Game Thread GAME# 57: WARRIORS @ BLAZERS - FEBRUARY 13, 2019 - WEDNESDAY, 7:30 PM, ESPN & NBCSNW

In a period of 4 days, we went from being outscored by Dallas by 15 in the fourth quarter to outscoring Golden State by 23 in the fourth quarter last night.

This team confuses the hell out of me.

 

I am enjoying it. I love every win. Tired of the two face posters that are basically nothing but yoyo's going up and down. Also, you're nit picking on the game that I posted as it was clearly a dominant 4th quarter in that game as well and it's pretty stupid to single out McCollum as the reason we had a dominant 4th last night as most of the starters were sitting including Lillard for a longer than normal time.

 

It's called NBA basketball and has been happening for years. It has nothing to do with the Blazers.

 

The Curry example was a perfect one last night as he got the defender off his feet and the defender landed without touching Curry and contact was only made after Curry clearly unnaturally jumped forward in his shot to initiate the contact. I would call those offensive fouls. They made changes with the gather this year and a couple years ago they were able to change the rule with the Durant/Harden sweep with the arms before shooting. Seems this would be easy to implement.

 

Still waiting for a video genius to post Jake and Zach highlights. Please!

 

All in all, that was a super fun game for us Blazer fans. Was nice to see GS unravel as they did. It doesn't matter that GS doesn't really care about the regular season, it was just nice to get a win.
There are plenty of other threads we could argue about, Stotts, CJ, Neil. I can understand finding it interesting how little the Starters played in the 4th. Just happy to get a win.

 

It was a HUGE win! We absolutely had to have this going into the All Star break.

 

Beating the overly smug Warriors is always great, especially when they unraveled like they did.

 

It was funny that Zach was basically doing Draymond Green things to them. Blazers kind of need more of that at times.

 

The bench played well in the 4th. Although other than Jake you would never know it by looking at the box score.
other than their +/- numbers.

 

Haven't read the thread. Just had to say that I thought the game turned on Zach's blocked shot where he had to get his ass off the floor and run the length of the court to stuff whoever the fuck that was at the rim. That was the defining moment of the game. And that's why some of us think Zach could be a very important part of our future success.

Also, anybody got pics of Dame's shoes? I'd like to see what those look like up close.

 

That's what made it so sweet as we beat them at their game and it caused them to come unglued. GS will still be the favorites this year, but there is definitely more vulnerability than in years past as that team isn't near as unified as they have been in the past. I also think Durant will be gone at the end of this year.

 

Found 'em:

 

Were those the worst quotes? There are more insulting quotes about Blazer players in this thread. From Blazer fans.

 

It was an enjoyable win considering the Warriors condescending attitude for the first 3 quarters. Kerr went from smug to ballistic in about 10 minutes.
I do think his ejection was very much intentional and a calculated risk. At the time I was worried it would work for him, but the fact it turned into a 8 point play erased that.

It does irritate me that EPSN told one story and not the whole story. Green could have been T'd up a few times in the game. They got most of the calls in the first 3 quarters and were still crying continually....and why wouldn't they..it usually works. This felt like it would happened again going into the 4th.....until it didn't.