Game Thread GAME# 30: BLAZERS @ SUNS - FEBRUARY 22, 2021 - MONDAY, 6:00, NBCSNW

Healty blazers team i think we whop their ass. Right now we got too many guys injured the suns are at full strength and are playing great. For as popular as Dame is NBA2k cover, Hulu , Gatorade commercials, espn talking about him a lot millions of views on YouTube after 3 days....The NBA refs treat him like shit. The way teams are able to play so physical with him and foul the hell out of him he not only not getting star treatment but AI treatment. Something has to be done because Trea young and Luka get superstar treatment pathetic weak foul calls, and Dame can not even get the normal calls. WTF is the nba doing? If the nba want a narrative of Dame being their superstar why do they treat him like shit? Wtf is going on here? Some of the no calls he gets are absolutely outrageous

 

Not one injured player for the Suns?
I still think they will be ready to play this team and will give them a good game.

Blazers need to be in the game at the end. That is what you try to do on the road.

 

Nassir Little (Coaching incompetence): OUT

 

they play a methodical pace and CP is always allowed to be super physical with Dame. Might be a long night

 

This could be ugly.

 

We could win this going away. When this team hits their open threes that Dame usually sets up for them or after Dame draws a crowd and kicks it out, they find the open man by swinging the ball around and we get just a little off ball action, this offenses is probably the most potent offense in the NBA and will never be out of a game. When that is coupled with defensive effort that will likely only make us an average defense, then we can only be outplayed by the elite teams in this league and Phoenix isn't one of them. So we could blow the doors off of this Phoenix team, not playing like we did last night but by playing our best ball.

 

huh?....the Suns have played a harder schedule, have a better record, and have an average point differential 12 times better than Portland's, will be playing at home, and you think Portland can "blow the doors off" the Suns if Portland plays their best game. What if Phoenix plays their best game at the same time?

 

I don't know if we can win the game if the Suns play their best but we can blow them out if they have an average night, we shoot the lights out and play decent D. Our offense is just very potent when on. Our defense can be very disrupting. I don't think we necessarily are the better team right now but we can definitely beat these guys asses if they don't come in with a sense of urgency and we do. Also home court doesn't mean shit to these two teams this season, we're actually better on the road and the Suns are a half game better at home.

 

When the Blazers shoot well they can always win no question.
One thing that helps is hitting shots gets them back on defense and that plays into RoCo, Trent's and Jones's defensive abilities. They play the lanes well and anticipate passes. Lots of tipped balls.

Last night the team didn't shoot well at all and they paid for it on the defensive side. Lots of fast transition type offense for a team like the Wiz which they really like.

 

Absolutely agree.
Could not have said it better.

 

of course....if any decent team plays their optimal game against another decent team, it could be a blowout if the opponent has an average or worse game. The Blazers and Warriors proved that already in consecutive games this season.

A Suns fan could say the same thing about his team blowing the doors off the Blazers if Phoenix plays their best and Portland plays so-so. Both cases are true. It's darker at night too

 

You're right. I guess what I'm saying is that I'm not afraid of the Suns, I don't predict that this will be a loss and in fact I predict that we surprise some people and win going away but obviously I could be wrong about those last two things but I'm right when I say we shouldn't fear the Suns. They're not as good as a healthy Lakers team and they're not even as good as the Philly team we just beat ten days ago.

Edit: And by the way, you've said nothing since inferring that my prediction that we can "blow the doors off" of the Suns if we play our best was preposterous, to back that up. So to answer that initial question, not only do I believe that we can blow the doors off of the Suns... now you've said that you do too.

 

I'm not sure where it was I said it was "preposterous". Just that the conditions you set made it really obvious. Portland could probably clobber the Lakers or the Jazz if they played their best game and the opponent played poorly. I mean, just look at what happened last night

 

I'm not trying to argue about semantics but I said that you inferred that my prediction was preposterous and if you read the post you start it out with "huh?" and then say "and you think Portland can 'blow the doors off' the Suns..."

It seemed like you were making it seem like my prediction was at least ridiculous but I probably misread it.

 

sure....I wasn't saying you were a lunatic or anything. Maybe you were pushing back against somebody who gave Portland little chance. The two teams are probably pretty evenly matched, but CP3 has always made things tough for Dame so I'd say the Suns have an edge. They are also, just like Portland 8-2 over their last 10 games so there's no real momentum edge for either team. They have to be the favorite but like I said, last night the Blazers were favored and that didn't mean much

 

This is the game that you wish the Blazers are healthy. No way they can beat the Suns