Game Thread 2022-23 Game #40 - BLAZERS VS MAGIC - JANUARY 10, 2023 - TUESDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT)

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  1. TBpup

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    Combined, the 1st and 3rd quarter started out with a 41-10 deficit. That is all starter's minutes. Tough to dig out of such holes.
     
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    I'm starting to get concerned. We're not getting it. Dame had one of the most lackluster 30-point games I can imagine, going 2-for-12 from 3 and being part of a defensive mess.

    We just think we can turn the mental effort on and off and we're good enough to get away with that.
     
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    Sorry man. What it is to be a Blazer fan.
     
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    He can’t make shots for them. The whole team can’t hit a shot right now.
     
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    BTW, what is our record since we unveiled these awful uniforms?
     
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    I think we have won one game in them. Need to burn them.
     
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    I’d be lying if I said I didn’t see this loss coming. We’ve been butt shitty lately and the Magic are a scrappy young team
     
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    People walking all over those uniforms like the carpet swatches they are.

    Uniforms modeled after carpet? WTAF?
     
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    What happened? I thought it was guaranteed?
     
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    Sure but to be the first team to lose to the Magic on the second night of a back to back for them should tell Cronin everything he needs to know about this roster and how it works under Chauncey.
     
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    You'd think so! I know he was fucking 2-12 from three but he's still Dame.
     
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    He would've missed anyway.
     
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    There is no excuse for the shitty play out of halftime the last 2 games. Is it coaching? Is it leadership? Is it lack of focus? I’m at a lack for words.
     
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    Blazers smoking too much weed at halftime, or we're not smoking enough. Your call.
     
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    Portland dug a 16 point hole in the 1st Q and were able to climb all the way out of it by halftime. But that was so much fun they dug a 15 point hole in the 3rdQ and fell 3 points shy of climbing out of that one. Too many dead zones in games for Portland over the last 2 weeks

    things aren't working, and haven't been working for several weeks...on either end of the floor. It's now on the coaches to start figuring this shit out because the Blazers should not be as disorganized as they currently are, and their talent should not be so wasted in long periods of games

    * I do not know what the fuck Chauncey was thinking by having Dame guard Wagner. That was just fucking dumb. Yes, Dame does a really good job on post up defense. But Wagner is not a post up player. He's a dribble drive player who can drive with either hand; and he's 6'10 for chrissakes. That choice was just a major coaching mistake

    too add to this: Orlando is 6'10 across all three front-court positions. The Blazers have lost the last 3 games to teams with really good length. Cronin has to address that by the trade deadline
     
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    I know Dame couldn't hit threes but at least he didn't put up more shots than points. Both JG and Ant did that tonight. Ant 15 points on 16 shots and Grant 16 points on 19 shots. Yikes that is some inefficient ball. Dame got 30 points on 25 shots, hardly a model for efficiency but still not as terrible as those other two.
     
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    He should’ve had them ready to play at start of 3rd.
     
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    Dame would have bricked it anyways. Moot point.
     
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    Why do you think Cronin is suddenly going to know what to do with evidence?

    He's the one who made the trades to get us to where we are in spite of the obvious dead end nature of such moves.
     
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