Game Thread GAME# 28: BLAZERS @ GRIZZLIES - DECEMBER 12, 2018 - WEDNESDAY, 5:00 PM, NBCSNW

Don’t even think this team can beat the Raptors lol

 

Yeah, Im going to trust me own judgement over yours... Maybe pay attention to the things I've been saying and the way we play and reconsider.

 

Hell no. Different coach, same flaws.

 

CJ countered that by playing amazing.

 

The thing is, their bench played the right way and was actually good enough to keep the team competitive. Doing that for us would be asking for a 50 point loss.

 

Coach's fault.

Apparently. Smh

 

I believe Olshey put this team together.

 

It wasnt only the coaches fault.

 

Here’s just a random thought after watching the games this year. That offense with the center at the top of the 3point line and somehow this year it seems like they are dragging three blazers and thus three defenders all within the same location. Many hand offs in this condensed space seem to be a challenge this year. Has something changed in the offense this year? Are they starting deeper than in the past? Just seems a little unorthodox or better said uncomfortable for the guys handing it off with all of the players all squeezed in the small space. Is that a players choice or coaches decision? Collins looks lost in that situation.

 

Nurkic 1/15 FG WTF?? how is that possible for a Center?

 

Yeah don’t agree that good teams just turn it on after playing this poorly. Usually this logic works when a good team is just cruising until after the all star break, but when a team is just flat out struggling it’s hard to think it’ll all just come together late in the season and even if it does do you want another sweep in the first round cause they spent it all trying to get into the playoffs. Let’s be real, there’s a problem that we need to address before the break.

 

Marc Gasol

 

When your center has a 4 inch vertical that can happen... . Nah Nurkic is not the entire problem but there’s a reason Denver chose to let him go over Jokic

 

And his shot selection. He shot 5 or 6 jump shots and had a couple fadeaway hook shots.. he missed a couple of easy layups too.

 

oh for chrissakes...yeah, Olshey is blameless for this roster.

I got so tired of some people saying it was Paul Allen and not Olshey responsible for the stupid-contract disaster in 2016. "PA is micro-managing the Blazers forcing poor Neil into bad moves". The flaw to that of course is that if PA was micro-managing the bad decision then he was also micro-managing the good decisions. If you don't blame Olshey for bad moves then you can't give him credit for good ones

Olshey tried to give a max-contract to Roy Hibbert; In his first 2 seasons, he built 2 of the worst benches in Blazer history; he tried to sign Spenser Hawes for a max-MLE; he essentially traded four 2nd round picks for TRob.; he tried to give max contracts to Enes Kanter and Greg Monroe; he tried to give a max contracts to Chandler Parsons and Hassan Whiteside. He traded Will Barton and a 1st for Aaron Afflalo; He traded Batum for Henderson and Vonleh and then dumped Vonleh to avoid tax. He tried to give Meyers 15 M a year in 2015, then gave him 10M/year a year later. He thought Curry and Stauskas were a major upgrade from Napier and Connaughton. He let Ed Davis walk and cleared minutes for Meyers. He spent nearly 40M of Paul Allen's money for 1 year of Allen Crabbe, then traded Crabbe for a 7 year-2.9M a year encumbrance on Portland's cap. He took on a 5 year encumbrance of Varejao's contract just to get a pick in the draft he used on Swanigan when Kyle Kuzma and Josh Hart were available

yeah, he's done some good things as GM, but at a certain point, people who are doing logical backflips to try and defend his tenure have to start looking at the actual record he's compiled...and at the team he's built after 7 seasons on the job and understand that a lot of people aren't buying the snake-oil excuses anymore

 

Not any different than it was with Paul.

 

Well when you put it like that...

 

Give me Chauncey Billups and Ettore Messina.

 

That is something almost any coach should be fired for.

Just brutal! And 0-4 when they had Home Court Freaking Advantage. Then bring the entire starting line-up back and hope that things will somehow magically change.

 

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