Game Thread Game #56 - BLAZERS VS LAKERS - FEBRUARY 9, 2022 - WEDNESDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT SPORTS

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Are you still going to watch the Blazers this season?

  1. Yep, the tank is beautiful

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  2. No, it hurts to bad

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  3. Yeah, That's what real fans do

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  4. Yes, I want to see the new guys

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  1. Strenuus

    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Heh. Heh.

    I read something and it made me giggle.
     
    Strenuus, Feb 10, 2022
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    SharpesTriumph Well-Known Member

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    LeBron is 37 years old and has played over 62k minutes. It's amazing how productive he is this season.

    However he isn't a 27 year old MVP LeBron that can carry a team in the regular season or the east playoffs. He's one of a couple dozen top allstars in the league. Put plenty of them on a crappy roster and the team won't be good.

    LeBron's biggest downside this season is that he's a shit GM, and the Lakers are dumb enough to give him that sway.
     
    SharpesTriumph, Feb 10, 2022
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    Crazy the betting line for the season on the Lakers was a 52-30 record. A lot of people now are acting like it was certain the Lakers would be the mess they are, but I heard lots of predictions of them at the top of the west back then.
     
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    handiman Well-Known Member

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    That's a reach. Smith, McLemore, and Winslow are all unanimously considered draft busts. Their standing in the league doesn't reflect where they were selected.

    I'll grant you Nurk and Simons. I think they both have a generally perceived vibe of having been 2nd rounders who took a few years to get established.
     
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    Lol.... nobody around the league thinks of Nurk and Simons as a 2nd rounders that took multiple years. Both were 1st round picks that showed big upside their first season.
     
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    People generally remember Nurk languishing on the bench behind Jokic. And Simons showed big upside his first season, really? He had one good game at the end of the year that half the board felt the team was trying to tank in. It was an early toss-up between Simons and Trent, as far as who would actually stick in the league. Many people had given up on Simons as recently as December.
     
    handiman, Feb 10, 2022
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    #FuckingBlazersBroadcasting
     
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    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    i missed two fast breaks cuz of switching to sideline cameras in live action. please please please stop doing that.
     
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    Give me Nurk over AD evryday twice on Sunday.
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    I 100% do not want Lebron James anywhere close to this rebuild or the culture and style of play Billups is trying to develop.
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    Until their next wave of coattails riders, the Blazers have a more exciting future than the Lakers.
     
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    they won a title 1.5 yrs ago.

    i think they'll live.
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    I wish we had a player that could show his age by getting 30/7/7
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    What a great win for US last night! WE really needed that W!
     
    THE HCP, Feb 10, 2022
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  15. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Listening to Cowherd this morning--the Laker kvetching is glorious.
     
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    You had this post ready before the game started because you could post it whoever won.
     
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    To me it's a way bigger reach to call them YMCA players. What I posted is factual. They are all first round picks. They would destroy players at the 24 hour fitness down the street or the YMCA.
     
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    It's an insult, for sure, but it's indicative of the way those players are viewed by pretty much everyone but diehard Blazer fans. Where they were picked has absolutely no bearing on that.
     
    handiman, Feb 10, 2022
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    @SlyPokerDog I just want you to notice that he insulted the poster not the post. And, HCP, I'm a little disappointed in you, sir! Now, if you had said "comedian", not "clown", it might have been ok.
     
    UKRAINEFAN, Feb 10, 2022
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