Game Thread GAME# 44: BLAZERS @ NUGGETS - JANUARY 13, 2019 - SUNDAY, 5:00 PM, NBCSNW

Question... Is Jamal Murray better than CJ?

 

Define "normally".

 

meh, I think they're about the same. Which says a lot about how crappy CJ has become.

 

I must not have been posting

 

In case it wasn't clear my post was sarcastic and I didn't feel the need to make it green font.

That is an excuse I hear all the time. If so and so just makes a shot they normally hit, we win!

 

Yawn

 

Not all of them no. A lot of ticky tack fouls throughout the game.

 

Of course it does. Thats what I'm saying. We win a couple we are headed to the finals, we lose a couple season over. This place never changes.

 

Without even watching the game again i can come up with 4 right off the top of my head. By the way using a different player would be considered a different look. He has Nurk on him alone-1 He had Nurk and Aminu down low- 2 He had Nurk and Turner-3 He used CJ from the back side 4. I would also add the period he had Meyers in but that won't count in your mind. Then there was Aminu alone seeing if he could out quick Jokic- ooops that's 5 or is that 6? Wait a minute???? I have not even looked at film yet.

Then if you read my original post is said "as many as 6" seems like i low balled my estimate.

 

As well they should be. They need to realize, that's the game. We had no right beating Golden State last time down there, but we did. It happens.

 

Even more so if we win 4 in a row "Now Stotts is doing what i said to do..." We lose one "Stotts is an idiot and can't coach". It's absolutely comical.

 

No no, it was clear! I'm just saying that those shots people say we "normally hit", we don't actually normally hit.

 

My thoughts on the ceiling and floor for the team (this year) havent changed really since the beginning. The only real thing I think has made me question that is Nurkic, I know last night was a bad game for him, but I think if he can be their consistant 2nd best player then maybe they got a very, very outside shot at the western conference finals.
Still think 2nd round is probabably the ceiling.

 

CJ hasn't 'become' crappy. He's playing at the same level he has 3 of the 4 years he's been a starter. The second year as a starter (his MIP season) appears to be an aberration.

And just to be clear, CJ is a good player.... just not as 'great' as Olshey appears to believe him to be.

 

Yeah my frustrations have more to do with Olshey/Stotts than CJ himself. CJ is who he is. It’s hard to change that, and maybe we shouldn’t change that. If a guy isn’t a good passer, we shouldn’t try to force him into a playmaking role, as Stotts has done, or talked about him in the same sentence as Dame, like Olshey keeps doing. He’s not a star, stop trying to sell him to us as one.

 

Different single covered defenders aren't different looks. And a defender too late in helping isnt a different look either. He's still one on one in the post.

 

So tired of you generalizing everything.

 

What are the people that do them all?