Game Thread Game #57 - BLAZERS VS KNICKS - FEBRUARY 12, 2022 - SATURDAY - 2:00 PM (PDT) ROOT SPORTS

And as someone else pointed out, we can trade our future first round pick if we want to. It won't be possibly owed to Chicago. I don't know if it's important.

 

Not as funny as two U Florida Gator linemen blocking each other, but still funny.

 

Can he play center?

All the Blazers are fighting each other for rebounds.

 

I love the fact he's such a competitor, but there's a bigger picture.

 

No argument there. The key obviously is not about winning this year. We need to see/know what we have going forward while developing the young players. There is some potential for sure.

 

Blazers even suck at Tanking!

 

He's a younger Draymond Green. 6'6" big body who can play PF, fight like hell and not shoot so great. Winslow just need to learn how to pick his spots like Draymond does.

 

This season has been hard until recently, now it's easy come easy go. If we win that's great but the losses don't hurt too much because where we end up doesn't really matter. I would like us to have the best pick possible if we don't make the playoffs because having the 14th pick would suck but if we do make the playoffs that's a really good thing because it frees up all of our future picks and obviously more Blazers basketball.

I find myself more invested in the overall wins and losses of the Pelicans, on a game to game basis, I care about us during the games more than anything else in sports but overall the Pelicans getting the highest pick possible outside of the top four is the thing that matters most to me this season. So the two very conflicting ideal situations would be us in the playoffs and the Pelicans with the fifth pick or us with the first pick and the Pelicans with the fifth pick. Even though the Pelicans having that high of a pick means we were flying close to the sun as far as losing their pick in the lotto.

 

winning and developing good habits is the bigger picture, especiallly with so many young players. We’re not in a position to get a top 3 pick and no one else is worth actively trying to lose games for (not like any of the 3 were worth losing games for anyway, only generational talents are)

 

if other teams can't beat this Blazer team because of their own flaws it's not the job of the Blazer players to roll over and play worse

 

We're not going to get a star, but I want to get perhaps a future low-end starter and a 6th man.

 

I like Winslow at power forward. He's unconventional, but so is Draymond green. He's a defense, pass-first, push the ball hustle player.

 

we're 13-10 against the East.

10-24 against the West

 

Btw how much does Thibs hate Reddish? The cutaway to him after one of his turnovers was so funny. Pure disgust. No way he’s on the Knicks next year.

 

Agreed, like I said that fourth quarter was fun. If we have a player or coach that for one second doesn't want to win a game that they're active in then that sucks and I want them gone. I want every win while the game is going on, every one. Overall though I would rather have the highest pick possible if we're going to miss the playoffs... so the losses don't hurt too bad. Ideally we end up with a high lotto pick from the Pelicans and get to see some Blazers games in the playoffs while unlocking our ability to deal future picks. If we get the Pels pick we would be drafting this year and would be able to trade future picks starting with next year's.

If we miss the playoffs ideally we'll win the lotto. It would be very much like the Tim Duncan/David Robinson Spurs and could set our team up for a dynastic run.

 

29 assists?
These aren't your Grandpa Stotts' Blazers.

 

Hey! Don’t denigrate part of my name like that!

Sheesh!

 

Is this the guy that ran the mavs that Luka hates lol

 

Well I said Giannis over CJ check BE forums and i feel like that would have been the best draft we could have done in past 15 seasons. Dame plus Giannis.