Game Thread Game #76 - BLAZERS VS PELICANS - MARCH 30, 2022 - WEDNESDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT SPORTS

Oh yeah, CJ is going to light us up. I just hope that somehow the Lakers get some unlikely wins and the Spurs keep winning and don't even let the Pelicans into the play in. The Pelicans have three more easy wins on their schedule, the Spurs only have two more easy wins (both against us) on their schedule, and the Lakers only have one easy win left... however the Spurs are hot and the Lakers could be getting AD back any day and with AD back they could get some of these unlikely wins. Go Lakers (that's right "my friends" I said it) and Go Spurs!!!

my friends is the television edit for mother fuckers, not meant as a personal attack.

 

I'm not sure any of those teams are good enough to have easy wins on their schedule...

...unless it's Portland on the schedule of course.

 

Go Blazers?

 

i'm torn between wanting to win this to worsen NO's play-in standing, while also wanting to stay attached to SAC for our pick.

i don't think there's any way CJ shoots less than 25 times this game.

 

Even if we wanted to win we can't.

 

Re-sorted roughly in order:

Damian Lillard (Abs) OUT
Jusuf Nurkic (Foot) OUT
Anfernee Simons (OUT)
Josh Hart (Knee) OUT
Nassir Little (Shoulder)OUT
Justice Winslow (Foot) OUT
Trendon Watford (Knee) OUT
Joe Ingles (Knee) OUT
Eric Bledsoe (Foot) OUT
Greg Brown (Eye) QUEST.
Didi Louzada (Knee) OUT

Is that our top-9 players, all out? I wonder how much we've obliterated the previous record by?

 

Didi is probable to make his debut. Another good defensive profile with a questionable shot. Should get a good look until the end of the season. Hope he gets as many minutes as he can handle. Evaluation time.

 

We need the Pelicans to lose a couple. I was praying the Blazers would lose last night so I could root for a win against the Pels.

 

Didi clamping CJ lol imagine.

He’ll probably score 40 though. This is his finals. Would be hilarious if it came in a loss.

 

The one reason i could see CJ not score 30 would be because he won't need to play the whole game.

 

Question… do we need to win this one?

 

Bring Nurk, Ant and Hart back for a game?

 

No, our pick is in our control but I don't think we can keep the Pelicans out of the playoffs on our own. I think we control what we can and get the best lotto odds possible by losing every game the rest of the season. Let the Pelicans' situation sort itself out. It's very unlikely that they beat the Wolves or Clippers in the second play in game if they get through the first one. There's also the possibility that the Lakers get really hot when AD comes back, which might be their next game.

What I'm concentrating on is the fact that the Kings play the harder tanking Rockets tonight so this is our chance to tank past them and not look back. Also, unless you want to activate a bunch of guys that I'm sure have been told are done for the season, how do you propose we beat a team starting CJ, Ingram, Herb Jones, Hayes and JV? We don't have the guys to do it that haven't already been told to start getting ready for next season. What we should do now that we have Reggie Perry is tell McLemore that we want to preserve the great year he's had so he has a great chance at a nice contract next season and he can now rest his aching whatever.

 

Good point.

 

He’s had 50 in only 3 quarters before…..I think we see it again tonight. You KNOW they are running players for him EVERY trip down.

 

no...harming the value of a better asset to try and improve the value of a lesser asset would be kind of dumb

 

Actually excited to see

 

Brown is starting too