Game Thread GAME# 39: THUNDER @ BLAZERS - JANUARY 4, 2019 - FRIDAY, 7:30 PM, ESPN & NBCSNW

Nah, we shouldve beat them tonight. We can be better. Contenders dont concede home losses. I hold the team to a higher standard because they can achieve it with better coaching.

 

Because I don't believe you. Seems like a nice cover.

 

Only thing I blame the coach tonight he don't hold our 2 guards accountable for their mistakes. Coach didn't loose this game players making to many turnovers in key part of the game. Plus how you can let Paul George have open 3. If anyone on the court you don't loose track of is him. But again then I see time after time Westbrook shooting over our small 2 guard in the 4th. Yea I do blame the coach for not adjusting to what Westbrook was doing. But lately Dame having strong 1st half and kind falling in the 2nd half.

 

You start it as much as I do so dont play that victim card BS.

 

We just beat Golden State in their building...I think that qualifies

 

Or you don't have a point.

 

Well i just don't think they are contenders at all.

 

dude....give it a break …agree to disagree...there's a meltdown thread for this shit...it's a game

 

Yeah, because they played bad. Contenders dont say "Well, they're a good team and beat us". They analyze their mistakes and improve. I don't see that from our coaching staff.

 

Takes two to argue buddy. KJs been going all night. You gonna say something to him? Of course not.

 

If you ever figure it out, please let me know!

I do have a theory on his drafting of "prospects" (Meyers, Collins, Simons). His priority wasn't to help the team - it was to find a "diamond in the rough" and make himself look good. Some of his other decisions (EG over-paying Hark and Crabbe while dumping Vonleh) seem almost random.

At this point, if you said his decisions were being made with large quantities of Hollywood nose candy I would have no reason to question it.

 

Well I'm out! Go Blazers and y'all have a good one!

 

With an upgrade and better coaching, they can be.

 

Dude! The minute anyone says this isn't about coaching you can't let it be. But you can be sure there ain't no victim here.

 

I think up until last year in the playoffs I was pro Stotts. I heard all the criticism but thought the bigger issue was Olshey and that Stotts had overachieved with what was given. But that series really exposed his shortcomings as a coach, and not much has changed since to change my mind.

 

Maybe?

 

Goodnight.

 

Did you see the way they played the first half? That was terrific, high-level basketball. Imagine that with someone like Otto Porter Jr. at the 3... I had no complaints at all about the coaching based on the first half. And then OKC ratchets it up a notch and we completely fall apart.

 

Coaches coach and players make plays and our players didn't make enough smart plays tonight and that why we lost. There faults by everyone in a lost. We had 2 shot at it at the end by our 2 supposed best players and that really you can ask for.