Game Thread 2022-23 Game #42 - BLAZERS VS MAVERICKS - JANUARY 14, 2023 - SATURDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT

GPII was great last night. The only thing that concerned me was he appeared to be limping at times. I don't know if I imagined it or what but it sure looked like it.

 

Tremendous defensive game-plan and execution last night. Now can they repeat that type of performance, and make the adjustments as necessary?

Very fun game to see. Now, we need to see it more than once every couple of weeks. This is what can be frustrating. We see it is possible, but then it goes away for long stretches at a time.

 

Actually brunson wanted out of Dallas and remember New York hired his Dad as assistant.

 

I didn't get to see the game but looks like they a good one. Stats show little more balanced in the stat sheets and had two players that got double double Nurk and Dame. Always like to see Dame giving double figure assist.

 

Now that Gp2 is playing, I am anxious to see this team with Winslow getting Walker's minutes. Neither offer much offensively, but
at this point in their careers, Winlow is the better defender and ball-handler.....and just more experienced. We are only talking about 15-17 minutes but I don't see a downside. GP2 shoots the open 3 well enough to keep the D honest if they play together. Play them with Ant, Sharpe, and Nurk.

 

I was talking about Luka's fifth missed free throw.

 

This is a comment I pulled up on the Mavs board. Now this has got to be something i never really thought i would read. Most here feel Cuban would be a great owner.

"Let's face it : The reason for the struggle of the Mavs to break through in the Dirk years is the same as with the struggle in the Luka years. The Mavs have an owner who has no idea what he's doing and no basketball expertise. The Mavs (or owning a sports team in general) are for him his life's work which is cool, but leads to a lot of really bad decisions constantly. I Mavs were and are a succesful franchise and had very few bad years. But that's thanks to scoring to generational euro talents in the draft."

 

First wrong prediction this season! Somebody should have betted me

 

This is a lie. No I’m not going back through the first 20 games but you were wrong multiple times.

 

You guys wanna run it back?

 

Fantastic game!!! Best offensive game of the year!!! Now build some consistency and we are on the right track!!!

 

You want a Blazers win?

 

Could you imagine if somebody one that forum picked a post from HERE!?!? Jesus god almighty.

 

I know but a number of people here feel an owner like Mark Cuban would be a god send compared to what we have now.

 

Are you going tonight?

 

I'm kind of hoping to see GP2 in our small-ball lineups more than paired with Nurk. We can take advantage of him as a screener and play a gambling style of defense a lot.

I like Justise with Nurk a lot. They had great synergy last year.

My preference would probably be to start Justise at 3 so that we don't start out the game outsized (but only play him 20 - 25 mpg), give Josh all of the minutes with one of Dame or Ant out and let him create and look for his shot a little more (and close out games), and play Gary effectively as Nurk's backup. I'd love to see these groupings on the floor.

(Lillard/Simons)/Hart/Little/Justise/Nurk - pick and roll on offense, drop/man on defense, opportunistically run
(Lillard/Simons)/Hart/Little/Grant/Payton - spread chauncey-ball on offense, trap/zone on defense, try to run

 

You know the answer…

 

Nah, i haven't been able to make many games lately. Too busy at work and need to finish some personal projects I'm the evenings leaving me pretty exhausted. From what I've seen i haven't missed much up until last nights game, so not really sweatin it.