Game Thread WEST FINALS, GAME 3: WARRIORS @ BLAZERS - MAY 18, 2019, SATURDAY, 6PM, ESPN

Discussion in 'Portland Trail Blazers' started by Darkwebs, May 16, 2019.

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Should the Blazers move Seth into the starting line-up?

Poll closed May 23, 2019.
  1. Absolutley. We need more shooters in the starting line-up.

    5.9%
  2. Sure, why not.

    11.8%
  3. No, but he should get at least 30 minutes a night

    15.7%
  4. No, we need his scoring punch off the bench.

    47.1%
  5. No, he makes our starting unit too small.

    15.7%
  6. Heck no! He's not consistently good enough

    3.9%
  1. DUB

    DUB Da, da da, da dah!

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    Shout out to Meyers Leonard! He was our only player who gave 100% wire to wire.

    This was only his third start for the season. He was the reason we had a 13 point halftime lead.

    If all of our players had’ve played with the same intensity, we would have won.
     
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  2. KingSpeed

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    We stopped running the offense thru him in second half. More Meyers in Game 4.
     
  3. hoopsjock

    hoopsjock Well-Known Member

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    Agree with the first two sentences. The last one though I disagree. This team could beat the Warriors right now.
     
  4. Dougnsalem

    Dougnsalem not barf

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    Man, after that game, this post made my night. Lol. This shit was AWESOME!

    Go Blazers!!!
    :cheers:
     
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    hoopsjock Well-Known Member

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    Yes, exactly! Take your hate for CJ as an example! I never see you say "I love CJ, but...."

    :tongue2:
     
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    Overall pretty disappointing, I just don’t see the hunger I saw in the okc series, I also wonder if maybe we have just run out of gas? Seems crazy but I see a lot of mental lapses and lazy basketball being played, especially in the second halves. Overall I’m thrilled we made it this far and hope we are able to find a way to retool the F positions in the off-season.

    Go Blazers
     
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    Lillard has to change his style of play in the offseason completely, it's allways the same: bring the ball up court, waiting for the screen, waiting waiting waiting and then comes the double Team and then he has to pass to a teammate, while there is only half of the shot clock. His style of play is good in the regular Season, but when the Playoffs starts and the defense get's more aggressive he's lost
     
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    Lukee Well-Known Member

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    It's our offense. We don't have any plan if they double team Lillard. That's on Stotts.
     
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    Glad you were thrown out of the arena.
     
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    Unfortunately it'll never change unless we get a new coach with a great idea like Steve Kerr for Curry.
     
  11. SIeepwalker

    SIeepwalker The lone sane poster

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    I can't fucking believe this shit. How do you miss 13 fucking free throws. How do you give so such a pathetic effort and no energy in the second half of two consecutive WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS

    What the actual fuck, It's ridiculous. Great we got to the WCF, and we're still gonna be the league's joke because we're getting swept.
     
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    At least we'll have some fire for next season. We got swept in the first round last year and it fueled the guys to make the WCF the next year. Getting swept again the WCF (if it happens) will fuel the guys to work even harder in the off season to make the finals with hopefully a healthy Dame and Nurk.
     
  13. Orion Bailey

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    Did we actually play a game three or did i just enter groundhog day and watched gamectwo twice???

    Dejavu or something.

    When is the real game three?
     
  14. Blazers Roy

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    We are now Raptors-West.
    This is the 100th time we get kicked out of the playoffs by Lebro...i mean the Warriors.


    On a sidenote:
    I'm starting to really question the integrity of screens in basketball.

    It's basically a big guy planning and initiating a late collision with a much smaller guard and then sticking his hip into the guard's body so that he can't escape.

    A screen should be like a road block for the defender to navigate through, he shouldn't move any part of his body after the contact and he shouldn't initiate contact WHILE a player is chasing a different player.
    The problem is - the screeners don't stand in a certain place, they walk up\run into defenders and then continue to wrestle with them.

    If a player is penetrating to the basket for a layup and then a big comes and stand in his way while they're running then it's a foul - where's the distinction?

    A guy like Collins gets called for doing a moving screen more often than a guy like Looney...and i dont understand why because Looney's screens look like fouls more often.

    I don't think the league has the will to remedy this situation as it creates more threes and open shots.
    If they did see how stupid it looks - how can they approach a solution,really? allow "box outs" on offensive players before they set the screen? not allow screens on defenders while they're in the act of running?
     
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    The Stotts, Dame, CJ combo is just not good enough for Kerr/Curry/Thompson.
     
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    Hasn't that been the case for every team pretty much for the last 4 or 5 years though? The Cavs were lucky to sneak one in but it took an all world effort from LeBron to do it otherwise the Warriors would be working on their 5th in a row.
     
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    Least other teams sneak in a "win" here or there...
     
  18. riverman

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    like us...we beat them twice this season..with Nurk
     
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    I'm talking playoffs though. I think were 1-11 or something like that vs them.
     
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    Minstrel Top Of The Pops Global Moderator

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    The Warriors have 22 consecutive playoff series with a road victory. That's nuts. I'm not sure we'll ever see that again.
     
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