses for a guy making $18 million a year; I mean he should be busting his ass every night no matter what. But maybe he is a little bit of a baby and coach Stotts should baby him a little bit. Like point out in film sessions how often Dame, CJ and Turner miss him on cuts to the basket. And then run a few damn plays for him. Once Crabbe gets going he is really a good offensive player and his defense really perks up also.

 

If he gets that amount.

 

Vonleh is role player that it he does what he suppose is setting screen and rebounds and play defense all 3 of those he was successful. Yes he got lost in the offense couple of times. But he also lead us in rebounds with 9. But he wasn't in there when Boston got 3 wide open shots.