Game Thread 2023 SUMMER LEAGUE CONSOLATION GAME: BLAZERS VS HEAT - JULY 16, 2023 - SUNDAY - 5:00 PM PST ESPN2

[inconceivable]

Before summer league: "Christian wood sucks!"

After watching blazers center at summer league: "you know what. . ."

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Humiliating end to summer league. Walker and Murray looked OK. Not sure if anyone else we have seen deserves even a two way contract.

 

[Chris Craig]

Humiliating end to summer league. Walker and Murray looked OK. Not sure if anyone else we have seen deserve even a two way contract.

They don't deserve the summer league contract.

 

[Hoopguru]

Nobody in Portland "wants to do right by Dame" anymore.

I do.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Really missed Trendon Watford, clearly.

 

[Mediocre Man]

I would have appreciated it if Billups could have come up with one specific example of what he had learned during his first two years of coaching...

Couldn’t. Didn’t. Hasn’t.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Humiliating end to summer league. Walker and Murray looked OK. Not sure if anyone else we have seen deserves even a two way contract.

Minaya was given 3 minutes and 28 seconds of PT - can't lay this one on him. And Devoe was only -2 in a 26 point loss.

 

[Natebishop3]

People watched this game?!?!!

 

[Sloth]

Disappointing end but not gonna get dramatic about it.

 

[Sloth]

People watched this game?!?!!

Just saw the score when got home from taking my lady to see the new Insidious movie(Was crap if wondering).

 

[bemac]

How not to coach?

Actually, that's "How to not be allowed to coach"

 

[bemac]

Couldn’t. Didn’t. Hasn’t.

So, the guy hired and given a shit team and then forced to tank for two seasons, forced management to continue to pull players to stop winning, is being called out by a bunch of forum dwellers. Fucking brilliant. This is the world we live in.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Humiliating end to summer league. Walker and Murray looked OK. Not sure if anyone else we have seen deserves even a two way contract.

Is it even possible to be humiliated in summer league?

 

[Mediocre Man]

So, the guy hired and given a shit team and then forced to tank for two seasons, forced management to continue to pull players to stop winning, is being called out by a bunch of forum dwellers. Fucking brilliant. This is the world we live in.

I keep forgetting we should only speak on what we do or are. This is on me, sorry

 

[maxiep]

Well, we know the response from Miami. "Based on today's game, our offer is the starting five of our Summer League team for Dame. You're welcome."

 

[Natebishop3]

Well, we know the response from Miami. "Based on today's game, our offer is the starting five of our Summer League team for Dame. You're welcome."

We wish.

We can’t have Orlando Robinson.

 

[Chris Craig]

Well, we know the response from Miami. "Based on today's game, our offer is the starting five of our Summer League team for Dame. You're welcome."

Lol

Orlando Robinson: "Yeah, we just beat Portland's ass!"

Riley: "You have been traded to Portland."

Orlando Robinson: "Shit."

 

[Natebishop3]

Lol

Orlando Robinson: "Yeah, we just beat Portland's ass!"

Riley: "You have been traded to Portland."

Orlando Robinson: "Shit."

Can’t do it until December.

and honestly I’d be willing to wait.

 

[HansenYang]

Can’t do it until December.

and honestly I’d be willing to wait.

Technically this is correct.
However Miami could place Orlando on waivers & Portland could claim him prior to being a FA

 

[Natebishop3]

Technically this is correct.
However Miami could place Orlando on waivers & Portland could claim him prior to being a FA

That’s risky.

 

[HansenYang]

That’s risky.

How so?

Waiver claims are based on w/L records.
Only Houston, Detroit, Charlotte, & SA could 'steal' him. None of those teams are likely to claim him on waivers

 

[Mediocre Man]

How so?

Waiver claims are based on w/L records.
Only Houston, Detroit, Charlotte, & SA could 'steal' him. None of those teams are likely to claim him on waivers

Only Detroit would likely not claim him

 

[Natebishop3]

How so?

Waiver claims are based on w/L records.
Only Houston, Detroit, Charlotte, & SA could 'steal' him. None of those teams are likely to claim him on waivers

His contract is dirt cheap and he just came off a great summer league. No chance he doesn't get picked up.

 

[BBert]

Are these guys idiots? The one guy we should be sure to get in the Lillard trade is Kevin Love???!!!

Yes, they are. I could not believe my ears when that guy gushed about how much Kevin Love is loved and revered in Portland. WTF? First I've ever heard of it. More like he's a forgotten UCLA turncoat who nobody liked in the first place.