Blazers @ T-Wolves 3/7/12 - Game Thread!

Because his offense has always been heavily dependent on the trey. When he has a team that is shooting well from 3-pt range, he wins 54 games. When he has a team that can't shoot 3s, we get what happened tonight.

For a poor shooting team to barf up 20+ 3s in a game is lazy, selfish, and just plain dumb basketball. Damn straight part of the blame for that falls on the coach.

 

This.

Yes.

Minnesota is tied with Houston for the 8th spot.

 

You're better than this. LMA only got 30 minutes because of foul trouble. Wallace had to play more, unless you were hoping for Craig Smith to come in and save the day.

 

Oh right, 13. Still, he had a near triple double. He was not the problem. And he didn't need to rest. We have a lot of rest built into this trip. Check the schedule.

 

I don't much care about an individual player's minutes, but basically playing a seven man rotation in this season? ... I often wonder just how much of the Blazers' woes this season are due to playing a compressed schedule without enough distribution of minutes -- I mean, aside from our mostly horrendous guard play.

 

There's no reason Batum/Camby/Thomas/Przybilla couldn't have filled those minutes, and did an equal/better job.

They should have put Thomas and Camby in at the same time. The only player who did decent on Love was Thomas.

 

I mean seriously, BRoy. It's sad to have 13 points when you have 9 rebounds and 9 assists? Learn the game, then post.

 

Seeing Wes trying to run a fast break or be a part of one makes me want to close my eyes... he just doesn't have the athleticism or agility to finish, or ability to find open guys. Ugh.

 

Why are you against Wallace? He was our best player tonight.

 

Portland is 13th in 3pt attempts/game this year.

They were 13th last year, too.

They were 19th in 2009-10.

They were 13th in 2008-09.

You don't know what you're talking about, at least after looking at the stats. Nate is middle of the pack in terms of 3-pointers.

Guess which coach depends on the three, at least according to the stats?

 

I don't think Wallace played well. He mostly coasted the entire game and got torched on defensive assignments. (He shouldn't have been on Love, and he kept leaving Wesley Johnson) I didn't see anything warranting 45 minutes of playing time.

 

OK.

I get that people are upset, but can't we at least call out blatant stupidity?

 

So, just so I'm clear, your takeaway from this game is that Wallace played too many minutes.

Correct?

 

Worst post of the thread. Are you new to this game?

 

I'm not upset. I expected this loss.

I'm just calling it as I see it. Nate's rotations are stupid. I know I give Felton a lot of flak, but if anyone should have played 45 minutes tonight it should have been Felton, and he only logged 34.

 

No, it's that your hero Nate has stupid rotations.

 

I'm not going to speak for B-Roy, but based on the last two games against the Timberpups, I'd say the Blazers collectively played about 96 minutes too many.

 

thomas and camby together? what, when they went love/Derrick Williams? lol. They went small, and with LMA out, we had no option outside of Wallace who was strong enough and fast to stay with those two. Thus, 45 for wallace.

 

You're so predictable. A big deal at ESPN, though!

 

Please tell me why Batum cannot guard Derrick Williams.