Hey @Chris Craig - thank you for doing these game threads. Although I don’t post every game, I almost always come in here and read the comments. You do a great job setting these up. Much appreciated!
One more win and the Blazers match last season's win total.
I'd love to see them win their 4th in a row tonight, but that's a big ask. I'm okay with 3 wins on this 5-game road trip.
I'm guessing the Blazers finish around 500, 41-41. Not too shabby considering the over-under was around 34.5...
The Blazers may be down by more than 40 in the 3rd quarter, but at least they aren’t beating us in 24-second violations.
Wow.
Every single category.
Wow
I wouldn't call a team with:
- a 1st time 25 y/o all-star,
- a 22 y/o averaging 21.5 ppg,
- a 3rd year player voted to an all-defensive team the previous year,
- a 2nd year player averaging a double-double,
- a 9 time all-star coming off a year's rest from injury with a career 25.1 ppg...
These two images came up on my newsfeed. I thought they told a pretty good story all on their own.
However this plays out, I'm enjoying the minute-by-minute updates telling me that Giannis is 100% now going to team X....
When offering players to Milwaukee for Giannis, how would you rank the 'keepability' of each Blazer?
Here are my thoughts:
UntradableDeni
UntradableDame
Would hurtClingan
Would hurtSharpe
If I mustCamara
If I mustScoot...
From what I've read about 2-way contracts:
- The 2-way player can play up to 50 regular season games.
- Other NBA teams cannot sign other team's 2-way players during the season.
- The original team can convert a 2-way contract to a standard NBA contract at any time, often doing this to lock in a...
Ha! Corrected. :) That's what you get when you have an engineer try to be spelling these fancy words.
And thank you Caleb Love for stepping up once again with another solid game -
I must say, I watched Love play in summer league and wasn't a fan. I'm now on board.