Game Thread GAME# 49: BLAZERS @ LAKERS - JANUARY 31, 2020 - FRIDAY, 7:30 PM, ESPN & NBCSNW

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Which result would you rather have?

Poll closed Feb 6, 2020.

  1. The Blazers lose this game, but Damian Lillard scores 82 points!

    17 vote(s)
    22.7%

  2. Blazers win this game, but Lillard scores 8 points.

    58 vote(s)
    77.3%
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  1. Haakzilla

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    13.5 pt underdogs LOL :biglaugh:
     
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    I am just saying if he was grieving I get that, but he sure was fine and able to play Wednesday. I
     
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  3. Chris Craig

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    I wish Lebron would take the night off too
     
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    Blazers will win... I guarantee it
     
    Neil O. Shyster, Jan 31, 2020
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    RipCityDSCPL Could be worse, at least it's not Lonzo.

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    It feels like we are obligated to lose tonight and if we don't or beat them by double digits, the players will come off as the biggest assholes on the planet.

    Does anyone else get that feeling?
     
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    +675 payout... bet of the year... take it to the bank
     
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    I think we already know we have major problems (like 60% of our starting lineup being on long-term injury and Melo not playing tonight), and it'll likely take 125 to win this one, so yeah...but I don't think Dame would take enough shots to get to 82. Not his style. I think he'd have to have a ridiculous game of 3PAs (obviously hitting many of them), but that detracts from the "free" FTs that good scorers usually rely on. Unless his usage rate is through the roof, again, not his style to Harden-ize it. And probably an OT game, in that he was hot in the first half, has to play Lillard Time because it's so close in the 4th and leading to OT for an extra 5 minutes.

    For some research:
    60pts+ has been done 72 times (32 by Wilt). Dame's two games have been the 50th- and 63rd-most FGAs attempted. He's also been 56th- and 59th-most FTA. He's just been ultra-efficient in those games, and shooting the 2nd- and 4th-most 3PA (and hitting on ~50% of them) helps.
     
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    I can't stand Lebron saying it's now on him to continue Kobe's legacy... What the fuck, you've been a Laker for five minutes.
     
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    What's the forfeit if you are wrong?
     
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    Normally, I am a "screw individual stats, just win!" guy. I am not naive enough, however, to think this game is on a level playing field. If the Blazers get within shouting distance you can bet foul trouble and ejections for bogus techs will rain from the heavens.

    If we can't win, having Dame ruin their party is the next best thing.
     
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    What's the over/under on Lebron FTs? 15? 20?

    I'll say 15 and take the over. :hoops:
     
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    Strong disagree.
     
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    ESPN just cut to the crowd outside Staples and I swear to god I heard them chanting "Ju-sef Nur-kic" obviously they weren't but why did I think I heard that? Maybe it was the audio from the Rockets game overlapping the video from Staples I don't know but it tripped me out

    SOOOOO many people outside Staples. Man, this is going to be seriously emotional.
     
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    I was at that game. You can prob see me on TV as I was behind the basket like 4 rows up.

    I left in awe. That's actually the point I stopped being a super rabid Kobe hater.
     
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    He be like "eat a dick lebron, I'm going to carry the legacy"
     
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    Im not watching the game tonight.

    While I respect Kobe and all, all this laker dickriding will make me physically ill.
     
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    I could barely see the players faces clearly with that non HD shit I promise I couldn't see anyone in the crowd. However, it was fun to watch.
     
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    I took a video of his 65th point. Looks like I filmed it with a potato. Just the tech back then.
     
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