Game Thread 2025-26 GAME #11 - BLAZERS @ PELICANS - WEDNESDAY - NOVEMBER 12, 2025 - 5:00 PM - KUNP - BLAZERVISION (8 Viewers)

[Everything Beagle]

These last two games it looks like that clicked. In his post game he talked about watching video and shot selection. I think this level of play is very sustainable for him.

He’s still a kid too; I think by 23 he will be scary good. He has the mental game.

 

[HailBlazers]

We can all hope any of the young players on our team develop the understanding for how to be most effective that Andre Miller had.

Jrue Holiday is the rich man's Andre Miller.

 

[Everything Beagle]

I’m really happy that RWIII is feeling so good now. He’s doing really well out there given I didn’t think he’d play this much at all.

 

[Sheldon Shape]

Clingan is the new scapegoat...the 2025 vessel for ridiculous expectations and myopic notions about impact

but what makes it really nuts are suggestions to give Yang minutes that Clingan gets.

He does nothing on offense. He's actually producing less blocks than last season. I think at times he's playing kinda soft. I want more from him.

 

[riverman]

Shaedon is just so much more talented offensively than Augmon ever was and he's worlds more athletically gifted than Andre.

We can all hope any of the young players on our team develop the understanding for how to be most effective that Andre Miller had.

the comparison was their chill demeanor while being an impact player, not a loud player.. Dre was a complete loner. Soft spoken guy. Shae is like that...the smoothness of his game to me is more Augmon.

 

[KingSpeed]

Shaedon’s scoring has gone up the last two seasons despite his minutes going down. He is now averaging 21.1 ppg in less than 30 mpg. Look who’s making a leap. Now it’s Scoot’s turn. We tanked for a reason.

 

[THE HCP]

Julius -- he had 7 rebounds in the first half at least that was the number I saw so WTF are you talking about -- also he has 8 looked at boxscore

he cannot get every rebound the other out there need to grab them too so -- NO your wrong

Why are you so angry? Why are you cussing at him?

 

[THE HCP]

Seriously, what do people want from Clingan?!?

He's a double double/shot blocking machine. I don't think he's the best fit with our schemes on both ends but that's not him falling off, he's still a very quality big with up side.

Who took over this guys account and posted this? Outstanding and well thought out!

 

[Mediocre Man]

I’ve been out of the loop regarding the Blazers, so can someone explain what is going on with Sharpe’s minutes? Has there been any news on why he is getting way less than 30 mpg?

 

[ant]

I’ve been out of the loop regarding the Blazers, so can someone explain what is going on with Sharpe’s minutes? Has there been any news on why he is getting way less than 30 mpg?

He has some sort of nagging injury that has kept him on a minutes restriction. Even when he was the hot hand they took him out to stick to their minutes plan. And he seems much less explosive to me this season, this is the first game that he seemed to go after some bigger dunks. I’m assuming that’s because of whatever injury he’s dealing with.

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

Solid win. Shae coming into his own as he is (hopefully) mostly recovered from the nagging injury?

Deni should be an all star this year.

Now. Lets go take one from Houston and win this Cup thing!!!

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

If you listen to anyone talking about it, they've basically said the team has hinted that it was closer to the 10 week than it was to 8 weeks.
And even if it was only 8 weeks, that's just 8 week before he can return to even basketball activities, which just means he'd get back to being on the basketball court. It's not like he'd go from 0-8 weeks to back to playing basketball in a day or two.

Who is talking about it? Not the forum. Not the game announcers.
When did the team hint closer to ten weeks? Ive heard one thing. Eval after 4-8 weeks.

Again. Is he on track? Or not?
Why is there so much push back in wanting an update?
Kinda weird to me that no one else is wondering how he is doing so far? Is it looking like we might have him back in another couple weeks or couple months?

 

[kjironman1]

Who is talking about it? Not the forum. Not the game announcers.
When did the team hint closer to ten weeks? Ive heard one thing. Eval after 4-8 weeks.

Again. Is he on track? Or not?
Why is there so much push back in wanting an update?
Kinda weird to me that no one else is wondering how he is doing so far? Is it looking like we might have him back in another couple weeks or couple months?

It’s Hamstring. I’m 20 weeks into my recovery and I’m no where near 100%. Every day I stretch it out. Every day I work full time. Every day I feel it. It don’t take any chances yet. My bet is it will be close to 10-12 months before I’m 100%.

 

[julius]

Who is talking about it? Not the forum. Not the game announcers.
When did the team hint closer to ten weeks? Ive heard one thing. Eval after 4-8 weeks.

Again. Is he on track? Or not?
Why is there so much push back in wanting an update?
Kinda weird to me that no one else is wondering how he is doing so far? Is it looking like we might have him back in another couple weeks or couple months?

It's not that people aren't wondering. It's that some fans seem to always have to know everything and if the team doesn't update everything right now, they make a stink about things.
If they say it's X amount of time, and within the timeframe there is no update, it's because they're still waiting.

what's the update on Tisse!?!! What about Wesley!?!

 

[dviss1]

Some of this is the same thing people said about Drexler. He moved so smooth and effortless people called him lazy. I kind of think Sharpe has that same way about him. So athletic he seems like he is taking it easy.

I never said that about Drexler. They said that same thing about Tracy McGrady, too and it was just because he had sleepy eyes. No what I see from sharpe is easy to tell and it is his demeanor not the way he moves. He's a laid back dude. I'm talking about demeanor and mindset. His demeanor and mindset is laid back.

He doesn't seem to have that "dog" in him.

 

[dviss1]

Shaedon’s scoring has gone up the last two seasons despite his minutes going down. He is now averaging 21.1 ppg in less than 30 mpg. Look who’s making a leap. Now it’s Scoot’s turn. We tanked for a reason.

The leap I would like to see him take is with his demeanor and attitude. In my opinion it's too laid back.

 

[andalusian]

He does nothing on offense. He's actually producing less blocks than last season. I think at times he's playing kinda soft. I want more from him.

His Offensive Rating is 129 - which is 5th on the team, this means the team does really well offensively when he is on the floor even if he is not scoring, because he sets great picks, he is a force on the offensive boards, he is a good defensive rebounder that helps the team get into fast breaks. DC is doing very well on offense even if the "simple" stats are not there.

At the same time, his Defensive Rating is 112 - which is 3rd on the team. That kid is a big plus for this team on both sides of the floor even if his block rate is lower than last year.

... and he is a 2nd year player which is a regular starter in the NBA for the first time in his life.

I mean, come on...

 

[PCmor7]

He does nothing on offense. He's actually producing less blocks than last season. I think at times he's playing kinda soft. I want more from him.

I think the criticism of him is fair, particularly this criticism.

He isn't being asked to do a lot.

There was a play last night where he got a defensive rebound, brought the ball down and had it wrestled away by Alvarado. That never should happen.
In the second half, he took a 3 from the wing and it was short and came back to him in the corner. He immediately wasted his dribble by bouncing it once and going nowhere, then panicked when there still was at least 10 seconds on the shot clock, and he pitched the ball into the paint and a whole lot of traffic where it was stolen.

Another time, he got a lob and got luck to redirect it into the hoop because he mistimed his jump or something and didn't catch it cleanly.

I can live with the missed 3s, although I'd like him and Toumani not to fire up 3s as the first option in our offense -- there's a reason opponents are letting them take those shots right now -- but I can't live with a 7-2 guy getting the rebound taken away by the 5-8, 160-pound guy.

 

[PCmor7]

BTW, I thought this game changed last night when we finally started pressuring Alvarado all the way up court. That's the one thing our injuries have taken away ... we haven't been able to pressure the PG all 92 feet. They decided to do that in the 3Q and we put some distance between us and them.

I'm a Georgia Tech college basketball fan, so I know and appreciate Alvarado. He's a super-pest. However, his game has limitations. The biggest is that he's an average PG offensively. Average ballhandler at this level at best, and probably slightly below. He expends a crazy amount of energy on defense. To play to his weakness, you need to be aggressive with him when his team has the ball. He's a guy you can recover and block if he beats you to the basket, which he isn't much of a threat to do anyway because of his size and athleticism (or lack of same). If you get him to pick up his dribble, he has a really difficult time getting the ball to a teammate in a threatening position just because he's so small. The Pelicans can play him so much because his defensive assets outweigh the offensive liabilities if the other team just gives him a free lunch bringing the ball up court and initiating the offense. When he becomes more important to the offense functioning, his liabilities there make him less valuable in the aggregate. It also makes him expend energy on offense that adversely impacts his defense. This was a smart adjustment by the Blazers.

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

It's not that people aren't wondering. It's that some fans seem to always have to know everything and if the team doesn't update everything right now, they make a stink about things.
If they say it's X amount of time, and within the timeframe there is no update, it's because they're still waiting.

what's the update on Tisse!?!! What about Wesley!?!

Tisse and Wesley went down within the last two weeks and i have not heard news yet on them either. BUt context applies here Julius. Scoot is presumable our core future. And yes, as a season ticket holding Blazer fan, id like updates on injured players.
Im not asking for the moon man. Your push back is weird.

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

It’s Hamstring. I’m 20 weeks into my recovery and I’m no where near 100%. Every day I stretch it out. Every day I work full time. Every day I feel it. It don’t take any chances yet. My bet is it will be close to 10-12 months before I’m 100%.

Yes, but you are not in your early 20’s with a top notch medical staff.

But to your point. Yeah, id like to know if it looks like it will be several more months before he is healthy. Your time line vs the assumed timeline of Scoot is drastically different. Hence, an update would be nice.

 

[SharpeScooterShooter]

It's not that people aren't wondering. It's that some fans seem to always have to know everything and if the team doesn't update everything right now, they make a stink about things.
If they say it's X amount of time, and within the timeframe there is no update, it's because they're still waiting.

what's the update on Tisse!?!! What about Wesley!?!

Thanks for the link though. It helps a bit.

 

[kjironman1]

I never said that about Drexler. They said that same thing about Tracy McGrady, too and it was just because he had sleepy eyes. No what I see from sharpe is easy to tell and it is his demeanor not the way he moves. He's a laid back dude. I'm talking about demeanor and mindset. His demeanor and mindset is laid back.

He doesn't seem to have that "dog" in him.

Well you certainly have seen your share of players so you may very well be right.

 

[kjironman1]

Yes, but you are not in your early 20’s with a top notch medical staff.

But to your point. Yeah, id like to know if it looks like it will be several more months before he is healthy. Your time line vs the assumed timeline of Scoot is drastically different. Hence, an update would be nice.

I think I posted on this subject before that I see after the first of the year at best.