Game Thread 2023-24 GAME #49 - BLAZERS @ NUGGETS - FEBRUARY 2, 2024 - FRIDAY - 6:00 PM PST - ROOT

Fun game.

 

Good loss. Scoot with another huge step forward. Team played hard and went toe to toe with the champs. No complaints.

 

So Billups pulls his starters with 35 seconds to go? Good grief. Just let them play it out. It’s pointless to put in the bench for the last half minute of the game.

 

Nuggets radio announcers upset Portland's "little guys" were hard to stop.

 

I guess Ayton took the night off. That’s what “max” players do, right?

 

It's a reward and creates hierarchy. Every coach does it.

 

This is the definition of nitpicking.

 

A reward to get into the game for 35 seconds?

 

Billups wanted all his guys to feel the "Colorado Experience"

 

No I was being sarcastic because he seemed like a non-factor tonight

 

Nice effort by Scoot to celebrate his birthday tomorrow. Just 366 days and he can drink legally.

 

Don't want an injury in garbage time, either. I've seen it happen to us and it fucking sucks.

 

Avoid injuries. For the players in the game. It's symbolic. Did you just start watching the NBA?

 

Nuggets +20 in assists.
It looked like Globetrotter stuff at times.
Good effort by the Generals, errr.. i mean Blazers

 

Every loss is a win this summer

 

And yet there's a thread called "Scoot a bust?"... and it's three and a half months old.

 

I’ve been watching the NBA longer than you’ve been alive, and to think you’re going to avoid some big injury in the last 35 seconds is ridiculous. Likewise, for a guy who’s been on the bench the whole game it’s no big honor to trot onto the court for the last 35 seconds which are going to be meaningless to the final outcome.

 

KCP might have a dislocated finger. He looked in rough shape near the end of this game.

 

3 straight games of Scoot shooting at least 50/40/90.