Game thread: Trail Blazers vs OKC 2/11/09

Well... Tony Luftman is on TV, time to find something else to watch.

 

Fiction.

There was no switching going on tonight.

Westbrook was smothered by Sergio any time he got within 15 feet of the hoop.

Do you even watch, or do you just post?

 

Oh boy, I got a kick out of this one.

Considering that you've already admitted that you don't watch the games, I'd ask you the same question.

 

i think you watch your own version of the game in your head or something.

there's a reason sergio was yanked 4 minutes into the 3rd Q and never got back in. he was terrible.

 

i'm sorry(well not really) but that is ridiculous.

small ball lineups have been because frye, ike, and shavlik all suck and have either been terrible this year(frye and ike) or aren't good enough to ever see the floor(shavlik).

if these small ball lineups were trying out things for when blake comes back, you'd have seen some lineups with sergio and bayless on the court together as that is what would have to happen for the 3 of them to all get minutes.

so even if nate said it, i don't believe him. you can't give out meaningful minutes to 3 different pgs. there just aren't enough minutes to go around. and really the only way blake is being traded if a really good pg is coming to portland in the deal.

 

sergio was definitely smothering westbrook when he let him get multiple offensive rebounds.

 

mike barrett loves him some blake. i used to be okay with it god damn you could swear blake is john stockton or something. bayless>>blake IMO

 

the laker game was just during half time(and maybe the first minute of the 2nd half). during commercials in the first half, it would go to the rockets game and then stick there for a while before eventually coming back.

i assume he was watching the same feed as me.

 

So far this year:

Sergio = Assist every 4.6 mins/TO every 11.59 mins/PF every 11.60 mins

Jerryd = Assist every 8.93 mins/TO every 11.83 mins/PF ever 7.63 mins

I like that Jerryd avoided his usual foolish rookie fouls tonight, but he did so by waving his cape for Westbrook.

 

Get over it man, they compliment each other well; Bayless plays better defense, everyone here and the analysts know it, (except you)

However, Sergio is more experienced running the team. So it's a give and take on every day they play. However, I guarantee that in three years, Bayless will be better. Even though I do love Sergio, I think that's the truth.

 

You don't even watch the games. How can anyone take you seriously?

 

I have never said anything resembling that.

I miss maybe 1-2 games a year.

1 this year so far.

But you like to make shit up so whatever floats your boat.

 

Maybe, but the team still operates better with blake. It has been my hope since the pre-season that Bayless would overtake Blake and Sergio and become the starter. He hasn't earned it yet, but I'm still hoping it will happen sometime after the break. Not sure Nate feels comfortable with 3 rookies starting, though. (Unless we get Wallace, but that's another story...)

 

I agree they compliment each other, I disagree about the defense and so did Nate recently in print, saying Jerryd was lost out there when it comes to team defensive schemes and help defense, and I fully expect they will be playing side-by-side alot in 3 years, or much sooner.

Sergio at the point and Jerryd at the SG.

 

Well thank goodness that isn't an issue, since what we're talking about are 1 PG Sergio, 1 SG Jerryd, and one Combo guard Steve.

For how easy it is to spread the PT around see Porter, Drexler, and Ainge.

 

repeating over and over that bayless isn't a pg doesn't make it true.

 

I'll give MARIS credit, he's gonna ride this out until the bitter end. I've never seen someone so in love with such an inconsistent, mediocre player as Sergio. But hey, whatever floats your boat

 

Don't you get embarrassed lying in print? I mean, why do you even post if you're going to lie?

It doesn't make you appear very bright.

Westbrook vs Sergio = 2 offensive boards, 1 defensive board

Westbrook vs Jerryd = 6 offensive boards, 3 defensive boards

http://www.nba.com/games/20090211/OKCPOR/playbyplay.html


Bayless has a great talent for scoring 1-on-1, and we need that, so why not use that as evidence of his value, instead of claiming he is something he most clearly is not?

As a defender in this league, he's absolutely nothing special.

Yet.

 

You have no mirror?