Game Thread GAME# 16: BLAZERS @ WIZARDS - NOVEMBER 18, 2018 - SUNDAY, 3:00 PM , NBCSNW

[beast blazer]

It's impossible to ever feel safe with any lead

 

[Lanny]

This poll is absurd.
It's like asking if you knew the sun would never rise again would you regret your wasted time enjoying it previously?
Also, it's a totally impossible scenario. It's not even good fantasy.
So, can't we focus on something plausible?

 

[Lanny]

Every regular season game is must win or we won’t make playoffs.

I get what you intended in your post. I'd just like to point out that you could have put it better.

 

[crandc]

Go Spurs.

Except Pops. He can go fuck himself.

I like Pops

 

[beast blazer]

So sorry Markieff, not tonight buddy

I thank Scott Brooks that he didn't even have a chance.

 

[Rozay]

So we just shouldn't focus on doing well in the regular season? Okay. Maybe we should bench all our starters until playoffs then so they don't get hurt..

Noooo I didn’t say that smh

 

[theprunetang]

I thank Scott Brooks that he didn't even have a chance.

Right?

If I was a coach of an NBA team and I was facing the Blazers, I would play any guy with the last name of Morris 48 minutes. It's a winning strategy.

 

[BonesJones]

Noooo I didn’t say that smh

You basically did.

 

[blazerkor]

The Good:
We had a 20 point lead and then a 29 point lead

The Bad:
We gave up a 15-0 run after the 20 point lead and the Wiz came within a wide-open '3' of trimming the 29 point lead down to 5.

Oh well, a win is a win but with the next game coming up right away, they needed to hold that 2nd lead and let Dame/CJ rest. 39 minutes is too many with a back-to-back on the horizon.

We don't play the Knicks until Tuesday.

 

[hoopsjock]

Man, if I was Ernie Grunfeld (Wiz GM) I would fire Brooks tonight.

As long as Stotts is the coach of the Blazers and you have a guy like Markieff Morris (or Jeff Green) you should run a pick and pop every single play. It's annoying as a Blazer fan to watch but it works against us. Did they even run one single pick and pop with Morris and Wall? How can you not even try a play that worked time and time again just a few weeks ago?

No wonder the Wizards are 5-11. How can a team with that many good players be such a shit show?

 

[theprunetang]

Man, if I was Ernie Grunfeld (Wiz GM) I would fire Brooks tonight.

As long as Stotts is the coach of the Blazers and you have a guy like Markieff Morris (or Jeff Green) you should run a pick and pop every single play. It's annoying as a Blazer fan to watch but it works against us. Did they even run one single pick and pop with Morris and Wall? How can you not even try a play that worked time and time again just a few weeks ago?

No wonder the Wizards are 5-11. How can a team with that many good players be such a shit show?

You nailed it. I was wondering that myself the entire game. We have trouble against mobile PFs that can pop out to the 3 point line. Their gameplan made no sense whatsoever.

 

[Boob-No-More]

Why don't we see more of this? Incredible ball movement for a team that's near the bottom of the league in assists (again):

https://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/...hows_off_perfect_blazers_basketball_in_w.html



Nine passes in 12 seconds that leads to a wide open corner 3-pointer.

BNM

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

That lead vanished quicker than HCP's dinner plate.

 

[hoopsjock]

That lead vanished quicker than HCP's dinner plate.

Whoa, lets not take it that far!

 

[theprunetang]

That lead vanished quicker than HCP's dinner plate.

It disappeared faster than a place in bed next to Mrs HCP when the Blazers hit the road.

 

[oldmangrouch]

That lead vanished quicker than HCP's dinner plate.

That lead vanished quicker than a dead hooker from the Lincoln bedroom!

 

[Mediocre Man]

It disappeared faster than a place in bed next to Mrs HCP when the Blazers hit the road.

Amateur hour

 

[Mediocre Man]

Great win.

 

[stampedehero]

It was the Damian Lillard Show!!!!
We all loved it when he stole the inbounds pass and was fouled by the guy throwing it in!!!!
It was all good for me yesterday. Ravens beat Bengals with Lamar Jackson at the QB and Dame owns the Wizards. Even my Chinese Chicken with garlic sauce was well done.

 

[LayneStaley]

Solid win.....would of rather beaten the 2 western conference teams the previous 2 games though.

 

[illmatic99]

This is their leader? no wonder

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

This is their leader? no wonder

John Wall is not a leader, he's a selfish basketball player, watch him play he does a terrible job setting guys up, he's a much less talented version of Westbrook. I'll admit there was some "interesting" calls in that game, but their was a lot of bad calls both ways. The PF difference was only 5, 30 to 25. Also maybe those washington players should practice FT's cause they left 11 points on the line. The only depressing thing about this is that the Blazers let them win one at the Rose Garden.

 

[kjironman1]

This is their leader? no wonder

The Wiz were also 10-21 from the line as a team so would it really matter? Didn't even hit 50%?

 

[Lukee]

Wall is fucking annoying, I would be pissed if I was Wizards fan. They are fucked for years with him, no-one is taking that contract.

 

[kjironman1]

John Wall is not a leader, he's a selfish basketball player, watch him play he does a terrible job setting guys up, he's a much less talented version of Westbrook. I'll admit there was some "interesting" calls in that game, but their was a lot of bad calls both ways. The PF difference was only 5, 30 to 25. Also maybe those washington players should practice FT's cause they left 11 points on the line. The only depressing thing about this is that the Blazers let them win one at the Rose Garden.

Even more so those fouls might have been lopsided but the calls were not on jump shots. Little ticky tack fouls like pushes in the back on the last play of the first half. They also flat out tackled Lillard a couple times? The opposite way the Wiz got called for some flat out Phantom Touches. It was a weird game for sure.

 

[Hoopguru]

It was the Damian Lillard Show!!!!
We all loved it when he stole the inbounds pass and was fouled by the guy throwing it in!!!!
It was all good for me yesterday. Ravens beat Bengals with Lamar Jackson at the QB and Dame owns the Wizards. Even my Chinese Chicken with garlic sauce was well done.
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look at those long legs on the gal 4th from the left! oh, and the 4th from the right!

 

[illmatic99]

And the Woj Bomb

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

And the Woj Bomb

Oubre or Porter would be nice, maybe Brown because I think he’s got “potential” but not a lot there id want...

 

[hoopsjock]

And the Woj Bomb

After the game, someone from the Wizards was talking to Dame for an extended time on the court. All I saw was the back of his head but it looked like maybe Porter? He could've been saying to get him outta Washington.

 

[julius]

After the game, someone from the Wizards was talking to Dame for an extended time on the court. All I saw was the back of his head but it looked like maybe Porter? He could've been saying to get him outta Washington.

For 26 million, he's not going anywhere easy.

We complain about Meyers and Turner, but holy shit is he overpaid.