Game Thread 2023-24 Game #1 - BLAZERS @ CLIPPERS - OCTOBER 25, 2023 - WEDNESDAY - 7:30 PM PST - ROOT

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we need to tank for Matas Buzelis though... to replace Thybulle with him in the starting would do WONDERS for this team...he'd settle everything down on many fronts..

I know theres the "take it easy its game 1 crowd" but certain problems cant be solved just thru growth alone..

Buzelis solves a great number of those problems we just saw in that 1st half all by himself --- AND hes not a ballhog whatsoever, he fits SEAMLESSLY on and off the ball..

sorry to let the draft thread leak to this game1 thread.. but if u actually look closely at that 1st half, what just occured... Matas Buzelis is the cure for lots of the funkiness seen at SF and in playmaking..

We're just unsettled and Buzelis makes all that stuff look easy, and he creates matchup issues...

This kahwi leonard n paul george matchups are miserable for us right now, with buzelis it'd be much more fair..
 
I’ll be honest, scoot has looked horrible this game. I expected him to be bad, but not this bad.
 
lol the people bitching about some of us pointing out weaknesses are completely missing it

I think it’s pretty well documented I think we are gonna be ass

But an NBA team that is failing to do the basics is unacceptable … like Ayton setting screens on air.

Or not running an offense … or at best … a 3rd grade offense “just give it to the best player”.

Scoot not even playing PG is a waste of our time


yes I don’t expect us to be good but I’m not gonna make time to watch if our team fails to do things a 6th grade AAU team does… pathetic
 
Grant should be benched for that. A 4-1 break with Shae ready for a lob and he throws the ball out of bounds behind the deepest trailer? What a joke from the veteran.
 
Sharp is being wasted as a spot up corner shooter. He's more aggressive with the ball in his hands. I understand the idea playing him with the bench.
 
as bad as billups offense might look ---- give him all the best players in the nba and he'll look like a damn genius... thats sorta how things work.. steve kerr will tell ya..
 
FlashWad said:
I’ll be honest, scoot has looked horrible this game. I expected him to be bad, but not this bad.
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He looked really good in the first two games.

He looked okay against Utah.

He looked really bad against Phoenix.

He has looked even worse than the last game of preseason.

I get that he's 19, but his confidence has been getting progressively worse with every game. I think it's something to be mildly concerned about. Shaedon was supposed to be a project. Scoot was not.
 
rough game for Scoot. Hopefully he can turn it around in the 2nd half
 
Natebishop3 said:
Sure, but these guys look like they have literally never played together...ever.
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Fair... but there's so little that's the same as last season that Chauncey might have just decided to build his offense from scratch later around the things he sees on the court... it sucks now, but hopefully this is the work that'll lead to grows by Game 41.
 
We need to have Scoot have the ball in his hands and run a PNR, I mean wtf is even happening? Also, Ant and Grant both seem to ignore Sharpe, or they are just always calling their own number.
 
About what I expected.

Some things I’m disappointed in

1. Our defense is still trash.
2. Our offense is still ISO oriented

Questions

1. Will Scoot ever score in his NBA career?
2. Can I live long enough to just see another winning season?
 
Scoot ends his 1st half with 0 points, 0 assists, 3 turnovers and 0-5 shooting.

I think people expected him to struggle a bit out of the gate.....but not to look completely lost. Pre-game jitters, or whatever, he will get better. He has to, because that is about as bad of a half as one can have.
 
TBpup said:
Russ acts like he's actually accomplished something other than put up a bunch of empty stats.
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well not to be a disagreer... but russ has sure accomplished what he was hoping to in tonights game --- which was to get into Scoota's head.. now truly he had a whole lot of help from Zubac.. but thats what russ likes to do..

scoot will be better for it..

betcha hes never gonna forget the travesty that was this first half hahahah.. i sure know ayton wont either.. they've gotta be fuming..
 
Not that it really matters, but Grant playing the 4 is such a disaster. Ayton and Williams seemed to be getting overwhelmed on the defensive glass because Grant has an aversion to getting rebounds.

Again, this might be nitpicking, but 0 defensive rebounds out of your starting 4 in 17 minutes is not good.
 
I will say this Ant an especially Grant are going to annoy me all year forcing up shots that are trash. If they are open by all means, but we are young so they are going to force so much
 
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