Game Thread GAME# 65: BLAZERS @ SUNS - MARCH 12, 2017 - SUNDAY, 6:00 PM (PST), KGW

Impulse anything is basically all our game threads are. They are quiet fun to read after a game once the nerves have calmed down because its all reaction reaction reaction with very few people being like "we got time left" or "its a game of runs were okay"

 

https://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/RPM

Where is Lillard? where is McCollum? where is Nurkic?

OUR BIG THREE!!!! wow...

but hey... "we got all the tools" "we have assets" "we got the guys we wanted" "we got the culture" (cit. Olshey)

 

I think what gets lost is that, at least for me, I love Dame. However, I can love someone and still get frustrated. Wanting them to be the best they can be. Dame needs to play better defense. He doesn't need to be NBA all defense, but he has to stay off the NBA all NO defense team. He has made it twice, and he should be embarrassed by that. You read other teams message boards and Dame has a reputation around the league of not playing any defense. He needs to understand that taking the big shot doesn't mean hero ball.

He, CJ and Stotts, need to understand that we have a beast inside that shoots 9% points better than Dame does, who probably sees the floor at leadt as good as Dame does. Late in games it would make us better to have him touch the ball. Instead they freeze him out

It boggles my mind that any fan of the team doesn't want these same things. I get some fans get so attached to players they protect them like their own kids, but wouldn't you demand the best out of you kid?

 

You need to step up. There are no participation trophies in life.

 

I haven't looked, but my guess is Nurk would be there using his Portland stats. The other two play no defense, so they wouldn't be.

 

Have a bad feeling that he's gonna get Nurk in early foul trouble and feast on Meyers again.

 

Nice list! I ALWAYS base my opinions on stats that show Dewayne Dedmon is better than Anthony Davis and Amir Johnson is better than DeAndre Jordan. We should have traded Plumlee to BOS for Johnson when we had the chance. Luxury tax be damned!!!! Amir Jonson was CLEARLY the missing third piece of our Big Three.

BNM

 

Using his POR numbers, Nurkic would be 20th on that list, immediately ahead of the legendary, future first ballot Hall of Famer Dewayne Dedmon, and also ahead of Anthony Davis, Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan, Mike Conley, John Wall, Gordon Hayward, Kemba Walker, Marc Gasol, Joel Embiid, Karl Anthony-Townes and Kyrie Irving, to name a few.

BNM

 

Dame willed us to that win last night. The first half was amazing. Second of a b2b after a ridiculous loss-- he dominated. I love when he's aggressive to start out. Everyone looked really fatigued in the second half. Really needed to go through Nurk more. We get great looks after throwing him the ball. Teams haven't yet scouted for him and the action off him yet.

Also, our P&R d looks worse, if that's possible. Nurk either needs to hedge more or actually commit to protecting the rim. He seemed stuck in no mans land last night-- kinda like he was in DET. Think this is on Terry moreso than Nurk.

 

This dude saw MM's shtick and he said, "hold my beer."

 

You left out the relentless rant that the fans suck.

 

Hurd is OK for the most part. But sometimes he's the second coming of Antonio Harvey. And Harvey made me want to puncture my eardrums.

 

Come on man, "we all" don't hate Dame's game. I know you like to clown on folks but that's not cool. FAMS!

 

People are dumb as fuck.

If you really wanted to, you could pick apart anyone's game.

Dame is All-NBA

 

He'd be faster on D without 5 gallons of your slobber making his shorts drag.

 

Random Note:
With the win in Phoenix, the Blazers improve their +/- to -1.9. Not great, but it's the first time in a long time it's been better than -2.0.