Game Thread 2024-25 GAME #45 - BLAZERS @ HORNETS - JAN 24, 2025 - FRI - 4:00 PM - CHARGE - KUNP - BLAZERVISION

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  1. Phatguysrule

    Phatguysrule Well-Known Member

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    Our players aren't going to develop enough to make up for the difference between a top 10 pick and a top 5 pick in this draft.

    I don't know how a team in our situation comes back from that before the next rebuild honestly...
     
    Phatguysrule, Jan 25, 2025
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    They are nice. They aren't it though. This is the year to get it.
     
    Phatguysrule, Jan 25, 2025
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    PCmor7 Generational Poster

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    They're going to have to change the rules to allow players 18 fouls before fouling out for that to happen.
     
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    I have noticed a pattern....fans bitch when we lose and fans bitch when we win. It is such a pleasure coming to this forum.
     
    Pinwheel1, Jan 25, 2025
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    Sometimes, when you win, you really lose. And sometimes, when you lose, you really win. And sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie
     
    RR7, Jan 25, 2025
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    He has never fouled out as a starter.
     
    KingSpeed, Jan 25, 2025
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    Fun movie
     
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    Yep. A lot of people who SAY they want us to lose get pissed off when we actually play badly. They’re unhappy that the young players aren’t All Stars yet but if they were, we’d win which is what they say they are against.

    Take Strenuus, he’s made it clear this season is all about losing but when we’re on a losing streak, he says he wants to not give the Blazers money to “send a message” to management until they turn things around. Make up your mind!
     
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    KingSpeed, Jan 25, 2025
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  9. Strenuus

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    First, @ me.

    Second, the team deserves nothing until they prove it. It's called being principled. They suck. Until they show they care about the team, I will not support them.

    It's the right thing to do and I'm glad I'm doing it.

    Any other questions since I had an answer to your snark or nah? You tried, I'll give you that. Have a great day!
     
    Strenuus, Jan 25, 2025
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    Joe's put us in a tough position. He's put a team together that can't win enough for wins to be a good thing in the long run. At the same time no one wants to see players on their team half assing it, so a lot of the losses are brutal to watch. Then there's the fact that win or lose most of us don't like the rotation even though it probably is the most effective rotation Chauncey can put out there.

    Dark times to be a fan of our team but still Go Blazers!!! whatever that means.
     
    blazerkor, Jan 25, 2025
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  11. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    He seems to be clinging to Grant/Simons/RWIII to try to squeeze max value out of them, but in the process he's critically damaging our chances at getting a superstar in this draft. I don't think eeking out another first rounder is worth getting the 8th pick in this draft.
     
    Natebishop3, Jan 25, 2025
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  12. KingSpeed

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    So you support the team losing but you don’t support the team losing. Once our picks that we got by losing start winning, you will then start supporting the team. Got it.
     
    KingSpeed, Jan 25, 2025
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  13. BonesJones

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    I have a feeling youre purposefully ignoring a ton of nuance here.
     
    BonesJones, Jan 27, 2025
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