Game Thread PLAYOFFS: ROUND 2, GAME 1: BLAZERS @ NUGGETS - APRIL 29, 2019 - MONDAY, 7:30 PM, TNT

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If Kanter can't play, whom would you want to start at the Center position for the Blazers?

Poll closed May 5, 2019.
  1. Meyers Leonard

    57.5%
  2. Skal Labissiere

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  3. Zach Collins

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  1. Darkwebs

    Darkwebs Awakened to emptiness Staff Member Moderator

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    2018-19 REGULAR SEASON RECORD
    PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS
    53 - 29
    (21-20 Road)
    DENVER NUGGETS

    54 - 28
    (34-7 Home)


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    PROBABLE STARTERS---------


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    POINT GUARD

    DAMIAN LILLARD VS JAMAL MURRAY

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    SHOOTING GUARD
    CJ McCOLLUM VS GARY HARRIS

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    SMALL FORWARD
    MOE HARKLESS VS TORREY CRAIG

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    POWER FORWARD
    AL-FAROUQ AMINU VS PAUL MILLSAP

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    CENTER
    ENES KANTER VS NIKOLA JOKIC

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    WHEN: 7:30 PM (PDT), MONDAY, 4/29/2019

    WHERE: PEPSI CENTER, DENVER, CO
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    -- PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS --
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    CURRY , SIMONS , HOOD
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    TURNER , TRENT Jr. , LAYMAN
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    LABISSIERE , COLLINS , LEONARD


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    THOMAS , MORRIS
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    BEASLEY , BARTON , VANDERBILT
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    HERNANGOMEZ , LYDON , LYLES
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    PLUMLEE , WELSH

    INJURIES

    TRAIL BLAZERS
    Enes Kanter (separated left shoulder): QUESTIONABLE
    Jusuf Nurkic (left leg injury): OUT
    NUGGETS
    Michael Porter Jr. (low back surgery): OUT




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    TERRY STOTTS --- MICHAEL MALONE

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  2. Darkwebs

    Darkwebs Awakened to emptiness Staff Member Moderator

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  3. Wizard Mentor

    Wizard Mentor Wizard Mentor

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    No Cinderella's here:
    Top 4 seeds in the West made it to the 2nd round.
    Top 4 seeds in the East made it to the 2nd round.
     
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  4. joeBlazers

    joeBlazers Well-Known Member

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    Enes has been confirmed fit to play?
     
  5. SIeepwalker

    SIeepwalker The lone sane poster

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    Easy dub
     
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    TBpup Writing Team

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    Joker will be a load no matter who we have. Will really miss Nurk this series but Dame is still the best player on the floor.
     
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    I'd sit Enes until he is healed up better. Hell we might win without him tomorrow and control this series. Seen a lot of games where guys try to push through playing hurt and end up being a negative on the court. Better to wait until he will have a positive impact.

    I'll be curious how Meyers does, he looked good defending Gasol, Cousins, Drummond, types in the past if they don't have the foot speed to get around him. Not sure if we see some of that or confused Meyers 2 steps behind the play.

    If Jokic schools Meyers then we probably have to play Aminu/Mo some at center with Jake/Turner sliding to PF.

    Winning game 1 is our best shot of stealing a road win, with them fatigued from the last round. If we lose its going to be a tough grind to get back in the series.

    Go Blazers!
     
  8. SheedSoNasty

    SheedSoNasty Well-Known Member

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    CJ Harris looks weird.
     
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    Lets hope they come out ready to play and have a good game.
    Very tough to win in Denver in the first place.
    Even tougher without a big man capable of guarding their franchise center.
    Not sure how i feel about playing Kanter at this point? If keeping him out of games 1 and 2 can get him healed up a bit then i would do that. You don't lose much by taking a couple losses on the road then coming back and trying to hold serve in Portland. The other side of that coin is if he will not get any better by then anyway and will be playing through pain no matter what? Kind of a slippery slope in my opinion here.
    Lets hope they have a good showing.
    Go Blazers!

    Kjironman is a fan!!!
     
  10. Dougnsalem

    Dougnsalem not barf

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    I never thought I'd be saying this, but we sure could use him; whether he starts, or not....

    COME ON MEYERS! That 3 point shot is CAKE for you! You can do it!!! Remember???





    Go Blazers!!!
     
  11. James lamphear

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    Jokic going be load against any our big man and that includes Nurk if he was healthy. But the one thing that Zach and Skals if plays both of them can take Jokic off the dribble. Leonard can take him outside and Kanter is pretty strong he can back him down. Jokic will get his on offensive but we need go right at him to get him in foul trouble.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I don't think I have ever heard Shaq say something intelligent.
     
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    agree, I would go right at him with our two bigs that can take him off the dribble. He reaches a lot!
     
  15. e_blazer

    e_blazer Rip City Fan

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    Well, I guess from here he has three ways to go:
    He can say something about equally smart, he can say something absolutely brilliant, or he can say something stupid.

    My money is on three.
     
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    I’m pretty sure Shaq hates the Blazers and will never pick them to win anything.
     
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    GriLtCheeZ "Well, I'm not lookin' for trouble."

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    Reminds me of my favorite scene in Blue Chips.
     
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  18. Wade Garrett

    Wade Garrett Exactly right.

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    Resting Kanter won't help.
    His injury still takes a month to heal.
     
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    Just have to let Kanter and Blazers medical stuff decide if they can safely patch him up short term or not. Cross fingers.
     
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