It is only bingo bango. I think they are bitter because they lost the lottery and missed out on bongo.
Totally different. You empty your bench when the game is beyond reach. Portland has emptied their bench before the game starts.
Newsflash for the fuckin I D 10 Ts: This is a business. Just like players “learn” it’s a business when they get traded. Fans learn it’s a business when the “business” does things to give the “business” the best chance of success in the future.
By that logic, every team in the NBA should start trying to lose games once they can’t make the playoffs. That would of course undermine the legitimacy of the entire season because the teams trying to improve their seeding in the playoffs would then have an automatic win every time they faced a team that was tanking. After awhile the whole season would be kind of meaningless.
This sucks, but you must be new to basketball if you are taking it this way. Nobody likes this……Big picture FAMS.
I’ve been watching the Blazers since they entered the league, and I don’t recall them ever sitting a healthy starting center for the last 20 games of the season to improve their position in the draft.
I'm sorry to break this to you, but... yeah, that's exactly the case. The fact that fans want--and are willing to pay--to see the best players play is the only reason teams don't always do that.
did you miss dame's rookie year? check out some of our lineups to finish that season. we sat Wes/Nic with such minor injuries while dame lost 13 games in a row
you're guessing. You don't know that is true planter faciitis is no joke and it can flare up in a hurry
by the way....saying this is the franchise "low point' is loopy 2005-06 was lower than this; the jailblazers were lower than this; the disintegration of Roy's and Oden's knees was lower than this; losing to the Pistons and Bulls in the finals hurt more than this year; losing game 7 to the Lakers in 2000 was worse than this; when the Walton team fell apart it was much worse than this
This is how Dallas got Luka, man. This is how it’s done. And this is hardly the lowest point. Losing (without trying to) with Felton playing PG. The Telfair years. Crumbling after adding Strickland in 2001. We have a true superstar in Dame. He’s just not going to play til next season. We have a bright future. That has not always been the case. I’ve followed Blazers since 1989.
This is the strategy. Play a bunch of G Leaguers and try to win. So players and coach are not playing/coaching to lose. We win another game or 2, we bench Simons but still try to win. If we do win, it’s good for the development of the young guys we have.
