Game Thread GAME# 11: NUGGETS @ BLAZERS - NOVEMBER 13, 2016 - SUNDAY, 6:00 PM (PDT), CSNNW

[Wizard Mentor]

Tied for 4th in the West (with Utah, obv. we have breakers). That being said, we're the only playoff team in the west with negative +/-.

 

[Natebishop3]

:cough: CJ :cough:

CJ is definitely the worst offender, but Dame does it too. I hate watching them bring the ball up the court, dribble dribble dribble, and then jack up a shot. I would MUCH rather see the ball move around a bit.

 

[H.C.]

It isn't even that. What can you do against other playoff teams? So far we havent faired too well, but it is early.

Eh while a case can be made for that I agree. I'm not going to put too much stock into what you do against last years "playoff teams".
Simply because teams have gone like 1-13 against playoff teams after the all-star break and went on to win it all in the playoffs. (something like that I don't remember the exact stat.)
I care more about road wins than anything right now. Portland struggled last year on the road at 16-25, while going 28-13 at home.
Portland is supposed to win at home against Denver.
I want road wins against anyone. Portland last year got blown out by the sixers in philly.
Road wins, go.

3-2 on road. Could easily be 4-1.

More please.

 

[RipCityDSCPL]

For all the bitching around here, we're 7-4!!

So nice had to say it twice!

 

[noknobs]

Another win by only single digits. Olshey better do something about this or he's gone.

 

[Strenuus]

CJ is definitely the worst offender, but Dame does it too. I hate watching them bring the ball up the court, dribble dribble dribble, and then jack up a shot. I would MUCH rather see the ball move around a bit.

Dame does it MAYBE 5 possessions a game.

CJ does it 5 possessions a quarter.

 

[Strenuus]

Another win by only single digits. Olshey better do something about this or he's gone.

Yeah! If we went 78-4 and won all of them by single digits, he should be fired! THat bum!

 

[H.C.]

Another win by only single digits. Olshey better do something about this or he's gone.

 

[B-Roy]

Tied for 4th in the West (with Utah, obv. we have breakers). That being said, we're the only playoff team in the west with negative +/-.

Two 30 point losses and a bunch of <3 point wins will do that.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

I agree... but only to a point. History has shown that net +/- is a larger determiner of playoff
success than win %.

 

[noknobs]

Clearly it was sarcasm.

 

[julius]

Two 30 point losses and a bunch of <3 point wins will do that.

You take out those 2 ass whuppins', and the totals are 1012 (112) and 984 (109). That would put them at 5th in point differential in the western conference, but still nothing to get excited about.

 

[BonesJones]

Another win by only single digits. Olshey better do something about this or he's gone.

Lmao. Murray hit 4 heavily contested 3s at the end to make it closer. That was a blowout.

 

[noknobs]

Lmao. Murray hit 4 heavily contested 3s at the end to make it closer. That was a blowout.

Wow I even made a post saying that it was sarcasm and you still think it's serious.

 

[Cippy91]

I don't think you make those kinds of statements based on the shots made, but the shots taken. So he has 30+ points on 18 shots.

My bad. On shots made. Jeez

 

[Darkwebs]

Now we know why the Blazers came out so ferociously in the 2nd half.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Can rewatch the game on youtube:

 

[BonesJones]

Wow I even made a post saying that it was sarcasm and you still think it's serious.

Sorry I missed your one fucking post in a thread with nearly 500 posts... jeez dude.

 

[noknobs]

Sorry I missed your one fucking post in a thread with nearly 500 posts... jeez dude.

We all mistakes, don't beat yourself up.

 

[BonesJones]

We all mistakes, don't beat yourself up.

Good one.

 

[Sinobas]

I was thinking, during the slow start, how I prefer the Blazers to start slow than fast, because it seems like every time we start off well, we end up blowing it and it's a nail biter. But for whatever reason, they seem to come back strong in the 2nd half after lackluster starts. But I didn't expect them to go down by 17.

Jake Layman ruined his career per 48 scoring average tonight and was -10 in 4 minutes. This must be the first time Turner finished with a positive +-, being +8. His shot still looks very forced and terrible, but at least he didn't turn it over.

 

[SwissBlazer]

Just finished watching the game... I am all for the Dame-CJ-ET lineup.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Just finished watching the game... I am all for the Dame-CJ-ET lineup.

Starting Leonard seems to be a good thing to. He lost his starting spot last year due to injury. Now AMinu's injury might just allow him to win it back. MY boy is a starter in the league!!! Eat that @Mediocre Man

 

[Pinwheel1]

Just finished watching the game... I am all for the Dame-CJ-ET lineup.

I agree that it needs to receive at least some consideration throughout the season. Because in the playoffs, when teams have more time to prepare, we will need 3 decent ball handlers in at the same time.

The problem with giving that line up a lot of minutes now, is that it would cut down on Crabbe and Moe's minutes. And I think they play their best with Dame and CJ as well. Everyone on the team probably benefits from being on the floor with those two.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Surprising to me that Nuric and Jokic combined for 3-14 against our bigs. It seemed like they did better.
It was the smaller and quicker Faried that did the most damage. But he seemed to fizzle out in the 2nd half.

I thought Gallinari looked very good, but he ended up with a +/- of........... -28

 

[riverman]

Good win last night...only saw the first qtr but will watch the replay later today....Go Blazers!

 

[riverman]

We're giving up a ton of second chance points in the last few games...hope Stotts addresses that....Rudy Gay got sometimes 3 offensive boards off his own misses the other day and Gallinaro did the same thing last ...night..need to be better on the offensive glass...Ed used to provide that

 

[SlyPokerDog]

LOL @HCP! Can someone make a .gif out of this?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[riverman]

This reminds me of the documentary about the boxes in our brain....they say only men have one empty box they go to to chill....HCP has found that box!