Game Thread 2023-24 GAME #45 - BLAZERS @ SPURS - JANUARY 26, 2024 - FRIDAY - 6:30 PM PST - ROOT

Taze Moore got the 2 dollar chicken nuggets shot. Way to go rookie !

 

Amen had a better night than Brandon.

 

anti Tom Habberslow complex stat of the night:
the Spurs 6'5" SF Keldon Johnson had 16 rebounds off the bench. Subtract Walker & Ayton's 21 combined rebounds... Keldon Johnson had as many rebounds as the 10 other Blazers that played in tonight's game (16)

 

And he didn't look good doing it. He looked like he was taking warmup shots.

When that's one of the best parts of your game, this was troubling. Not so much because it was a bad performance physically, but it showed some of the traits I would expect to see in a player who wasn't a hard worker. Most players I know in Murray's shoes would come out and play with extra energy because getting opportunities is so rare. Other than the baseline dunk, he seemed pretty disinterested.

 

Impending trades for more injured players ....

 

The nets are playing like they have a trade for their pick back in the works or something.

 

Scoot hurt again?

 

Yeah. Bruised quad.

 

Don't look now but the Warriors are a top 10 pick as it stands.

 

A bad game, let alone from a rookie shouldn't be labeled a waste of a pick.

He is still shooting 37% from the 3 for the season and that is after his 1-9 on 3’s last game, before that game he was closer to 39%.

 

He still doesn't look like he'll amount to much. A lot of guys can stand in the corner and knock down 37% of their 3s.

 

I would say it makes a difference if you are 19 or 23 in this league. Scoot being 19 seems to get a lot of leeway. Murray being 23 already might beed to be looked at differently though I'm not really sure there is much more experience overall?

 

I hate the spurs. I hate the spurs. Man they luck into the best players. Wenby is no joke. If he stays healthy….

it’s going to change the league from a guards league to a big man’s league. We need to draft big and long to negate him. Or try to. Fuck he is gonna be sooo good. did I mention I hate the spurs?

 

are you talking about Murray?



he's shooting 37% on overall FG's; 29.4% on three's

now, the sample size is really small. He's 15-51 on the season. Before the 1-9 last night he was 14-42 (33%), so last night's bad shooting game knocked his conversion rate down, a lot

I'm not sure what to expect from Murray. He shot 313 three's in college, from the considerably shorter college 3pt line, and only converted on 34.8% of them. 313 is a pretty big sample size. He also shot under (barely) 70% from the FT line. Those kind of marks aren't always predictive, but they are predictive enough of the time to not be dismissed

as for his draft slot, I'm only seeing a couple of players taken after him that are doing better than Murray and that the Blazers would have wanted. And Portland already has one of them: Camara. The other is Trayce Jackson-Davis but he was the 57th pick so no way he's have been a 1st rounder

 

Everyone around them is aiming for the lottery or is helplessly mediocre. Don’t hold yer breath.

 

It’s all about them continually getting the best big men in the game. Robinson, Duncan, wemby…

I hate them. Lol

 

I figured it’s hate the Blazers for their bad luck or hate the Spurs with their good luck. I went with the spurs. lol!