Game Thread GAME# 37: BLAZERS @ CAVALIERS - JANUARY 2, 2018 - TUESDAY, 4:00 PM (PST), NBATV & NBCSNW

I have to balance out my brilliant posts with these. Too many people would get jealous of my like count

 

Meh. Running out of gas happens. This was a schedule loss, especially with IT returning to their lineup today.

I'm surprised we didn't go to Nurk more. He was beasting. Aminu sucked. Napier sucked. Hark sucked. I hope 2018 Turner remains 2018 Turner. I'm genuinely perplexed that we can't find any minutes for Vonleh. Does anyone have any idea why this guy is in the doghouse? Every game I've watched it seems like he's having a positive impact.

 

You are seriously the most interesting person on this forum.

Love it.

 

Every loss?

 

Fulltime
Us - 110
Them - 127

FTA
Us - 19
Them - 37

OReb
Us - 13
Them - 8

Stl
Us - 5
Them - 11

Turnovers
Us - 15
Them - 10

Points Off Turnovers
Us - 25
Them - 13

Personal Fouls
Us - 28
Them - 17

 

Totally agree

 

Regarding Vonleh, Stotts is still doing his usual musical starting lineups and rotations bit at this stage of the season.

 

Jake Layman needs to find a different line of work. And why did Stotts quit with 6 minutes left?

 

He'd probably be a good professional volleyball player.

 

He should stay out of sports.

 

I wish vonleh and Collins share their Minutes at PF and Aminu and Turner at SF. Aminu is not a Stretch 4, that's not his Position

 

It was good to see that Dame is healthy. He had WAY too many turnovers though. As usual we turned it over too much and got killed in fast break points. You would think the staff would address these issues.

 

I have to say I'm usually pissed after a loss. Maybe it's because I predicted a loss in Gramps prediction game and I'm sick of being on the "who's not hot list" or maybe because the player who makes this team go.... is back on the floor. Either way I saw some growth or at least some better team play tonight and I'm good with that. Go Blazers!!

 

Great game from Nurkic! - 23 pts (10/12), 7 reb, 4 ast, 2 stl, 0 to
Very solid by ET, this or close to it is what I'd like to see every game (he was on James, so he gets a pass on the fouls) - 15 pts (7/14), 8 reb (3 oreb), 3 ast, 1 blk, 6 pf
Decent game from CJ apart from the turnovers - 19 pts (8/17), 5 reb, 4 ast, 3 to
Good game by Chief except for the poor shooting - 5 pts (1/7), 9 reb (4 oreb), 2 ast, 1 stl
Good scoring by Dame, everything else.... - 25 pts (8/15), 6 ast, 1 stl, 7 to

No help from the bench (not that they had many minutes), with an uncharacteristically poor game from Ed (not that it was bad, just not up to his usual standard) - 5 pts (2/2), 3 reb, 1 stl, 1 blk, 4 pf

 

Tough game. Cavs win their 13 Straight at home. On to the next. We can't lose the easy ones... should have beaten Atlanta. Next game: must win .

 

I kinda hate it that the obvious book on blunting the Blazer's offense is to go all thugball on them . . .

 

This is more to the forum not just you King;

I thought we learned our lesson about saying things like this with Pat. Guess not.

#doomedtorepeathistory

 

Do I think fan complaints about biased reffing are valid during/after every loss ?

No.

But I think it's valid in relation to the third quarter of this game.

 

What's sad about Layman is we may have to keep him next year just to fill out our roster.