Portland Trail Blazers Thread

[HODGEYROAD]

Hilarious sequence today vs the Warriors in which we stretched our lead from 7 to 15 with one trip down the floor halfway through the 4th.

 

[Spanish Sahara]

Hilarious sequence today vs the Warriors in which we stretched our lead from 7 to 15 with one trip down the floor halfway through the 4th.

Haven’t seen the game. What happened?

 

[HODGEYROAD]

Haven’t seen the game. What happened?

Flagrant foul called all Draymond Green, then Kerr went nuts and copped a double technical I think.

Net result ended with us having 5 free throws which we made all 5, then side ball which ended up resulting in a made 3.

 

[HODGEYROAD]

7 game road trip after the All star break is going to be huge factor in determining our homecourt fate, some really tough games like Toronto, Boston and Philadelphia also.

 

[fleabitten]

That Warriors melt was glorious to watch. What a bunch of spoiled little bitches. 2nd year role-player got totally in their heads without hitting a single field goal.

"* you, hoe"

 

[fleabitten]

The bit at around 3 minutes with Curry actually stepping onto the court during live play and trash talking in the ear of ET as he shoots is pretty infuriating and lowers Curry to the same level of his teammates (he used to be the only one I liked). He's so happy with the results of his cheating that he jumps up and down in celebration. Check the smug look on Kerr as the Warriors all backslap each other for this display of poor sportsmanship.

I hate them almost as much as the Lakers now. They've moved into 2nd ahead of the Rockets.

 

[fleabitten]

Love that man.

 

[HODGEYROAD]

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Love that man.

Yeah he's a really good person and comes across as loyal as sports stars can possibly be. Sadly his loyalty is ultimately probably going to be what costs him a chance to ever win an NBA championship.

 

[fleabitten]

Yeah he's a really good person and comes across as loyal as sports stars can possibly be. Sadly his loyalty is ultimately probably going to be what costs him a chance to ever win an NBA championship.

I hope at some point in the next few seasons, a gun free agent looks at the closeknit Blazers squad, remembers Lillard raining threes from the logo in the All-Star game, thinks about Zach Collins potentially calling him a hoe and decides "that's where I wanna play".

 

[HODGEYROAD]

Good to start our long 7 game road trip with a win in Brooklyn, good games from the bigs Nurk and Kanter.

 

[The Casey Cat]

Staggered that Kanter has fallen into our lap. If it can click we are considerably more legit than before. Very handy.

 

[Spanish Sahara]

I disagree a bit. Offensively yeh we are better but our D will be far worse off. Shame collins won’t see too many minutes now

 

[HODGEYROAD]

I disagree a bit. Offensively yeh we are better but our D will be far worse off. Shame collins won’t see too many minutes now

It'll only be for 25 games + whatever playoffs for the remainder of this season, then Collins will be back to getting mins.

 

[The Casey Cat]

I disagree a bit. Offensively yeh we are better but our D will be far worse off. Shame collins won’t see too many minutes now

I don't see why he can't still get decent time. And if Nurk or Kanter are playing s**t/injured/get foul trouble he is straight in.

 

[HODGEYROAD]

Embiid was out but that's still a good win against Philly away.

 

[Swan4Brownlow]

Bench actually looks decent now with Layman, Hood, Seth, Kanter. Great mix of shooting, cutting, and paint scoring. They’re all nba rotation standard players.

Kanter can’t defend my grandma but as long as he scores to prevent those long scoring droughts the bench always used to suffer from we should be a better team.

 

[Spanish Sahara]

Layman playing well very. Love how he moves without the ball, constantly cutting.
Gets him some easy buckets

 

[The Casey Cat]

Embiid was out but that's still a good win against Philly away.

Stoked. Scored 130 without Dame or CJ even getting 20. Rebounding advantage 53-33.

 

[HODGEYROAD]

Nice that we managed to get the W in Boston, both teams shot the 3 horribly, us 6-33 and them 5-28.

 

[HODGEYROAD]

Tin arse roll for Kawhi at the death today that made us lose our first game of this road trip.

 

[HODGEYROAD]

Hood stood up with 27 second half points today at Charlotte, good to see as his form the last few games had been fairly ordinary.

 

[HODGEYROAD]

Poor end to what was a great road trip overall, losing in Memphis to end the road trip 5-2. Is it just me or does Mike Conley always go off against us ?

Anyways that leaves us, OKC & Houston all locked on 39-25 between 3rd and 5th with 18 matches remaining.

 

[The Casey Cat]

Defense still just not good enough. Giving up 120 to the Grizzlies and allowing them to shoot nearly 50% from 3 is absolutely pathetic.

 

[HODGEYROAD]

Defense still just not good enough. Giving up 120 to the Grizzlies and allowing them to shoot nearly 50% from 3 is absolutely pathetic.

Do we give them some leeway for being on the final leg of a long 7 game road trip ?

 

[The Casey Cat]

Do we give them some leeway for being on the final leg of a long 7 game road trip ?

A little but still it's the freaking Grizzlies and it's the same way we lose nearly all our games no matter what circumstance. Giving up too many and not getting enough from our bench.