Game 1 Phoenix vs Portland SL (SPOILERS)

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Every year for at least about 6 years, every* quarter of every Summer League Blazer game is wasted by a superlong interview of someone. Olshey just talked for over half a quarter and the Suns outscored us 15-3. You might think, turn off the sound and try to figure out who's doing what by the numbers on the new players' backs. But Olshey's in a rectangle, and the game's in a reduced rectangle. I think HCP is being fancy or something. So I can't see the details when I have no play by play. No audio and reduced visual.

Crabbe may be the size of Barton, but they're opposites. Crabbe is cool and poised, from Berkeley. He's smart. Barton may replace Crabbe as my designated worst Blazer. Crabbe will shorten Barton's stay here.

* I mean ONE quarter.
 
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18 down. With a couple of minutes left and the game over, Freeland steals and passes to the running Barton downcourt. With 15 seconds left, Barton steals and takes it downcourt for the layup. What a quandary, picking the worst Blazer this season. Eeny meeny..okay it's Leonard. Game over, we lose by 13. Morris twins interviewed by an adoring reporter and have the charisma of two dry rocks.
 
jlprk said:
18 down. With a couple of minutes left and the game over, Freeland steals and passes to the running Barton downcourt. With 15 seconds left, Barton steals and takes it downcourt for the layup. What a quandary, picking the worst Blazer this season. Eeny meeny..okay it's Leonard. Game over, we lose by 13. Morris twins interviewed by an adoring reporter and have the charisma of two dry rocks.
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I already said this, but I really don't like the Morris twins.
 
Bottom line, Phoenix figured us out, and we didn't adjust. We got our ass kicked. Dust ourselves off, get up and compete harder today.
 
maxiep said:
Bottom line, Phoenix figured us out, and we didn't adjust. We got our ass kicked. Dust ourselves off, get up and compete harder today.
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next day perspective - maybe it's a good thing. Like last year teams have figured out we suck if you trap/double our PG. Eventually Lillard figured out how to handle it. McCollum gets to start figuring it out day 1.
 
Wizard Mentor said:
next day perspective - maybe it's a good thing. Like last year teams have figured out we suck if you trap/double our PG. Eventually Lillard figured out how to handle it. McCollum gets to start figuring it out day 1.
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I didn't think the problem was primarily McCullum's; it was the fault of the other players who didn't come to help him, who didn't rotate to an open spot on the floor.
 
OK finally getting to watch the game. The Blazers do have a PG on the roster in Cedric Jackson. I stand corrected.

I didn't think Freeland looked bad at all. True the refs give him no respect but over all he is much better suited at PF than C. He did not look lost at all out there. Had some nice blocks, He had 3 that I counted. (he got credit for 2)

The offense looked bad. Our go to player seemed to be Barton and he is not suited for that. He is more of a garbage ball type scorer. Not someone you run the offense through. But since they had CJ running the point (and he was doubled) someone else had to attack. Will can get to the basket, he just can't finish in traffic.

Only one game but it looks like Robinson will have to be able to hit the mid range jumper to keep the defenses honest. But he seems to be pretty active. He will be a nice addition off the bench.

Can't wait to see CJ and Dame playing together.
 
Freeland doesn't have Leonard's natural gifts, but he's a better basketball player, ATM. I thought he was better than others described him last night.

Leonard was pretty terrible. He rushed everything, and played like a rookie fresh out of high school who was playing out of his natural position.

Claver is so smart and active. Again, it's a pity he's not just slightly quicker and more athletic.

Barton is garbage.

Robinson was OK, but he has farther to go than I thought. I hope we have a big man coach.

Saw some potential in Crabbe. He was kind of a wall flower. We need a point guard to get him involved.

McCollum did pretty much whatever he wanted until the other team figured out he was the only guy they had to guard. Agree his teammates didn't help him out at all when he was getting swarmed. It's good he's getting some reps at point guard in summer league, it will help him down the road, but if we wanted to win these games we should have another point guard not named 'Barton'.
 
Please tell me we aren't going to see Meyers Leonard out by the 3-pt line all year handing the ball off and setting bad screens, jacking up jump shots, not knowing where to be on defense, and getting into pissing matches with the opposing big men and crying every time he gets hit. Please tell me that.
 
For some reason the game didn't record. :(

Was really looking forward to watching the first half. Is the game going to be shown again?
 
HomerLovesKoolAid said:
Please tell me we aren't going to see Meyers Leonard out by the 3-pt line all year handing the ball off and setting bad screens, jacking up jump shots, not knowing where to be on defense, and getting into pissing matches with the opposing big men and crying every time he gets hit. Please tell me that.
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For the most part I agree with your question. Maybe the coaches were hoping to draw the opposing centers away from the basket. But I was asking the same thing.

But I will say he got into it with the other team when he hit them, not the other way around. And quite frankly I agreed with what he did when he stopped the continuation of the suns players when he fouled them after the whistle. We saw on another play in the 2nd half where the suns get a bullshit continuation basket that should never have counted. You can't take anything for granted.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
But I will say he got into it with the other team when he hit them, not the other way around. And quite frankly I agreed with what he did when he stopped the continuation of the suns players when he fouled them after the whistle. We saw on another play in the 2nd half where the suns get a bullshit continuation basket that should never have counted. You can't take anything for granted.
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I agree I like seeing Meyers mix it up and punish guys for coming into the lane. This is the one area where he reminds me of Joel Przybilla. I hope he keeps it up. If only we had Joel around to mentor him in the finer art of setting a pick, laying the wood, taking names, and not backing down. I think there is some potential there.
 
Am I the only one who recorded the game last night........ and they fucked up on the play back. It went from CJ doing that Harlem Globetrotter dribble move with 8:30 on the clock in the 2nd.....then went to commercial. When they came back there was 2:15 left and CJ had gone on a nice scoring run THAT WE DIDN'T GET TO FUCKING SEE! They literally skipped the best portion of the fucking game!
 
HCP said:
Am I the only one who recorded the game last night........ and they fucked up on the play back. It went from CJ doing that Harlem Globetrotter dribble move with 8:30 on the clock in the 2nd.....then went to commercial. When they came back there was 2:15 left and CJ had gone on a nice scoring run THAT WE DIDN'T GET TO FUCKING SEE! They literally skipped the best portion of the fucking game!
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Yeah I watched it last night at midnight. I thought I had blacked out for a while or gone through some kind of time warp. Sucks. They showed all of the garbage time in the second half though.
 
that jump-back 3 off the drive at 1:12 will be pretty damn effective if that's legit.
 
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