Game Thread GAME# 64: BLAZERS @ GRIZZLIES - MARCH 5, 2018 - TUESDAY, 5:00 PM, NBCSNW

Shoulda ran with Collins for defensive purposes. Too bad Stotts has none.

 

I preach defensive versatility and the ability to switch to a different scheme if needed. This is why. We should've been trapping Conley.

 

You think like a hater. I could explain it all to you but it wouldn't make a difference.

 

@SlyPokerDog why isnt this version of Tunchi banned yet???

 

Lmao. They hit a lot of shots, like Conley hitting a lot of floaters because we wanted him to shoot his most effective shot because we dont vary our defense to take away the opponents strengths.

 

Kanter is so poor defensively, he has to be ridiculously efficient on defense just to stay neutral. But when he is scoring, efficiently or not, he clogs the lane and takes away movement and cutting lanes for players like Layman.

The infatuation with his offense is much like it is with CJ. They don't do much on the other side of the ball (of course Kanter rebounds but half the time that is because he doesn't even challenge the shot to go be in rebounding position) so when they aren't dominating offensively, their style of ball negatively affects the rest of the team.

 

devastating loss

 

This game + Dallas game + Miami game = 3 games Blazers should win and we could have a run for 2nd now.

And it was tired legs now and "too fresh legs" against Miami.

But yeah, it just one game on the road trip. This game was screaming for playing reserves and let Dame and Nurk go for a drink. Zero mins for Collins and Leonard? Stotts chasing this win win Dame was really stupid IMO.
I mean, great road trip, let bench players close it. Last game on the trip, against bad team. I'm pretty sure young guns would be happy to play against Mem and if they lose, so what. Instead Stotts is chasing COTY. Well done.

 

Every team has a game like at end road trip. Bucks loose to the Sun's on there last game of there road trip it happens all the time. We will make the playoffs but our match up will be hard it either be OKC Houston Utah will be our 1st round match up. We can beat all 3 teams in series but we could loose to them too. That's how close all 4 teams are right now.

 

Shouldn't lose games like this. I know it happens, but it's still a bad loss

 

All these posts defending Lillard for being a bad shooter because he's double-guarded...He doesn't have a man within 10 feet when he misses most of those long shots. He's just not a dependable shooter. His whole act is to try to draw the foul, since he knows he'll miss. Unless the defender suckers for his act, Lillard looks like a fool missing badly.

 

How ridiculous can you get? You constantly top youtself.

 

I love how theres all this moronic talk about Dame being a bad shooter when hes shooting almost 37% on a shot selection and volume that makes that even more impressive with range that really stretched the floor and with the ability to draw fouls from 3.

I also love how haters will literally try to ignore, discredit, and slander basic common sense that's provided as context.

 

Well that sucked....

 

I've been reading the responses. I should have used green font.

 

Not disagreeing with you at all. I think i saw a few times they tried to put pressure on him but they didn't have the energy to do it and they got burned. Then i watched Mo get called for weird touch fouls and that kind of seemed to put a damper on things defensively. Even more where i agree with you is that i feel that Stotts probably should changed the look earlier and maybe gone deeper into the bench with Collins or maybe even Meyers. If you are gonna get fouls called on you they might as well be hard Meyers Leonard albatross fouls.

 

Not really.

 

18 games left and you know where they will end? Relax.It's a long season and there is still over a month left.