Game Thread SEEDING GAME# 5: CLIPPERS @ BLAZERS - AUGUST 8, 2020 - SATURDAY, 10:00AM, TNT & NBCSNW

Right; didn't it seem like every time down, Nurk would end up getting matched up against their most skilled and/or quickest player? I don't think that's the best way to use him; he din't have a single block.

 

You could say it's misleading; but has there ever been another team with a streak like ours in closeout series?

 

Or maybe it would have meant less minutes for Collins and Hezonja, I really think that is more likely.

 

Probably right.

 

I think Ariza would mean less time for CJ, Melo and Zach. The way Gary is playing he would be getting minutes over all of those guys. We could definitely use Ariza right now. Just think if we needed a stop out of a time out, how much better would a lineup of Dame, Gary, Ariza, Zach and Nurk be than Dame, CJ, Gary, Zach and Nurk... it would be huge for us to have that option. If Ariza was playing he'd be starting and that would most likely mean Zach would be coming off the bench but regardless of how Stotts played it, we would be better with Ariza.

 

I don't know and honestly I don't care that much, a series loss is a series loss and a series win is a series win, the only reason why it's good to sweep is so your guys can get rest and practice time before the next round in the playoffs. You grouping last year's WCF in with the other sweeps is just disrespectful to the team and what they accomplished. They won two playoff series and didn't win the conference finals, that's how I see it.

 

UKRAINEFAN- I believe Shaq was swept out of the playoffs 5 times before he won a championship.

Let's see....

Shaq swept out of first round by Pacers in 1994.
Shaq swept out of NBA Finals by Rockets in 1995.
Shaq swept out of ECF by Bulls in 1996.
Shaq swept out of ECF by Jazz in 1998.
Shaq swept out of the second round by the Spurs in 1999.

5 sweeps in 6 years. And in 1997, he lost second round in 5 games by Jazz.

And then he broke through. And won three straight championships.

 

Yes.

 

thank u. I love this team. But I’m not a blink homer. If they did well and proved me wrong I would love it. But they don’t. They struggle against Elite teams That literally don’t care about winning. Ask Paul George he literally said I got took out of the game because we didn’t care about the win. We still didn’t win. We suck. Even Denver tried to hand us the game but we still didn’t get the memo.

 

But what about when we win? What about when we beat Lakers on Kobe night? What about when we won Game 7 on the road? You trash the team anytime anything goes wrong and seem to forgot all the great things they've done. Let PG13 have his fun. Dame waved goodbye to him when it mattered.

 

That's exactly what I decided Cup. Just today I decided that regardless of what I want this roster to look like it makes no sense to discuss it at this point. So no one will see anything from me about personnel decisions regarding players, coaches or front office again, until this season is over for our team. I'm just going to talk about effort, tactics and execution because that's all that the team can control right now.

 

I like this line of thinking. That's the way it should be. Worry about offseason in the offseason.

 

I just want to see stotts fired. It seems like he will be blazers coach till he dies. Im sick abd tired of his weak pathetic demeanor. Terrible coach

 

LOL...WOW!!

in the last 40 years the Lakers have won 10 championships, Blazers 0, but it doesn't matter because Portland beat the Lakers on Kobe night

 

I must say CJ might be worst defender in nba history. I have 2 wishes. Fire stots and trade CJ

 

WTF?

plenty of us like to think about and discuss the off-season, during the season. We like to think about and discuss the draft during the season too, and if it's a lottery team, we start cogitating lottery odds. We think about expiring contracts on players we want, and for the players we'd like to see elsewhere. We think about and discuss the playoffs during the regular season; we don't wait till the playoffs start. We think about and guess next season's salary cap well before it's set. And we actually think about the next season during the off-season. How stupid would it be to say "let's just stick to off-season topics and talk about the season when it's here"...then why is the inverse of that some kind of principle?

you guys who want to compartmentalize go right ahead. But quit trying to use that mindset as a way to criticize discussion about future events and future possibilities. That's part of the S2 entertainment too

I mean hell....nobody better post a game thread until the game starts....don't want to get ahead of ourselves!

 

So I can't be happy until the Blazers win 10 championships?

 

He's actually a decent defender who played good D on PG13 in last year's playoffs.

 

did I say that?

 

You used the 10 to 0 stat to basically nullify any enjoyment I get from the team. Well, if we win the title this year, you could continue to use that stat as 10 to 1. It's an argument that basically says no matter what the Blazers do, we can't be happy.