Game Thread GAME# 13: HAWKS @ BLAZERS - JANUARY 16, 2021 - SATURDAY, 7:00 PM, NBCSNW

It’s not gonna happen but I think Giles would be a good fit with the starters. He’s every bit a passer as Nurk so you can run the same stuff, and is more agile defensively than Kanter.

 

I’d still start Kanter because it fundamentally breaks up to the Kanter/Melo minutes. That is more important in my eyes.

 

also, Dame and Kanter developed a real nice PnR action last year before kanter started getting injured

 

I can’t wait for the rebuild

 

I think we can win this game. I don't see why not. Nurk is very important to the team but this will force Stotts to make some changes to his rotation and hopefully get him to change up some of his schemes on both ends. I think Dame will assert himself in a different way than we saw him try to tonight. That will open up a lot for CJ, it will also make Kanter really deadly at the hoop where he actually finishes better than Nurk. The thing about our defense is, I don't know if it really will be much worse because it's been so fucking awful. So I just think that we can outscore the Hawks in a shootout but I guess we'll see.

 

lmao

 

Im very excited to play without nurkic. I was devastated when we lost him 2 years ago but i have seen enough from nurkic. He doesn’t put time in gym cane out of shape and stunk up joint in bubble. Dame said Giles is first in every day practicing on his own before anyone arrives, that kid deserves chance. And Enes has been scoring more pts more Rebounds in less minutes. We went to WCF finals with enes and enes will put in the work . You see stotts is such a loyalist that if nurkic became worst player in nba stotts would still start him and give him more minutes no matter what.

Zach and nurkic both did not develop. Both are injury prone and both need to be traded.

 

..500 and under teams... we are okay against them.

 

Look there are no weak teams anymore. The rockets yesterday without Wall and gordon beat the spurs!! The spurs are always tough and beat lakers and almost beat lakers twice without Aldridge. The NBA this season might be most competitive in history. Both west and east gotten much stronger. There no gimicks. I believe there will be only total of 4 teams in nba that will be level weaker than rest of 28 teams. You supposed to beat the weaker teams anyhow

 

No weak teams?
Only 4 weaker teams than the rest of the 28?
Okay, we will agree to disagree.

There may be more 'upsets' due to this crazy season, no fans, lack of passion playing in empty gyms, but there are a lot of weak, crappy, not close to contender teams out there. Using the .500 Spurs who haven't done anything in a few years now, and manage to squeak out a win here and there doesn't mean a lot IMO. They aren't close to being a contender. Same with the Rockets. Just because a better team loses focus and gets beat once in a while, doesn't mean the team that beat them is any great shakes.

 

Ok so some people are going to get their wish. Giles will play and in the indirect issue Kanter will start so we won't be seeing both Kanter and Melo together as much.
Now you will see Melo with Giles unless Stotts decides to go with Giles as a starter and keep Kanter and Melo together??? He has done some stupid shit like this before dammit! Don't call me an idiot yet?

 

Again your missing the point. There might be legit 4 teams total In nba that are contenders and 4 teams that will suck. Which means the other 24 teams will be evenly matched where each team can beat a legit contender as well. Just watch . I predict 3rd seed will have no more than 5 games advantage to a team ranked 9th or 10th in both conferences. The west has always been loaded and a powerhouse but the east would have 3 good teams and major major drop off. Thats no longer the case, 10 teams in the east will be very close to each other from rank 4th through 12 I predict.

 

Stotts mentioned the possibility of shuffling kanter and Giles in the starting lineup based on matchups. This will be the first test of whether or not that was just lip service as Giles is a better matchup against Capela than Kanter.

 

by the way, I like any poll where 'Duh' is the first choice. I don't need to see the other options

 

Built in excuse now though. I hate it but it's true.