Game Thread GAME# 3: WIZARDS @ BLAZERS - OCTOBER 22, 2018 - MONDAY, 7:00 PM (PDT), NBCSNW

He hits that three, then Portland decides to run two players(Lillard, Aminu) at Wall who's spotting up for three.
Meanwhile Bradley Beal is like. What? They left me?
John Wall is like. 'Fuck I don't want this shot'.

Guess who gets the wide open three point attempt?

 

Judging by the posts on here....Morris? lol

 

How any player ended up with a wide open three when the only shot we should have been defending was a THREE, is beyond me.

 

Nahh Bradley Beal was able to step into an uncontested 3 and knock it down. Tying the game with 6.6 seconds to go.

First or second possession of OT. John Wall takes an uncontested wide open three and it comes up so short it bounces back to the FT line for a guard to get the board.

 

Really Lillard fucked up bad there.
He did well in forcing the Ball to be inbounded to John Wall. Instead of to Beal.
He read where the Wiz wanted the ball to go and he kept that pass from happening.
All Lillard had to do was then not fall for the pump fakes, stay down and make John Wall hit an outside shot with a hand in his face.
Instead he falls for two ball fakes. Then Aminu for whatever reason comes off Beal to help.
Beal & Wall prolly still laughing.

Literally it's the same play Nik had with Josh Heart against the Lakers. When he bit on a pump fake to close the 3rd.

 

Ah okay...I was getting tired of Terry leaving Nurk in against Morris. Why the fuck not Zach like you have the other TWO games closing out the game?!

 

Per Lillard on the postgame, Stotts' plan WAS for us to foul. Lillard put it on himself, going past him and then reaching back to grab wall, but apparently not significantly enough for a foul.

 

To me it would've been fine if they would've switched the P&R.
Nurk had blocked/effected a few shots on Wall's drives. He even played good defense when John Wall hit the bank shot to push to back to 4.
But it was a hugely flawed gameplan to ask Nurk or Collins to recover to Morris after helping contain the drive.

 

I really don't care about anything else but the lapse Lillard had defensively to end regulation.
You BEG John Wall to shoot that three.
Lillard had a mental lapse.
But he's still the best player Portland has had in my generation and he won't make that mistake again.

 

Our guards were 14-45 I believe, and we still should've won this game. That's how bad Washington is - and we let them steal another one on our homecourt. Should've gained a game on Utah tonight, and threw it away.

 

Can Terry tell the refs that they plan to intentionally foul in that situation? Otherwise someone might get hurt trying to oversell the foul.

 

Wizards always get lucky at the Rose Garden. Hell they won a game by clearly stepping out of bounds then hitting the game winner in the same play lol.

 

@mods.
Are the Blazers going to send in the video tape of Morris grabbing Steph's shorts from the bench during the last play of regulation?