Game Thread Game #14 - BLAZERS @ NUGGETS - NOVEMBER 14, 2021 - SUNDAY - 5:00 PM (PDT) ROOT SPORTS

Holy shit. Just woke up, 5 a.m. over here, couldn’t belive my eyes when i watched boxscore. Blow this shit up bruh

 

sounds like billups is about to make some lineup changes.

nance for roco is the obvious one.

does he dare do zeller for nurk? nurk is the anchor of our defense and we'd be screwed without him, but his laziness these last few games has been unacceptable. how else do you hold a guy accountable?

 

New starters:
Dame or Ant
Norm
Nassir
Larry
Nurk or Zeller

6th Man of the Century:
CJ

...everyone else

 

Nassir should be logging just as many minutes as Lillard and CJ

 

that would take a lot of guts. and Billups repeatedly citing effort as a reason to change lineups. While CJ's shot selection and gameplay can be annoying, i don't think you can point to his effort really lacking.

Roco/Nurk are the obvious culprits there. Those dudes look totally disengaged. Roco moreso, all season.

 

What an embarrassment. Every day I'm thankful for the money I'm not spending on Fubo or Commiecast.
Sure, we were without Lillard......
.....but they are still without Murray, didn't have Porter and Barton didn't play.

My goodness, where is the pride. This may need to be a MASSIVE turnover and sadly, that may include Dame. This team just isn't built to compete and their drive seems gone. I know I'm going to get effort out of Powell, Nas, Ant, Nance and Zeller. After that, who knows who shows up on any given night.

I'd much rather watch a bunch of rookies and effort guys at least play hard than this high-paid prima donna's that just don't act like they give a sh!t.

 

I've been told Blazers are 6 points/game worse because of Dame's play this season. I guess it's good he didn't play tonight otherwise Portland would have lost by 35

take Dame and his shots out of the lineup must mean Nurkic would get more shots. Wait...he only got 5?

does it look like a lot of Blazers haven't bought into Billups yet? They certainly don't grok his offense

 

ItS nOt RoStEr CoNsTrUcTiOn

 

I didn't watch game and seems like I didn't miss anything. But Nurk goes when he involved in the offense and didn't see that happening with CJ and Simons in the back court. Both our shoot first and pass later type of guards. The biggest problem coaches believe you play due to how much you get paid. Starting lineup don't make sense and I am not talking about the height you got 3 guys in Dame and CJ and Powell is shoot first and pass later. Yes I see Dame getting assist but he should be getting over 10 a game. I truly believe CJ need come off the bench or get traded. Dame Powell Nas Nance and Nurk should be the starting lineup.

 

I’m not really surprised that we lost this one without Dame.

Is this as an accurate barometer for how much our team lives by him as his struggles early?

How much can we learn from this loss? Dame hasn’t missed much in his career…

 

No no. Not 6 points worse with this Dame on the floor vs this Dame not on the floor. 6 points worse with this Dame instead of the normal superstar Dame.

Superstar Dame gets Nurk, Powell, Roco etc. all those good looks AND scores efficiently himself. Dame now gets them those looks but his own poor shooting is where most of the -6 comes from.

 

We lost without Dame.

They won without Murray, Porter and Barton....by 29 points.

There are bigger issues going on here than just Dame missing a game. Outside of a few players, there is an overall lack of effort, energy, and team play.

 

no worries....I wasn't giving you shit. I was just making more of a joke than any relevant point.

kind of like this:

as bad as Dame has been at shooting this year, when he plays Portland is +1.6 in point differential. When he doesn't play, Portland is -29 in point differential. Facts without context for the win!

 

I still believe this team has the talent to be over 0.500 without Dame at all and with normal Dame (if he ever returns) 50+ wins. I mean compare this team to our 53 win team. Why should we be much worse? I think there’s a lot of panic knee jerk reaction going on. I can understand it we looked horrific yesterday.

 

Like I been saying

 

When anything goes wrong you’re guaranteed to be right.