Game Thread 2022-23 Game #32 - BLAZERS @ THUNDER - DECEMBER 21, 2022 - WEDNESDAY - 5:00 PM (PDT) ROOT

that's the thing. I thought we looked awesome in the first quarter especially. ball was popping around, everyone was driving and kicking, we had them locked down on D.

OKC stepped up their aggression on defense against our guards, and we just wilted and the gameplan got tossed out the window.

don't like seeing that.

As well as the hardly any tactical counters by our coach to go against their overplays. Like the high low we ran three straight times was nice. Where was that kinda stuff earlier? Chauncey has to be quicker with adjustments or we're gonna keep dropping games like this.

 

In my opinion, it didn’t even looked like OKC wanted it more. It just looked like they followed their game plan and out executed us.

 

a team with so many youngins too. just inexcusable.

 

Dame took it personal and shot OKC back into the game. I really don't understand the way he's forced thing these two games. Some of his turnovers are the worst things I've ever seen from him and all the really bad misses on the 3s and he just kept trying to shoot himself out of it -- like I said, I hope it's not the case, but it reminded me of how he played before shutting it down last year and before taking time off the two times this season; he didn't look physically right to me.

 

You guys think we’ll blow it up? It sure does feel like that

 

dort had him in a straitjacket and his response was to jack contested 28 footers. the few times he drove inside, he either made great passes for buckets or scored himself. baffled why chauncey didn't beat it into him to keep doing that.

 

Well that sucked.
I’m losing patience with Chauncey Billups.

 

i know it's coming, but i don't wanna hear bitching about the refs from our players tonight. the more aggressive team got the calls. that's usually the case.

 

You have an absolute advantage with Nurkic in the post. OKC has no one that can guard him, yet Dame is just jacking up shots when he’s struggling.

So frustrating.

 

I hope so. And I don’t want Grant for the max anymore. It’s useless and pointless

 

no they won't blow it up. How many contenders would take on Dame's contract and also give back picks/top young talent? After all, they aren't gonna ship dame off to Detroit or Houston etc.

 

It's frustrating watching Dame go on multiple "I have to do it all by myself" runs with the players we can put out there with him now. We have other guys who can score. We can play mismatches and, when we do, positive things usually happen.

 

They scored maybe 2 points on Nurk posts ups that whole second half and believe be they tried.

 

The corner man left to double Nurkic and Nurkic couldn’t skip the ball over. Not that it mattered, the corner man is never a shooter anyways.

 

You don’t have to score off the Nurk post ups on every possession. You can initiate the offense through Nurk. OKC was auto-doubling Nurk every time. And when they doubled Nurk, the other players just stood around and didn’t cut so Nurk could pass it to cutters or shooters.