Game Thread GAME# 56: BLAZERS @ THUNDER - FEBRUARY 11, 2019 - MONDAY, 5:00 PM, NBCSNW

Offer Markieff the max.

 

It's not even guaranteed they make the Playoffs, but if they get there they should expect to see this type of defense quite a bit.

 

Lotta game left..see if we can come out and beast out of the break

 

The worst part about this is that I doubt Jody Allen gives a shit enough to do anything. She's probably more at home in an art gallery somewhere than in a board room for a sports franchise.

 

So Holton talks about how were so concerned with Westbroke and George, that their other players get open look and "HIT THEM". Well take the useless Harkless and Chief out, and put guys who can actually "HIT SHOTS" around Dame Nurk and CJ. What a novel idea. I go with Layman and Hood, and only bring the other dudes in on a break.

 

He needs to start calling it out in the media and so does stotts because once it becomes a national story it'll change, just look at PG doing it last year.

 

They played the replay of the radio call of the Blazers championship during the radio pregame today and it just depressed me. It's crazy to think that was literally a lifetime ago for me and no clear sight of even being a contender in the future. I would be ecstatic to get to the WCF.

 

If the players Dame and CJ passes to actually took the shots they would probably pass more but Terry refuses to not play guys who can't or wont shoot a huge amount of minutes.

 

Getting off S2 for the second half. Venting on the forums isn't helping my wife not be mad at me for getting mad at a game i'm not playing in lol.

 

This game was over before we boarded the plane.

 

Staying with OKC was the best thing PG ever did. I don't think he'd be putting up this kind of performance if he went anywhere else.

 

Dame/CJ....5-25
Rest of team....11-21.

Wonder if Stotts pointed that out.

Probably not....

 

Here's an idea.
Shorten your rotation.
Starters: Nurkic, Collins, Jake, Hood and Dame. Gives you a lot of size and a couple guys who can stretch the defense.
Then your main bench guys are Aminu and CJ then depending on matchups, or foul trouble you sprinkle in Curry and ET I guess, even Meyers may get a shot here and there. Dame and CJ together get abused on defense too many small guys the offense can always find a matchup to exploit. Aminu and Moe are too inconsistent on Offense they can't really get played together because the spacing is just bad. CJ's minutes should be down to about 25-28 minutes a game. He may even finish a lot of games, but you want to limit how much he and Dame are out there at the same time.

You don't need to go 10-11 deep every game.

 

Mo with the 'Jarrett Jack' play.

 

Some of you guys making excuses for Dame and CJ shooting to much but I tell you it doesn't matter who you put out there still going shoot that much and CJ is worst then Dame.

 

Why is Dame guarding PG without even a switch?

 

Hood's defense continues to look decent. I'm not sure if it's a honeymoon period, because our scheme suites him well, or if I'm just used to watching CJ, but his defense on PG has probably been the best of any of our players.

 

7 points and 4 fouls. I don't wanna hear one bit of trash talk from Nurk on Twitter tonight.

Not. One.