Game Thread PLAYOFFS: ROUND 2, GAME 6: NUGGETS @ BLAZERS - MAY 9, 2019 - THURSDAY, 7:30 PM , ESPN

If so that makes sense the comment even worse. Turner flipped em off so you retaliate by hurting Nurk? Wtf.

 

went something like

"Turner flips off the denver bench..."
"And now Nurkic on the bench acting tough guy"
"Well he always act like that"
"Yeah...... Kick him in the shin"
"Ahah"

 

Sure, but nowhere near what he's doing in this series.

In fact, when Jokic and Nurkic have played each other, only significant difference is in their assist numbers.

https://www.landofbasketball.com/games_between/nikola_jokic_vs_jusuf_nurkic.htm

 

Great game last night and a gutsy effort. I find it rather shameful how many bandwagon fans this forum has as several members essentially quit on this team before the game.

 

You got it right, they are bandwagon fans! Real fans and/or athletes never give up...

 

Zach is "The Zman"

 

In Game 6 someone on Denver's bench flipped off the Portland bench. I'm sure Turner was just returning the favor.

 

Funny you mention that as my oldest grandson is named Zach and we called him Zman from his early ages till now (21 years old).

 

Props for doing what every knowledgable fan wouldve done? I hold him to a higher standard than that.

 

So what do you call what the Blazers did in game 5 then? They pretty much gave up...

I think its a joke to call people especially most of the members here “Bandwagon” fans, most of us are pretty hardcore Blazer fans for a large part of our lives. So what we thought the Blazers might lose a game, that means we “gave up on them?”. No just means that were people... Just as much as I hate the “meltdowns” of the people and myself in games or shortly after, I find it so annoying when people rush on here to say, hah all you guys who spend way too much of your life talking Blazers, well you arent “real” fans...

 

No person nerdy enough to join a fan forum and post regularly could ever be accused of being a bandwagon fan. Period.

 

Exactly. I'd like to know the names of these people that they think are "bandwagon" fans.

 

why do you need to have people named? Read the posts and see who mentioned that they weren't going to watch the game and that they are done with the team after game 5 as they predicted that we were going to lose game 6 anyway. It's there in black and white. You just need to open your eyes.

 

You may think it's a joke, but nothing is more pathetic than for a "fan" to post in a forum that they are done with this team and won't watch game 6 and some saying we are going to lose anyway. You say the team quit in game 5? I say they played a bad game. Their response in game 6 pretty much prove this team is not a quitter. This team has proven to me from the whole season that they don't quit.

 

Stotts has already proven he's a pretty good NBA coach. Knowledgeable fans know that.

 

I say in game 5 I saw only the 2nd half because of other commitments, but that was a team that quit. They were jogging up and down the court on defense, they’re were stretches of the 3rd that Dame was the only player who even appeared to sort of be interested in basketball, call it whatever you want. Yeah the meltdowns are annoying, and the doom and gloom of emotional fans (I include myself here) is frustrating, but you realize that almost everyone in this forum is not even close to a “bandwagon fan”, would venture to guess almost all us watched game 6. Its called emotions and its a rollercoaster ride at times but thats part of being a fan. Most of us will be here all off season talking about the Blazers, we’ll watch summer league games, get excited for players we know have a long way to go, our time investment just on this site alone lends to a large majority of us are NOT band wagon fans.
Im all good if you want us to eat crow for thinking they would lose game 6. Im down for ribbing us fans who thought they would want less games than they did. Im not down for calling people bandwagon fans because their emotional reaction to a sport and a team isn't the response you like. All sports franchises want fans who are emotionally invested in them, which the Blazers have and that includes the good, the bad and the ugly.

 

Imagine if no matter what your wife was like: "Yes dear, you're right. You never make a mistake." Oh wait, that would be awesome. Bad example.

 

I watch games in the arena and at the bars and at friends' houses, and I can tell you knowledgeable fans are not the blind rah rah rah fans, they are the nervous ones who know how much times is left on the clock and which players are playing well and when we are playing hero ball when we should be running plays and so forth. It isn't negative to be observant or critical, I don't think.

 

Its negative and not "knowledgeable" to think something differently than Cup though.

 

Because if you're going to talk shit about people you might as well name names.