No Lillard. No Simons. No Payton. No backcourt to speak of. And Phoenix is red hot and rolling. Cover your eyes.
Blazers will win by 12-15 points. We still have lots of guards still. Hart will have a huge game. Get Walker in there too.
I was one of those that predicted that he would go off last game and the opposite did happen but he should be fairly inconsistent at this point. I think he's capable of having a big night against any team but I would expect that big night to come when at least one of if not both of Dame and Ant are playing so if he starts to get hot the other team can't blitz him. That's not the case tonight so I think it's less likely to happen but he's special so I'm still in wait and see mode. For me he is the main attraction tonight though.
Yeah, I'm just hopeful. You'll notice I don't go off on how disappointed I am when he has a bad night. I just like seeing the special stuff he does and look forward to when that gets more consistent. If that's soon cool, if that's later in this season that's also cool, if it's next season or the season after that then I'll still be cool with it. The one thing I don't want to see is him get discouraged and stop trying to do the special things he's capable of.
Games like this are how you build a playoff ready bench....Popovich would play a roster like this against a good team often in regular season games and rest his stars. This throws the rookie in the fire early.
