Game Thread 2024-25 GAME #34 - BLAZERS @ BUCKS - JAN 4, 2025 - SAT - 5:00 PM - CHARGE - KUNP - BLAZERVISION

"Dame Time" is the most over-rated shit in the history of sports. He almost always blew it, like he did last night.

 

That's a fair question, I'd "both" and both should go but then again the team needs to be sold as well so WTF

 

Love me some fan perspectives. Fire the coach! Trade the vets! Fire the GM! Sell the team! They traded their "superstar" a year ago, so this is really year one of actual building.

 

Grant's 2-point shooting is an embarrassment and he definitely should not be a starter. It's well below Scoot Henderson. Grant is shooting 38% on 2-point shots.

Feels like Grant just doesn't give a shit and throws up all kind of garbage inside the 3-point line.

Billups certainly hasn't penalized his horrible shot selection on 2-pointers.

I remember Haberstaff was even complimenting Grant on how difficult his 2-point shots were last season. That is NOT a good thing unless your make percentage is good.

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I imagine your perspective of other fans must seem really solid from that deck chair on the Good Ship Lollypop-BlazerStyle-Titanic Era

 

Halfcourt lob reminded me of these:

 

Fuck Outta Here!

 

It really start with ownership being bad, then they make bad decisions on GMs as well as micromanage them. Then bad GM acquires bad players.

Most fans focus on the players and coach as we can directly observe their performance. But just changing them won't fix this team. Really changing any 1 of players coach GM owner on it's own will do very little. This franchise needs improvements on many levels and unfortunately that won't happen in months or likely even years.

We're in our 4th year of heavy tanking. If you think it should be considered year 1 then what the hell do you consider the purpose of the other 3 years.

 

I'm not quite following your math, I mean the sentement is so far off it's almost laughable but the math is just plain wrong. We traded Dame before the beginning of the last season and we're 34 games into this season. So we're well into year two of the rebuild... even though as @SharpesTriumph points out, if this is only year two of the rebuild, what in the hell were we doing in 21-22 and 22-23???

 

22 got Sharpe
23 got 3rd pick, Camara
24 got Deni, Clingan
25 hopefully getting Flagg or Harper

 

The season isn't close to over. I do wish we had less than 12 wins right now but we shouldn't concede that we're going to win at the same rate the rest of the season. We're in the sixth spot right now and I hope we get to the top three and I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that we'll be outside of the top three.

 

Yea, we can be top 3 worst record by the end of the season. Enough games left.

 

The cause of too much winning is that this board erupts against Billups when he brilliantly loses by 60 points. He reacts to criticism by trying to win again. Next time we lose by 60, I want to see nothing but celebration. Straighten up and fly right.

 

yeah...right now it looks like Portland is headed toward the worst possible outcome for the season. They are 5 games out from the 10th seed in the play-in. Ironically, they are 4 wins from being 11th seed in the lottery; and 4 losses from being a top-4 seed in the lottery. This is about the dumbest purgatory imaginable for a team deep in a rebuild

typical Portland...tank hard into one the worst drafts in years, then, turn around the next season and win just enough games to have shitty lottery odds in the best draft in years

 

Think it'll be much harder this year - will be a lot of tanking competition at the end of the year so it'll be hard to pass those teams slotted with a higher pick.

 

Yeah, really disappointing we’re on this track. We’re in 6th, and we’ll stay in the bottom 7. But I don’t think we’ll do better than 5th, and that’s if NO gets healthy for a stretch.