Game Thread 2025-26 GAME #57 - BLAZERS VS NUGGETS - FEBRUARY 20, 2026 - FRIDAY - 7:00 PM - KUNP - BLAZERVISION (8 Viewers)

[Chris Craig]

I honestly get it. I want them to win also but there was a conversation in some thread about winning two games of the play in to pull a series against either OKC or the Spurs. If you ask me it might be the Nuggets as well but the point is why?
The Blazers need talent and they need some luck. They need a high draft pick. Not 10 or 11. They need top 4 again.

Experience

 

[42N8Bounce]

The Blazers may be down by more than 40 in the 3rd quarter, but at least they aren’t beating us in 24-second violations.

Wow.
Every single category.
Wow

 

[HailBlazers]

Glad I sold my ticket for $40 lol.

 

[Jelloman]

Down 40, still can't let Yang play. Show you how bad he is and how much of a project the team think he is.

 

[Chris Craig]

Down 40, still can't let Yang play. Show you how bad he is and how much of a project the team think he is.

He's playing. Taking a lot of elbows from Valanciunas

 

[Cugel]

40 points in 3 quarters. oh what a horrible game. so far to go before an average team.

 

[blazerkor]

Yang still sporting his battle scars from mixing it up in the post with Steven Adams.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Not an NBA player...

 

[Chris Craig]

Not an NBA player...

Yang or Javonte?

 

[blazerkor]

Can we make it an even more humiliating 60 point loss?

 

[42N8Bounce]

Down by 55 with 2 minutes to go!

 

[wizenheimer]

54 point loss, at home, to a team that played the night before....yuck

 

[Everything Beagle]

Woof.

 

[blazerkor]

Well mercifully that one is over. We start out the last third of the season disastrously. A lot of things for the young guys to learn from but mostly this was a game where all of our players lacked effort.

On to the next one and it will almost certainly be a better effort.

 

[Chris Craig]

Well mercifully that one is over. We start out the last third of the season disastrously. A lot of things for the young guys to learn from but mostly this was a game where all of our players lacked effort.

On to the next one and it will almost certainly be a better effort.

Can't be worse

 

[Everything Beagle]

On the bright side, 103 is a perfectly respectable final score in basketball. We were closer than not to being lapped which is bad, but 103 isn’t awful!

 

[julius]

This game should pretty much disqualify them from the play-in.

I know that's not how it works, but good lord. a 54 point loss, *at home* is 100% inexcusable.

 

[Chris Craig]

They should all be docked pay

 

[kjironman1]

Experience

Talent wins in this league. They need a Roy or Drexler or another Lillard. Even a player as good as Aldridge would put them in the playoffs.

 

[julius]

Talent wins in this league. They need a Roy or Drexler or another Lillard. Even a player as good as Aldridge would put them in the playoffs.

Games like this make me think there's no hope for this team.

 

[kjironman1]

Games like this make me think there's no hope for this team.

Tough for sure.

 

[PCmor7]

After what I just saw, I have no idea what the organization is thinking.

We cut Rupert because we used up all of Cissoko's games ... then we barely played Sidy tonight. But Thybulle's back, and now Murray's back, so I don't see where Sidy's minutes are going to come from. I know Rupert probably wasn't going to be a rotation guy, but he's 21 and had his moments. If the Blazers are cutting him to keep and elevate a two-way guy, that two-way guy better be actually playing.

And they've played Sidy and Caleb games where they really didn't need to. More so Caleb. He's wasted a couple of games this month that's probably going to force the Blazers to cut Wesley eventually.

It just doesn't make sense to me. The Blazers handled this like they were trying to make at least the play-in and they needed Cissoko and Love to do it. Then, first game after the all-star break, they lay an egg, barely play Cissoko, don't play Love, barely play Thybulle, barely play Murray, barely play Wesley.

It just seems like they had no idea how they wanted to handle this problem. It should have been decided in January.

If they were really trying to get into the playoffs, they should have made a couple of moves (not even trades, but releasing guys to open up roster spaces) before the trade deadline so they could have signed a vet who'd been let go who could have helped the Blazers achieve that.

If they didn't care about making the playoffs, then just led Sidy and Caleb reach 50 and have them play the rest of the season with the Remix and let Rupert and Cooke get a chance to audition.

Like tonight's gameplan, it doesn't look like the organization planned this out very well.

Also, the more I watch Yang, the less optimistic I become about his chances to be a rotation player. I understand drafting him. I get the rationale and I seen the sense in it. But he seems to get progressively worse. He doesn't have the feel for the game I thought he had. He doesn't rebound. He doesn't defend. He's not assertive. He used to set some good screens, but he hasn't even done that in more than a month. I knew he was a project, but, with each game, he looks like he's getting further away from being a player.

 

[PCmor7]

The Blazers may be down by more than 40 in the 3rd quarter, but at least they aren’t beating us in 24-second violations.
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Wow.
Every single category.
Wow

At home. Twenty-four hours after the Nuggets played while the Blazers rested.

I just don't understand how the Blazers could come out and be that uncompetitive. You almost have to be not trying to be that bad.

 

[blazerfan11]

On the bright side, 103 is a perfectly respectable final score in basketball. We were closer than not to being lapped which is bad, but 103 isn’t awful!

It also means a "free" MacMuffin with $2 purchase.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Yang or Javonte?

Both

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

What's the deal with Deni? When he was healthy and being aggressive and running the team, we were good. Is he not healthy physically now? Or has the injury affected him mentally? Or are the coaches holding him back?

 

[blazerkor]

What's the deal with Deni? When he was healthy and being aggressive and running the team, we were good. Is he not healthy physically now? Or has the injury affected him mentally? Or are the coaches holding him back?

No one played defense tonight which isn't on Deni it's on Tiago. Deni's shot wasn't falling but he still managed 15 points and 13 assists with 8 rebounds.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

No one played defense tonight which isn't on Deni it's on Tiago. Deni's shot wasn't falling but he still managed 15 points and 13 assists with 8 rebounds.

I didn't mean to imply it was on Deni at all. It just seems something is holding him back from leading the team like he did once, and trying to figure out what it is...

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

It also seems that Scoot isn't sure what his role on the team is now.

 

[Ripcity4life77]

I am glad I turned that game off did it at the same time I said i was done cause i knew they were done but never thought it would go this bad. I can accept maybe it was just one of those nights but IF they get blown out next game and/or show no heart then I am going to start to wonder if the issue is more then the players ( Tiago ) but let's see how the next couple games play out.