Game Thread GAME# 53: BLAZERS @ MAVERICKS - FEBRUARY 7, 2017 - TUESDAY, 5:30 PM (PST), CSNNW

Discussion in 'Portland Trail Blazers' started by Darkwebs, Feb 5, 2017.

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At this point in time, would you be opposed to the Blazers tanking?

Poll closed Feb 12, 2017.

  1. Yes

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    39.5%

  2. No

    23 vote(s)
    60.5%
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  1. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    ....SIGH
     
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    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    No, just smart. I got a $100 gift card to the blazers that's good for any game I want in any year - I'm not even going to waste someone elses' money on this years team.

    TBpup may have found a lot of new clients this year. ;)
     
    Strenuus, Feb 6, 2017
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    Minstrel Top Of The Pops Global Moderator

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    Gotta support the team.

     
    Minstrel, Feb 6, 2017
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    I was joking about Gasol.

    How are the closer losses different? Coming back from 21 down against Warriors and back from 7 down with 30 seconds left to getting off a wide open three pointer that would've won the game. Or the layup Plumlee nearly missed that would've beaten a hot Philly team. Or coming back from 24 down to tie the Mavericks. This team has been fighting tooth and nail. When we win, no one gives them credit but a couple close losses and we're awful and not worth watching.
     
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    So with 30 games remaining, you've written off the season? Or if we start winning a lot, you'll jump on the bandwagon? Just want to know where you stand.
     
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    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Yeah, even if we start winning a lot, it's a lost season. 8th seed is the worst, anyway. I don't want the playoffs this year, this team isn't good enough even if they do make it.

    It's cute you try to "fox news" questions. Didn't work.
     
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    Minstrel Top Of The Pops Global Moderator

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    What does "supporting the team" mean to you, KingSpeed? What must be done to qualify?
     
    Minstrel, Feb 6, 2017
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    I don't know what you mean.
     
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    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    It's a joke there's a qualifer in the first place. That's the real joke of that all.
     
    Strenuus, Feb 6, 2017
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    Then I'm right.
     
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    Still participate in any way you can. In your posts on this forum and by watching games on TV or in person.
     
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    But not listening to them on the radio?

    So, I post in this forum, I listen to them on the radio... I'm confused. Does Wheels not do radio for us? Is that just a figment of thousands of people's imagination?
     
    Strenuus, Feb 6, 2017
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    Listening on radio is great too! Don't bash the player's effort when you're only listening on radio though. There is no way for you to know.
     
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    And most people have thought they gave no effort or little effort.... so I'm not wrong in what I hear.
     
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    If youre still here at this point youre a fucking fan. period.
     
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    Well, then, no one on this forum fails to qualify as supporting the team, since they're all participating, at the very least by posting.

    Some of us support the team with tough love. It's for their own good. They'll thank us later (maybe not Olshey or Stotts, if they're fired).
     
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    The only way you can effectively tank on purpose is to sit your top players for the rest of the season. Which is ridiculous to think it would happen before the all star break for Portland. Another problem with tanking is that there are so many games in April that are at home. Unless Dame and CJ are banged up I doubt they will agree to sit.

    I think those who want to tank are better off hoping our opponents all get hot. Brooklyn, Lakers, and Phoenix will all tank IMO after the all star break. Not sure about Dallas. But the rest might try to win though.
     
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    BrunoSOC Ripcity from Brazil

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    I just see so negative comments. We have this, payback time! Lets go blazers
     
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    Deja Vu? 1486334724394-StottsPost05FEB17_-1205764-5.576x324.jpg "They outplayed us in the fourth quarter"
     
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    HomerLovesKoolAid I have a well-known member.

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    Do we need more "scrappiness"?
     
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