Game Thread 2022-2023 Game #10 BLAZERS @ HEAT - NOVEMBER 7, 2022 - MONDAY - 5:30 PM (PDT) ROOT

[illmatic99]

So that's what, 5 game winner/clutch shots this year, including 2 buzzer beaters?

Simons vs Phoenix, Grant vs Lakers and Suns*, and now Hart vs Miami*?

Did I miss one?

lol this shit has a way of balancing out by season's end but i'll take it for now!

 

[Wade Garrett]

Big win. We found a way. I'd prefer if we didn't spot the opposing team two quarters, but they did enough to make up for it in the fourth and beat a good team on the road.

Meanwhile Heatfan is saying how they blew the fucking game in the 4th.
48 minutes.

 

[Labinot41]

Doesn't mean he cant play in the 4th or in crunch time.

 

[riverman]

7-3

 

[DDolla]

So that's what, 5 game winner/clutch shots this year, including 2 buzzer beaters?

Simons vs Phoenix, Grant vs Lakers and Suns*, and now Hart vs Miami*?

Did I miss one?

Incoming Dame is Next

 

[illmatic99]

also..... i was SCREAMING at my screen to take a foul while up 3. why do teams STILL not do this

 

[B-Roy]

I'm going to say the obvious: we should try going small.

Go small go small go small go small

Holy shit Chauncey listened to me.

Wow who could have thought going small would ungunk our offense????

Should have went small sooner, but better late than never. Miami guarded us like we had 3 nonshooters out there at all times, which we did most of the time. Chauncey has got to be more comfortable going small and doing it sooner. The spacing with that small lineup out there was just SO much better. Ant and Dame actually had room to work. Defensively, it worked better for us too because we can switch everything and not die on every pick and roll. Miami won't be the first, or last team team to just pack the paint against us.

 

[Idog1976]

Also, while I obviously want it higher, it's cool that our MOV is 0.9 especially given all that wrist tapping going on!

 

[blazerfan11]

Winslow might not have won the game but he turned the shit around when it looked really bad and people were expecting the game to go downhill. And then he played well down the stretch.

 

[Chris Craig]

WOOHOOO! Great comeback win!

Happy Birthday to me!!

Happy Birthday! Mines the next one.

 

[B-Roy]

also..... i was SCREAMING at my screen to take a foul while up 3. why do teams STILL not do this

Because Ant switched on to the shooter too late and by the time Strus had the ball it was too risky to foul a 3 point shooter. Ant took half a second to process whether he should have switched.

 

[Tince]

Or earlier in the season. We already saw him take a shot over that kind of defense. Not sure if anyone was open in the pheonix game.

Ant, Grant, Dame, and Hart have hit game-winning shots already this season.

 

[blazerfan11]

Should have went small sooner, but better late than never. Miami guarded us like we had 3 nonshooters out there at all times, which we did most of the time. Chauncey has got to be more comfortable going small and doing it sooner. The spacing with that small lineup out there was just SO much better. Ant and Dame actually had room to work. Defensively, it worked better for us too because we can switch everything and not die on every pick and roll. Miami won't be the first, or last team team to just pack the paint against us.

It's odd since he talked about it more than once before the season started.

 

[LayneStaley]

Winslow is more important than we realize, I hope they don’t put him in that Durant consolidation trade.

 

[Idog1976]

Should have went small sooner, but better late than never. Miami guarded us like we had 3 nonshooters out there at all times, which we did most of the time. Chauncey has got to be more comfortable going small and doing it sooner. The spacing with that small lineup out there was just SO much better. Ant and Dame actually had room to work. Defensively, it worked better for us too because we can switch everything and not die on every pick and roll. Miami won't be the first, or last team team to just pack the paint against us.

Absolutely, we need 3+ shooters on the floor at all times. Good thing "non-shooter" (my words) Hart became a shooter again! Maybe this will break the ice for him!!!!!

 

[blazerfan11]

Because Ant switched on to the shooter too late and by the time Strus had the ball it was too risky to foul a 3 point shooter. Ant took half a second to process whether he should have switched.

They definitely need to go over that. It's ridiculous that something like that would happen.

 

[TBpup]

Blazers haven’t lost a game I’ve watched live

Let’s go boys!!!!

You know what you have to do then.

 

[B-Roy]

Ant, Grant, and Hart have hit game-winning shots already this season.

Actually incredible.

 

[illmatic99]

Because Ant switched on to the shooter too late and by the time Strus had the ball it was too risky to foul a 3 point shooter. Ant took half a second to process whether he should have switched.

i mean, ya once ant was late, he shoulda obviously not fouled.

but i kinda feel like we weren't gonna do it period.

 

[Idog1976]

Winslow is more important than we realize, I hope they don’t put him in that Durant consolidation trade.

Winslow was HUGE in our comeback, HUGE.

 

[blazerfan11]

Absolutely, we need 3+ shooters on the floor at all times. Good thing "non-shooter" (my words) Hart became a shooter again! Maybe this will break the ice for him!!!!!

And non-shooter Winslow was 6-8 in this game.

 

[B-Roy]

Absolutely, we need 3+ shooters on the floor at all times. Good thing "non-shooter" (my words) Hart became a shooter again! Maybe this will break the ice for him!!!!!

The whole thread on Hart's shooting wasn't because he was a non-shooter, he's been decent shooter his entire career. For some reason this season he's just stopped shooting and now teams are guarding him like he's a non-shooter.

 

[MickZagger]

And non-shooter Winslow was 6-8 in this game.

He’s got that little floater down pat

 

[B-Roy]

i mean, ya once ant was late, he shoulda obviously not fouled.

but i kinda feel like we weren't gonna do it period.

I feel like it was just Ant's mistake. The rest of the players were communicating switches.

There were quite a few possessions this game on defense where Ant was just completely lost. Lost so many good shooters for absolutely no reason. But we can't afford not to have him out there with how offensively challenged the rest of the team is.

 

[42N8Bounce]

Hart 12p, 9r, 8a, 2s
And the game winner!
He did it all tonight, again.

 

[Idog1976]

The whole thread on Hart's shooting wasn't because he was a non-shooter, he's been decent shooter his entire career. For some reason this season he's just stopped shooting and now teams are guarding him like he's a non-shooter.

I literally called him that this game. I was just owning that and how hilarious it is given I think he might have just cured himself!

 

[illmatic99]

there is no one who deserves this more than Dame. Look at how happy he is!

he's been preaching for a decade that you reap what you sow and you stay committed to the grind and things will eventually work out in your favor.

manifesting it into reality this year.

 

[Idog1976]

And non-shooter Winslow was 6-8 in this game.

Yes Winslow was huge. I mean it seemed like it was horrible when we had Winslow, Eubanks and Hart on the floor and then suddenly it just turned. Winslow was huge tonight, HUGE.

 

[Cugel]

Ant was noticeably ferocious in the last ~3 mins. I would like that intensity all the time.

 

[Tince]

Miami has had 9 extra shot attempts (1 extra offensive rebound and 8 less turnovers). That's pretty much accounts for all of their lead.

Portland with 1 more shot attempt than Miami in the 2nd half. That was the difference!