The Official 2019 NBA Finals Thread

Congratulations? Are you trying to make up for aome sort of lack of confidence or...?

 

If you saw my knees, you'd know whats up.

Are we blaming Nurkic for averaging 0ppg in the playoffs?

 

After months of obsessing, I'm glad this guy managed to find my college stats

 

Lol, right. I did play in a one pitch tournament once. My roommate and i missed the first day as we were driving back from 2 weeks vacation of watee skiing and beer drinking and we both still managed to make the all tournament team Guess we were just lucky.

 

Did Nurkic play?

 

No, because of injury. I cooked their team during the summer on my recruiting trip. Went there in September and my knees failed me. Theres been swelling below my kneecap thays bigger than my kneecap every since. Excruciatingly sharp pains during explosive movement. Held me back, and I barely played because of that combined with us having the deepest talent pool in the entire league. That's the truth. But I guarantee you that I'm better than you ever were.

 

Aww, okay, so you only played in a couple games then? Hard to imagine playing in very many games with such excruciating pain. Glad you were able to survive.

 

Thanks bud.

 

Nurkic was healthy and playing when Portland got swept by the Pelicans. He wasn't when Portland got swept by the Warriors this year, and Plumlee was healthy when Portland got swept 2 years ago

the common denominator in those games was opposing defenses selling out to take Lillard out of the Blazer offense. It's worked 4 years in a row in the playoffs. Nurkic in the high post might have reduced a little pressure on Dame this year, but it sure didn't against the Pels and AD. Portland needs somebody, besides Dame, who can handle the ball and run the offense when a team is defending Dame the way they do; somebody who is a threat to score well or pass well. They don't have that player, and until they do, opponents know they get a two-fer with their Dame defense: they limit Portland's #1 scoring option as well as the only guy who can consistently run the offense. The payoff for that defensive strategy is obvious and the template is established

Nurkic might have made a difference but, IMO, he wouldn't have been enough to turn 0-4 into 4-2. That's just not a realistic expectation

 

Nurkic wouldve been the Blazers biggest matchup advantage who is GS gonna roll out to stop him? Especially with DMC hurt?
I agree with you that just rolling Nurk out doesnt make it go from 4-0 to 4-2, but it definitely helps. I think we can see in the Toronto series that the size of Toronto does really give them a hard time.

 

Huh? deepest talent pool in the entire league? Weren't you guys like 7-7 in league play. Didn't you also play in every game that year? Somebody doesn't appear to be telling the truth? All you need to be is real about yourself instead of trying to fluff yourself up to be something you aren't. It's great that you played a year of community college and you should be proud of that but save the "I am the greatest basketball player to ever grace the S2 Blazer fan forum" attitude..

As for your guarantee, I can guarantee you that I was a much better baseball player than you ever were as a basketball player and I could hold my own on a basketball court in my days just fine. How were you on the baseball field?

 

Oh please, adding Nurkic would have completely changed the dynamics of the team. Even a healthy Kanter would have made a difference. Adding Nurkic changed our defense completely and would have giving us a much stronger inside presence along with the pick n roll as a solid weapon.

 

See you in September. Maybe then you won't start pissing matches by telling posters how to post...

If you feel like you can talk shit to someone, you should expect a response.

You didn't have to respond to my post.

 

There are a lot of insults to the poster in this thread. Folks need to understand their roles in the discourse of the forum...

 

I am being real bud. Why would I lie to you? You're a 70-yesr old man trying to flex on an internet forum. I'll let you have that

You've done your research. Therefore, you should know we finished 4th out of 33 teams inn the postseason (much like our Blazers). We didn't have the top-end talent to win it all, but we had an extremely deep team.. the 10th-13th men would've started on half the teams in that league. That's part of why we struggled in league play too. Too many players that deserved minutes and we couldn't settle on a rotation. Turned out to be one of the worst situations for me, mentally, emotionally, and on the court.

Baseball? Shitty. My swing was smooth as an 11 year old but getting hit by pitches every 3 at bats took my mind out of it. It was rough.