I don't think the Lakers care at all about the Blazers. If it helps them prepare for the playoffs they will play. If rest and avoiding Corona is a larger help for them to win the title, they will sit. Yes the Lakers are the team we Blazers fans hate and want to beat. The Lakers have lost recently in the playoffs to the Spurs, Thunder, Mavs, Celtics, Suns, Pistons, Spurs, Spurs, Jazz, Jazz, Rockets, Spurs, Suns. Then the Blazers in 1992 when Magic retired and they didn't care about basketball. Two years prior they lost to the Bulls and Suns. They think of us as we think of the TWolves.
You have to go back to 1977 to find another playoff series the Blazers beat the Lakers. Sad. Would love for Dame to change that one of these years.
Re: the crowd noise issue. They're supposed to be using NBA 2K sounds - that's stupid. NBA TV should have a feature where you can turn your mike on while watching the game and they transmit that sound to the stands. Then it would track the action.
Just realized tie breakers won’t matter for Blazers. Since, we’ve played more games than NO, Sac, and SA, it’s impossible for there to be a tie.
pumping crowd noise isn’t as bad as it sounds. Watched a Dortmund game couple weeks ago where they did it and it didn’t feel much different than the real thing. They also pumped the noise according to what was happening on the field, so it was even less noticeable.
What do we do with Simons? decrease his minutes? Nurk and Collins will be back, and Simons has shown nothing that he deserves more minutes, each of these 8 games are important, and Simons has been a liability for the most part. I think he should be out of the rotation for these games
If we go 8-0, and N.O. goes 8-0, we will both be at .500, giving them 9th. We don't really control our own destiny, since we don't, presumably, play them again.
