Game Thread GAME# 6: BLAZERS @ WARRIORS - JANUARY 3, 2021 - SUNDAY, 5:30, NBATV & NBCSNW

Agree. They set the tone by allowing the Warriors to play physical and Portland to get whistled for any nudge of contact. Looking for inconsistencies, look no further than how the screen setting was called tonight. Looney and Green repeatedly either moved or lowered the shoulder to get Curry open and it was allowed all night. Portland got called a few times out top. Cov and DJ were taken out of the game by a few poor whistles, none worse than Curry falling to the ground on a 3 pt attempt as Jones' foot made minor contact with his chest after the ball had hit the side of the backboard. Dame getting whistled for a foul on Lee's 3pt attempt after ducking out of the way was equally inexcusable.

Factor in a hot night from Curry, a quieter night overall downtown from the Blazers and those missed calls and it's really easy to see why the score looked like it did tonight.

Do we win tonight if the game was officiated correctly? I don't know. Steph was in one of those zones, but it would've been a much closer contest.

 

Stotts said something along the lines "In the first half, our bigs were up and Steph was scoring, when we doubled, he split the double team and they scored, we tried a lot of different things."

Is that true or not?

He also dodged a question about Nurk being in shape... basically implying he's not in shape.

 

Curry was gifted a ton of free throws in this game but still...phenomenal performance shooting.....we couldn't buy a free throw.....get the next one...Go Blazers! Curry was going to go off at his new arena eventually...tonight he did that with a little help from his friends with whistles

 

Let me double down

NURKIC IS EXTREMELY OVERRATED. One of the softest big men in the league. Trash

 

I wouldn't be comfortable with rating Nurk under such circumstances with the way this coach has prepared his team.

 

yeah with nurkic he was like “you would have to ask him” like the coach doesn’t know his players conditioning

 

Straight up nutjobs!

 

All of you!

 

Curry fucking got hot and beat us. It happens.....shit Dame has single handedly beat teams by himself in the same manner. I saw about 8 easy ass blown buckets for us.....guys were NOT hitting tonight. GT played like shit. A lot of reasons. But I will NEVER blame the refs for a loss.....that’s middle school shit right there. 10 of 12 at home coming up. Pretty much on pace for the 5th place team out west.

 

Not yet ready to blow his player up in the media. Seems like there's a fine line in protecting players and using public call-outs to motivate them.

 

Public call-outs to motivate players is a sign of a poor relationship with your players. What call-out can only be made in public and not in private?

 

Re: The Poll Question: CJ is the third highest scoring player in the West so.... All Star? Yes.

 

Not only will CJ not play one minute in the all-star game this year, neither will Dame!

 

They'll both make it. Easily. Name 6 better guards in the West. The key word being "better." Don't just list a bunch of guards from the West.

 

Yep.

 

The refs don't bet on games in middle school like they do in the NBA. Or maybe they do, I dunno.

 

There is no All Star game

 

1. Curry just prooved Lillard's point. 50+ points from star player and you can beat every team. It just shows that apart of Lillard and Ninja, for last few seasons, Blazers were GLeague team. Curry can win with performance like this the same way Lillard did many times. GS is not going thru 1st round even if Curry will be MVP of regular.

2. Another game that we will be going to look back at in few months in crazy run for play-in chance.

Nothing new here.