Game Thread 2022-23 Game #5 BLAZERS VS HEAT - OCTOBER 26, 2022 - WEDNESDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT

supposedly, he is to be re-evaluted sometime this week.



wording in the press release was not THAT encouraging.

PORTLAND, Ore. (October 13, 2022) – Trail Blazers guard Gary Payton II continues to recover from an off-season procedure to address a core muscle injury. Although his rehab continues to progress well, he will miss the start of the regular season. Payton’s return to play timeline will be re-evaluated in two weeks.

So we'll see how much longer he needs after getting the clear... if he does soon. We saw from Nas that this injury might require quite a bit of ramp-up time.

 

Hmm, FTA’s may come down but I actually think we are a BETTER 3pt% team than has shown thus far. Consider Ant is below his career average and considerably so. Dame is a bit above average but is healthy for the first time in years so I think he only drops off a bit and Simons makes up for that. Hart has Ant and Dame to play off of and he will keep getting wide open looks. So while Hart’s 3pt% is high, it isn’t that inflated when you look at the context. Little and Sharpe are going to get endless wide open looks. I think our shooting is sustainable and maybe even will have improvement if Ant becomes more consistent thereby opening it up for Dame, Sharpe and Hart.

 

Im almost more curious when Sarr will be back. I want to see what he can do and we desperately bned more center depth. No question GPII will help us a ton, just I am almost like, jeez thats less PT for Sharpe. It’s a good problem to have but I really want Sharpe to get PT and development.

 

i don't think GP2's return will affect Shaedon with the kinda minutes our other guards/wings are getting:

Hart (leading the team currently): 37.5 mpg
Simons: 37.3 mpg
Dame: 37 mpg
Grant: 36.5 mpg
Winslow: 25 mpg

Shaedon: 15.3 mpg
Nas: 13.8 mpg

Can easily eek out 15-20 mpg from the top 5 guys listed in the rotation to get GP2 on the floor without touching Sharpe's spot in the rotation.

 

Did I see watford was listed as questionable. I think he will add something to the rotation.

 

Glove 2.0 might be the best defender in the NBA.

The way he times his blocks on Jokic is insane.

 

look....3 pt percentages almost always drop as a season progresses. Happens every year

Portland is shooting 39.5% from 3 right now. Last season, Miami led the league shooting 37.9%. The Warriors shot 36.4%. Teams have hit that .395 mark before, but only about a half dozen times in the last 10 years, and those times were mostly by the Warriors or the Spurs

now, it's possible that Portland could regress in percentage at a lesser rate than the league average regression. But I'd be pretty confident the Blazers won't finish at 39%, let alone improve on their current 39.5%

Portland's 3 pt percentages the last few years, going backwards from last season:

.346
.385 (might be the Blazer record)
.377
.359
.366
.375
.370
.362
.372
.353 (Dame's rookie season)

 

Interesting the bookies lines look like we are almost a 2 to 1 underdog in this game. Interesting to see how this all works out. I finally live in an area where i get root and all the blazer games. Years spent just a couple of miles from the limit radius to show games. Good year so far with the team playing well to be able to see all the games via cable and not have to rely on streaming.

 

No national media respect yet that im aware of.
And i believe thats a great thing!!!

 

Bookies are valuing Miami and thinking that they’ve had a tough few games and are likely to come out ready to play and hungry for a win. Probably has a lot to do with the national view. That Portland has been somewhat fortunate in close wins, and is over performing expectations. Then there are all the statistical algorithms which are processed and a part of it.

 

Estimating
Spreads
Poorly
Now

 

Expert
Sports
Predictions
Never

 

1-3. 1-4 after tonight. Last year was last year.

 

I wouldn't be shocked to see Meyers Leonard in the crowd at this game

 

I can’t believe I’m actually responding to you. So according to your thinking…..Utah and the Spurs are better than Golden State, Denver and the CLippers. They finish ahead of them in the standings? So the Jazz would have the HCA against the Warriors THIS season? That’s what you are saying?

 

Please have him answer this, PLEASE!

 

Okay let’s shake hands.

I appreciate both of you and your takes, views, and opinions. Like polar opposites sometimes.

You with your relentlessly brutal optimism and desire for everyone to know you are correct.

Him and his I’d rather be happy to be wrong horrible win predictions.

We’re all too big of hoops nerds to not know the game.

 

You are honestly typing that our takes and views are similar? WHat the fuck!?

 

I’m actually offended by this.