Game Thread 2022-23 Game #32 - BLAZERS @ THUNDER - DECEMBER 21, 2022 - WEDNESDAY - 5:00 PM (PDT) ROOT

hello 500

 

What a collapse!

 

CHOKE JOB!

 

17-15

 

I’m betting on Denver next game

 

usually, and he decides to take his sweet time with this one.

what an awful loss

 

How do we lose two in a row to the thunder? This team isn’t it man. Sell the team Jody.

 

ya think?!! it will be a joke.

 

Teams like okc, Orlando have a brighter future than us

 

Lost it cuz we couldn’t score again after taking 98-93 lead. Horrible.

 

not worried... meaning play-in is still achievable?

 

OKC is the not more talented team, but by FAR the better coached team.

I’m not not bearish on Chauncey yet, but I’m definitely less bullish.

 

Well all the West teams are struggling. Let’s get the one in Denver and enjoy Christmas.

 

FT disparity looks awful, but I saw only a few missed calls go against us. Like the Jerami dunk late in the fourth should have been an and-1.

Dame and Ant hardly drove inside this game.

WTF happened at halftime? I thought our defense especially was on point in the first, but then went to shit in like 2 mins once the half started.

 

Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad loss.

Horrible loss. And those are starting to add up now.

The other night was an unfortunate loss. This was a game the Blazers had no business losing but they made it their business and business was good.

Dame showed no self-awareness and that might have been Chauncey's worst game as a coach, subbing out hot hands on multiple occasions in a game where it was hard to find offense, not calling time out when Justise was hurt and trying to play 4-on-5 which resulted eventually in Ant picking up his fifth foul and just no idea of what we were running on offense the last three quarters.

It's cliche' to say a team wanted it more, but, boy, it sure looked like the Thunder wanted it more tonight. And it wasn't even close. They played with multiple times our energy, back cutting and moving well without the ball, trapping on defense, getting offensive boards (which killed us several times now in the last couple of weeks) and getting loose balls.

Speaking of which, the Thunder were double-teaming down low the entire game and blitzing the high pick-and-roll and the Blazers execution when they should have been playing four-on-three was abominable.

We're going to have problems on the boards for the foreseeable future if Justise's injury is what I think it might be. We went from having too many guys of his type to basically now just having Trendon with Justise and Nas both hurt. And then signing GPII ... this team can't catch a break with the injuries.

BTW, I wonder if Dame might be hurt again, too. The way he played tonight was eerily similar to how he's played the last three times he's ended up missing action.

We looked absolutely awful tonight. Nothing positive comes out of this one whatsoever.

 

Billups made no adjustments. OKC did.

 

he's pretty clearly in the bottom half of the league's coaches right now. remains to be seen if he can turn it around, but i'm getting worried that he can't.

 

Yeah, you don't get fouls if you don't attack the basket. The FT disparity looks bad like it did the other night, but the Blazers, IMO, were more at fault than the officials.

Our offense right now is a mess. No one knows how to move without the ball, set a good screen, use a screen or, biggest of all, pass the ball.

 

This team just has no killer instinct. You blow a big lead in Dame’s record breaking game and lose. You would think that once you get another big lead in this game, you would not let them come back.