Game Thread GAME# 66: BLAZERS @ CAVALIERS - MAY 5, 2021 - WEDNESDAY, 4:30, NBCSNW

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If you could choose, whom would you rather have coach the Blazers next year?

Poll closed May 10, 2021.

  1. Nate McMillan

    14 vote(s)
    45.2%

  2. Terry Stotts

    17 vote(s)
    54.8%
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  1. illmatic99

    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    There better be no questions to Dame from the media about that article regarding Stotts getting fired. I don't need a Dame soundbite backing Terry to add to the drama this summer.
     
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    OK, I'll bite. What events?
     
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  3. illmatic99

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    he was quoted saying he wants to come to Portland.
     
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    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    There was also a game the other day where he didn't sit in the team huddle during time outs. He would go sit somewhere else on the bench instead of the team huddle.
     
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    dame can say whatever he wants, and in public he will back him if pressed, but there’s more than enough smoke to believe he doesn’t care about Stotts anymore.
     
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    late in the vid has the highlights, then another game after he never huddled with his team during time outs. He seems disengaged with the Cavs.
     
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    he's still on the cap, but Portland probably paid him off a long time ago.

    there were a lot of moving parts to that trade that got him on the Blazer salary cap, but when it's all said and done that is probably the most expensive late 1st round draft pick in NBA history. And the blazers spent that money and used in on Caleb Swanigan
     
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    Glad the Blazers are winning. Of course I'm sure all of us are glad they are playing better.
    The Cleveland Cavaliers are a very bad team. Not really much to judge other than they did what they were supposed to do.
     
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    Just please make sure that the firing of stotts stays its course. Thats very important.
     
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    The team is playing to save his job, with Dame leading the way. They wont give up on Terry likes Nates team did.
     
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    BEYOND THE BOX SCORE


    CAVALIERS NOTES:

    • Cleveland knocked down 13 three-pointers tonight and is shooting a combined 46-107 (.430) from beyond the arc over the last three games.
    • The Cavs had just nine turnovers, their fifth game with under 10 miscues this season.
    • KEVIN LOVE knocked down four three-pointers and finished with a team-high 18 points (7-14 FG, 4-10 3FG), eight rebounds, two assists and one steal in 26 minutes.Over the last three games, Love is shooting a combined 12-24 (.500) from beyond the arc, while averaging 16.7 points, 8.3 rebounds and 3.0 assists in 29.3 minutes over that stretch.
    • COLLIN SEXTON recorded 15 points, a team-high tying four assists and two steals in 34 minutes. Tonight was Sexton’s 17th multi-steal performance of the season.
    • CEDI OSMAN tallied 14 points, two rebounds, two assists and one steal in 26 minutes. Osman has scored in double figures in a season-best five straight games, averaging 15.6 points, 4.0 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 32.0 minutes over that span. He is also shooting a perfect 15-15 mark from the charity stripe.
    • JARRETT ALLEN had a near double-double with nine points, a game-high tying 13 rebounds, two assists, one steal and one block in 29 minutes. Allen has pulled down 10 rebounds or more in five of the last seven games.
    • DEAN WADE had 16 points (5-6 FG, 3-4 3FG), five rebounds and one steal in 29 minutes off the bench. Tonight was his 12th double-digit scoring effort of the season.
    • ANDERSON VAREJÃO made his season debut, his first NBA action since February 2, 2017 (at LAC). He recorded six rebounds, one point, one assist and one block in seven minutes off the bench tonight. The last time he played in a game with the Cavaliers was a home contest on February 10, 2016 (vs. LAL).

    TRAIL BLAZERS NOTES:

    • DAMIAN LILLARD tallied game highs of 32 points (10-17 FG, 6-10 3FG, 6-7 FT) and nine assists in 31 minutes.
    • ENES KANTER recorded a double-double with 18 points (9-11 FG) and a game-high tying 13 rebounds in 21 minutes off the bench.
    • JUSUF NURKIC also notched a double-double with 15 points (6-10 FG), 11 rebounds and a game-high four blocks in 21 minutes.
     
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    When you have two centers registering double/doubles, I think that is where the game was won.
     
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    I think they are playing to just win, and stotts gets in the way of that as is evidentiary clear.

    We win in spite of stotts. We lose because of stotts. These are just facts.
     
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    5-1 road trip and we got to rest Dame in the 4th of 3 of the games... anyone who doesn't think this was a great roadtrip is off their rockers!
     
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    Here's a fact: Those are opinions.
     
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    youre in for a surprise
     
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    Maybe I shouldn't go back and read the game thread?:deadhorse:
     
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    Blazers with another win on the way to a 5-1 road trip.
    They look like they are improving all around.

    This is going to get pretty weird with all the "The coach is already fired" talk if this team starts rolling just like we all know they can. Pretty funny just how many people have run with an "Athletic" story by none other than Jason Quick.
    Pass the Lakers and get that 6th spot.
    Play the Clippers and beat them in the first round. This will be tough but they have the players to do this.
    Then after the Lakers beat the Suns, go into the second round and beat the other LA team! Which would be easier than beating the Clippers.
    Go to the Conference Finals and take down the Jazz.
    Yes a bunch of assumptions. You all know this could very well happen.

    No my name is not Charles Barkley so lets not get ahead of ourselves. Get back home in front of fans and beat the Lakers.
     
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    Only a hundred something posts?
     
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