Game Thread PLAYOFFS: ROUND 1, GAME 4: NUGGETS @ BLAZERS - MAY 29, 2021 - SATURDAY, 1:00, TNT & NBCSNW

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Does it feel like this series is effectively over?

Poll closed May 29, 2021.
  1. Yes

    41.7%
  2. No

    58.3%
  1. Darkwebs

    Darkwebs Awakened to emptiness Staff Member Moderator

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    2020-21 REGULAR SEASON RECORD
    PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS
    42 - 30
    (22-14 Road)
    DENVER NUGGETS

    47 - 25
    (25-11 Home)


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    WHEN: 1:00 PM (PDT), SATURDAY, 5/29/2021

    WHERE: Moda Center, Portland, OR
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    ---- DENVER NUGGETS ----
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    MORRIS , HOWARD , DOZIER
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    BARTON , HARRISON , CANCAR
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    GREEN , MILLSAP , NNAJI
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    McGEE , BOL

    -- PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS --
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    SIMONS , BLEVINS , ELLEBY
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    LITTLE , HOLLIS-JEFFERSON , JONES Jr.
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    ANTHONY , LEAF
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    GILES III , KANTER



    INJURIES

    TRAIL BLAZERS
    Zach Collins (left ankle stress fracture): OUT
    NUGGETS
    Will Barton (right hamstring strain): QUESTIONABLE
    P.J. Dozier (strained right adductor): QUESTIONABLE
    Jamal Murray (torn left ACL): OUT




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    MICHAEL MALONE--- TERRY STOTTS



    :reading:OFFICIAL NUGGETS' GAME NOTES
    :reading: OFFICIAL BLAZERS' GAME NOTES




    PREVIOUS MEETINGS IN THE SERIES
    GAME #1: WIN 123-109


    GAME #2: LOSS 109-128


    GAME #3: LOSS 115-120



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  2. Darkwebs

    Darkwebs Awakened to emptiness Staff Member Moderator

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  3. TBpup

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    In regards to the poll question, is Stotts still the Coach?
     
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    My problem with seeing us winning games against Denver is that they still haven't just started posting up MPJ, Gordon and Millsap on us. If they want to just grind this thing out... we're fucked.

    This last game they just beat us at our own game and shot us out of the gym but they have things that we don't that they can take advantage of too and they just haven't yet. So yeah, I thought they'd beat us in 6 but if they win this game then we'll likely do what we've done under Stotts and lay down in an elimination game.
     
  5. BlazerBeav

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    After tonight I've got no hope left. I'm as delusional a fan as they come (with the obvious exception of Eric), but that performance tonight killed me. Two max contract guards being outshot by Austin fucking Rivers in a home playoff game.
     
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    Hang in there man. Big changes coming soon.
     
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    You thought they’d beat us in 6? No, you thought we wouldn’t make the playoffs.
     
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    KSF-ERIC Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, I’m down too. For better or worse, it’s still a long series. Win on Saturday and we’ll feel much better.
     
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  9. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Denver in 6
     
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    Again my prediction was that we would make the playoffs but that we could very easily also miss them. I thought that if Denver beat us and if you were wrong and Utah and Phoenix hadn't rested against us, that we would have ended up in the play-ins where we could have easily lost to GS and Memphis. A lot of could haves that didn't happen and I wasn't surprised to see us in the playoffs because you can go back and look at every time I said we might miss them, I also said but we'll probably end up with the sixth seed. You thought fifth but what does it really matter with the kind of performance the team put in tonight?

    You can go to the game one thread and click on the survey results to get my prediction.
     
  11. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    Blazers in 4!
     
  12. AldoTrapani

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    I just want to know how teams like
    Utah, grizzlies, Dallas, Phoenix, Boston, Atlanta and Denver already built much better teams around their stars. But yet we have guys like melo, Simons and apparently an unplayable kanter for our bench. Ridiculous
     
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    Fuck that game 3. Fuck Kareem Abdul Snackbar (Jokic) and fuck Denver.

    Go out and win the damn thing, tie it up and we'll go from there.
     
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    stampedehero Make Your Day, a Doobies Day Staff Member Moderator

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    stampedehero Make Your Day, a Doobies Day Staff Member Moderator

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    We could be LAC fans and wake up in despair, then depressed for the remainder of the playoffs.
     
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    SIeepwalker The lone sane poster

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    Nurk keeping it real, the opposite of Stotts
     
  18. Fairly-Hard

    Fairly-Hard Former Member Gone New!

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    What's with the foul trouble? Tough to play defense when you are worried about foul trouble.

    At least they took better care of the ball. Got plenty of good looks but missed pretty much everything until the last 2-3 mins of the game.

    You won't see Austin Rivers make those shots two games in a row or even again this series. I like the idea of making someone other than Jokic beat them.

    It's time to call a game "Must Win".

    Gotta get this next one Blazers! I'm gonna try to go.
     
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    In my 'bet the way you think the NBA would want this game to go' method, I see the Blazers winning game 4.

    • Dame will get more than 2 FTs
    • Nurk won't foul out
    • Austin Rivers won't be the best 10-day contract guy in the history of the NBA
    • Stotts won't use Kantor as much....but may/is allowed/should put him in at the end when we HAVE TO HAVE A REBOUND.
    • Our defense will still be....well, meh, but we will "hit more shots"
    • We will be more balanced and Dame/CJ won't continue taking 50+% of all the shots
     
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    Fairly-Hard Former Member Gone New!

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    This thinking for betting would lose you a bunch so far this playoff season.
    The NBA does not want a sweep of Miami or Boston. They do not want the Clippers out in the first round. I also cannot see them wanting the Blazers to lose their first Home playoff game in the last couple years?
    It's kind of "Conspiracy" thinking and that obviously isn't the case? Unless we see huge meltdowns or reversals of fortune in the next week?
     
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