Game Thread PLAYOFFS: ROUND 1, GAME 3: LAKERS @ BLAZERS - AUGUST 22, 2020 - SATURDAY, 5:30, ABC

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Who's the better overall coach?

Poll closed Aug 22, 2020.

  1. Frank Vogel

    14 vote(s)
    45.2%

  2. Terry Stotts

    17 vote(s)
    54.8%
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    Yeah i tend to agree with that. Win and Losses are usually the ultimate deciding factor. Championships seem to solidify a coach as "Great" or at least very good. "Dame likes Him", "He has made the Conference Finals", "He has made the playoffs 7 years running with some of the weakest benches ever", " His teams constantly over perform" Those statements seem to just solidify a coach all the more when they are in the running for a Championship. But do not make a "Great" coach.
    Does Nick Nurse get COY if the Raptors don't win games this year? Is it all just hangover from winning the championship?
     
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    One thing for is this team is urgency on both ends. Players have to make shots around Dame that will make Lakers to have adjusted there defense and hopefully that will take pressure of Dame.
     
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    Even after the last game I still thought we'd have a chance in this series. But dame ain't gonna be the same with that dislocated finger, and if that's the case I don't see how we win a best of 5 series here. The timing of that injury makes it so frustrating, since he shouldn't even had been in the game.
     
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    I agree the injury will have some effect. I also agree that winning a best of 5 right now is gonna be a tall order.
    But there was no way Stotts was taking him out at that point of the game. Late in the third is when he gets hot. That is when we all are looking for the switch to go on. If it would have happened well into the 4th down 30 i would have blew a gasket but that was not the case.
     
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    Trust me we wouldn’t have won anyways. We were down 30 in that game with a healthy Dame. Lebron James doesn’t lose in the 1st round
     
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    yeh i see you're point. Just unfortunete it had to be dame out of all people. We ain't gonna shoot that bad again, and lakers aren't gonna shoot nowhere that good again, but dame's injury makes it a tall task now
     
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    lakers shot a franchise record 3s, they ain't gonna shoot nowhere near like that again, there not a good shooting team and we ain't gonna shoot that bad again, which is why if dame doesn't get hurt I'd still fancy us taking it to 7 games, but with dame's injury now, its most likely all but over
     
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    Next year
     
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    Stotts said there could be a change in the lineup today.

    My best guess is Whiteside over Gabriel, but Trent probably deserves to start as well, considering the effort he’s given defensively.
     
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    Rondo is ACTIVE for tonight’s game

    doesn’t mean he will play but he could.
     
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    SuperDame warning up.....

    C6B6FA46-45D8-4DDF-990C-BBC54B1490CF.jpeg
     
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    ...how many shots would you estimate he has put up since the injury trying to get used to the tape?
     
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    Ahhh oh Rajon Rondo active. They already had us on locks without him imagine now
     
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    I thought it was Clamps?
     
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    He's starting hassan? For fucks sake
     
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    So is Little ever gonna get back in the game?
     
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    He shot steady for 5 minutes. His regular warm up set he always does. Went to the bench and went over some "game film" with coaches.
     
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