Game Thread 2023-24 GAME #54 - BLAZERS VS WOLVES - FEBRUARY 15, 2024 - THURSDAY - 7:00 PM PST - ROOT

If it is, then years of 1st round exits would be the best case scenario that could come from it.

 

The schedule after the All-Star break is TOUGH. We have 28 games remaining and I don’t see us winning more than 5 games maybe.

 

if it isn't we could just as easily become old Kings with a 14 year playoff drought ....I'm way too old for this long term tanking shit...winning basketball means, winning at basketball...and doing it in a playoff setting is the best development tool in the game for young talent. With the G league we can look at projects all year long outside of the draft.

 

That exact comparison was my concern a year ago as well. We are better positioned for a long playoff drought than we are to become contenders, in my opinion.

 

I’ll tell ya what. Simons is just not a winning basketball player

Maybe as a flamethrower off the bench but otherwise…

If someone would trade 2 FRPs for him, they should be fired

 

When that reality sets in I think it would be important to avoid those five wins. Chauncey just talked about how important it was for him to get to see how (and more likely if) Scoot and Ant can play together. So I wouldn't be surprised to see Jerami sitting to rest his back the rest of this season or at the very least in these upcoming games until after that back to back against Memphis.

 

Who on this roster is proven to be a winning player as a starter? Ayton?

Ant being a #1 option is asking way too much of him... like CJ, the ideal situation is he's your 4th best starter or something like that. Sadly, if we dump him, then Grant becomes the #1 option and gets crapped on. Then he gets moved and either Sharpe or Scoot get crapped on for not being a good enough #1 option.

 

The GM was given an 18 month window at the press conference. No changes needed. Lots of losing and top picks will fix this franchise, just like OKC (ignore Pistons, Hornets, Wizards etc malfunctions)

 

Blazers played scarecrow zone defense tonight. Portland's weakside help was staked deep into the corn field. Give Toumani props, he was battling hard.

 

In 6 games vs OKC and Minnesota this season, we’ve lost by an average of 30 points.

 

oh yaah? Well.. i accidently bought Zero Sugar Pepsi, and the family is all up in my ear about the problem. Now i gotta run to the Quickie Mart in the middle of the night

 

Is your family fat?

Thanks, I didn't know!

 

I said that two years ago.

 

They don't need no stinkin sugar!

 

Since Bob Whitsitt left, every year the Blazers underperform due to coaching. And every year, this board rationalizes it by saying that we're temporarily tanking.

 

We need Bill Fitch

 

every year has a next year but tomorrow is promised to nobody

 

Two sentences and two false statements!