Game Thread 2022-23 PRESEASON - GAME #2 - BLAZERS VS JAZZ - OCTOBER 4, 2022 - TUESDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT

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Last deadline I wanted to sell high on Ant and Nas and trade them.....I think I was on to something..hope they prove me wrong but so far....underwhelmed...I know it's just glorified tryouts for now but I expected them to be impact players out of the gate
 
UKRAINEFAN said:
Our lack of height really seemed to show last night.
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It did? I did not notice that. Other than maybe against Zeller in garbage time. What I did notice is they shot 45% from 3 and the 34-year-old 6'1" Conley killing us as usual
 
The Blazers are 1-9 in the preseason in the last three years :lol:

Brutal.
 
Natebishop3 said:
The Blazers are 1-9 in the preseason in the last three years :lol:

Brutal.
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Good thing preseason is not an indicator of regular season success. Of course, if we mirrored the preseason, we'd continually be in line for the #1 pick. Don't think we'd have a lot of fan support though. (not as though it is overwhelming right now anyway).
 
SIeepwalker said:
Why is Walker playing only 5 mins ? He's looked like the most NBA ready of our young guys.
Does Keon really need 20+ minutes ?
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Probably not doing well in practice. How’s he’s only getting a couple minutes is beyond me too
 
Fairly-Hard said:
Nic Batum would be pretty good i would think? You get 14/6 with a couple steals and blocks i think they could safely say he was well worth that pick?
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1 Eye Jack said:
we have a 19 year old kid playing with grown men. He’s a year or two away from really contributing on this team which I’m ok with. Simons was same, sometimes you just need that extra time to mature and realize you belong. The talent is definitely there so I’m not worried
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I meant more so about just being parked around the three and not slashing to the bucket on back screens or cuts.
I and many others became increasingly frustrated with Batum, knowing he was the most athletic on the team but moved so little.
 
SIeepwalker said:
Why is Walker playing only 5 mins ? He's looked like the most NBA ready of our young guys.
Does Keon really need 20+ minutes ?
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Keon is a guard and is getting minutes because GP2 is out.
Walker is a forward, even Little only got 13 minutes. I am guessing that they wanted to give Cacok a chance before they cut him.
 
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Pinwheel1 said:
Keon is a guard and is getting minutes because GP2 is out.
Walker is a forward, even Little only got 13 minutes. I am guessing that they wanted to give Cacock a chance before they cut him.
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It's Cacok, lol
 
BlazerBender said:
I meant more so about just being parked around the three and not slashing to the bucket on back screens or cuts.
I and many others became increasingly frustrated with Batum, knowing he was the most athletic on the team but moved so little.
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I was on another site writing quite a bit about the Blazers when "Frenchy" was here.
I always said if Nic gets 12 points and 6 rebounds the Blazers will win. It's was almost set in stone. Nic needed to play well if the Blazers were going to win.
 
Fairly-Hard said:
I was on another site writing quite a bit about the Blazers when "Frenchy" was here.
I always said if Nic gets 12 points and 6 rebounds the Blazers will win. It's was almost set in stone. Nic needed to play well if the Blazers were going to win.
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The “X” factor.
Would that be little and Sharpe now?
 
e_blazer said:
Yeah, I’m sure the plan in the regular season will be to rest the starters in the 4th quarter and see if the end of the bench can carry the team to victory.
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Duh.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
I was thinking more of Moe Harkless, but either way, I certainly hope he can be more effective in taking advantage of his physical gifts.
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If this kid turns into Nic Batum, I’d be ecstatic. Didn’t Nico start 80 games as a rookie and guarded the other teams 1-4 at times? I’ll take it.
 
GrandpaBlaze said:
Good thing preseason is not an indicator of regular season success. Of course, if we mirrored the preseason, we'd continually be in line for the #1 pick. Don't think we'd have a lot of fan support though. (not as though it is overwhelming right now anyway).
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Is it not though?

The last two seasons have been EXTREMELY mediocre or just plain b ad, and a lot of the issues that we saw in preseason continued to manifest during the regular season.
 
Mr. Robot said:
nurk just cant help himself, how the fuck you foul out in a pre-season game

to small of a sample, but his finishing at the rim has been very, very good in these two games
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he's not starting with the ball from the 3-point line like he did in the past. He's going to get much better looks this season, especially if Winslow is a starter.
 
riverman said:
Last deadline I wanted to sell high on Ant and Nas and trade them.....I think I was on to something..hope they prove me wrong but so far....underwhelmed...I know it's just glorified tryouts for now but I expected them to be impact players out of the gate
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I hear ya, I know it's early but am very worried about the Ant/Dame pairing, Nas gets a pass for now given how rusty he likely is, but he needs to get back to last yr's good play in a reasonable time frame
 
Natebishop3 said:
Is it not though?

The last two seasons have been EXTREMELY mediocre or just plain b ad, and a lot of the issues that we saw in preseason continued to manifest during the regular season.
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What you say is true, but we have had better than a 10% winning record - even when we were tanking last year.

Yes, we definitely see many of the preseason issue easily flow right into the regular season. Hence my other post, I don't expect much early on but am hoping (cross-fingers) that they will gel as a team and become better as the year progresses and make our way to .500 or slightly better by the end of the season.

Unless a couple of our "role" players (Nas? Sharpe? Someone else?) blows up, we are likely a mediocre, at best, team this year. Especially what little we've seen of the Dame/CJ (AntJ?) pairing thus far. Color me utterly unimpressed.

Much as I love Dame, I'm thinking he may be the Mike Barrett of team player evaluation. Seems to totally believe in Ant - regardless of the fact that, like with CJ, there is a ton of skill overlap, both work best with the ball in their hands and both are defensively less-than-impressive.

I'm willing to see how it works for a while but my fear is that Ant won't shine like he did on his own and thus reduce the potential trade value of that very-large contract he was just given. Not sold on him long-term.

Gramps...
 
Naz is only 22, Hart & Winslow 25 & 26.

Since Anf is starting at 2 you could start Naz or Winslow at there and bring Hart in for Anf.
Between Anf, Dame, JG & Nurkic being the primary 1-4 scoring option, you need a junk yard dog at the 3.
 
GrandpaBlaze said:
Good thing preseason is not an indicator of regular season success. Of course, if we mirrored the preseason, we'd continually be in line for the #1 pick. Don't think we'd have a lot of fan support though. (not as though it is overwhelming right now anyway).
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Man as we went on the air at 7pm last night, it’s a safe bet to say there was 5,000 in that arena. We had trouble shooting our pregame interviews and other shots because there was NO fans in the seats.
 
BlazerBender said:
I meant more so about just being parked around the three and not slashing to the bucket on back screens or cuts.
I and many others became increasingly frustrated with Batum, knowing he was the most athletic on the team but moved so little.
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That kid impacted the games in so many ways. He is a player we should have hung onto.
 
Fairly-Hard said:
There are not players other than Lillard on this team that are not "Mid Tier" or worse.

Because he is "Mid Tier" at best.

Well? You used the word "Scheme" so you must know what you are talking about.

Callabro is the least of this teams problems.
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I wasn't clear, sorry...when I said 'mid-tier' I meant on the Blazer roster. Dame is obviously the alpha, but gauging by sub-sets of fans and their new contracts, Simons & Nurkic are supposed to be better than mid-tier on the team. I was hoping they'd combine for 30-35M/year instead of the 43M they are getting. I guess Grant belongs with them rather than Hart/Winslow because of salary

I'm guessing there is some food-fight around here about "scheme" I haven't tracked?

Callabro isn't part of the team; he's a part of the broadcast and he grates on my nerves
 
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