Game Thread GAME# 25: ROCKETS @ BLAZERS - DECEMBER 9, 2017 - SATURDAY, 7:00 PM (PST), NBCSNW

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If the Blazers could only keep 2 of the following Blazers in RFA, whom would you want them to keep?

Poll closed Dec 12, 2017.

  1. Connaughton

    5 vote(s)
    9.8%

  2. Napier

    12 vote(s)
    23.5%

  3. Nurkic

    49 vote(s)
    96.1%

  4. Vonleh

    32 vote(s)
    62.7%
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  1. SportsAndWhine

    SportsAndWhine Dumbass For Hire

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    Eat a dick
     
    SportsAndWhine, Dec 9, 2017
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    We are always going to play with that handicap. Always.
     
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    SportsAndWhine Dumbass For Hire

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    So why even bother expecting wins?
     
    SportsAndWhine, Dec 9, 2017
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    Forget it.
     
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    SportsAndWhine Dumbass For Hire

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    You aren’t expressing yourself well; please keep trying!
     
    SportsAndWhine, Dec 9, 2017
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    That's not a handicap we will play with. 30+ FT disparity isn' something seen very often in the league.
     
    Rhal, Dec 9, 2017
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    Yeah, and you'd think making 5 more total baskets and 8 more baskets from the 3 point line in the game of BASKETball would be enough to win most of the time. But Houston was +30 in ref freebie attempts.
     
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    When is the last time after 15+ home games where we had a losing record at home?
     
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    FWIW, that lineup at the end that HOU had was fucking lethal. Let's give them some credit. Two HOF level play makers and scoring threats with loads of spacing on the floor with 3 other elite shooters. Who do you leave?

    They're gonna be a problem. Not many teams have the personnel to consistently stop that attack
     
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    @Rastapopoulos this is why Houston wins
     
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    James harden alone had two more free throw attempts than the blazers as a team.
     
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    Fuck you Morey
     
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    14 '3's from Dame/Aminu and they still lose. If not for career nights from '3' from both of them, this would have been a blowout. Fun to watch them shoot like that though.
     
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    Your right, there is a disparity in fouls. But the other games we've lost on this losing streak were winnable and we didn't get it done. That's on the team and Stotts. Not everything is the refs.
     
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    PJ tucker isn't elite at anything. Being a hatchet man maybe.
     
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    We played a flawless game for 3 quarters.

    I think we eek this one out had Dame not rolled his ankle.

    Our defense in the fourth quarter though... not much to say about that.
     
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    Fuck Stotts.
     
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    DUB Da, da da, da dah!

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    I thought we would lose, and we did; so no matter how close the game was at any given point in time, I can't be pissed off about the result.

    That free throw disparity though. The NBA....

     
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    He's a better 3pt shooter this season than Dame. And he had shot 50% from 3 the past 5 games.
     
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    I don’t think we’ve shot as many FTs as our opponents in any season since the 90’s. Our reputation with the refs died in 2002.

    Yes our game plans aren’t perfect. But do we really just magically turn the ball over without getting fouled all the time? Is every team magically a defensive juggernaut when facing us?

    There’s a reason free agents don’t come here, because their reputation with the refs suffers. James Harden as a Blazer would be a career 16 PER doofus.
     
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