Game Thread 2025-26 GAME #15 - BLAZERS VS BULLS - WEDNESDAY - NOVEMBER 19, 2025 - 7:00 PM - KUNP - BLAZERVISION (6 Viewers)

[Chris Craig]

Yep. Such a stupid draft last time. Next time should be more of the same.

Likely

 

[Sheldon Shape]

This is the Clingan I want to be seeing. More fire. More aggression. Silver lining. Deni was great and Grant was very good too.

Hansen needs much more pep in his step. He seems pretty far away still though I suppose better than weeks ago. We'd be feasting right now if we had Queen or Coward with all the injuries we've had.

 

[PDXFonz]

Caleb Love played horribly, and generally I’d say that he has responsibility in this loss; but realistically - I think Julius is to blame.

 

[kjironman1]

Nice comeback.

You gotta make your free throws...

 

[HansenYang]

Caleb Love, 1 for 12 (-20). Unplayable.

We literally have a G- league bench right now.

I missed the game but looked at the box score.

Looks like Love & Cooke had a rough night...
and did Rupert really receive a DNP-CD? Or was he injured too?

If its a DNP when we're running the MASH unit out there-> we might as well cut him right now and sign someone who can play

 

[BlazersFan]

All I can do is just laugh, Blazers lost to a buzzer beater against the Magic and now Blazers lost to a buzzer beater against a former Magic player, it is really ironic

 

[Chris Craig]

All I can do is just laugh, Blazers lost to a buzzer beater against the Magic and now Blazers lost to a buzzer beater against a former Magic player, it is really ironic

So we are going to lose Fridays game to a buzzer beater from former Bull Jimmy Butler?

 

[BlazersFan]

So we are going to lose Fridays game to a buzzer beater from former Bull Jimmy Butler?

I would not be surprised

 

[AldoTrapani]

 

[DUB]

Not upset with the loss. Happy that we fought our way back into it. Disappointed with the defence on the last possession, it was pretty naive.

 

[PCmor7]

One was a lottery pick. The other...

I'd still trust Presti in the second round over our own front office picking in the first. Sad to say...

The other ... got cut by Presti and no one even picked him up on a two-way contract for a reason.

That gets a little off the point, though. There's nothing comparable about Giddey and Dillon Jones. Giddey was the sixth pick as an 18-19-year-old for a reason and was producing as a teenage rookie for a reason. Dillon Jones was a late first-round pick after four years of college for a reason. Jones is older than Giddey right now and hasn't accomplished anything in the NBA yet.

People keep wanting to reinvent Dillon Jones or create a myth of Dillon Jones. I'd love it if Dillon Jones turned out to be a steal for the Blazers, but acting like he'd be some savior or that he'd be an improvement over Cissoko, Love and Rupert ... there just isn't any reason to think that right now. He averaged more than 10 minutes per game in more than 50 games wih the NBA champ. It's not like he's a complete unknown.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Kris Murray played well in the 4Q.

I shall treasure this.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Caleb and Javonte should be playing for the remix.

Or at least sitting on the bench.

 

[Hoopguru]

Eh, we'll just get a shitty pick and take the wrong player again.

Hopefully the new owner, GM, & Coaching staff we can turn the page for a brand new era.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

 

[THE HCP]

The whole fantasy points thing never makes sense to me. Every fantasy league puts point values different on stats, so I never know what “fantasy points” mean.
I know some leagues that give more value for steal/rebs/blocks than others for example. I know some that take points away for turnovers and techs.

 

[Sheldon Shape]

The other ... got cut by Presti and no one even picked him up on a two-way contract for a reason.

That gets a little off the point, though. There's nothing comparable about Giddey and Dillon Jones. Giddey was the sixth pick as an 18-19-year-old for a reason and was producing as a teenage rookie for a reason. Dillon Jones was a late first-round pick after four years of college for a reason. Jones is older than Giddey right now and hasn't accomplished anything in the NBA yet.

People keep wanting to reinvent Dillon Jones or create a myth of Dillon Jones. I'd love it if Dillon Jones turned out to be a steal for the Blazers, but acting like he'd be some savior or that he'd be an improvement over Cissoko, Love and Rupert ... there just isn't any reason to think that right now. He averaged more than 10 minutes per game in more than 50 games wih the NBA champ. It's not like he's a complete unknown.

Presti traded 5 picks for him. Yes, Presti cut him but that's not due to talent. Someone had to be a casualty to make the roster fit and stay under the cap. It's a low bar. Jones could most certainly be a step up from Cissoko, Rupert, and the rest we're forced to play right now due to injuries. He's certainly better than Love and the other guy. I'd roll the dice.

 

[THE HCP]

Not sure if you guys saw, I shared a picture. Ran into Martell Webster last night. First game he had been to in like 14 years he said. Guy literally looks exactly like he did when he played for us! We could use his shooting to be honest! Great dude!

 

[tlongII]

Not sure if you guys saw, I shared a picture. Ran into Martell Webster last night. First game he had been to in like 14 years he said. Guy literally looks exactly like he did when he played for us! We could use his shooting to be honest! Great dude!

Too blurry.

 

[HansenYang]

I'd love it if Dillon Jones turned out to be a steal for the Blazers, but acting like he'd be some savior or that he'd be an improvement over Cissoko, Love and Rupert ... there just isn't any reason to think that right now. He averaged more than 10 minutes per game in more than 50 games wih the NBA champ.

These two sentences don't make sense....

Love is not an NBA talent. Rupert can't even get off the bench when the entire team is injured... To insinuate that Jones would not be better than either of those two players is ludicrous. The second sentence states that Jones got 10-minutes in 50-games on the Thunder. Neither Love nor Rupert are able to get 10-minutes a game on the much less talented Blazers....

Not saying that Jones would be a savior, but he'd be much better than those two.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

The whole fantasy points thing never makes sense to me. Every fantasy league puts point values different on stats, so I never know what “fantasy points” mean.
I know some leagues that give more value for steal/rebs/blocks than others for example. I know some that take points away for turnovers and techs.

You don't need to know what it means to know that for one shining day the Blazers were 1 and 2.
BTW: Wemby was getting in the 80s before he got injured. This is NBA.com's stat, BTW.

 

[PCmor7]

These two sentences don't make sense....

Love is not an NBA talent. Rupert can't even get off the bench when the entire team is injured... To insinuate that Jones would not be better than either of those two players is ludicrous. The second sentence states that Jones got 10-minutes in 50-games on the Thunder. Neither Love nor Rupert are able to get 10-minutes a game on the much less talented Blazers....

Not saying that Jones would be a savior, but he'd be much better than those two.

Prove Dillon Jones is better than those two, let alone "much better."

 

[Cugel]

It wouldn’t hurt to give Dillon a few reps with injuries being what they are.

 

[blazerkor]

It wouldn’t hurt to give Dillon a few reps with injuries being what they are.

I think we would have to cut one of our current two way players or one of our roster players, to do that.

 

[PCmor7]

It wouldn’t hurt to give Dillon a few reps with injuries being what they are.

That's fine, if you can find a way to make it work within the roster, but he's a 6-5, 235-pound forward who is 24 years old and his career numbers are a little below 21-year-old 6-6, 205-pound Rayan Rupert's and a push with those of Caleb Love, who is a guard, not a forward playing guard.

I'm not a Caleb Love guy, but, if you're missing PGs, Love makes more sense than Dillon Jones.

If someone wants to make the argument that Jones should be a two-way player other than Cooke, I absolutely could be on board with that. Jones is younger and he has more an NBA pedigree than does Cooke. I don't know why the Blazers chose Cooke over Jones, but they did.

The thing is I don't know where people keeping getting this idea that Dillon Jones has shown that he's an NBA player or even has NBA potential. Look at his stats. He's had four double-digit scoring games in the regular season and playoffs combined. I think his career scoring high is 13 and that was a night he played like 36 or 37 minutes. I think the most assists he's had in a game in the NBA is five. His shooting percentages were terrible.

It feels like people either are getting Dillon Jones mixed up with someone else or have developed the same kind of Weber State bias they used to have for Gonzaga players or something, but he's done nothing to merit the kind of love he's getting. Rupert has accomplished much more than Jones in the NBA -- statistically, look it up -- than Jones and is three years younger. If people think Rupert is terrible, then Jones definitely isn't the answer.

I made this argument in another thread. People have been posting about cutting Rupert for Dillon Jones. That'd be demonstrably stupid. You'd be jettisoning a younger player with a better resume' to roster the 14th spot on your roster for what amounts to maybe a week of meaningless games in a season where you probably aren't making the playoffs.

Anyway, Jones over Rupert makes no sense. Jones over Love probably doesn't make sense because we need a ballhandler right now and Love is that more than Jones. And, if you look at Jones and Cooke's Remix stats, those two and Blake Hinson all are about the same guy. Jones, therefore, isn't the answer. Now, if someone wants to suggest another player who is available that would be an improvement over Rupert and Cooke and therefore Jones as well, I'm all for it. I just don't favor kneejerk reactions for spots on the roster that have such little impact on the team. It's a developmental position at best and Dillon Jones isn't a developmental talent, at least not as much as Rupert and Love are.