Game Thread 2024-25 GAME #54 - BLAZERS @ NUGGETS - 2/10/25 - MON - 6:00 PM - CHARGE - KUNP - BLAZERVISION

those 11 games may be the most damaging stretch of Blazer basketball since game 7 against the Lakers in 2000

 

I don't believe that at all

 

And so many fans were happily lapping it up.

 

I find that believable but obviously unknowable. If it's true fuck that non-owner. These fucks at Vulcan are supposed to be managing a trust towards dissolution and want to play like they started Microsoft with Bill Gates, none of them did, none of them inherited our team and they manage our team like it. Interest when they want to be interested, no skin in the game, fucking shameful.

 

Hopium addicts. Just unrealistic. Treating a pro team they root for, like a college team they root for. No foresight.

 

Honestly more surprised Clingan went 8/8. Those shots he took did not look good lmao.

Gonna get a lot more minutes going forward though, which is great.

 

It doesn't really matter. If it's on Joe or the trust managers masquerading as our ownership, we are still majorly fucking up. Tanking so hard in a draft last season with no prospects that looked like sure fire starters in the league and then stopping the tank this season going into what experts are calling the best draft in a decade. Fuck Joe if he doesn't see how stupid that is and Fuck Joe if he as the two decade front office basketball professional couldn't sell a bunch of nerds on the correct direction for this team to take.

Just play Bert or whoever, twenty minutes of highlights from Flagg, then 20 minutes of highlights from Bailey and then 20 more minutes of highlights from Dylan Harper. They're all ultra athletic, big and extremely skilled for their size. We don't have anyone like them. I love Deni but Deni is the dollar store version of what those guys are the luxury brand name of.

 

Probably is fools gold.

I never would have entered the season with the vets we had.

But once we won 9 of 10 and the tanking ship had sailed I was fine with going for the playin.

We play 5 lotto teams after the Lakers once the all-star break is done so that's probably the final stand if we want to make a run at the playin.

Either way we're not in the Flagg /Bailey/stud prospect lotto race.

 

If this is true then probably need a GM that can get ownership on board better.

Not that they'll ever be great owners, but if Cronin has great good trades ready he should be able to get ownership to go along with a couple of them.

 

I mean in their and all Blazer fans defense what else are they supposed to do? Dozens of us have bitched about the vets for years but us bitching isn't going to change anything. There's been nothing meaningful to root for with this team since Olshey and Stotts were here how many years ago. The tanking path even executed well is going to be likely more years of losses at best.

 

It was a bunch of fans who suddenly came out of the woodwork to bag on the people who want to tank. People who haven't posted in a long time.

 

Yeah instead of fully committing to the the tank and therefore the rebuild we could try to end up in the mid to late lotto for 20 years like Sac just stopped doing.

 

Exactly. It is the smart thing to do. But it's hard. I get that.

Still frustrating...

 

They're never going to hire a GM who can work them like that.

 

LINK?

 

Scored enough to win but played defense like it was All Star game.

 

https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-idiots-guide-to-dealing-with-idiots#1

 

Yeah, how come we've suddenly forgotten how to play defense?