Game Thread WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS, GAME 1: BLAZERS @ WARRIORS - 5/14/19, TUESDAY, 6:00 PM, ESPN

But...but...but....Stotts is one of the all-time greats!

 

I literally don't care about that at all, and neither should Terry or anyone else.

 

WTF is with your dumb posts??? GTFOH. Dame got us this far....

 

It's not like we're the first team the Warriors have beaten on their homecourt in the WCF if I'm not mistaken....we have another shot to steal one...Blazers won't roll over after one loss this round I promise.

 

Because we aren’t as talented as they are, and we don’t have the shooters they do, and we haven’t won 3 of the last 4 finals. People are expecting too much, the fact we are even in this position is tremendous... no Nurkic? Kanter/Hood banged up? Damian getting trapped... this is an experience booster for our team. They will keep fighting and we should get out of our slump eventually.

 

Which should tell you all you need to know.

Where is the 'I hate Terry Stotts' thread? I've gotta vent. @BonesJones you warming it up already?

 

Exactly.

 

Then here is your chance to make some easy money. $100 says the Blazers do not win a Game 7 this year in Oakland.

 

Agree with Doris and Legs, no urgency or energy, too many turnovers, weak perimeter defense.

 

We do run people off screens.. Dame and CJ just aren't as good at is as Curry and Thompson. They are both better at getting open and at shooting quickly after catching the ball. Dame looks afraid to shoot.

 

Not a good showing

 

You learn back in high school you never leave your feet when passing and Dame does this all the time so don't others for Dame mistake.

 

This series will be over in 5. The DUBS are just as good on the road as they are at home.

 

Does any member of the soft Portland media have the stones to ask Stotts why he would design a defense to REPEATEDLY give Curry/Thompson wide open looks. Anyone? Jaynes? Richman? Holdahl? And then follow up his weak-ass response?

 

Our guys looked gassed out there tonight too, another day off will help, we just got back from a grueling 7 game series, and the Warriors have been sitting pretty for four days at home.

 

What other guard is he going to play.

 

Maybe so - but tonight he was throwing passes that you would expect from some clueless rookie in his first play-off game. 7 turnovers? Jump passes that would give a high school coach a stroke?

 

You win and lose as a team....there's blame to pass all around in this loss like there always are in losses.....folks seem to need a scapegoat but they made shots, we had a ton of empty possessions and game over...get the next one

 

We don’t have the shooters they do? How? Without KD they have a Max if 2 shooters on the floor nearly all 48 minutes.

Do you consider Iguodala and draymond shooters? Because they aren’t.

That Cook/Livingston/Klay/Jerebko/Bell lineup played the first 6 minutes of the 2nd and the first 6 minutes of the 4th together. That unit outscored us both quarters. That is an absolutely dreadful lineup with NO spacing.

Golden State does NOT have better shooters than we do. That’s such a lame excuse. Yeah they have two of the greatest but Dame and CJ aren’t slouches. Our starting lineups essentially have the same amount of shooters (2) and we bring a stretch 4 and 2 solid shooters in Hood and Curry off the bench. What Golden State DOES have that we don’t have is competent coaching and game planning. They guarded our stars the way stars should be guarded, and they ran offense with actual movement.