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

Our defense is such ass. No clue how to stop booker

 

They had 12 more attempts on fg. Plus we have know answer for booker.

 

At least Stotts kinda figured out that you can succeed with DJJ moving towards the basket instead of just parking him in the corner 3.

 

Turnovers and missed FTs killed us. We just gotta keep this within single digits and see if dame can will us to a win again.

but any action at all with enes is resulting in points for them. booker might cool down, but we need to body him more. i like how Jones is guarding CP.

 

CP3 is 0-6 and still a big factor.

 

So many passes boogie would make that kanter doesn’t even attempt.

 

Simons might be come back to reality and Trent is just streaky at times.

 

I called it before the season starts. Some games you already know it’s an L and this is one of them and the next one

 

I love Trent jr but boy is his defense overrated

 

A lot teams having that trouble this year too.

 

This is why CP3 is one of the greatest point guards of all time. He comes in and completely changes your culture.

 

I do hope we Play the Suns in the playoffs though. It would be a fun series!

 

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...devin-booker-gets-enes-kanter-revenge-l-tweet

 

Trent can’t even drive to the basket to get some fouls and FT’s.

 

Hes nice but he’s def not an upgrade over Cj. His defense is very overrated

 

Phoenix with 30 points in the paint plus 7 offense rebounds.

 

He changes the game without even scoring lol

 

It's that chicken or egg thing. Did Melo go iso every time first and so players began slacking off once he got the ball or did they stop moving and deferring to him first so he had nobody to pass to?

Other point: I saw we were last n the league at defending corner threes. Continues tonight. Could we set a record for most opponent's corner threes made in a season?

 

It's cool that so many Suns fans came to our forum for this game.

 

We're done.

The Suns are just like the Blazers but a little better in every respect.

What they don't do is play as stupid as we did in the first half. So many wasted possessions.

Melo with the most selfish play I've seen in years ... he had three open guys who can make the 3 standing around the arc with an easy pass. No, he holds it, lets the Suns set the defense and then dribbles out the shot clock backing a guy down and shooting a fadeaway over his defender and the two guys helping on defense that ends up short.

But that was just the worst of the worst. We had the obligatory two Blazers knock an uncontested rebound away from each other because no one talks and it results in a Suns basket. We had Dame trying to dribble through four guys and losing it. We have Trent with an easy elbow jumper to get himself in rhythm instead firing up a step-back that he missed. Then we have Ant running the "Me" play, not even looking for teammates as he fired up a 3 off the dribble early in the shot clock, then almost immediately commits a bad foul the other way.

Watch them lose this game by 2-6 points and the end of the game will get overanalyzed when the Blazers wasted about a dozen or more first-half possessions just playing stupid basketball, lazy basketball, or stupid lazy basketball.