Game Thread 2022-23 PRESEASON - GAME #2 - BLAZERS VS JAZZ - OCTOBER 4, 2022 - TUESDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT

Our lack of height really seemed to show last night.

 

They may be hoping to build Keon's trade value? Or find out if he is good enough so they can trade another guard?

 

Last deadline I wanted to sell high on Ant and Nas and trade them.....I think I was on to something..hope they prove me wrong but so far....underwhelmed...I know it's just glorified tryouts for now but I expected them to be impact players out of the gate

 

True, but as he is, to a degree, the voice of the Blazers, he can exacerbate any negative feelings fans may have with respect to the Blazers.

 

It did? I did not notice that. Other than maybe against Zeller in garbage time. What I did notice is they shot 45% from 3 and the 34-year-old 6'1" Conley killing us as usual

 

The Blazers are 1-9 in the preseason in the last three years

Brutal.

 

Good thing preseason is not an indicator of regular season success. Of course, if we mirrored the preseason, we'd continually be in line for the #1 pick. Don't think we'd have a lot of fan support though. (not as though it is overwhelming right now anyway).

 

Probably not doing well in practice. How’s he’s only getting a couple minutes is beyond me too

 

I meant more so about just being parked around the three and not slashing to the bucket on back screens or cuts.
I and many others became increasingly frustrated with Batum, knowing he was the most athletic on the team but moved so little.

 

Keon is a guard and is getting minutes because GP2 is out.
Walker is a forward, even Little only got 13 minutes. I am guessing that they wanted to give Cacok a chance before they cut him.

 

Check out the box scores of other p s games and you'll see a lot of DNP's.

 

It's Cacok, lol

 

I was on another site writing quite a bit about the Blazers when "Frenchy" was here.
I always said if Nic gets 12 points and 6 rebounds the Blazers will win. It's was almost set in stone. Nic needed to play well if the Blazers were going to win.

 

The “X” factor.
Would that be little and Sharpe now?

 

So you read them. I usually had an X factor and it was Batum quite a bit.
Agree it would be Little quite a bit this year but might sit a bunch with Nurkic at this point. Ha can't foul out this year.

 

I miss making the playoffs.

 

If this kid turns into Nic Batum, I’d be ecstatic. Didn’t Nico start 80 games as a rookie and guarded the other teams 1-4 at times? I’ll take it.

 

Is it not though?

The last two seasons have been EXTREMELY mediocre or just plain b ad, and a lot of the issues that we saw in preseason continued to manifest during the regular season.