Game Thread 2022-23 Game #41 - BLAZERS VS CAVALIERS - JANUARY 12, 2023 - THURSDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT

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at some point Billups has to be on the hot seat. Losing so many win-able games.
better be now. his only solution is to ride his starters for 40+ mins. dude has no other ideas and has shown no improvement whatsoever in managing the game.

this looks like it might be similar to nash getting ousted
 
I know I’m hard on Dame but I really feel bad this guy plays for this franchise
This shit right here has to stop. Going in on the guy and then pitying him when it's on his teammates. It's just bullshit. So we shouldn't keep Dame because he's washed and then when you realize that's about the dumbest take ever, you just get to go back to this ludicrous take where he shouldn't have to be here because he's too good.

It's not like you haven't waffled back and forth on these too idiotic takes either. You have said both in one game before. Just stop. The fact is we do need to make moves and if they are around Dame they should be to complement him but going back and forth between Dame is washed and I feel sorry for him that he has to play for this team... is again why no one takes you seriously. I don't care how many losses you accurately predict. Your takes are a fucking joke!

No offense you seem like a good guy, just a really shitty fan.
 
We have become so irrelevant that ESPN doesn't even show our game on the banner on top and has no box socore.
 


I really feel bad for this dude. He does a lot for this city and represents well. He deserves better than this sorry ass franchise
 
68 2nd half points for the Cavs.

Good point. That may get lost in the shuffle with Dame getting a 50 burger. The Cavs guards went off in the 2nd half.

Dame and Ant tried to double team Garland at the end of the game in the back court. By himself, he easily went around them. Didn't need a screen, an outlet pass or anything. That is a bit embarrassing.
 
Honestly we shoulda completely cleaned house and rebuilt, the reloading thing rarely works. I love Dame but the 50+ mil is gonna hurt in a couple seasons. If we completely fall apart this season the Chi pick is protected right? I’m gonna go to bed dreaming of a Wemby/Sharpe future.
 


I really feel bad for this dude. He does a lot for this city and represents well. He deserves better than this sorry ass franchise


Yeah, 50 and it's meaningless
 
Thankfully, we don't have stotts. We have a competent coach now. Light years ahead of stotts and there's no debate on that.
 
It's just inconceivable to me that this group could be playing so poorly together now when they played so well together a couple of months ago. It's like when Dame got hurt the two times everything got messed up with the team development, but we've not taken one step back from where we were when we were 9-3, we've taken a dozen steps back.

These guys have no idea how to play together. They can't even do simple things. They dribble off their own feet, pass at each other's shins, take shots that aren't there, don't even look at the basket when shots are, miss layups badly, miss foul shots, and foul constantly. The one thing they did well tonight that they've been consistently poor at in previous is the guards finally timed their move off the screens so Nurk didn't get called for three fouls setting them.
 
better be now. his only solution is to ride his starters for 40+ mins. dude has no other ideas and has shown no improvement whatsoever in managing the game.

this looks like it might be similar to nash getting ousted

Billups isn't getting fired this year unless they lose 50 games and he punches an usher.
 
Honestly we shoulda completely cleaned house and rebuilt, the reloading thing rarely works. I love Dame but the 50+ mil is gonna hurt in a couple seasons. If we completely fall apart this season the Chi pick is protected right? I’m gonna go to bed dreaming of a Wemby/Sharpe future.

The full rebuild doesn't work that often either.
 
I don’t think the coaching makes any difference. I think the roster is fucked. Better hope for some serious player development from Ant and Sharpe…
 
Don’t worry, we will beat the Mavs on Saturday and Sunday
 
Portland loses these game down the stretch because their offense disappears and their defense is disorganized. That's a sign of weak coaching IMO
 
Honestly we shoulda completely cleaned house and rebuilt, the reloading thing rarely works. I love Dame but the 50+ mil is gonna hurt in a couple seasons. If we completely fall apart this season the Chi pick is protected right? I’m gonna go to bed dreaming of a Wemby/Sharpe future.

And you're going to wake up disappointed.
 
WE DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT ROSTER TO TANK!!!

Joe is obviously committed to Dame so he needs to make moves to get more guys around him like JG that logically complement Dame. I also think he is committed to Chauncey so he needs to go get players that make sense in his defensive scheme. I think Chauncey is fluid when it comes to his offensive philosophy but his switching defense that meets the pick and roll high is pretty in stone. We don't have the right guys to do that. Joe needs to pull some levers and make the roster make sense.
 
It may not, but we KNOW this isn't working, so might as well at least take a chance on something else.

I'm not a fan of that logic. Last year was brutal and given our assets, a full rebuild could be 5 years of pain just to get back to where we are today.

Dame isn't untradable, but it would have to be an amazing package to let him go.
 
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