Game Thread 2024-25 GAME #78 - BLAZERS @ BULLS - APRIL 4, 2025 - FRI - 5:00 PM - CHARGE - BLAZERVISION

[Chris Craig]

_______________________________________

REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS

(12) BLAZERS 33-43 (10) BULLS 34-42

_________________________________________

STARTERS


Dalano Banton Shaedon Sharpe

Toumani Camara Deni Avdija

Donovan Clingan


Coby White Josh Giddey

Kevin Huerter Matas Buzelis

Nikola Vucevic

_________________________________________

WHEN: APRIL 4, 2025 - FRIDAY - 5:00 PM PST

WHERE: UNITED CENTER CHICAGO IL



TV BROADCAST


Antenna 2.2|Xfinity 302/1170|DTV 688



STREAMING



RADIO BROADCAST


__________________________________



__________________________________

BENCH


Matisse Thybulle Jabari Walker

Kris Murray Duop Reath

Rayan Rupert

Justin Minaya* Sidy Cissoko*

Bryce McGowens*° Robert Williams°

DeAndre Ayton° Jerami Grant°

Scoot Henderson° Anfernee Simons°

* Two Way Player
° Injured Player


Zach Collins T Horton Tucker

Patrick Williams Jalen Smith

Julian Phillips° Dalen Terry°

Jahmir Young*

EJ Liddell* Emanuel Miller*

Lonzo Ball° Tre Jones°

Ayo Dosunmu°

* Two Way Player
° Injured Player

_________________________________________

COACH


Chauncey Billups


Billy Donovan

_________________________________________

INJURIES

BLAZERS

Robert Williams - Knee - Out
DeAndre Ayton - Calf - Out
Jerami Grant - Knee - Out
Bryce McGowens - Rib - Out
Scoot Henderson - Conc - Out
Anfernee Simons - Arm - Out

BULLS

Lonzo Ball - Wrist - Out
Tre Jones - Foot - Out
Ayo Dosunmu - Should - Out
Jevon Carter - Shoulder - Quest
Julian Philips - Quad - Quest
Dalen Terry - Should - Quest

_________________________________________

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

POR VS SAS |4/6| 3:00 PM PST

POR @ UTAH |4/9 |6:00 PM PST

POR VS GSW |4/11|7:00 PM PST

_________________________________________

GAME NOTES

• The Blazers are 68-67 vs the Bulls all time
• Chauncey Billups is 2-5 vs Billy Donovan
• The Blazers defeated the Bulls 113-102 on 1/19
• Zach Collins was acquired by the Blazers during the 2017 NBA draft. Collins played for Portland from 2017-2021

__________________________________

​

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Game time!

 

[Cugel]

Murray is the tank commander

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Deni is scrapping.

 

[Cugel]

Rupert with a couple of great defensive plays. Minaya with a nice finish (get your mind out of the gutter).

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Banton just can't seem to hit anything tonight.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

I had to refresh twice to make sure I was on the right thread! We had only one turnover in that half and 10 offensive rebounds to their five.

 

[inconceivable]

We want to lose this game (and every remaining game), am I right?

 

[Chris Craig]

Blazers playing for shit this half

 

[Cugel]

You cant even fart near Giddey without getting called for a foul. silly.
Remember when the crown jewel of the LAL package proposed by their fans for Dame was THT?

 

[Chris Craig]

Get Minobody out of there.

 

[Chris Craig]

No defense at all

 

[Chris Craig]

Embarrassing

 

[Chris Craig]

Deni trying to do it all

 

[illmatic99]

lol blatant tank. after all that this season, this might raise some eyebrows

 

[Chris Craig]

Chauncey sucks

 

[AldoTrapani]

lol blatant tank. after all that this season, this might raise some eyebrows

it’s about fucking time. I don’t know why they didn’t do this a month or more ago

 

[Chris Craig]

lol blatant tank. after all that this season, this might raise some eyebrows

NBA should take our pick

 

[B-Roy]

I was going to have a panic attack if they won this game. Chauncey really played Deni with 37 points and 35 minutes and only took him out in the last 3.

 

[Strenuus]

Finally.

 

[illmatic99]

so i guess they pulled the plug the moment the kings won and mathematically knocked us out?

pretty fucking egregious, but necessary to do.

i'm guessing we've seen the last of deni/shaedon the rest of this season. finally.

losing to the spurs is an absolute must now. go get #8.

 

[Chris Craig]

Never going to root for my team to lose.

 

[blazerkor]

lol blatant tank. after all that this season, this might raise some eyebrows

I don't think any eyebrows get raised. It was the second night of a back to back, both Shaedon and Deni had already put in 35 minutes tonight.

What I do think sitting Deni does, after having listed him as a game time decision is make it so no eyebrows get raised when we sit him with all the guys that were already sitting tonight in the game against San Antonio.

We might get a share of the 8th spot in the lotto if we lose out. That would give San Antonio one win and then they might get another against the Hornets and that would give us and the Spurs the same record.

 

[illmatic99]

I don't think any eyebrows get raised. It was the second night of a back to back, both Shaedon and Deni had already put in 35 minutes tonight.

What I do think sitting Deni does, after having listed him as a game time decision is make it so no eyebrows get raised when we sit him with all the guys that were already sitting tonight in the game against San Antonio.

We might get a share of the 8th spot in the lotto if we lose out. That would give San Antonio one win and then they might get another against the Hornets and that would give us and the Spurs the same record.

the way we went about this tonight tells me we are ready to lose every game the rest of the way.

 

[PCmor7]

Good loss.

We're lucky Shaedon had about the worst game he possibly could tonight, or we would have won. Must have been out celebrating a little too much with the fam after tying his career high in Toronto last night. Can't believe some of the shots he missed.

Nice to see Rupert get some meaningful run.

Clingan got schooled by the vet Vucevic tonight, but he's got the chance to be an absolute monster when he fills out in his upper body.

 

[blazerkor]

so i guess they pulled the plug the moment the kings won and mathematically knocked us out?

pretty fucking egregious, but necessary to do.

i'm guessing we've seen the last of deni/shaedon the rest of this season. finally.

losing to the spurs is an absolute must now. go get #8.

Getting #8 would take the us losing out and the Spurs winning two of their other final 4 games after beating us on Sunday. One of those games is against Charlotte so I could see them winning that one but right now I think it seems pretty likely that the best we'll get is a share of the 8th spot in the lotto.

 

[B-Roy]

the way we went about this tonight tells me we are ready to lose every game the rest of the way.

They better

 

[Mediocre Man]

Massive loss. Let’s fucking go!!!!

 

[KingSpeed]

so i guess they pulled the plug the moment the kings won and mathematically knocked us out?

pretty fucking egregious, but necessary to do.

i'm guessing we've seen the last of deni/shaedon the rest of this season. finally.

losing to the spurs is an absolute must now. go get #8.

Kings didn’t knock us out. In fact, we are still not knocked out. If we win out, Kings needs to win one game to knock us out. They play Cavs, Pistons, Nuggets twice, and Suns.

 

[KingSpeed]

This bums me out. Kings have a tough schedule. If we won tonight, we had a legit shot. We still do but the plug has obviously been pulled.