Blazers vs Kings - Game thread!

[RoyToy]

Turnovers come from being lazy and/or impatient. Neither is an example of effort.

Does that mean Rajon Rondo, John Wall, Russell Westbrook, LeBron James and Steve Nash are the laziest players in the NBA?

Anyone that would boo this team must be a fairweather fan

 

[BlazerBeav]

Does that mean Rajon Rondo, John Wall, Russell Westbrook, LeBron James and Steve Nash are the laziest players in the NBA?

Anyone that would boo this team must be a fairweather fan

You can boo a performance - and this was certainly worthy of one. Sacramento had lost 15 of 16 on the road, and we managed 81 points? I don't think Nate would disagree with the booing assessment.

 

[RoyToy]

You can boo a performance - and this was certainly worthy of one. Sacramento had lost 15 of 16 on the road, and we managed 81 points? I don't think Nate would disagree with the booing assessment.

If you boo this team you're a fairweather fan.

 

[Hey]

How many times are people gonna say "even the elite teams lose to crappy teams"? This isn't the first time. We've been losing to crappy teams all season. We'd be 12 games over .500 if we actually closed out on the games we "should have won".

 

[BlazerBeav]

If you boo this team you're a fairweather fan.

Says someone who didn't pay hundreds of dollars to watch that piss poor excuse of a game. I'm not advocating jumping off the bandwagon (anyone still on at this point is not a fair weather fan anyway), but you can voice your displeasure with a crappy performance. I had to give my tickets up tonight, but had I been there I might have been tempted to boo.

 

[RoyToy]

That's fine if you feel you have the need to voice your displeasure by booing based on one performance. It just makes you a fairweather fan, that's all.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

I hate when fans boo their favorite team.

 

[THE HCP]

Did that look like playing hard to you? 20 turnovers? Sorry, not buying it.

It doesn't matter how hard you play if you don't have the talent! Hustle and scrappin' only get you so far. With Greg, Brandon and now Camby out, I would expect more games like this. We struggled to beat LA and Indy. The lack of talent will eventually catch up to you.

 

[THE HCP]

Turnovers come from being lazy and/or impatient. Neither is an example of effort.

Wrong. on the regular in the past Jason Kidd and Allen Iverson were always at the top of the league in turnovers. They were neither lazy OR impatient! They acquired them from pushing the action, and forcing the tempo and pace of the game.

 

[BlazerBeav]

It doesn't matter how hard you play if you don't have the talent! Hustle and scrappin' only get you so far. With Greg, Brandon and now Camby out, I would expect more games like this. We struggled to beat LA and Indy. The lack of talent will eventually catch up to you.

Did you happen to see the "talent" that was on the other bench tonight? I understand we are shorthanded and that our margin for error has shrunk considerably, but I fully believe we are STILL more talented than Sacramento. No question. Better coach, better players, awful performance. Simple as that.

And you can credit turnovers to forcing tempo, but I did not see us forcing the tempo tonight, or any night since Nate became coach - did I miss something?

 

[Mediocre Man]

Wrong. on the regular in the past Jason Kidd and Allen Iverson were always at the top of the league in turnovers. They were neither lazy OR impatient! They acquired them from pushing the action, and forcing the tempo and pace of the game.

I think two time league MVP Steve Nash is always at the top of the turnover stat also.

 

[Mediocre Man]

It doesn't matter how hard you play if you don't have the talent! Hustle and scrappin' only get you so far. With Greg, Brandon and now Camby out, I would expect more games like this. We struggled to beat LA and Indy. The lack of talent will eventually catch up to you.

Martell and Jerryd would have both helped us more than what we got for them

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Martell and Jerryd would have both helped us more than what we got for them

Well, at least Martell.

 

[hasoos]

Martell and Jerryd would have both helped us more than what we got for them

So what does it tell you when Rudy is 1 for 9 and Babbit can't even get a minute of play?

Then there is Mills. If Mills is scoring, he will have an average PG type of night. If he isn't scoring, he is just a big deficit out out on the floor. So your highest upside with Mills in the game, is that he plays average ball.

 

[hasoos]

Well, at least Martell.

No both. I know a lot of people didn't like Bayless. But you have to have a hell of a lot of hate to not prefer him over our backup PG now.

 

[THE HCP]

I think two time league MVP Steve Nash is always at the top of the turnover stat also.

First ever time we agree!

 

[THE HCP]

Martell and Jerryd would have both helped us more than what we got for them

2nd time!

 

[hasoos]

First ever time we agree!

Nobody cares if you get a lot of turnovers if you get many times that amount in assist. But they do care about it if you don't. Which is the situation in Portland as opposed to PHX.

 

[KingSpeed]

Can't lose 4 in two games.




It happens to everybody. Even championship teams have losses to crappy teams. It sucks but you move on. We're only two games worse than where we were last season. That's amazing considering all of the injuries. And Aldridge just won player of the week. I'm not gonna let one loss get me down. What you do is up to you. Go Blazers!

See??

Kings beat the Lakers in LA last night. Tonight, they ended the Hornets 10 game win streak.

The Kings are playing great basketball. Maybe it wasn't so horrible of a loss.