Game Thread GAME# 60: BLAZERS @ CAVALIERS - FEBRUARY 25, 2019 - MONDAY, 4:00 PM, NBCSNW

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Prediction: where will the Blazers finish in the West?

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  1. BonesJones

    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    Basketball is a game of runs.

    Letting Cleveland make up 22 points in the course of 14 or so minutes is more than just a "normal run".
     
  2. hoopsjock

    hoopsjock Well-Known Member

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    They were making it too obvious in the first half and then over compensated too much and almost won so they had to give up again towards the end.
     
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    SIeepwalker The lone sane poster

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    How the fuck does the god Layman only get 16 minutes
     
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    I watched that also. They have some players. Mixed with KLove they can play well. It's just a weird group right now. If they had a top flight PG that team would be pretty good. Not that Sexton is bad. Then if they add a center they will be in the mix again.
     
  5. illmatic99

    illmatic99 formerly yuyuza1

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    Can someone explain to me what happened to Dame's outside shot? Even open ones he's bricking. He's never been a Curry or even a CJ level shooter, but holy hell, dude needs to get in the gym and fix that shit. Some of those misses aren't even close.
     
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    In this particular game Harkless played better. And Jake was struggling at times with Osman. Jake was a -3 and Hark was a + 14. Jake got pulled in the 4th right after Osman scored....again. He did go back in when CJ got hurt but went back out when CJ returned. Every game is going to be different with this much depth.
     
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    TBpup Writing Team

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    Osman scored way more when Harkless was in the game than when Jake was. For a stretch in the 3rd, Osman treated Harkless like a wet paper bag. Not to say Jake was doing great but the majority of Osman's points came against Harkless.
     
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    I get that rotations are fluid but when Jake is active and the offense is flowing stop subbing him out! Honestly, Let the team that's on the court play. I don't care who's on the court, if the ball is moving and we are scoring, let them roll. Stotts subs too much sometimes.

    Tough to bitch when we get a win...but I found a way!
     
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    He's averaging 6 FGA in 18.5min...about a FGA every 3 minutes. Same for Feb. when he's averaged a FGA every 3.06 minutes. So, last night (3.3) wasn't that far off his average usage

    not only that, 84% of Jake's shots are assisted. He has been getting 2 or 3 lob passes a game. Turner has been good at that and so has Nurkic. Dame has found him for a lot of his back cut baskets and three's as well. Jake basically relies on those three guys to get him his opportunities and since Hood was added, it seems Jake spends less time on the floor with Dame and Nurkic. And CJ/Curry are no substitute for a PG or even somebody like Turner
     
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  10. andalusian

    andalusian Season - Restarted

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    I always thought of him more as a Harkless type player - I do not think he can really initiate and run the offense the way Turner does, but maybe I have not watched enough of him.
     
  11. BonesJones

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    Good ball handler and solid passer. Not much worse that Turner in that regard, and better in every other area.
     
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    That’s what he does his whole career. It comes and goes then comes and goes again
     
  13. BonesJones

    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    Tunchi, give it a rest and stop trying to come back. This is like, what, your 6th account? Ridiculous.

    And mods, why is Tunchi still here?
     
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    Not disagreeing that he is better in most other areas - but I do not think he was ever used to run the offense. To be fair - this could be a system / usage issue.

    As a generic backup forward - sure, but as someone that runs the 2nd unit - that's where it could be an issue (the answer might actually be to get someone like him and use him a SG / SF and a real backup PG to run the 2nd unit) - so it is not exactly a direct replacement for ET. The issue the Blazers have is really that there is no real backup PG on the roster now, CJ, Curry are more of combo guards that are really there to create for themselves or shoot assisted shots and Simons is still a project.
     
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    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    I don't think either should be used to run the offense as much as Turner does.
     
  16. PtldPlatypus

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

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    Only Sly wields the hammer. I'll just go through and delete the posts that are personal attacks. That one is a valid criticism of a Blazer player, so there's no reason to make an issue of it.
     
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  18. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    That's what a RUN is. I don't believe anybody typed the term "normal". We won by 13 on the road. Step away from the ledge, on to the next one.
     
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