Blazers/Nuggets April 1st Game Thread

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Chuck Taylor said:
They double and triple teamed him all night. I think Nate and Roy should have had a better plan to exploit this and find the open man, but it wasn't happening tonight. But if that's enough for you to make blanket statements, then go ahead.
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lol "blanket statements" ok buddy keep defending your boy. I want him to succeed more than you, but let's face it...he isn't on that elite level. He's an all-star, but he's not an elite scorer.

The elite scorers get double/triple teamed all the time, too, but they still find a way to score. I love Roy, but he is what he is. A perennial All-Star who is pretty good at everything.
 
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LMAO!!! Sir-Cumfrance!
 
PHXBlazer1 said:
lol "blanket statements" ok buddy keep defending your boy. I want him to succeed more than you, but let's face it...he isn't on that elite level. He's an all-star, but he's not an elite scorer.

The elite scorers get double/triple teamed all the time, too, but they still find a way to score. I love Roy, but he is what he is. A perennial All-Star who is pretty good at everything.
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How is taking one game and making broad generalizations about it not considered making a blanket statement? How do you know how much I want him to succeed? When did I ever say he is an elite scorer? Again, how can I get some of what you're smokin?
 
KingSpeed said:
Miller had 1 assist. He never even LOOKED for the open man. Yes, he did some good things. No doubt. But he forced up a bunch of horrible low percentage shots while his teammates were open. We lost this game because of our shooting percentage. And that was Miller's doing. He wasn't creating high percentage shots for his teammates. He wasn't even TRYING to.

Oh and I KNOW (are you really that bad of a speller?) a little about basketball.
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I'm only going to respond this one time and you can think what you want. Miller did look for the open man some. Maybe not as much as he normally would because people he passed to were not hitting there shots. He had to try and make something happen and he did keep us in the game with his scoring. I love Roy and Batum's game but they stunk it up tonight and trying to blame Miller for Roy having a terrible game is just silly and stupid. Yes, I am a terrible speller but I just made a mistake and didn't proof read what I was typing. Maybe you do know a little about basketball but it sure doesn't look like it from what you are posting.
 
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Chuck Taylor said:
They double and triple teamed him all night. I think Nate and Roy should have had a better plan to exploit this and find the open man, but it wasn't happening tonight. But if that's enough for you to make blanket statements, then go ahead.
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What i've noticed watching Roy is that when the double and triple team comes, he always does the same thing. He always back pedals with the ball and continues dribbling instead of passing the ball quickly to catch the d out of position. the backing up allows the d to rotate over and cover open players.

roy loves to hold the dribble instead of moving the ball, and thats one thing he needs to improve on. he needs to make quicker decisions to and let his team help him out.
 
Chuck Taylor said:
How is taking one game and making broad generalizations about it not considered making a blanket statement? How do you know how much I want him to succeed? When did I ever say he is an elite scorer? Again, how can I get some of what you're smokin?
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Nice. Thats pretty much word for word what I expected you to write. I read this board enough to know that. And u couldn't handle what I'm smokin chucky t...sorry
 
PHXBlazer1 said:
Nice. Thats pretty much word for word what I expected you to write. I read this board enough to know that. And u couldn't handle what I'm smokin chucky t...sorry
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Seriously, aside from my smoking comment (obviously joking), answer my questions and prove me wrong.
 
lol oops i thought i quoted your post saying you turn 24 this weekend lol
 
It's alright... I counted this one as a loss before it started. Face it, in denver we're the thuggitz' bitches... It's been like that forever.
 
Tortimer said:
I'm only going to respond this one time and you can think what you want. Miller did look for the open man some. Maybe not as much as he normally would because people he passed to were not hitting there shots. .
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Bullshit. Bayless came in and Martell was on fire. Then Miller came in and Webster was wide open for most of the second quarter and Miller forced up terrible shots. Miller wasn't finding the open man at ALL.
 
PHXBlazer1 said:
this doesnt bode well for the playoffs. roy just isnt that good...nuggets are playin like shit and we still cant do anything
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THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT WHEN I MENTION SOME PEOPLE ON HERE KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT BASKETBALL! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?!? "roy just isn't that good"? We should be able to have something on here that is the opposite of giving rep points!
 
PHXBlazer1 said:
Its not just one game. Let's face it, he isn't that good. He can have games where he's unstoppable, and I still want the ball in his hands with the game on the line. But he has too many games like this to be considered among the best in the league. He's an all-star but he isn't on the level of LJ, KB, KD, DW.
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I can promise you son that there is probably 26 or 27 teams in the NBA tht would love to have Brandon as there starting 2-guard!
 
"THE" said:
I can promise you son that there is probably 26 or 27 teams in the NBA tht would love to have Brandon as there starting 2-guard!
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:dunno: True, but beside the point.

Roy is currently one of the top 3 or 4 Sgs in the league. Kobe and LeBron are in the conversation for top 10 players of all time. Roy is not anywhere close to that level. Worse, he has regressed since getting his nice, fat extension.
 
Just a quick blurb about tonights game:

The Blazers would have won this game had they just nutted up and just hit their shots. I thought the refs did a good job, I thought the Blazers tried pretty hard through 3 quarters. I just think it comes down to all those missed shots deflating the team. Nothing to freak out about. Sure some things could have gone better, our young players made a lot of mistakes. (All of them, Rudy, Batum, Bayless). They all made bad mistakes during the game. Those are the lumps I expected the team to take when we went with younger players in the 2nd unit. All I can ask is they learn, and move forward.
 
hasoos said:
Just a quick blurb about tonights game:

The Blazers would have won this game had they just nutted up and just hit their shots. I thought the refs did a good job, I thought the Blazers tried pretty hard through 3 quarters. I just think it comes down to all those missed shots deflating the team. Nothing to freak out about. Sure some things could have gone better, our young players made a lot of mistakes. (All of them, Rudy, Batum, Bayless). They all made bad mistakes during the game. Those are the lumps I expected the team to take when we went with younger players in the 2nd unit. All I can ask is they learn, and move forward.
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I think we are going to see this same kind of defense in the playoffs where Roy is being taken out of the flow and teams pack it in. If the shots aren't falling, Nate needs to install and practice a plan B which is flashing players to the middle to force some ball movement. We couldn't rebound the misses very well either (at least in the 2nd half which is all I watched).
 
Zybot said:
I think we are going to see this same kind of defense in the playoffs where Roy is being taken out of the flow and teams pack it in. If the shots aren't falling, Nate needs to install and practice a plan B which is flashing players to the middle to force some ball movement. We couldn't rebound the misses very well either (at least in the 2nd half which is all I watched).
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When we watched the game last night, we got a taste of true playoff basketball. Let's look at what happened, and what happened in Houston last year, and notice some similarities:

1. Physical game. Lots of players hitting the floor, lots of hard fouls.

2. Game stops. A lot of game stops. It makes those running opportunities for easy buckets important, but more rare.

3. Primary scorer being locked down. For 3 quarters, Carmello Anthony was locked down. For the whole game, Roy was locked down. I have talked about this before. In the west in the playoffs, the best teams will take away your top 1 or 2 options in the offense, and force your other players to score. Look what happened last night. Look at which team had the most dependable scorers. Was it Carmello Anthony who beat us, or was it Billups and Smith?

4. Tense players. Lets face it. A lot of missed shots by Blazers who were tense because of the situation. About the only guy who played loose, was Webster, and that is because he is the goofball he is.
 
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