Game Thread GAME# 22: BLAZERS @ BULLS - DECEMBER 5, 2016 - MONDAY, 5:00 PM (PDT), CSNNW

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Should Coach put Aminu back into the starting lineup for his first game back?

Poll closed Dec 7, 2016.

  1. Yes

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    30.0%

  2. No

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    Just got home, looks like one worth watching!
     
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    Just watched the game on delay. Play of the game was Lillard diving for the ball late in the game. Great effort.
     
    noknobs, Dec 5, 2016
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    In my hotel room here in Milwaukee.....reading these game threads just crack me up. I actually enjoy the threads when we LOSE than WIN, but this one was enjoyable. The irony and stupidity of some of you.
     
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    No need to read about the game live. They have League Pass in Milwaukee. Get up off that springless motel double bed, climb on a chair under the TV hanging high on the wall, and figure out the filthy knobs.
     
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    We obviously won this game because Aminu came back
     
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    They have won more games than they've lost. But not against against teams over .500. And not on the road. So it was certainly reasonable to have no confidence we would win this game. If you believed we would from the beginning, then hooray for you, but you were believing against the odds, and ridiculing those who differed isn't any better than doubting the team in the first place.
     
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    Well said
     
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    Why didn't you say it lol
     
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    meh, i'd rather it be this way than the coach saying it's his way or the high way.

     
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    Mason: "Hey Coach, you know how you hate it when the other team blitz our guards, how it baffles you to no end, and how it leaves you in a cold sweat just thinking about it."

    Stotts: "Are you trying to give me nightmares or are you asking to run suicides today?"

    Ed: "No, no, Coach. What we're saying is, what if we turn the table and blitz the other team on their pick-and-rolls? What if we make it.....I don't know....difficult for the other team to score?"

    Stotts: "Blasphemy! That's diabolical, that's absurd.......<eyes widen and almost falls over>......MY GOD! That's so crazy and nonsensical that it circles around and becomes genius! Let's try this insanity against the Bulls."

    Mason and Ed nods and high-fives each other. Meyers sees that and comes over to give Mason and Ed high-fives as well, but misses their hands and swats air instead.

    Stotts chuckles, shaking his head knowingly: "So guys, any more advice?"

    Mason and Ed in unison: "UGG fur-lined slippers!"
     
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    Brilliant!!
     
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  20. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    It works with Mase and Ed because they have the lateral quickness to stop the opposing guard's penetration - which is what you want to do with players like Wade and Butler.

    It won't work for a big like Meyers Leonard who has poor lateral quickness. I wasn't specifically watching for this last night during the game, but I wonder if it contributed to Meyers fouling out in 12 minutes of play. How may of his fouls were on opposing guards driving to the basket off a pick and roll? He just doesn't have the foot speed to jump out and cut off the penetration.

    So, like the article said, they will use it in certain situations and certain matchups (i.e. not when Meyers man is setting the pick).

    BNM
     
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