Game Thread Blazers vs Pacers Game Thread 7/23/20 12:30pm PT NBCSNW and NBATV

Little had a concussion two days ago

 

Didn't even watch the game... But I've seen enough of Stotts to know he doesn't hold his players accountable to ball movement and perimeter defense like Kerr or Pop.

 

Everyone in here saying that the sky is falling weren't paying attention to that game. We were trying to see who could play from the second unit. We were getting Nurk a bunch of touches to get him back in the swing of things. Everyone was definitely rusty but I know they'll show up next week when the games start to matter. Shots weren't falling from Melo and CJ that will fall once the games matter. The thing that struck me the most was that we weren't running our actual offense. Dame will be the center of all of what we do on offense. He will score the most points. He will take the most shots. The vast majority of our actions will go through him. Dame was laying back today, he won't do that when the games matter. We will have a tighter rotation that will include two guys who didn't play today in Nas and Hassan. The first game back with two important players sitting, on a team that will likely only play 8 or 9 guys can't be a good barometer. It can't be something you evaluate because it's so raw, because it wasn't all of our guys, because it wasn't the rotation we will go with and because our actual game plan for games that matter obviously wasn't being implemented.

 

Hah, it's funny how this stuff still happens without me here. Crazy, I was made out to be the guy that caused all this. I thought it'd be different without me posting in here. Guess not.

 

McCollum has never had great hops, but on that attempt he was attempting to cock it back and do a big throw down. If he would have gone for a more natural dunk it likely would have been accomplished. Not the first and definitely won't be the last player to be rim checked.

 

I didn't get the feel that anyone in here has the sky falling and most seem to understand that part of getting not just Nurk but some looks for Collins as well.

Seems like we have all heard this before. I would have liked to see more urgency and less "Ahh Shucks" . You play the way you practice. If you watched other teams on their first scrimmage back you watched some that played with a bunch more real time speed and energy. The Blazers again look under prepared. Lets hope they pick it up.

So already with the "Injury" excuse? I usually am the one trying to make that when i feel it's warranted but the Blazers had the players available to beat that team. Are they already trying to monitor minutes?
One good thing was the scrubs did push at the end at try to tie that game up. It was close enough to think maybe a comeback was possible.

To this i agree to a point? Concussion can happen at any point. Sore achiles can happen at any point. A turned ankle can happen at any point so those are the reasons i was less impressed with this game.

Bottom line- Blazers have to work harder and if they think they are gonna make the playoffs they better get it together. No need to even think about the first round at this point.

 

Yeah looked pretty un-natural to me.

 

It was simply one preseason game after 4 months of being sidelined. Utah got blown out yesterday by Phoenix and lakers lost to Dallas. I doubt they are panicking.

 

Nobody said anything about panicking?

 

read through the game thread. There were plenty of negative comments and some proclaiming our season is over before it even restarts. It's what all these game threads devolve into when we lose.

 

Not my posts.

 

I know. Never mentioned names, but the comments were there.

 

Read through this thread.

HA!

Things ARE back to normal.

lol...

 

I watch the game last night when they replay on nbatv. I seen a lot postive in the game and something need be corrected. I thought the defense overall not that bad yes Indiana hit some long 3 in the 3rd QT when they're guard got switched with one of our big. I did see our guards trying to get up in there guards better but we still have trouble getting off screens. Nurk look really good and Zach didn't look bad. I thought Mario shot the ball well and he did make few mistakes but overall not that bad. Trent some good ball and Gabriel play some good D but still have along ways on the offense. Simon's still pound the ball to look for his points and he needs quit trying be CJ and Dame and be himself because right he just not that good.

 

It wasn't like they sucked. They only lost by 3 points.

 

We do have trouble fighting through screens when on defense.

 

You should have. We looked great out of the gate and only gave the game up once we explored lineups and checked out the young end of bench guys and at the end when the other team put their end of bench guys in, we made a good come back.

In my opinion, we dominated when we needed to. Our starting lineup dominated. Our end of bench dominated theirs.

We still have some weak points to address but the game showed me some good promise.

 

You make some good points, but I think you would be more effective if you didn't grossly exaggerate by saying everyone in here is saying the sky is falling.

 

It's a game thread. Pretty mild as game threads go though.