Game Thread 2024-25 GAME #2 - BLAZERS VS PELICANS - OCTOBER 25, 2024 - FRIDAY - 7PM - KATU 2.2 - BLAZERVISION

He’s a chucker. They keep chucking.

 

I think we should just refer to the last Ant play as the "Flagg" play.

 

Ant really needs to be a 3rd option on good team no way he’s a number 1 or 2 option on good team. Time to turn keys over to Scoot and let’s see what we have.

 

Got to give it to our three vets, though. Ayton, Grant and Ant played the last 11 minutes like guys who didn't care.

The Jiffy Lube Tanker of the Game Award, though, goes to DeAndre Ayton, who set the tone for the Pels comeback by not valuing possessions, taking bad shots early in the shot clock, playing really passive defense and setting screens like a 6-year-old that had been told everyone else on the court had cooties. I thought I was watching Nurk out there. If Ayton thinks he gets a bad wrap, someone needs to show him a replay of his 4Q play in this game. Zero effort.

 

DA played really poorly in the 4th quarter. Should have put Clingan back in.

 

I got nothin'!

I'll go to sleep and have negative dreams. Maybe tomorrow I can satisfy my fans and say something negative.

Good effort, good game!

If we're going to lose a lot of games, don't be a laughingstock. Try to win. And that's what we did tonight. Billups read my posts and yelled at them. I am the team's inspiration.

I feel like such a failure, saying nothing negative. I hope my bad dreams are productive.

 

It's not the getting Flagg play, it's the let's try for Flagg play.

 

That pass he threw straight up in the air to no-one reminded me of CJ Elleby.

 

Nah Ant is just trash

 

"Flagg Basketball." What the Blazers are playing.

 

Simons hero-ball-hog fails miserably. However, he gets a nomination for best supporting actor in Tank Commander

this may be what the Blazers are this season: a dumpster-diving big-3 of Simons-Ayton-Grant. They took 57 of Portland's 90 shots (63%); and they played 40 minutes, 36 minutes, & 33 minutes. I know there are posters here who are happy with that distribution for those players; I'm not one of them. But it's what I expected from Cronin & Billups. I may be tuning out pretty early in the season

in the last 2:24 of the game:

2:24 Anfernee Simons makes 9-foot driving floating jump shot
1:50 Anfernee Simons makes free throw 1 of 2
1:50 Anfernee Simons makes free throw 2 of 2
1:23 Anfernee Simons misses 28-foot three point pullup jump shot
52.1 Anfernee Simons out of bounds bad pass turnover
30.1 CJ McCollum blocks Anfernee Simons 's 4-foot driving layup
0.0 Herbert Jones blocks Anfernee Simons's driving layup

he had a nice floater on the first drive; was completely bailed out by a foul call when he lost the ball. Then he wasted 4 straight possessions and as Illimatic said, this was likely what Billups wanted

 

Ok, that made me wonder where he is now? On July 14, 2024, Elleby signed with MKE Ankaragücü of the Türkiye Basketbol Ligi

 

Huh, you’re blaming grant?

 

Tonight is moreso Simons and Ayton tank job, but Grant really has no business taking 17 3's.

 

I would have totally been on the fire Chauncey train if they would have pulled a W from the L column. Now it's extension time!

Seriously, there aren't too many plays a coach can run with 5 seconds left. I put it on the players to make plays. It was a poor decision by Ant to drive it to the hole as he's got Herb Jones on him as well as the entire D's focus. He should have sought to kick it out to a shooter or pulled up himself.

That said, I was really happy about Scoot and Clingan's play. Deni was pretty good too

STOMP

 

When he makes half?

idk why we’re talking about Jerami at all besides that he should have gotten one of Ants 50 4th quarter possessions.