Game Thread 2022-23 Game #38 - BLAZERS @ PACERS - JANUARY 6, 2023 - FRIDAY - 4:00 PM (PDT) ROOT

Gonna be tight all season long as far as the playoffs race goes. I think we will do enough in the end to make them, but with the way the team is currently set up, will be a quick exit.

 

This team will not be the same after the deadline....they're going to make moves

 

If we make play-in, I’ll root for us to lose. Better to be in lottery.

 

I watched the entire game. Dame was bricking the entire game and took more shots than Ant. Ant was the one that was keeping us in the game. You don’t like Ant and your bias against him is obvious. To blame him for tonight’s loss is foolish.

 

Do you guys thing Scott Brooks would be a better head coach over Chauncey?

 

no it's not and yeah...Dame sucked....I'm talking end game...not entire game and Grant kept us in these close losses....it's not bias...it's observation. You can call me foolish for calling him out but it's what happened ..both our guards play better without each other on the court.

 

Who’s available? KD and Simmons are prob off the market. AD or Keshia could maybe be had because of all their injury problems. If Clippers slide, maybe we could get PG13. Jazz are looking to get worse so Conley and Clarkson are available but what would we do with them. And Sharpe would have to be in all these deals.

 

Riverman turning on the team too. This shit is serious.

 

Is Billups on the hot seat? doubtful. The team is 500.

 

it was a team loss.

Ant certainly had the ugliest turnover of the night, or at least the most consequential considering the timing. Blazers missed their last 13 shots. They only scored 2 points in the last 6:40 and only 4 in the last 7:30. That's not on any one player

 

End game? No one made a single field goal in the last 7:30 of the game yet it’s all Ant’s fault. Yeah, that makes since.

 

Hopefully Joe's staff has a handle on who'll be available and an A to Z list of options. the Raptors will probably break that team up but at this point we miss a guy like Melo shooting off the bench. Hopefully a younger cheaper one but I want a Jrue Holiday or Siakim or OG starting next to Dame and Grant.

 

forum needs a singular scapegoat.

but tonight as has been many nights, it's a collective effort.

 

Yes I have been saying that for much of the season - Dame and Amt play better WITHPOT each other and one needs to go! Does Cronin have the cajones? I frankly prefer its Dame because of age/contract but good luck with that

 

i think chauncey should have trusted the bench more tonight. there were playing well.

 

Simons, brick Simons brick Dame brick...game over ...that was the end game....that's when we could've taken it to overtime and it's not the first time....it was a choke job

 

Only guy a Dame trade might bring Portland is AD and one of the 27/29 picks LAL have. No way LAL do both. Nobody wants a guy on the decline needing 50M /year. Bring him off the bench, I really don't give a shit. Whatever gets you wins.

 

Get the next one...Chauncey said he has to look in the mirror and was glad to hear that...he isn't managing minutes and timeouts and challenges well so far.

 

They only scored 19 pts...that's anemic production from the bench