Game Thread 2024-25 GAME #29 - BLAZERS @ MAVERICKS - DEC 23, 2024 - MON - 5:30 PM - CHARGE - BLAZERVISION

Scratching my head as there often seems to be no rhyme or reason as to minutes played with Chauncy -same with Deni

 

Predictable too - this was detailed in the NBA rank thread during the preseason. Major fail from Cronin to hold onto this Ant Ayton Grant group of vets going back to the day Dame was traded.

 

A PER in the 11 range paid $160 million.... He's just not worth a FRP at all right now, unless the Blazers are the team giving one up.

I'm hoping there is a way some team such as the Bucks with Middleton at least offer us a contract ending sooner and we make that deal. I doubt Cronin will accept a lower return than what one of his player was seemingly worth months ago though.

 

Turned off in the third quarter when it had irredeemably gone to shit (as usual) but may I just say: Doncic is a great player, but JESUS is he a whiny fat fuck and I fucking hate him. (And this from somebody who was BEGGING for us to trade up and draft him.)

 

very faint hope of trades that ship the bogus-3 out of town. If not, the disgust reaches another level

 

so, the average TS% is .581. Blazers only have 2 players above that mark....2

 

in the Billups brain, yes. Has been all year

sorry to hear you're in hospital. Get well

 

by the way, in case anybody is interested, the Blazers are still 28th in offensive rating

but that early season top-15 (IIRC they were 12th at one point) is long gone. Blazers are now 27th in defensive rating; good thing Simons and Ayton came back

Portland is 28th in net rating. The Pythagorean gauge based upon net rating says the Blazers should have a 7-22 record instead of 9-20. Wrong season to over-achieve but somehow, Blazers have found a way

 

kind of hard to gauge best player. Timelord is best in terms of winshares and BPM (plus PER & TS%). Avdija best in terms of VORP. But Timlord has only played in 10 of 29 games (in 2 seasons, he's played in 16 of 111 games...yikes!). Caveat is that those metrics favor bigs

it wouldn't take much for Sharpe to climb the ladder to best player, but he has trouble stringing together 6 or 7 good games.

by the way, Cronin has been on the job for 3 years now, and this roster is the best he could do

 

He's taking his time I guess? Certainly looking like he should have traded that #3 pick and got Dame some help. Maybe that can stop winning meaningless games and get the #1 this year?

 

why do you always answer posts with questions? have you always done this? are you aware you do this? do you like peanut butter?

 

I do. I do! I do?

 

I like the sponge baths, so I tolerate the medication

 

I don't know. He was shooting well and seemingly effortlessly in the opening five minutes and he seems like the kind of guy who keeps shooting well once he starts out that way, but then Billups pulled him only five minutes into the half.

 

This reminds me of when I was in nursing school and doing a rotation at the hospital and a very nice attractive middle-aged woman (I was also middle -aged) asked me to give her sponge baths (even though I think she was capable of showering). Then she also wanted me to hold her arm and help her walk up and down the halls, although I suspect she could have successfully used a walker. In fact she wanted help walking on the last day of the rotation which I didn't really understand was kind of a test day and so I did not have time to get another patient ready for a transfer.
Shortly after, my teacher/supervisor informed me that I would need to repeat the entire year of school.
What a sad fucking story, right?

 

Not for the nice lady you got off