Game Thread 2025-26 GAME #38 - BLAZERS VS ROCKETS - JANUARY 7, 2026 - WEDNESDAY - 7:00 PM - KUNP - BLAZERVISION (4 Viewers)

[Chris Craig]

I don't remember "Zebras" ever helping out the Trail Blazers, like ever. We have been hosed by them by a lot and probably would have gotten hosed in this game too without the review.

Really? Complaining about the refs when they gave them a challenge they didn't deserve. The refs saved their ass until they couldn't.

 

[BBert]

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Looks like a foul on Yang.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Another team isn't. And, I'm not talking about how far we are below the team above us. Just how far we are from being at .500. sure, but we didn't win one of the games we lost. We are 18-20, 2 games under .500

Again, I see it the same way you do...but it's not hard to understand why someone might see it the way SSS does.

 

[Pinwheel1]

That was a pretty physical game. Tou and Sidy both fouled out. We could really use Murray on Friday.
Deni was able to get to the line for the Blazers, and SS to some extent, but I felt that Houston fouled a lot more than that. They foul a lot on the perimeter and get away with it.

 

[Pinwheel1]

I will probably regret this as they will probably catch fire tomorrow, but the two forwards we coveted most from Houston in trade scenarios...... went 7-31. I can see why there is love for Eason.....he still played well, but I think Sharpe will have a brighter future than Jabari Smith from that draft.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

The trade was fantastic but you have to think NOBODY on either side of the trade thought he’d turn into this!

That's right. Even though I voted in one of our polls here that I thought he would eventually be our best player, never dreamed he would be this good. And he didn't look that good until Billups started putting the ball in his hands a lot more.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

What the hell are you talking about? He played great. He had one mistake or bad pass out of quite a few great ones? Ease up on the guy! At this point, it is starting to smell like racism or SOMETHING other than genuine concern over his game.

No, i think what smells is when someone prematurely jumps to call someone else a racist.

 

[Everything Beagle]

Toumani lost a tooth yeah? I saw him hand it to the trainer.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

I will probably regret this as they will probably catch fire tomorrow, but the two forwards we coveted most from Houston in trade scenarios...... went 7-31. I can see why there is love for Eason.....he still played well, but I think Sharpe will have a brighter future than Jabari Smith from that draft.

Jabari seems really passive.

 

[BBert]

Maybe it's just me, but I thought the fouls called on Yang were either marginal, questionable, or wrong. The kind of foul calls that would not have been called on an established vet.

 

[Everything Beagle]

Maybe it's just me, but I thought the fouls called on Yang were either marginal, questionable, or wrong. The kind of foul calls that would not have been called on an established vet.

Adams was manhandling Yang out there. I think most of them should have been no-calls given the rest of the game, but the second half the refs were trying to keep it a close game… might have had money riding on it lol

 

[HansenYang]

I will probably regret this as they will probably catch fire tomorrow, but the two forwards we coveted most from Houston in trade scenarios...... went 7-31. I can see why there is love for Eason.....he still played well, but I think Sharpe will have a brighter future than Jabari Smith from that draft.

Speak for yourself...

I loved Eason in the draft & wanted to find a way to get him.
I didn't (and still don't) see the love for Smith. He's a decent rotation player, but will never be a difference maker. He's essentially Jerami Grant V2.

 

[blazerfan11]

Love Amen's game, but he'll never be a 3pt shooter. @AldoTrapani

He's not a shooter from anywhere else that I've seen. Maybe the free-throw line? Other locations his shot is very clunky (other than at the hoop where he's very good).

 

[blazerfan11]

Speak for yourself...

I loved Eason in the draft & wanted to find a way to get him.
I didn't (and still don't) see the love for Smith. He's a decent rotation player, but will never be a difference maker. He's essentially Jerami Grant V2.

Houston could've had Shady Sharp in 2022 and could've had Stephon Castle or Kling-Kong in 2024.
I think both blazers selections in those years are better than what Houston chose.

 

[blazerfan11]

The trade was fantastic but you have to think NOBODY on either side of the trade thought he’d turn into this!

I don't know about that. It would be kind of like trading for Shaedon Sharp if Sharp was on a really bad team. I am sure they traded for him hoping he would take the next step.

 

[Everything Beagle]

I don't know about that. It would be kind of like trading for Shaedon Sharp if Sharp was on a really bad team. I am sure they traded for him hoping he would take the next step.

Oh sure but what I mean is this season can’t be what Cronin expected

 

[Pinwheel1]

Speak for yourself...

I loved Eason in the draft & wanted to find a way to get him.
I didn't (and still don't) see the love for Smith. He's a decent rotation player, but will never be a difference maker. He's essentially Jerami Grant V2.

Sounds like I was speaking for you as well. That is pretty much what I said.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Maybe it's just me, but I thought the fouls called on Yang were either marginal, questionable, or wrong. The kind of foul calls that would not have been called on an established vet.

Absolutely. Not only the fouls, but the traveling call too. Yes, he technically did travel, but this is the NBA.....they travel....... a lot.
He got the rookie treatment from the refs.

 

[illmatic99]

Rockets fans complaining about a player seeking contact and drawing fouls is rich.

Remind me again what team Harden played for for like a decade when he was doing the exact same thing?

 

[kjironman1]

I will probably regret this as they will probably catch fire tomorrow, but the two forwards we coveted most from Houston in trade scenarios...... went 7-31. I can see why there is love for Eason.....he still played well, but I think Sharpe will have a brighter future than Jabari Smith from that draft.

I think Sharpe already does. He’s getting attention at the national level. Jabari? Not so much.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Rockets fans complaining about a player seeking contact and drawing fouls is rich.

Remind me again what team Harden played for for like a decade when he was doing the exact same thing?

Never thought about it, but you're right on there--leading the league in FTA, turnovers, and minutes played is a very Harden-esque stat.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Really? Complaining about the refs when they gave them a challenge they didn't deserve. The refs saved their ass until they couldn't.

Yeah, Eason can go fuck himself. He gave zero respect to Deni. Maybe he was trying to get some calls on Friday by saying that, but more than likely it will backfire on him.

 

[andalusian]

Not the right thread? Did not want to start a new thread for it, so...

 

[Sheldon Shape]

Bro! This is close to the worst post in the history of this joint. Something the JinxSpeed guy would bang out on their keyboard. C’Mon.

It competes with that post by the HCP guy who kept telling people not to discuss the draft because the draft was weak and then we came out with Clingan and we see what Clingan is doing for us now in just his second season. Tough to say which is worse.

 

[KingSpeed]

Add this to the Dame 0.8 game and Houston is going to start thinking they are cursed in Portland.

Dame was 0.9
Roy was 0.8

 

[Everything Beagle]

Dame was 0.9
Roy was 0.8

Revenge for Hakeem’s showboat three against us

 

[crandc]

Dame was 0.9
Roy was 0.8

My apologies for 0.1 second!

 

[Domihatin]

It was clearly still being touched by the Rocket player's hand with the red light on around the backboard. Open your eyes. If anything, this corrected the egregious overturn of the foul against Love, where the refs tried to hand the game to the Rockets.

Do you realize how many people bet on this game? And the dollar amounts? You think the refs aren't crooked? The NBA is literally tied with the mob. Documented. Have you seen how many couches have been getting technicals lately and ejected? The officiating is a joke. Completely crooked.

Coaches*, haha.

 

[Domihatin]

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Hate how players intentionally leave their nails long to hurt other players and throw off their game. Dirty ass bastards. Or maybe, dirty ass-bastards is a better thing to say. Yang will get his revenge by being better than Adams ever was. It's going to ignite him.

 

[Domihatin]

YH is a project, but this was a good game for him. He looked like an NBA players out there. Not a particularly good one, but he did not look completely out of sort. This is good.

We have seen that Blazers have done well with players that proved stuff in lower categories. Deni was a MVP of a foreign league as a teenager. DC was a monster in college and won there - and it translates. YH was a good player at a lower level league. That's where the hope is with him, it will take some time, but there is a chance it translates sooner or later.

He did several particularly great things. Open your eyes...or mind. Average players don't make those kinds of passes. That feinting no-look was beautiful.