Game Thread GAME# 30: BLAZERS @ SUNS - FEBRUARY 22, 2021 - MONDAY, 6:00, NBCSNW

Offensive foul, still in though.

I'm still liking his energy and stroke.

 

The equivalent of discovering fire or inventing the wheel to Terry Stotts ....

 

Question for all the good coaches out there. How do you adjust when a player pick up Dame full court?

 

When teams go small, they trap us with "midgets" and slow bigs, but we struggle with it, yet you give Stotts a pass for that. But apparently we can't do the same, so Stotts gets a pass for not doing it.

No consistency with you.

 

We started terrible and we are ending terrible. But history for us playing in phoenix we don't do well usually.

 

You can’t really expect this team to win much with the injuries, but there are things you can do to improve the chances of winning. Putting Dame on Booker to start the game to let Booker get going early is not one of them. Booker is one of those players that are impossible to slow down when he gets it going.

Also, if you continually insist on playing Melo like prime Melo, you are not improving your chances.

 

Easiest thing is a pressure release guy steps up to receive the inbound pass and Dame either V-cuts and gets hit with the reverse pass or curls around and gets the ball, or someone just steps up and screens for him to take the defender out of the play.

 

Give the ball to Blevins!

 

I don't think anyone's insisting on that. We're just kind of at the mercy of Melo right now because of the injuries. You have to hope you're getting a Melo who understands he's not Prime Melo and plays in a framework of letting four other guys see the ball knowing it will get him fewer shots but better shots.

 

Old fashioned ass whooping.

Wood shed.

And I fully blame Neil Olshey.

 

What teams trapped us with midgets and gave us trouble to get good looks? Our offense has been pretty good this season all things considering.

I didn't say anything about Stotts, that's your deal.

Missed all your in-game posts during our win streak; glad to have you back!

 

Exactly. This is what the Warriors do when teams try to trap Steph. He passes it then cuts behind the trap. They pass him the ball now with downhill momentum to attack the defense 4 on 3.

 

And then it regresses mightily in the playoffs because of the trap...

 

Until reinforcements arrive our best hope is to hover between 5th and 6th spot if we able to do that until we get healthy, i think we can be dangerous. The pipe dream of being 4th seed is essentially impossible with such injured Squads especially since Suns are in full health. 20 games from now its entirely possible suns will have key injuries while we at full strength then we could reclaim 4th seed. But as of now we gotta be realistic , we gotta battle off and stay afloat ahead of nuggets and warriors

 

Hey Blevins got one to go in!

 

Lmao. Guess it's Olshey's fault that CJ and Nurk got hurt.

 

And I blame you as well!