Game Thread 2024-25 GAME #6 - BLAZERS VS THUNDER - NOVEMBER 1, 2024 - 7:00 PM - KATU 2.2, BLAZERVISION

Their team is legit 15 deep, tough competition for minutes.

 

They were?

 

For getting blown out by about 30 this was actually a much more competitive and entertaining game than I expected.

 

Scoot has a bigger role on the team. He’s not a garbage time player anymore

 

Yep. I enjoyed it.

 

Banton is kind of crazy tonight, isn't he?

 

I'm not seriously trying to argue anything. I'm saying it.

Camara does what he did when we got him, but he does shoot better. Rupert ... again, this is who we thought he could be, but this game was an offensive outlier.

I'm more talking, though, about the inability to stop the drive, the inability to play the pick and roll, the inability to defend the 3, not valuing the ball when we're on offense ... these are the things those guys really need to be learning, and I don't know that they are.

Chauncey's team too often looks like it has a concept of a plan.

 

The one team in the league I can point to in order to say coaching matters is this Thunder team. I think their 3rd stringers could win 30 games based on they way they play.

 

Your not the only one to criticize Billups, I just don't see that.

Seems to me these are all things because our roster severely lacks talent, not some thing the head coach is instilling.

Blazers have two huge wins this year and had flashes tonight. The Thunder are favored for the beat record in the league. We haven't beat them since 2019.

Just seems to me that the head coach is getting too much credit and too much blame with these observations and cricisms.

 

Rupert had a field goal percentage of 70 % before this game.

Is today's game an outlier because he only shot 55.5 % ?

 

OK? I don't really understand a lot of why you're engaging me on this and what I do understand I largely disagree with, but I guess that's fine.

For instance, I don't see how someone could realistically try to argue that getting a team to hustle or to be smart with the basketball or to have a good plan for defending the 3-point line on the PnR isn't a coach's responsibility, but, I guess if that's what you think, OK, I'm not going to debate it with you, because I'm not here to debate.

BTW, you mentioned Scoot. Saying he's improved this year is premature, too. I'm optimistic.

But here's the thing with that: His rookie year was well below what was expected from him.

In other words, his improvement's relative. For him not to improve from last year was pretty much impossible.

 

I'm glad Billups is addressing the (especially 3-point) rebounding issue in the post-game.

 

I love how it's all Simons and Grant's faults in the 3rd. Simons leaves at the 4:47 mark. We're down 7. Grant leaves at the 3:49 mark, less than a minute later, we're down 10. We finish the quarter down 21.
And someone said they should have to be out there because it's on them? Everyone wants to lose, we lose like we should have, and everyone loses their fucking minds. Hey guess what, Grant, Ayton and Ant are not just gonna randomly get benched in fucking November to play Clingan, Rupert and Murray 36 minutes a night! Sorry. It aint happening. So why the fuck bitch about it so much? I wanna hook up with Halle Berry and Salma Hayek. Should I bitch and moan every day that it isn't happening? Fuckin hell. Sucks when we're a playoff team. Sucks when we're a lotto team. And it sucks everywhere in between. Some of y'all need a better hobby. I know I do. I see why I rarely venture in to the game threads. @THE HCP is right to laugh at them.

 

Add injury prone to the list.

 

Nobody cares that Ayton was the 1st pick 6 years ago. It's that he's an empty-calorie C making 35M/year....and, that 6 games into the season he's a 7'C with totals of 6 assists, 4 blocks, and 3 FTA's

he's just about the opposite of what a C should be

 

The threshold from being young and having upside to being exposed for what you are is very minimal in pro sports.

 

Again. He's exactly what we thought he'd be. Anyone who expected more, clearly wasn't paying attention.