Game Thread 2024-25 GAME #59 - BLAZERS @ WIZARDS - FEB 26, 2025 - WED - 4:00 PM - CHARGE - BLAZERVISION

[Quatro44]

Nice, Sharpe with new career high

 

[Cugel]

Check that Scoot out after 6”. Good call Chauncey. Whew! Glad you are at the helm

 

[julius]

Scoot in for the last 43”
Billups COTY

Well, Tou just fouled out AND Scoot himself has 5 fouls.

 

[wizenheimer]

this game is showing why it's foolish for fans to be talking about giving up on Sharpe

for the love of gawd, give up on Billups before giving up on Sharpe

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

That was good tank coaching by Washington. The other team's center gets 5 fouls and goes small. You go small also. Portland ends up with 17 offensive rebounds and wins. And yes, you don't hunt Simons when he is on defense.

 

[julius]

this game is showing why it's foolish for fans to be talking about giving up on Sharpe

for the love of gawd, give up on Billups before giving up on Sharpe

If this is the Shaedon we get because of Chauncey's doing, I'd be fine with him staying as coach.

 

[MickZagger]

this game is showing why it's foolish for fans to be talking about giving up on Sharpe

for the love of gawd, give up on Billups before giving up on Sharpe

And he’s still just 21!

 

[Mediocre Man]

Grant and Ant going hero ball at the end was our only hope for a loss. They almost pulled it off

 

[blazerkor]

Great night from Shaedon!!!
I wish the rest of this season would be about featuring him and Scoot but I expect that he could be in the doghouse again next game.

 

[Cugel]

Well, Tou just fouled out AND Scoot himself has 5 fouls.

And??

 

[Haakzilla]

Anyone got a link to Shae's dunk that doesn't require me to download Instagram?

Also, in real time, not slo mo?

...already posted video embed long before this Instagram post (scroll up about 5:20PM timestamp in this thread), but since you need a @THE HCP level tutorial to IG posting all you had to do was click, tap, or swipe the slide over and you can play the videos directly on this forum

nobody needs to download the app!!!

 

[julius]

And??

That's why he came back in. Ball handling, decent FT shooting, and Toumani fouled out.

Who else is he supposed to put in?

 

[illmatic99]

still cant get over that dunk

goddamn

listen to the crowd start to buzz before he even started on his jump. just electrifying.

 

[blazerkor]

still cant get over that dunk

goddamn

listen to the crowd start to buzz before he even started on his jump. just electrifying.

He's so good in so many facets of the offensive game and he has all of the tools to be good on defense but the explosiveness is what will make him a superstar. The team/franchise needs to put a marketing campaign behind him. That's what you do with a guy whose soft spoken but has a loud game.

Still laughing about that dunk though. Dude is a four level scorer... threes, mid rang, going to the hoop and scoring over everyone. Dude is a helluva passer too.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Kispert, Smart, Poole, Middleton...they have some vets now. They have no worry about trying to lose.

 

[inconceivable]

still cant get over that dunk

goddamn

listen to the crowd start to buzz before he even started on his jump. just electrifying.

Have you seen his pregame dunk?

 

[riverman]

Sharpe is so damned talented. When he can bring it like this game after game, he'll be a superstar.

 

[inconceivable]

Sharpe is so damned talented. When he can bring it like this game after game, he'll be a superstar.

That'll happen when Ant and Grant are off the team

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Can somebody tell me why Deni only played 6 minutes?

 

[tlongII]

Can somebody tell me why Deni only played 6 minutes?

Quad injury.

 

[Bingo Bango]

this game is showing why it's foolish for fans to be talking about giving up on Sharpe

Sharpe has the skills and athletic talent to play like this every night—he just can’t motivate himself to do so. Let’s see if this game is a turning point for him. I hope it is.

 

[BlazerBeav]

10th road win of the season! Didn't have that on the old bingo card!

 

[KingSpeed]

Outside of Shaedon’s dunk, my favorite play was Simons taking a charge! Camara rubbing off on him.

 

[Sheldon Shape]

Sharpe has the skills and athletic talent to play like this every night—he just can’t motivate himself to do so. Let’s see if this game is a turning point for him. I hope it is.

He literally can't. Minutes and usage. I'd expect more of this as a starter. Until then it's going to be up and down for him.

 

[blazerkor]

Sharpe has the skills and athletic talent to play like this every night—he just can’t motivate himself to do so. Let’s see if this game is a turning point for him. I hope it is.

He literally can't. Minutes and usage. I'd expect more of this as a starter. Until then it's going to be up and down for him.

Guys this just isn't true. We saw it his rookie year, he just needs the runway cleared. When he's empowered to be the best player on the floor he is the best player on the floor. We saw this with Kawhi and we saw this same thing with TMac too. Nope, Shaedon is never going to be MJ or Kobe... he doesn't need to dominate like they did but he will be dominant if coached correctly and if the roster around him is made up of the right guys.

I really like how he plays with Scoot, Tou, Deni, Donovan, Bari and Kris. Ant, Jerami and even Dalano at times being on the floor with Shae fucks him up... that's not ideal but it's also not a stumbling block that can't be removed. If the management and coaching went on the campaign they did before last season to talk about how this was Ant's team but instead did that for Shaedon, things would just fall into place.

 

[blazerkor]

Quad injury.

Contusion though not a strain or pull, so he'll be back and there isn't a high likelihood of it being chronic.

 

[AldoTrapani]

Jerami Grant is averaging 14 on 37 FG%

Chauncey has to be embarrassed he has to start him bc of his salary and somehow practice what he preaches lmao

my god lol

 

[Haakzilla]

still cant get over that dunk

goddamn

listen to the crowd start to buzz before he even started on his jump. just electrifying.

...some of these witnesses aren't either, their faces stuck like this!!

**pro tip, witness faces start on slide 3

 

[Labinot41]

Shaedon is that guy

 

[blazerkor]

Scoot and Shae could easily be the best back court in the league in two or three years.