Game Thread GAME# 1: KINGS @ BLAZERS - OCTOBER 20, 2021 - WEDNESDAY, 7:00 PM, ROOT SPORTS

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Excluding Lillard & McCollum, who are the 3 best draft picks made by Olshey as the Blazers' GM?

Poll closed Jan 27, 2022.
  1. Allen Crabbe

    7.5%
  2. Anfernee Simons

    49.3%
  3. Caleb Swanigan

    1.5%
  4. CJ Elleby

    1.5%
  5. Gary Trent Jr.

    91.0%
  6. Jake Layman

    4.5%
  7. Meyers Leonard

    1.5%
  8. Pat Connaughton

    44.8%
  9. Will Barton

    71.6%
  10. Zach Collins

    7.5%
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  1. HailBlazers

    HailBlazers RipCity

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    Crazy how a half filled stadium is half as loud :crazy:
     
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    Tince Well-Known Member

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    Biggest positive for me was the assist:turnover ratio was much much better than the preseason. Hopefully this can maintain against teams that aren't going to be the worst defensive teams in the league.
     
  3. OneSport3

    OneSport3 The Knowledge Hoarder

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    Chauncey has talked about “putting an address” on guys when making mistakes. That address tonight lives on #33 Robert Covington Lane.
     
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  4. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    We're going to trade him for a lottery pick that becomes a hall-of-famer?
     
  5. PessimisticMillenial

    PessimisticMillenial New Member

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    if you watched that shit and weren’t disgusted by Dame you are part of the problem. His effort over the last 5 games including preseason would be enough to get cut if he were a role player.
     
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    I’m already drinking after game 1 of 82
     
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  7. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    You expected effort from him in the preseason? You must be new to watching professional sports...
     
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    Bench surprisingly good.

    Signs of “defense” during the game, but defense needs to be played in all 4 quarters!

    Dame was cold. Tonight was an opportunity to let someone else take the last shot. We can’t win every tight game with Dame being the only one ever to shoot - again, tonight Chauncey could have called CJ’s number.

    I’ve been saying for a long time, RoCo is a solid bench player on a winning team. Nance needs to start and bring RoCo in as 8th man. First players off the bench should be Simons or Little…then RoCo. I think we’d be much better off.

    Finally…fuking Barnes! I want to eat what he had for breakfast in the morning! Career high! 8 three’s….and we were not smart enough to play in his face!

    Summary - I hope Chauncey is smart, because he didn’t use much smarts tonight I’m afraid.

    a). No adjustments made on Barnes; I’ll bet Little could have played better D than RoCo did on Barnes;
    b). Simons played really good and could have played more minutes, saving Dame from playing 40
    c). Knowing it’s early in this season and Dame had gone 0-8 up to that last possession, coach could have added a perplexity to game-ending scenarios by calling CJ to take the game-tying shot. It was the perfect opportunity. Dame would not have been mad about it and CJ’s stock may have risen high enough for us to see Ben Simmons a Blazer! ;) Seriously, he missed an opportunity for CJ’s confidence to rise!
    Now it’s known around the league that Dame will be taking EVERY last shot…..too bad.
     
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  9. PessimisticMillenial

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    never Saint Lillard tho
     
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    geeeezuz....lighten up Francis. Yeah, right, I am part of Portland's problem. I should have done a better job of covering Barnes
     
  11. PessimisticMillenial

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    yeah I expected him to not stand by and watch while people scored right in front of him. I know, a lot to ask.

    this team will never win so long as everyone treats Dame with kid gloves. He totally blew this game and reading this thread, you’d think Nurk and CJ were why we lost
     
  12. OneSport3

    OneSport3 The Knowledge Hoarder

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    Nope, move on Daryl Morey.
     
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    Fairly-Hard Former Member Gone New!

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    Started your account today to troll huh? Okay. Lets see how long this goes.
     
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    Damn I’m not that bad yeeesh
     
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    Pathetic display of trolling.
     
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    Well the team has two days off and that likely means a low key practice, this early in the season. The Suns have to play the Lakers the night before our game. So we'll have all of that going for us but the Suns will be much better than the Kings and that's a little scary.
     
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    This is the part I hate now the media is going to be embarrassing us
     
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    No positives to take from losing a home game to the Kings. Deflating.
     
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    “dame always plays hard”

    that’s laughable. If he doesn’t have the ball most of the time he’s walking. He’s been by far the worst defender on the team each and every year since he was drafted. You guys are delusional fan boys who think he can do no wrong just because he has raw talent.
     
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    Do we have our draft pick this year?
     

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