Game Thread GAME# 6: SUNS @ BLAZERS - OCTOBER 28, 2017 - SATURDAY, 7:00 (PDT), NBCSNW

I guess if your happy with around 42 wins every season, sure

 

Or King Con.

I still like Rudy the best, though.

 

Long Con for the ladies.......

 

Long Con Silver.

 

ugh, this was such an ugly game, but win is a win, win as many as you can while not playing as good as you can... Nurk had shocking 1st half with shot 1/7, but he was very good in the 2nd half on both ends of the floor, especially at the end of the 4th quarter with some great, decisive defense... he went 5/7 in the 2nd half

17/9/2 sounds great, but on 15 shot attempts, he should have like 25 pts, something like 10/15 or 9/15

hes still finding himself, cant play the whole game great so far, only one half, but thats encouraging, I mean, after shocking 1st half, he got his shit together and had very good 2nd half... Dame, CJ and Nurk, all not playing at their best so far this season, they all struggling, Dame and CJ threes just dont falling down as expected

Pat C was great of the bench, Davis too, Turner had some TO in the 4th quarter, but he got his shit together and pulled some great plays... our defenseisnt looking as good as so far, hopefully theyre not regressing to the last season level of defense

 

Guys, just stop it... Every year the same things... We wait for the month in which Lillard shot fall and we use that month as a proof that we are contender, it just doesn't work like this.

 

Uh... What?

If we gave the same effort against a slightly better (yet still bad) team, we would've lost.

 

Nice grammar buddy. You don't know what you're talking about, so stop trying to pretend, we're not fooled.

 

Sorry for my grammar, I'm Italian and I don't have time/will to correct every sentence.

Grammar aside I think the message was clear...

 

The message was clear...ly dumb.

 

Our big 3 is playing meh and we're 4-2 with both losses going down to the final possession

 

We've also played Phoenix twice, who is terrible. The Pacers, who are almost terrible. A team without their best player.

 

Lillard's 3pt shot has not been bad this year. He's actually shooting above his career average. Where he's been really bad is in 2 point range. He's shooting under 37%. The biggest dip is right at the rim, where he's converting a pathetic 42%. It's not like he's blowing easy shots, he's forcing stuff up.

Also, I don't buy the "he doesn't have enough talent" argument. This year Aminu has been hitting 3s at 52%, Harkless 33. Those percentages from 3 are much better than 42% from 2, when you're forcing up bad shots.

You were probably one of those posters who defended LaMarcus constant turn around fade away jump shots right? That wore thin on Spurs fans real quick because they obviously understand what good basketball is, what a good shot is.

 

But only 2 of our wins were convincing. Yeah, we could easily be 6-0, we could easily be 2-4. I think we should be able to tell by watching the team about how many wins this quality of play will generate. And right now we're playing .500 ball.

 

We played Phoenix, the worst team in the league, twice
The Pacers who are in tanking mode without their best player
The Pelicans without their best player

 

well, he criticizes, so its kinda like we lost

 

We nearly lost against the worst team in the league with half our payroll and full of teenagers, what should I be excited about?

Every year Blazers fans use cliché like "we won even if we played poorly" but at the end of the season the story is always the same: blowout loss in the playoffs.

How are you not fucking tired of this?
You know what's funny? If we were a better team I'm sure you would begging me to stop praising our players because when it's due I'm the first to say it, I'm even cocky at times when I know that my team is better than the others.

But given our situation there's no room for that, we're a fucking mediocre team.

And no, I can't start rooting for the Warriors, I'm not a bandwagon fan, but that doesn't mean I can't be realist about our team.

 

Some fans clearly aren't wanting anything better. They are happy with being a mediocre team and cheering them on like PollyAnna. Not that that's bad thing, if you're content with that, great.

You're team can't be good all the time, but we haven't contended in 17 years, and it would be nice to at least have a top 10 team.

 

TOo early.. I wanna see if we win against raptors, what would be the "excuse". Win is win. 4-2 without a big perfomance (Yet to come) and Atlanta and Chicago are worse than suns. Last year we lost to the suns, remember that.