Game Thread 2024-25 GAME #12 - NBA CUP - BLAZERS VS TWOLVES - NOV 12, 2024 - TUES - 7 PM - KATU 2.2, BV

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  1. SharpesTriumph

    SharpesTriumph Well-Known Member

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    Only 3 more cup games, we win them and we make the next round. If we win two of them we might even make it.
     
    SharpesTriumph, Nov 12, 2024
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    yup...he was with the Cavs last year but he's playing for a championship overseas now.
     
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    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Hell yeah
     
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    Agreed, those are the type of vets you surround a young team with, not this stupid $90 million ball hog Grant Ayton Ant trio that Cronin assembled.
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    Agreed. Everyone knows it's RIII. Sheesh
     
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    It’s amazing what a little proper roster construction can do. I was screaming this off season that you can’t have 5 guys out there that need the ball. Camara loves defense. Clingan loves defense. You have to make shots, but if you look at the good teams they have a mix of offense and defense
     
    Mediocre Man, Nov 12, 2024
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    balderdash! They need to have undersized ball dominant guards.
     
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    Then we should take the risk a bomb doesn't go off, we have nothing to lose.

    Worst case scenario he's an expiring contract next season.

    Would much rather have him on the roster than any of Grant Ayton Ant.
     
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    Fantastic win. Blazers finally had a good shooting night.
    Let’s see if they can do it again tomorrow night.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Should trade all of them.
     
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    Why was Ayton out?
     
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    Crazy that you remove 60 million of Ayton Ant and it makes our team better.
     
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    To be fair Ant and Grant are dame problems we just haven’t rid ourselves of. Not sure why us holding out to get the most value out of them is a “Cronin” problem
     
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    Hurt a finger playing video games.
     
    SharpesTriumph, Nov 12, 2024
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    Finger sprain
     
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    We need to get a clone of Steve Kerr. Working to shoot open threes and shots at the hoop, with tenacious defense, is the only way nowadays.

    You can't have a big man standing in/near the paint waiting to take stand-still mid-range shots. That should not be a thing.
     
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    I heard he sat on his finger.
     
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  18. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Get Mike D. He is the point guard whisperer.
     
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    To be fair we signed Grant after Dame asked out, and we didn't trade either of them over the last year and a half when we had numerous chances.
     
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    Again, obv holding out to maximize their trade value. We only got him because dame wanted him, we signed him to retain the assets value.
     
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