Game Thread Game #38 - BLAZERS VS HEAT - JANUARY 5, 2022 - WEDNESDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT SPORTS

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Should Lillard just get the surgery he needs and sit the rest of the season?

  1. Yes

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  2. No

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  3. Wait till the off-season

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  4. Wait till we see what we do at the trade deadline

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  1. Chris Craig

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    STARTERS

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    Anfernee Simons Norman Powell
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    Nassir Little Robert Covington
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    Jusuf Nurkic


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    Kyle Lowry Tyler Herro
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    Caleb Martin PJ Tucker
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    Omer Yurtseven

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    WHEN: JANUARY 5, 2022 - WEDNESDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT)
    WHERE: MODA CENTER, PORTLAND OR
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    TV BROADCAST

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    RADIO BROADCAST

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    BENCH

    BLAZERS

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    Tony Snell Dennis Smith Jr
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    Ben McLemore Greg Brown
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    CJ Elleby Trendon Watford
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    Keljin Blevins Reggie Perry
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    Brandon Williams Cameron McGriff
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    Jarron Cumberland CJ MCCollum
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    Cody Zeller
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    Damian Lillard Larry Nance Jr

    MIAMI

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    Kyle Guy
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    Chris Silva Mario Chalmers
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    Victor Oladipo Markieff Morris
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    Gabe Vincent Duncan Robinson
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    Aric Holman Max Strus
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    Udonis Haslem Haywood HighSmith
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    KZ Okpala Marcus Garrett
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    Bam Adebayo Dewayne Dedmon
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    Nik Stauskas
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    Jimmy Butler


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    INJURIES

    MIAMI

    Jimmy Butler (Leg) OUT
    Bam Adebayo (Thumb) OUT
    Victor Oladipo (Quad) OUT
    Duncan Robinson (Covid) OUT
    Dewayne Dedmon (Knee) OUT
    Marcus Garrett (Covid) OUT
    Gabe Vincent (Covid) OUT
    Udonis Haslem (Covid) OUT
    Markieff Morris (Neck) OFF

    BLAZERS

    CJ McCollum (Lung) OUT
    Damian Lillard (Ab) OUT
    Cody Zeller (Knee) OUT
    Larry Nance Jr (Covid) OUT
    Brandon Williams (Covid) OUT
    Cameron McGriff (Covid) OUT


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    COACHES

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    Chauncey Billups

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    Erik Spoelstra


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    NOTES
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    • This is the first of two meetings between the Blazers and Heat
    • The two teams will face each other again on 1/19 in Miami
    • The Blazers and Heat split the 2020-21 season series 1-1
    • Nik Stauskas played for the Blazers during the 2018 -19 season
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    TRIVIA

    The Blazers last played the Heat losing 107 -98. Four Blazers shot 100% from the field off the bench. Name them.

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    Last edited: Jan 5, 2022
    Chris Craig, Jan 3, 2022
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    Can Ant/Nas have back-to-back good games? Win or lose, that is what I want to start to see more of. That (and a good Lottery pick) will make this losing worth while in the long run.
     
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    To Portland:

    Luguentz Dort
    Christian Wood
    Kevin Porter
    Eric Gordon

    To Houston:

    CJ McCollum
    Larry Nance Jr

    To OKC

    Covington
    Garuba
    Pick
     
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    We lose this trade bro. Gotta keep nance.
     
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    For the poll question, yes if surgery is something that's on the table and would fix that injury for good then Dame should get it now. Now is really the best time. Then we should trade away most of this roster to try and get Dame some legit help going into next season and hope to get lucky in the lottery to make us an actual contender. That being said tendinopathy can have a tear with it and that can be fixed with surgery but I don't see anywhere in which tendinopathy is treated with surgery. It needs rest and certain rehabilitation exercises, it can be treated with different means to stimulate healing like cortisone injections or even platelet rich plasma injections but not surgery.

    If people are saying that Dame needs surgery that means that he has a torn tendon in his abdomen that obviously would also have the damage on top of that caused by tendinopathy, since that's the only official diagnosis the team has put out there.
     
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    As far as this game goes, the Heat just gave the Warriors a run for their money so this should be a tough one. Probably going to get our asses handed to us but still... GO BLAZERS!!!
     
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    Jimmy Butler with a severely sprained ankle tonight.....likely not to play on Wednesday night.
     
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    Maybe we will have a win streak.
     
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    No way. Dort is exactly the kind of player who want playing with Dame. Nance is good but Dort/Wood/Gordon is better.
     
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    This makes no sense for Houston.
     
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    You mean two teams have to agree to a trade?
     
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    this isn’t the trades that’ll never happen and make no sense thread.
     
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    Yeah, that was meant for the other thread
     
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    Hmmm, is it just me?
     
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    Wonder who he voted for?

    Wait, wrong one.
     
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    So, I assume this is in reference to your comment about the Blazers getting breaks because teams aren't at full strength when the play us? Pretty sure that applies to almost every team in the NBA throughout the league this season. Other than the Jazz, who so far seem immune to both injuries and Covid, I can't think of any teams that aren't missing players.
     
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    I think he's referring to the early season where the Blazers seemed to always get teams missing one of their top players, before the Covid outbreaks.
     
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    Learn the game, rook?
     
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    Then post?
     
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    Good news for winning, bad news for tanking.
     
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