Game Thread GAME# 82: PELICANS @ BLAZERS - APRIL 12, 2017 - WEDNESDAY, 7:30 (PDT), ESPN & KGW

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Will Lillard make an All-NBA team this season?

Poll closed Apr 17, 2017.

  1. Yes, 1stTeam All-NBA

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  2. Yes, 2nd Team All-NBA

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    41.2%

  3. Yes, 3rd Team All-NBA

    16 vote(s)
    31.4%

  4. No

    12 vote(s)
    23.5%
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    That .351 is very precarious. ANYTHING less than 33% tonight will put him under 35% for the season.

    What are the chances that he's willing to shoot even one three tonight? I don't think it's a coincidence that since going 3-5 from 3 against Minnesota, he's only shot 1 3PA total the past three games. In fact, these past two games are the first time all season he's gone two straight games without shooting a three.

    He knows exactly where he is in relation to the bonus.
     
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    I wouldn't even stand out beyond the arc if I was him. If he does.....just attack the basket Mo!
     
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    Intentionally step on the line. If the ref puts up his arm, request a review.
     
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    I'd be disappointed if he he puts his measly $500K bonus above what's good for the team. With that said, it's a meaningless game so NOT shooting won't exactly be detrimental to the team.
     
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    As I mentioned earlier, it's not really on him. It's on the team for not realizing this would happen and adding an attempts clause in that bonus.
     
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    Correction--basketball reference's game log wasn't showing the Spurs game, in which he also didn't shoot a 3. So it's actually been 4 consecutive games in which he's been afraid to risk his bonus, three of which were actually relevant to the playoff push.

    I understand what you're saying @yuyuza1, but it's still pretty douchey to put the personal interests above the team interests. It's what many in here lambaste Westbrook for, so I'd think the same thinking should extend to our own players as well.
     
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    Interesting, he's more interested in money than he is winning?
     
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    Well, he also didn't PLAY in that game...
     
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    Oh come on. This is really unkind. Why does a faction of people here insist on thinking the players are assholes?
     
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    What an ASSHOLE! Only interested in his own rest!
     
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    The guy only shoots 35% from three. Winning and not shooting any more threes kind of go hand in hand.
     
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    That chess club story is horrible, but i confess I laughed at the imaginary of chess nerds being so mean.
     
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    My mistake. I didn't watch it, and for some reason didn't see the minutes column on the game log. I apologize for the error.
     
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    If we depended on his 3 point shooting to win then I would agree. But we really don't. Now if only he could convince ET and Aminu to follow his example......
     
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    beautiful set up
     
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    I'm not saying that at all. What I am saying is that at no point this season had Harkless taken fewer than 4 3's over a 3-game span until his bonus game into play, and over his past 3--during which the team's playoff hopes were uncertain--he took 1 total. When you see that kind of departure from the norm, and there's an obvious motivation for said departure, it's not unreasonable to draw the obvious conclusion--that he stopped shooting 3's once he locked in his bonus.
     
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    Dude, nerds are jerks... there's so much defensiveness because all you have is pain from being picked on by non-nerds, but that sort of vicious social hierarchy is the only social interaction you know, so they set it up in their own circles. It's No True Scotsmen arguments all the way down.
     
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    And you called it douchey. But in all honesty, any 3pt shots he makes are a bonus anyway. I wouldn't mind it if he drove to the hoop every time.
     
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    I said that putting personal interests above the team interests is douchey. IF that is in fact what he's doing, then it qualifies as such, IMO. If the sudden lack of perimeter shooting is simply coincidental, then it's not douchey.

    Come on--as long as I've been around, and considering my history, you really can't give me the benefit of the doubt here?
     
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