Game Thread 2023-24 Game #12 - BLAZERS VS LAKERS - IST - NOVEMBER 17, 2023 - 7:00 PM PST ROOT

[kjironman1]

Blazers have put 6 points on the board in 6 minutes.

 

[OneSport3]

Or Thybulle is on an abnormal warm streak and will revert to the mean in time.

An abnormal warm streak that has almost lasted a full season.

 

[blazerkor]

The way that LeBron dominates in his 20th season is almost as mind boggling as it was watching him control games as an 18 year old.

 

[B-Roy]

Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion, but Grant is kind of useless guarding the pick and roll.

 

[Whyachi]

Lakers haven't cleared the bench. That's a positive

 

[B-Roy]

We may be a worse team immediately when Grant is gone, but I’ll be quite happy when it happens.

 

[Chris Craig]

We may be a worse team immediately when Grant is gone, but I’ll be quite happy when it happens.

Same result

 

[Tince]

An abnormal warm streak that has almost lasted a full season.

I wouldn't call 33 games a full season.

 

[Chris Craig]

The silver lining if/when we lose this game... @KingSpeed will stop talking about us winning the in season tourney.

Doubt it

 

[Whyachi]

Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion, but Grant is kind of useless guarding the pick and roll.

this is early season high energy Grant. Wait until later in the season when Jerami gets fatiqued from Billups wearing him out.

 

[blazerkor]

In what I'm sure will be an unpopular opinion, Shaedon Sharpe will never be a shooting guard. He's a small forward. I've never seen a shooting guard turn the ball over with this frequency, I don't care how young they are. He needs facilitators to set him up to be at his best.

When I say this a shitty take, I think it's an understatement. If you've been watching the game, a few of those turnovers were on the guy who was hit in the hands and let the ball bounce out of bounds, a couple were offensive fouls that were questionable or downright bullshit and then there's the fact that he is very much a shooting guard being asked to play point on 90% of the possessions that he's in there for. SMH

The dude has been showing amazing court vision all season but hey lets right him off because of numbers and not pay attention to what's actually happening.

 

[OneSport3]

I wouldn't call 33 games a full season.

Who did? I said almost a full season. He does it for 2 more months and then it’s a full season.

 

[blazerkor]

Doubt it

It will be simple math after this game. I know Eric is a bit of a dreamer but even he can do the math.

 

[Tince]

An abnormal warm streak that has almost lasted a full season.

I wouldn't call 33 games a full season.

Who did? I said almost a full season. He does it for 2 more months and then it’s a full season.

I wouldn't call 40% of a season almost a full season. I'd call like 75 games almost a full season.

I'm willing to bet he finishes the season with a worse 3pt% than he has now.

 

[riverman]

how many times are we going to step on the baseline and give up the ball

 

[Whyachi]

Toumani hit a 3. Kinda needed that, he's been clanking

 

[OneSport3]

I wouldn't call 40% of a season almost a full season. I'd call like 75 games almost a full season.

I'm willing to bet he finishes the season with a worse 3pt% than he has now.

Good for you

 

[HailBlazers]

The dude has been showing amazing court vision all season but hey lets right him off because of numbers and not pay attention to what's actually happening.

Did you see that crazy long zip pass to Mays who missed the corner three? Laser.

 

[PCmor7]

When I say this a shitty take, I think it's an understatement. If you've been watching the game, a few of those turnovers were on the guy who was hit in the hands and let the ball bounce out of bounds, a couple were offensive fouls that were questionable or downright bullshit and then there's the fact that he is very much a shooting guard being asked to play point on 90% of the possessions that he's in there for. SMH

The dude has been showing amazing court vision all season but hey lets right him off because of numbers and not pay attention to what's actually happening.

First, it's not just this game.

Second, I've been watching the whole game.

Third, you can qualify how the turnovers happen. He has a lot of them to qualify. He has two-thirds of his team's turnovers and almost as many as the opposing team.

Fourth, I think you're letting your hopes get in the way of what's actually happening on the court.

EDIT: Fifth, amazing court vision means nothing if you can't execute, and pointing out a couple of good passes or plays here or there doesn't change the fact that he makes too many mistakes with the ball to play a position that will require him to handle the ball more, which was the point that you don't seem to grasp.

Sixth, SMH.

 

[riverman]

Camara can't shoot

 

[BankTeller]

Who did? I said almost a full season. He does it for 2 more months and then it’s a full season.

Dude...less than half a season's worth of games is not "almost a full season"...

 

[HailBlazers]

Lebron having to play the whole game is a win.

 

[Whyachi]

LeBron has scored 30+ against Blazers 6 games in a row.

 

[Tince]

Big mistake by Ham if he benches his starters... we're about to come back and win this thing

 

[Whyachi]

Lebron having to play the whole game is a win.

He's fresh, missed the last Blazer game

 

[blazerkor]

Bring in the closers?

 

[OneSport3]

Dude...less than half a season's worth of games is not "almost a full season"...

He did it for the second half of last season and if he does it for a couple more months this season it will be almost a full season.

 

[Tince]

LeBron has scored 30+ against Blazers 6 games in a row.

I'm not a big LeBron guy, but I have to admit what he's doing, at his age, is amazing.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I think that Lebron guy will someday be an all-star.

 

[Whyachi]

Blazers are only down 10, Blazer ball. We got this