Game Thread Game #47 - BLAZERS VS TIMBERWOLVES - JANUARY 25, 2022 - TUESDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT SPORTS

Powell is back, time to up that trade value. Gonna be so pissed if/when Nas gets benched.

 

Nets are more than “not bad.” They had Durant and Kyrie when we, I mean Nassir Little, beat them.

 

Norman should come off the bench, we need Nassir and Roço, we have been playing our best with this unit.

a Lakers lost and a Win, we get close to them. Dame can Comeback after the all star break. Still time for the Blazers to make a push

 

Jezus dude.
Suns was the second game of the season and they played the night before in LA. Blazers had 2 full days rest and were at home.
The Grizzlies was a 20 point win and they were on their third game of a road trip and played the Clippers two nights before.
They have also lost twice to the Clippers with George.
They have also lost twice to the Nuggets and the last one was by 32
You yourself say the Lakers suck so why would you go there.
Your idea of a blow out is comical as well.

 

Exactly. Start of the season. Healthy and rested. How can they be tired on the second of back to back when the season just started? Have they been losing by 29 on second games of back to back all season?

So now the Grizzlies excuse is that they played TWO nights before? LOL.

How is my idea of a blowout comical? They were all by at least 15 points. Beat Suns by 29 points. Beav said we don't beat good teams but we have.

Your entire post here is comical. If you want a real excuse, the Blazers lost to Denver by 32 when they were without Dame, CJ, Powell, AND Simons.

Grizzlies and Suns have zero excuse for getting destroyed by us. Especially since our star player had debilitating injury.

 

Yes but he clearly said it's much worse now than it was. It hasn't been this bad "for years."

 

This dude saying someone else's post is "Comical".

 

I was at the Suns game, right behind Dame (!) and Paul was awful that night. The whole game he did nothing but jaw with Chauncey and bitch and moan. Ayton too, was basically MIA, Booger was Booger. On the other hand Portland made everything.

Big deal they beat the Suns. Means nothing to me TBH. Suns are far and away vastly superior to Portland in every way.

 

I don't why some people in here don't give credit when deserve with this team. Winning 4 games last road trip was actually pretty good in my eyes. You going make excuses why we won that's rediculus. As said before Billups wasn't my choice for being the coach of this team and yes he makes rookie coaches mistakes but give him credit he got these guys playing team basketball and gave these young kids on this team a lot confidence that going out there competing. When CJ and Dame went down they could have thrown in the towel but they didn't and there playing that's on schedule like all of other teams do. So don't be so critical how there winning just look at it there plain doing things on the court to have give the chance to win every night.

 

i hope beverley plays. i wanted to see what simons would do against him.

 

Big Test for sure. Can we beat the Wolves and Mavs at home with our young studs? Hope they win

 

It has brought new enjoyment to the season for sure.

 

chauncey billups really needs to give up on norm powell small forward experiment

nassir little is better fit and hes developing & producing, we dont need powell scoring in the starting unit, theres enough of that with cj mccollum, ant & nurk (little & roco will add some too), we need more defense, rebounding & energy, which guys like nurk, little & roco provide, so its not a coincidence that team started playing better lately with them being out, as team is just more balanced and generally a better fit as it is... if you bring powell back in the starting unit, im afraid things wont work like they didnt before, as there wont be enough touches for everyone (ant & nurk really blossomed with bigger roles), so they wont share the ball, but rather look to get "theirs"

we all know cj mccollum needs to go and with ant breaking through, powell is the odd man out, so move powell to the bench and use him as 6th man while hes still here and keep rolling with whats working

 

Are you hoping Elleby doesn't get any playing time? He had a very nice game against Toronto.

 

He absolutely did, but... He's not a rotation quality player. Hopefully, he'll get there some day. Today is not that day.

 

You must be new here......

 

interesting

 

interesting indeed

when nurk was returning from injuries, he was on minutes restriction, but was starting games

either chauncey is thinking differently than stotts or... powell will be a bench player from now on

 

It’s a big deal because people like to say we don’t beat good teams and that’s false. Last year we struggled. This year, we’ve beaten a lot of good teams.