Game Thread SEEDING GAME# 5: CLIPPERS @ BLAZERS - AUGUST 8, 2020 - SATURDAY, 10:00AM, TNT & NBCSNW

You know dame is beating himself up about this.

 

Gotta keep playing in this league whomever happens to be on the court.

 

Marcus Morris kills us. It's funny because when i see the Clippers i don't fear George and Leonard. Yes they're great players, but it's guys like Morris, who can poop his pants left and right against other teams, then is a dead eye dick against us. Scored 37 against us when he was with Detroit. JaMychal Green killed us as well. Dude don't miss open 3's.

 

after nearly 5 months off, and only playing one of the exhibition games, Dame's minutes in the 4 games before today:

45 - 44 - 40 - 41

then 39 in an early game. Oh, and game 2 of a back-2-back tomorrow.

meanwhile, the Clippers are practicing full 'load management' and still winning games, even against a determined team like Portland. The Blazers dug a giant hole and jumped into it in the first 66 games. Climbing out of that hole was always going to be a chore. But they sure didn't need to keep digging deeper today

Stotts has to find a way to wins some of these games without grinding Lillard into the floor

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I watched that game and agreed with Stotts: there wasn't a real role for Zach Collins, and that points out a big issue with Zach. He doesn't do enough things well to have an impact game after game. I'm not sure he ever will

and we can't expect Trent to keep shooting 65% on three's. The bricks are coming and a few arrived today

 

Yes he missed lots of layups off the glass too many even against rockets him and zach missed 20 bunnies.

 

Quite honestly they haven’t looked that good this bubble. They barley beat Memphis. It took OT. Got down huge against Boston in which celtics took their foot off the gas and rightfully took over again and win it. Barley even beat a B squad Denver team running on a back to back. Then lost to a short handed clippers team in which Paul George practically admitted they tried to hand the Blazers the game.

quite frankly thank god. I don’t want Lebron and AD embarrassing us

 

This game was a tribute to how poorly our roster is constructed. I wouldn't blame Dame if he refused to play tomorrow based on fatigue.

 

We scored 42 pts in the second half after dropping 75 in the first.

 

Season isn't over yet. Get some rest and come on back tomorrow and win a game.

 

Lol wut. Do you know dame? He's gonna come out guns blazing and drop 50 tmrw.

 

That should tell you quite a bit.

 

They (teams) shoot a lot of open shots because there are so many small defensive breakdowns. When you run 2-3 defensive liabilities on the floor at all times that shit tends to happen.

 

Scott Foster didn't cost them this game. The Blazers cost them this game. Tired legs equal basketballs hitting the front of the rim.

 

I'll admit it...I actually googled Headupcha to see if I had missed some new slang term. All I got was a headache

 

Their last three was because we damn near forced a turnover. Every time we have a near steal we manage to get burned.

 

Amen.

 

It's not an excuse, it's just a reality that judging Nurk and even Zach right now is incredibly unfair, both guys are coming off of major injuries and a lot of missed time. Both look good on some plays and then extremely rusty on others. It's Stotts' job to put them in better situations and probably play them way less minutes, even if we don't have a great bench. That being said, it's inexcusable to me that we haven't seen more spot minutes from Nas and Wenyen. I don't care what they look like in practice, we have to see if they can give us meaningful minutes in games.