Game Thread 2024-25 GAME #2 - BLAZERS VS PELICANS - OCTOBER 25, 2024 - FRIDAY - 7PM - KATU 2.2 - BLAZERVISION

Look how Houston is surrounding a couple high drafts picks with seasoned vets they acquired via trades. Boston did the same thing. Reed Sheppard whomI really like isn't starting as they have a 6' veteran pg.

 

Simons single handedly lost the team the game in the closing minutes. What a loser. Kept trying to force his own shot like he's Damian Lillard.

Run a fucking offense.

 

We’re only “2 games out of first” after 2 games played?

 

Down the stretch, absolutely.

 

You woke up STILL mad about losing a game to a more talented team? You ever play sports? The team with more talent wins 99% of the time.

 

So then you’ll be mad Sunday night when we lose again?

 

Because he settled for a couple of 3s that help the Pels run. If he gets a better shot or gets to the line on just one of them, we're at worst going to OT.

Other than only shooting 3s, you aren't getting criticism of Grant's offense last night.

 

That is straight up cold!

 

You like to concentrate on other posters rather than the game. That's a very feminine trait, but fitting I suppose.

I'm actually not mad. I want the team to lose, but still get annoyed at individual players.

 

I don’t know what’s worse….. your unrealistic expectations and constant bitching about a team without much talent or the fact that you got @TBpup who I actually respect on here, to like a post that you are claiming my “feminine traits” as a bad thing. Thinking like a woman is bad?

 

Also, the culture of losing is based on Simons and Grant. Those guys are losers, IMO. They don't play winning basketball and you can't build a winning team around them.

Which is what we've been trying to do. That is doomed for failure and as far as I'm concerned you're probably going to have to tank an extra year for every year you keep them.

It's possible that a winning program with a winning coach could make them serviceable to a winning team. The longer we keep them the longer we're going to have to tank before we have any hope to actually be a relevant contender.

 

I don't think that Ant and Jerami are losers. I think having them as your first or second best players is a very bad strategy, even for a team like ours. Neither are good enough to play in the fashion we are playing them. I do think if he had two superstars to support on both ends (LeBron and The Brow) that Jerami would be a winning piece that would be meaningful, even as the third best player on a roster. On a team like Orlando where Ant would be an potent offensive piece somewhere in the heavy rotation, I think he would contribute to wins both in the regular season and the playoffs.

Both of these guys have been thrust into roles that make no sense for their level of talent and it also makes no sense for the guys behind them who we are hoping to develop, to give Ant and Jerami so much usage. I hope the Lakers want to give up at least a FRP for Grant and we make a deal like that or a little better happen. I'm sure some GMs around the league like Ant's instant offense at his salary, we just need to get value back for him that makes sense for this rebuild.

 

Yeah maybe calling them losers is harsh. But they are among the worst defenders or worst rebounders from their position in the league.

Both of those failures are largely due to lack of effort and caring.

They aren't winners. They aren't leaders. They are followers who make selfish plays. Because they are (insert less harsh word for losers), IMO.

That doesn't mean they are irredeemable. But that means they need to follow a winner (as you said, and as I alluded to in my original post). They will not follow some young kid who is hardly more productive than they are. And they put up good enough numbers that nobody that we draft (even if they are a superstar) is going to be vastly more productive.

They're holding us back in every sense possible. They're a terrible fit here and they really need to go.

 

I never said it was bad. At least you own it.

 

You think it’s an accomplishment that I “OWN” it? So having a feminine mentality is something I need to “own” like it’s something bad?

 

I wouldn't call it an accomplishment, but you're not in denial.

 

I was being bitterly sarcastic yes

 

You will not escape the hole you have put yourself in by changing the tool you are using to dig.

 

trade a shovel for a ladder?