Game Thread Preseason Game #2 Raptors @ Trail Blazers Game Thread

You are wrong. Period.
Ill say it.
You DON'T always play to win.
Some times playing to win in the LONG run, means trying things out in preseason to see what works best and that eval might cost a game.
Whats more important? Finding the best rotation for the regular season, Or winning a preseason(meaningless) game?

I rest my case......

 

Trying hard not to get my hopes up (lesson learned) but they are indeed looking solid, and deep for once.

 

Man they were just shooting the shit in a blowout preseason game

 

It was a joke, but they are garbage

 

So one of the major complaintws last year was that they do play by play too much and dont small talk.
So now they small tyalk and its garbage.

Some people simply cant be pleased.

Keep doing your thing C & H

 

I never complained about only play by play. I complained they were shit last year. They are again this year......IMO

 

Season over. 0-82

 

Hurt? Nah. Stuff like this isn't annoying, it's the stuff that reads like a Wikipedia page that is lmao.

If you told Hurd to say that then maybe you should be color commentator.

 

His offense comes off of off-ball movement, pick-n-pops, and putbacks. All three of those are lessened by playing with Pat, Jake, Meyers, etc.

 

Dude, wtf are you talking about? The preseason isn't like November. Those games COUNT, these DON'T COUNT.

Do you really think our end of bench players struggling at the end of games is going to hurt our "COLTURE"?

Cringe!

 

10/10.

 

Are you actualy going to argue with me that we shouldn't always play to win? Sometimes it seems you're arguing just for the sake of arguing which makes your arguments rediculous.
To the topic: If we have an 18 point lead when the 3rd stringers come in and then lose the game or almost lose the game, the 3rd stringers should feel very bad about themselves like any real competitor would

 

Not in preseason... no.

 

Of course the players play to win, but the coach doesn't in preseason, as he should. Now yes our 3rd stringers suck, but who cares, that's why they are 3rd stringers

 

We need to win every game, to develop a winning mentality, like when leading by 10+ points do the unexpected and actualy make the lead bigger. That's how you become a winning team. Not by giving up excuses for not at all bad 3rd unit forfeiting double digit leads in minutes and not against the other team's starters.
It's nice that we're cruising but I want us to cruise to a double digit win, not to losing to the Suns and barely escaping against the Raptors

 

Relax. The pre-season is a time where coaches evaluate who will make the team as 3rd stringers, which bench players deserve to be in the rotation, and who should win starting jobs at the positions where there isn't a clear leader (sf and pf for us).

 

It just show me that some of those players that out there in that rotation shouldn't be on the team when they make there cuts.