Game Thread Boise Blazer's "Come Fight Me, Bro!" Lakers vs Blazers game thread

[PtldPlatypus]

You willfully forget history and fail to learn from history. Hence, we’re putting CJ at risk, just like we did to Roy, to try to win a first round playoff series.

Again, you're making assumptions that aren't really supportable. It's tough to have conversations with people who pass opinion off as fact. We have no way of knowing if CJ is coming back too early, or if his popliteus strain is sufficiently healed, so it's presumptuous to claim we're putting him at risk.

 

[riverman]

You’re being pedantic.

life coaching lesson...the free sampler....talk about the topic and not me.....the topic is CJ playing tonight...I read you don't like it...cliff note version...I do like it...no argument there eh

 

[hoopsjock]

“He said he was good to go”

You realize that when your medical staff isn’t a clown show, they won’t allow you to return early from a potential-career-ending injury to win a First round playoff series?

All players are going to want to play. You’re supposed to have people in your medical staff that know better than hard-headed ultra-competitive 20-something-year-olds...

Nurkalicious, this is meant as an honest post as to why you're being treated the way you are so even though I know you aren't going to listen I'm going to say it anyway.

When you make a comment like this:

Ah yes the trustworthy blazers medical staff. When have they ever gotten anything wrong! Brandon Roy totally didn’t end his career by rushing back to the playoffs amirite

And then when people point out to you that there is a completely different medical staff in charge and you say this:

Many of the same people are in charge, yes.

You keep making posts about Roy and the medical staff back then but there is literally no one still around from that time. The owner is dead. The CEO is different. The President of Basketball Operations and GM are different. The entire coaching staff is different. The entire medical staff is different. In fact they completely gutted anyone that had anything to do with the medical staff after the Roy years.

It doesn't sit well when you argue about something, can't acknowledge that you were incorrect, and then continue arguing like you're still right. Just my two cents, but if you just had a little bit of give and take instead of always complaining about others while not recognizing your part then maybe this would be a little more cordial. Or is it that this is what you want and you don't want a respectful conversation?

 

[Scalma]

Are you sure you’re not the one making assumptions? You sure rushing back to a playoff game before you’re healed has nothing to do with aggravating his injury? That makes no sense.

He could’ve sat out that series and it wouldn’t have made a difference to his future. His knees were already done.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Are you sure you’re not the one making assumptions? You sure rushing back to a playoff game before you’re healed has nothing to do with aggravating his injury? That makes no sense.

There was permanent damage and he made it worse.

Dont think you can prove he made it worse. Chances are he did, but could just be that was the end anyways.

 

[hoopsjock]

If anyone thought perhaps Nurkalicious was HCP, here's proof positive that he's not. No chance HCP knows how to spell "pedantic", let alone use it in a sentence.

That is the 3rd time he's used that word. I did a search for that word and came up with some interesting results. @yuyuza1 uses it a lot, but he doesn't seem like a burner account type. That nikoloukos (Sp?) guy used to use it too, did he get banned or just disappear? Where's @ripcityboy been? He's used it. @oldmangrouch used it a couple times. @Natebishop3 uses it occasionally. As do you mr @PtldPlatypus, lol, are you @Nurkalicious? I gave up going back any farther, ha ha.

 

[julius]

As the mods on this site would say

“Rules for thee but not for me. Bitch!”

Complain to sly then

 

[illmatic99]

That is the 3rd time he's used that word. I did a search for that word and came up with some interesting results. @yuyuza1 uses it a lot, but he doesn't seem like a burner account type. That nikoloukos (Sp?) guy used to use it too, did he get banned or just disappear? Where's @ripcityboy been? He's used it. @oldmangrouch used it a couple times. @Natebishop3 uses it occasionally. As do you mr @PtldPlatypus, lol, are you @Nurkalicious? I gave up going back any farther, ha ha.

lol i wish i had enough time for a burner account. I care way too little about this place to do something like that.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Nurkalicious, this is meant as an honest post as to why you're being treated the way you are so even though I know you aren't going to listen I'm going to say it anyway.

When you make a comment like this:


And then when people point out to you that there is a completely different medical staff in charge and you say this:


You keep making posts about Roy and the medical staff back then but there is literally no one still around from that time. The owner is dead. The CEO is different. The President of Basketball Operations and GM are different. The entire coaching staff is different. The entire medical staff is different. In fact they completely gutted anyone that had anything to do with the medical staff after the Roy years.

It doesn't sit well when you argue about something, can't acknowledge that you were incorrect, and then continue arguing like you're still right. Just my two cents, but if you just had a little bit of give and take instead of always complaining about others while not recognizing your part then maybe this would be a little more cordial. Or is it that this is what you want and you don't want a respectful conversation?

IT'S THE SAME:

Fans

City

Colors

Arena

Team name

And Radio Announcer.

IT'S THE SAME!

Learn the monotony then post.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

IT'S THE SAME:

Fans

City

Colors

Arena

Team name

And Radio Announcer.

IT'S THE SAME!

Learn the monotony than post.

Dogs

 

[kjironman1]

Just thought maybe i would leave this here....

https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest...forcing-cj-mccollum-back-just-time-shake-rust

 

[kjironman1]

“I felt like I was pretty free flowing with my movement. I felt pretty comfortable with doing a lot of stuff… Just tried to play a normal game,” McCollum said.

“If there was any pain, I wouldn’t play,” McCollum added.

Not having any sort of pain in his knee was a deciding factor in the 27-year-old returning to the court.

 

[kjironman1]

Could it be that all the (not there any longer) fools running the team are playing him because it's time to play him again?

 

[Scalma]

“I felt like I was pretty free flowing with my movement. I felt pretty comfortable with doing a lot of stuff… Just tried to play a normal game,” McCollum said.

“If there was any pain, I wouldn’t play,” McCollum added.

Not having any sort of pain in his knee was a deciding factor in the 27-year-old returning to the court.

Stotts doesn’t seem like the type that would force his players to play through anything anyway.

 

[kjironman1]

IT'S THE SAME:

Fans

City

Colors

Arena

Team name

And Radio Announcer.

IT'S THE SAME!

Learn the monotony than post.

Calabro and Hurd are completely left out. Only love for the "Radio Announcer". No wonder we never get any mentions on TV.
You gotta give to get in this world.

Time to do a Meet and Greet with Calabro and Hurd. That is the only way we can make up for this obvious intentional shade.....

 

[kjironman1]

Stotts doesn’t seem like the type that would force his players to play through anything anyway.

You know the way i understand it is he doesn't have that authority anyway. If the player is out because of injury it is the team physician that makes the call. Has nothing at all to do with standings or roster spots or wins and losses.

 

[hoopsjock]

Calabro and Hurd are completely left out. Only love for the "Radio Announcer". No wonder we never get any mentions on TV.
You gotta give to get in this world.

Time to do a Meet and Greet with Calabro and Hurd. That is the only way we can make up for this obvious intentional shade.....

Calabro and Hurd were not here for the Roy years either. C'mon KJ!

 

[James lamphear]

You willfully forget history and fail to learn from history. Hence, we’re putting CJ at risk, just like we did to Roy, to try to win a first round playoff series.

You don’t have to dwell on injuries to grasp that blazers fans/coaches/staff put way too much pressure on players to return early for playoff games that probably won’t matter much in the long term.

Come on now if the doctor release him on minutes restriction to see how he would respond from his rehab. No body rushing him back if the doctor said he can go it up to him if he wants to try it to see how it feels. Stotts and the doctors didn't rush Harkless back when he was rehabbing so I almost think it the same case with CJ.

 

[BBert]

You can try to spin it if you want, but I guarantee you Popovich would not be playing CJ right now. Obviously CJ is not going to throw shade and admit that he thinks Stotts is pressuring him to get reps.

The fact remains that CJ said he “didn’t need reps” in the regular season when asked a direct question along the lines of “Stotts says you need reps, do you?” Obviously I’m reading into this, but I don’t think it’s unlikely that Stotts is doing his usual and rushing him back. Stotts will likely be fired if he doesn’t get past the first round this year: there is a conflict of incentives between him and CJ, who is thinking long term.

It's been my fourth-hand impression that the team allows the medical/training/physical therapy staff make those decisions. Such as, how many minutes to play Harkless, and when, over the past year. In the olden days they used to make guys play hurt, and I always hated that. Obviously I don't have any first hand knowledge, but I trust CJ waited or was held out until he was deemed fully ready to play, so as to reduce the likelihood of re-aggravating the injury before the playoffs.

Just my two pesos.

 

[BBert]

Ah yes the trustworthy blazers medical staff. When have they ever gotten anything wrong! Brandon Roy totally didn’t end his career by rushing back to the playoffs amirite

There’s plenty of argument to be had about it, just not with sub-human rookie scum like Nurkalicous!

Different medical staff and different approach to conditioning and rehab.

I HATED our old training and medical staff. They should have been replaced years before it finally happened. So I agree with you there.

It's my understanding that times and methods have changed.

 

[BBert]

That's just way too long for a user name...I liked the simpler "Nurkalicous" better

Now I want to change my user name to Sub-Human Rookie Scum. Or maybe just Sub-Human Scum. Or simply, Sub-Human, since you seem to like fewer syllables

 

[Chris Craig]

You willfully forget history and fail to learn from history. Hence, we’re putting CJ at risk, just like we did to Roy, to try to win a first round playoff series.

You don’t have to dwell on injuries to grasp that blazers fans/coaches/staff put way too much pressure on players to return early for playoff games that probably won’t matter much in the long term.

It's not nearly the same thing. Roys knees were fucking gone. CJ knees are fine. He strained his knee. He took more than the reccomended time to come back. He wasn't rushed back. He didn't play full minutes last night.

 

[BBert]

So this is the thread to the game that hasn't been played yet and this is where it is at this point?

Go Blazers!

 

[Chris Craig]

That's just way too long for a user name...I liked the simpler "Nurkalicous" better

Supercalinurakaliciousexpialidocious?

 

[Chris Craig]

So this is the thread to the game that hasn't been played yet and this is where it is at this point?

Go Blazers!

Yeah, this and the last two. @Darkwebs is owed an apology

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Supercalinurakaliciousexpialidocious?

Quality work here.

Now you can say it backwards, which is docious-ali-expi-licious-nurki-cali-rupus, but that's going a bit to far, don't you think?

 

[BBert]

Now I want to change my user name to Sub-Human Rookie Scum. Or maybe just Sub-Human Scum. Or simply, Sub-Human, since you seem to like fewer syllables

I've settled on Scum

 

[BBert]

I apologize for my late to the party redundant posts. I just read and respond as time allows

 

[BBert]

So this is the thread to the game that hasn't been played yet and this is where it is at this point?

Go Blazers!

Think of it as the game within the game

 

[Chris Craig]

Quality work here.

Now you can say it backwards, which is docious-ali-expi-licious-nurki-cali-rupus, but that's going a bit to far, don't you think?

Why not at all