Game Thread PLAYOFFS: ROUND 1, GAME 4: LAKERS @ BLAZERS - AUGUST 24, 2020 - MONDAY, 6:00, TNT & NBCSNW

I never even got to that point.

Internet provider messed up my email. I was on the line with them when the game started. By the time I got off the phone I heard the TV in the other room and that the Lakers were ahead 22-6.

I just stayed on the internet and took occasional glances at the carnage in Orlando.

 

Damn

 

Every one of them was overrated, including Jack Ramsay. We should have hired Bill Fitch or Dick Motta or Bill Russell or K.C. Jones. There is a lot of retired talent out there.

 

That picture exemplifies my point about the Lakers being taller and heavier than the Blazers guarding them.

 

No but poking and prodding at posters when Dame might've just torn his ACL is asking for that type of response.

 

Just watched the game...
I honestly can't remember when was the last time i turned off a Blazers game before the 1st quarter came to a close...not even against Golden State.

The Lakers+Lebron (and the "win it for Kobe" season) are a refereeing nightmare, i hope the Lakers franchise return to the bottom of the barrel as soon as possible, because this is unwatchable.

 

Is "Mamba Day" going to be 8-24 every year? Or are they like moving it around every season?

 

Yeah.
They just gotta make sure it doesn't fall on International Women's Day.

 

Yes! When i watch the Blazers, especially in the Playoffs, it sometimes feels like we look like kids playing against Adults. When you have a height and weigth disatvantage, you gonna have a Problem. The Raptors last year were a defensive team with heigth and lentgh, physically they were just stronger than most of their opponents. When i look at CJ playing "defense", it is beyond emberrasing, he just stretches his arm out but has zero Chance. We need tough guys with lentgh who can play defense and knock down open shots, guys who are not afraid of playing defense

 

This was a MUST WIN game...and the Blazer came out and gave up a 15-0 run to start the game. (with 2 missed FTs)

They were either:

• Not stategically prepared (Coaching)
• Not mentally prepared (Coaching/individual responsibility)
• Dame/CJ/Nurk/Melo/Whiteside are that much inferior to LeBron/Davis/....MaGee/Green/KCP?

It was over 4 minutes into the game.....flat done. If the Lakers are better, fine. But as has been my belief for many seasons, sometimes it is HOW you play/lose that is more telling than the actual score if the other team is better. (MaGee/Gree/KCP)

Obviously, the most important thing now is Dame's health. But at the beginning of that game, it was to win, compete, fight....and the Blazers did none of those.

 

Yeah this was absolutely puzzling at best?
We all knew that game was over in the first 5 minutes.

 

One thing i really noticed was how hard the Lakers kept fighting even when the game was out of hand. Lebron knows you simply do not let a team back in the game for any reason in the playoffs.

 

No I don't; I just watch for awhile sometimes.

 

I was saying it because it was a blow out, not because Dame sprained his knee. And by the way, those posts did happen. I know you like to get in personal attacks with people on here, but I will not be engaging in them with you. Spirited disageements about a game is what I enjoy about this forum.

 

I never said you were saying it because Dame blew out his knee. Again, poking at people when Dame might've torn his ACL isnt going to be well received.

 

Since the MRI was inconclusive I'm hoping he just hyperextended his knee...ice and rest will fix that...if not I hope he just bruised the meniscus without tearing it which would show up on and MRI either.....so far so good.

 

Sounds like just a sprain but he is out for Game 5.

 

You were the only one with that type of response.

 

It only needed to be said once.