Game Thread GAME# 7: BLAZERS @ WARRIORS - NOVEMBER 4, 2019 - MONDAY, 7:30 PM, NBATV & NBCSNW

That how important Zach and Nurk is for this team. Actually Whiteside is not good defense center. He always had hands down and he is slow especially his reaction to someone going toward the rim. We can't give up over 120 every game and expect to win games.

 

Weird stat for a loss: CJ had 6 assists and 0 turnovers.

 

Hopefully Hood, Hezonja, Tolliver, and Bazemore for Harkless, Aminu & Curry?

 

Sports are that way man, sometimes you relax and play to the talent and get yourself fucked. It happens.

 

Nice try. Hood and Bazemore played the majority of the minutes. Yes, Hood, Tolliver and Bazemore are upgrades.

 

And shot like crap

 

I'm surprised more people don't see this. Nurk out, Gasol signed when he probably can't contribute, Whiteside is Whiteside, and that left a lot to hang on Collins, with minimal experience to be the glue guy in the front court. Hopefully everything comes together at the end, but Olshey really tried to thread the needle on this one.

 

Ok fine. Do you think Hood and Bazemore are quality starting NBA forwards? The answer shouldn't change.

 

Blazers history, they play lousy against a lousy teams then come back and beat a tough team

 

Better talent. Without question.

Bazemore himself is better than either Chief or Mo, and he comes off the bench. Curry was OK, but let's not kid ourselves that the NBA was beating down his door to sign him. He's a good shooter and a willing if often overmatched defender. Chief and Mo were inconsistent and offensive liabilities.

Herzonja, athletically and potentially, is at least equal to Chief and Mo, and he comes off the bench whereas they started. But he doesn't fit as well on this team. Whiteside is one of the best defensive interior presences in the NBA and an efficient offensive player.

Here's the other thing: You went from a starting lineup last year of Dame, CJ, Mo, Chief and Nurk to a starting lineup this year of Dame, CJ, Hood, Zach and Whiteside. If you are going to say player for player the latter isn't a better lineup, I don't think you know what you are talking about. The rest of last year's rotation was Evan Turner, Curry, Stauskas, Zach and Meyers Leonard. This year it's Ant (who it looks like is going to have similar stats to Curry), Baze, Herzonja, Tolliver and Skal. Again, if you think the former is better than the latter, I strongly disagree.

But the former performed much better. Because a team is a collection of individuals, not just individuals.

 

Whiteside is a good defender. Nurk & Zach will help a ton, but we'll still be worse in spite of adding Simons who is already good. We made bad trades.

 

We'll be fine. Ran into a special performance by Paschall. Not much we could've done when he's 0/8 from three coming into the game and then drops 4 on us in this game. We will be fine. Warriors hadn't won at home yet. They were bound to get one. Yes we are 3-4 but we haven't had a bunch of home games against crappy teams yet and that is how you build a record. Too early to panic.

 

ok...I'll be honest, I'm kinda pissed but I'm also chuckling because that was such a damn chucklehead clown show.

I refrained from posting because I couldn't decide between jokes and bile; between sarcasm and steam

now, it's just yucks and chuckles...those seem to be perfect for what I just saw
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I know a lot of people keep saying that but I ave a hard time believing it and I'm growing more and more skeptical. Tonight sure didn't help the case

and yeah, the Blazers will eventually find a groove and put together a good stretch of games. I don't think they are more talented than last year's team though, no matter how many times people keep chanting the refrain. The only hope is that somehow they'll have better chemistry, but last year was the result of 3-4 years of building chemistry. That's gone

 

cj is pretty fucking brutal so far this year. If he doesnt get his head out of his ass soon then hopefully he gets benched permanently (yeah I know Stotts wont do it).

 

Hood is definitely a starter in the NBA.

 

Upgrade from the worst starting forward combo in the league, I don't disagree. My question continues to be, are our starting forwards high quality starting NBA forwards? People really don't want to answer this question for some reason.

When you roll out two substandard starting forwards, you make your entire team susceptible to nights like tonight.

 

If no one else wanted to sign him, we'd still have him. He had a second year on his contract with us though it was a player option.

 

That’s old. This is a new season. You can’t keep doing that. This team just isn’t that good

 

Imagine watching CJ play basketball and thinking to yourself “yeah this is fun” non ironically. He’s like the guard version of old Melo.