Game Thread 2022-23 Game #8 BLAZERS @ SUNS - NOVEMBER 4, 2022 - FRIDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT

I missed the game tonight, worked the Winterhawks game.
Was gonna watch the replay, but I do not think watching the game could make me as happy as I am reading the comments on this thread.
RunDawgsRun.
(Dam, I sure miss roco and all he provided, and Cj dribbling the clock down again and again.)

 

It should always be synced....back in the day there would be a small delay, but not much anymore. Unless you have a couple extra stops along the way, like out new analytics guy who is in Austin. First couple games we had a 4 second delay....we cleaned that up though I believe.

 

Glad you mentioned the analytics guy.
I really do not like him. Not surprising 'cos I'm not an analytics guy anyway, but he is annoying.
My 2 cents.

 

Man, can’t wait how GP2 helps this team

 

It's just impressive that Lamar, more so than Calabro shares insights to the play in real time that I only realize after he says it or right when he says it. National broadcasters say shit all of the time several seconds after I've said it to friends watching with me or thought it to myself if watching the game on my own.

I guess that's why Lamar is a color commentator for a team at the highest level of basketball without ever playing an NBA game and I'm just me. Thanks so much for the insight sir. I always appreciate it.

 

Jeez guys - keep this up and I might have to start getting excited

 

Why bro!?!

 

I think it's pretty obvious that Cronin listens to Billups. I don't think that was the case with the previous GM and coach

 

I rarely agree with you because you're so often hyperbolicly over reacting but yeah having another dawg like GP2 has shown he is on defense, that can also both cut to the hoop and make an open three on offense will be huge for this team. Wow, if coached correctly (and I have no reason to think that Chauncey won't) this team without any moves and even more so with the right moves at the deadline, could be a contender.

Fuck! Chauncey and Joe are for real and they understand something that has been frustrating so many of us for around a decade. They understand what it takes to put around Dame to win at the highest level. Obviously come April, May or hopefully June we'll see what this all means but it is definitely exciting that having played us once before the Suns lost to us again without Dame and Ant.

 

I think it's pretty obvious that both Cronin and Billups have been watching Dame for a decade (like all of us) and wondering what the fuck Neil and Terry were doing around him because he's obviously one of the best to ever do it and they never surrounded him with a roster or a system that capitalized on that.

 

I think it's pretty obvious that they're both a couple of smart guys who understand Dame's greatness and what it takes to access that both by way of personnel and strategy. It's nice to finally see after a decade of pure frustration.

 

Sorry, but I have to play devil's advocate here.

Nance has been playing well and making a good contribution in NO. Would you want him back? I put Winslow in the same boat. He can contribute when healthy...but history says you can't rely on him. I applaud him for helping the team tonight, but until he proves he can do it for an entire season I am not changing my mind about him. To be clear, I want him to succeed, just as I wanted Nance to succeed.

 

Justise Winslow really is poor man’s draymond green

 

ben simmons before he forgot how to hoop.

i think josh is our mini dray.

 

So I looked about 10 times from about 15 angles....We got a little home cooking on the road with the clock and Grant's feet. He took like 3 steps before he shot without dribbling. Crazy thing was, everybody (suns bench included) were all looking at the ball in his hand. Nobody complained. Also, that might have been the longest 1 second in history. Clock didn't start when he first touched it. Oh well. We definitely got away with one here tonight and I'll take it. Great road win.

 

When he came out of Duke he was absolutely drafted as a SG.

 

It’s okay because there should of been like 1.7 on the clock but they never looked at it.

 

I think this game may have been the best win of Coach Billups' brief head coaching career.