Game Thread 2023-24 Game #38 - BLAZERS @ TIMBERWOLVES - JANUARY 12, 2024 - 5:00 PM PST - ROOT

That's probably part of it. The bigger part I'm noticing is he's more comfortable in asserting himself and playing how he knows.

 

garbage time analytics don't count this season, because almost every Blazer game is garbage.

 

I knew shooting wasn't going to be a strength of this team, but the turnovers are laughably bad.

I don't think I can recall a team that looked so much like a rec-league squad. I know the Miles/Khryapa years were bad, but in some ways this feels worse.

 

I like the all-forward lineup.

 

Zero effort.

Billups lost this team.

Time to start over from scratch

 

What's more LOL is 5 points by one of the league's "best" scorers.

LOL

 

Fire Chauncey. Trade Ant, Grant, and Brogdon at a minimum.

Go all in on Scoot and Shae. They hardly even play together. Ride or die with that backcourt and keep adding with lotto picks.

 

It's comical. No one on the team can even keep control of the basketball.

It's the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

 

this squad should start. The Grant/Simons/Scoot big 3 ain't working.

 

Softest 'power' forward in the league.

....and Ant with the 0-fer night? Ugly!

 

Remix tickets are much cheaper. I'll just go watch them when they play on the bluff versus spending $$ to see them play at the 'Rose Garden'.

 

Well… this has to be the shittiest road trip by our Blazers that I can ever remember. Only one win and 5 out of the 6 losses absolutely pathetic blowouts.

 

I'm supposed to quit complaining about Billups, but i will say Anfernee was getting hounded. And i didn't see any off-ball plays run to free him up. It was soft screens & rolls into 1 on 1 ISO.

 

Just a disgrace. An absolute disgrace.

 

The sooner we can thrust Scoot and Shae into being the 1 and 2 on this team the better. It's possible one or both don't deliver, but I think we already know Ant ain't ever gonna be that guy. Better to move onto younger guys with a higher ceiling and give them the best chance to succeed than stunting their growth with an undersized iso guy in their way.

Saying all that, I'm not an advocating giving him away. The return has to be there. Lauri is much better and yet Ainge is offering him up for a reason. And they don't even have amazing prospects behind him. We do with Ant.

 

They should be giving away Blazers players and coaches.

 

this chicken-legged peckerneck is going to be drooling over draft picks in a couple months. Thanks in part to this very difficult road trip, and all those stupid numbers Highkin gets to tweet about.