Game Thread 2023-24 Game #38 - BLAZERS @ TIMBERWOLVES - JANUARY 12, 2024 - 5:00 PM PST - ROOT

[blazerkor]

Chris Finch challenging the call just to be an asshole

Yeah I thought that was petty bullshit but I wasn’t sure if that was just me being pissed about how shitty our team is.

 

[wizenheimer]

I think people are moving away from ice in these cases: "The research that has been done has shown that the use of ice on acute injuries can actually delay and impede the healing process."

https://advance.muschealth.org/library/2022/september/ice-on-acute-injuries#:~:text=The research that has been,and impede the healing process.

I used ice a lot when I hurt myself but it was for chilling the vodka

 

[Whyachi]

FG shooting
POR 31%
MIN 57%

 

[Bingo Bango]

Jerami Grant: 31 minutes, zero rebounds.

 

[illmatic99]

We have lost 5 games on this trip by an average of 35.2 pts.

For fucks sake.

Worst stretch of blazer basketball i have ever seen. And i watched the Dan Dickau, Juan Dixon team

 

[blazerfan11]

Grant was open and had a big mismatch against McLaughlin and the Blazers didn't even look his way.

He could have easily taken a 3-pointer.

Instead the possession was another ugly miss.

 

[Tince]

Freaking Billups

 

[blazerkor]

Fucking Wolves hustling even with a 30 point lead. I hope our coaching staff points that shit out.

 

[blazerkor]

Freaking Billups

Yeah what a shitty coach can’t even keep his players healthy.

 

[Whyachi]

Minnesota cranking up the clobber.
Portland down 36, Billups calls timeout. Might be Remix time.

 

[Whyachi]

Yeah what a shitty coach can’t even keep his players healthy.

fuuuuudge

 

[Chris Craig]

Freaking Billups

There goes another center.

How long does Reath last?

 

[EGame]

Billups needs to fuck off like yesterday

 

[blazerfan11]

Just put Kris Murray and Rupert in already.

 

[wizenheimer]

I though Ant did a good job in the first half of not going MeJ and forcing shots; but he's been terrible in the 2nd half. Full hoop-lock

 

[Five Second Violation]

This team has become a parody of itself at this point.

Chauncey need not bother getting on the plane back to icy Portland. Go enjoy Cancun....

 

[Sheldon Shape]

Scoot immediately looks better without Ant in the game with him.

 

[illmatic99]

Scoot immediately looks better without Ant in the game with him.

He's also playing against 3rd stringers.

 

[Whyachi]

Duop went 2-9 in that 1st qtr.
Unleash the Reath

 

[OneSport3]

Scoot immediately looks better without Ant in the game with him.

LOL

 

[Sheldon Shape]

He's also playing against 3rd stringers.

That's probably part of it. The bigger part I'm noticing is he's more comfortable in asserting himself and playing how he knows.

 

[Whyachi]

He's also playing against 3rd stringers.

garbage time analytics don't count this season, because almost every Blazer game is garbage.

 

[PCmor7]

I knew shooting wasn't going to be a strength of this team, but the turnovers are laughably bad.

I don't think I can recall a team that looked so much like a rec-league squad. I know the Miles/Khryapa years were bad, but in some ways this feels worse.

 

[blazerfan11]

I like the all-forward lineup.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Zero effort.

Billups lost this team.

Time to start over from scratch

 

[Sheldon Shape]

LOL

What's more LOL is 5 points by one of the league's "best" scorers.

LOL

 

[Sheldon Shape]

Zero effort.

Billups lost this team.

Time to start over from scratch

Fire Chauncey. Trade Ant, Grant, and Brogdon at a minimum.

Go all in on Scoot and Shae. They hardly even play together. Ride or die with that backcourt and keep adding with lotto picks.

 

[PCmor7]

It's comical. No one on the team can even keep control of the basketball.

It's the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

 

[Whyachi]

I like the all-forward lineup.

this squad should start. The Grant/Simons/Scoot big 3 ain't working.

 

[TBpup]

Jerami Grant: 31 minutes, zero rebounds.

Softest 'power' forward in the league.

....and Ant with the 0-fer night? Ugly!