Game Thread Game #3:TRAIL BLAZERS @ LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS OCTOBER 25, 2021 - MONDAY, 7:30 PM, ROOT SPORTS, NBATV

LOL

 

already working on his "it's not the roster" excuse. Watch your back Chauncey!

 

I don't remember it that way. The team was coached by Canales and then they made a number of changes.

 

After this game the Blazers improved from #19 in defense to #18. Pretty impressive as I thought they didn't play well and have a hell of a lot of potential to improve defensively.

They did slide back from the #1 offense to #17 though.....

 

a bit mind boggling that could look so good against the Suns and so unbelievably awful against the Clips

 

I know you know this so it's not me enlightening you....but when a team can go from #1 to #17 in one game it demonstrates the sample size issues for all those kind of stats.

I think you have to wait till at least the 30 game mark before those numbers reveal anything very relevant. And in Portland's case it may have to be the 50 game mark because at 30 games the Blazers will have an 18-12 home/road imbalance and at 40 games, that imbalance jumps up to 25-15.

 

but yet you keep railing on cj with a three game sample size with a new coach?

not following the consistency here

 

c'mon man...do I have to add a fucking asterisk to every one of my posts to please you? Of course sample sizes are tiny. Everybody knows that and shouldn't have to add the wiggle words into every post discussing numbers. I'm not the only one mentioning stats 3 games in

everybody is talking about Dame missing 22 three's in the first 3 games. That's 7.3 misses a game. Last year, he missed 6.4 three's a game. So far, he's shooting 2.5 fewer three's than last year, 3.2 fewer FGA's, and 1.9 fewer FT's. BUT IT"S EARLY!!....does that make you happy?

 

Anyone know Paul George's record against Lillard ever since the "wave goodbye" game? I think he bears a little bit of a grudge...

 

just sayin that old numbers should have an asterisk until we see a good sample size with the new coach.
It seems like you are writing off any potential ability to change/improve based on three games.

 

Dame Lillard is a pg he shouldnt have to average 30 ppg on this roster. If he and/or CJ dominate all the shooting, this team will continue to be mediocre.
We should get at least 25 or more ppg, per night, from the two starting forward positions.

 

The stats are very relevant in reveling the teams performance over the entire season thus far, however few games that is.

Would 82 games give a more accurate representation of a teams performance? Sure. But that doesn't mean we can't look at smaller sample sizes. Yes we will know more tomorrow, but that doesn't mean we know nothing today.

A complete playoff series has a sample size of 4-7 games.
Each win and loss is determined by a sample size of one game.

 

I think he is 10-0 or something.... they showed it on NBATV yesterday he has one of his highest scoring averages against a single team as the Blazers. I think Lillard and or CJ had poor averages against the Clippers.

 

Curious if we were undefeated in the preseason and 2-1 right now..... what would you think the barometric pressure of the forum might be? Honest question.

 

Get ready for “Its not that they lose it’s how they lose” post coming right up.

 

nope, I'm not writing off anything based upon the three games Billups has coached....I'm just skeptical of CJ changing based upon the 590 games he's played.

I am kind of amazed at how many people are imagining that a 1st time head coach, who actually has less than a year of coaching experience, on any level, possesses some metaphysical/magical powers that will transform the established games of veteran players almost instantly

it appears that Stotts had such a toxic reputation in the minds of so many fans (I wanted him gone myself) that he's getting no credit at all for the offensive games of players like Dame and CJ. It is possible that he actually knew what he was doing on the offensive end. I mean, everything Dame has acheived so far he did under Stotts

 

Sometimes change invokes change.

Does it take coaching experience to draw a line and hold people accountable? That, to me, is more of a personality trait. Not gained through coaching experience. so I'm not sure his 1st time coaching hold up is valid here.

 

If Dame went 8/8, we would’ve won going away. Defense would’ve been better cuz Clippers have to take ball out of net. Offensively, it would’ve had the Clippers scrambling for help. Also we wouldn’t have played the scrubs in the 4th. This loss was solely on Dame in my opinion.

 

Dame hater.