Game Thread PLAYOFFS: ROUND 2, GAME 5: BLAZERS @ NUGGETS - MAY 7, 2019 - TUESDAY, 7:30 PM, TNT

Hope he’s doing well! Thats more important than w’s and l’s.

 

One thing is for certain. If you watch the game again look at the way Kanter is shooting and trying to rebound. There is no question he is playing with essentially one arm.
The Nuggets know this and when he comes down with a rebound they immediately go after a slap or steal. Sometimes snatching the ball right out of his hands.
If you have ever had a bad shoulder (I have had one many times) you know you lose the strength to press inwards clamping together.
The Nuggets are taking advantage of that. They could not do that to Meyers.

 

Awesome! Hope he's on the mend!

 

One thing I did not understand at all was Malone playing Jokic , Murray, Barton and Harris against our 3rd string at the end...unnecessary dumb risk when the game was out of reach anyway

 

Kanter literally only has one functioning arm.

Nurk is out (not sure why you mentioned him)

Jake is Mr DNPCD

And at the core of it all, it's Dame/CJ/Aminu/Harkless. It's basically teh same damn team, and it's the same guys that need to step up.

 

Did you know that Paul Millsap is 34 years old?

I don't know why they never mention that.

 

He's Lamarcus Aldridge with a 3 pt shot and better defense

 

I didn't understand Stotts waiting so fucking long to sit Dame, or waiting so long to get the bench guys in the game.

 

He gave it a last gasp at a run and it wasn't happening...I don't understand why Meyers isn't getting half of Kanter's minutes at this point.

 

No, I give props when Terry does a good job coaching. Funnily enough, it does usually coincide with winning, so I see where you got confused. Better than you, who call out people for being unbalanced or unfair when they will praise him and criticize him depending on the situation, while you refuse to ever criticize him.

I've literally said "Terry came up with a good gameplan". Coaches can also fail to come up with a good gameplan or they can come up with a bad one. Have you ever admitted that? Exactly.

You have no angle on me right now. Stop trying.

 

Or Collins, he was solid. He's what we need defensively right now.

 

I'm amazed Stotts didn't have CJ and Dame attack more. I know the screens haven't been top notch (use Meyers for that), but have your guards attack the rim downhill with high screens. That's simply the most effective way to battles Jokic and Millsap being as effective as they are in later game situations. It was so obvious that they've should've kept doing it last game. They did it even less this one. I sincerely hope they'll make that adjustment. With Nurk in here they would've closed the series by now, also enabling a rested Kanter to attack the inside when Dame and CJ don't drive.

 

The difference in this series that could have been mitigated (but Coach hasn't made any adjustments) is Millsap. Aminu is far too small to play him. It should be Zach who definitely held him in check in the 4th.

 

I guess this year's team and last year's you define differently from me....injuries and minutes weren't my point...I said this season's team is better than the team that got swept....and it is...won more games...got to the second round...won two second round games...but hey...it's all good

 

At this point, I'd be fine with more isolation by Dame, because all we're doing is pick n roll and running him off handoffs and bringing that extra defender in to trap him.

 

math showoff!