Game Thread GAME# 22: NUGGETS @ BLAZERS - NOVEMBER 30, 2018 - FRIDAY, 7:30 PM , ESPN & NBCSNW

[ripcityboy]

Denver isn't playing good D but we are trying to play way to fast and fucking up constantly.

It looks like they are doing a good enough job to me.

 

[VenomXL]

Same ol shit. Same game plan that always beats this team. Getting their asses beat on national TV to boot.

 

[Rhal]

25% 3p to 60%. 2 To's to 9. Thats the disparity in the game right now. We need to slow down and stop trying to play so quickly, it has lead to some very bad turnovers and open shots for the Nuggets.

 

[Strenuus]

Was ol' boy on there simulating toking up right behind that kid? LOL.

 

[riverman]

We're shooting 25% from 3 as a team first half...that's terrible..Meyers has kept us in this game at all so far

 

[Rhal]

It looks like they are doing a good enough job to me.

I guess its how you look at it, I see us making a lot of dumb mistakes instead of the Nuggets playing good D.

 

[B-Roy]

They’re trapping Dame like NO did and the Blazers again seem all out of sink. How can Stotts not have figured this out...

In case you have been living under a rock, this has been the blueprint to beating the Blazers for 3 years now. The Blazers have no outlet, no release valve. No wing on this team can make enough shots or plays to make defenses pay for doubling Dame on each possession. Nurk is not enough of a playmaker off the pick and roll. And yet we roll out the same fucking roster each year because "continuity" and "they'll figure it out". Stotts hasn't helped, but he's also been dealt a shit hand for dealing with this situation.

 

[brooklynballer]

Every Blazer shot is contested. Seemingly every Nugget shot is wide open. Fucking Terry Stotts. SMH.

 

[Rozay]

In case you have been living under a rock, this has been the blueprint to beating the Blazers for 3 years now. The Blazers have no outlet, no release valve. No wing on this team can make enough shots or plays to make defenses pay for doubling Dame on each possession. Nurk is not enough of a playmaker off the pick and roll. And yet we roll out the same fucking roster each year because "continuity" and "they'll figure it out". Stotts hasn't helped, but he's also been dealt a shit hand for dealing with this situation.

Maybe it’s time to just go a different route

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

In case you have been living under a rock, this has been the blueprint to beating the Blazers for 3 years now. The Blazers have no outlet, no release valve. No wing on this team can make enough shots or plays to make defenses pay for doubling Dame on each possession. Nurk is not enough of a playmaker off the pick and roll. And yet we roll out the same fucking roster each year because "continuity" and "they'll figure it out". Stotts hasn't helped, but he's also been dealt a shit hand for dealing with this situation.

Yeah the forwards suck but this is a scheme and coaching problem if you cant figure out how to beat the same defense than thats just bad coaching.

 

[DUB]

Halftime
Us - 53
Them - 68

3PM/A (%)
Us - 3/12 (25%)
Them - 9/15 (60%)

Turnovers
Us - 10
Them - 3

Points Off Turnovers
Us - 14
Them -4

 

[LayneStaley]

I don’t like jokic at all...

 

[Rozay]

Ever since Lebron went nuclear on us in LA we been trash

 

[DDolla]

This team is not even a top 10 team out west... sorry.

 

[B-Roy]

Yeah the forwards suck but this is a scheme and coaching problem if you cant figure out how to beat the same defense than thats just bad coaching.

We don't have the talent to make teams pay for double teaming on every possession. And Dame is not LeBron or Giannis where he can just waltz into the lane against 3 defenders on each possession.

 

[Chris Craig]

First half thoughts:

Fuck

Sit Turner down. Leave him sitting

Aminu hit his first and only 3...rode the bench to the half...why

Wake up Nurk

 

[Paine Tablet]

I mean, it's sad that people are thinking a 20 year old was already better than Meyers. Meyers had nothing to lose, he was so bad for so long.

Yet you are still ragging on him every fucking chance you get.

 

[JDC]

Say what you want about Stotts, but the personnel on this roster has flaws that no amount of scheming will magically turn it into a contender.

Matchup dependent with just an average level IQ and enough guys you can ignore that it makes it really hard on our better offensive players to perform.

Putting the ball in those guys hands isn't going to help either. Spacing, cutting and passing lanes are still compromised which affect Dame and CJ's ability to work off the ball.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

We don't have the talent to make teams pay for double teaming on every possession. And Dame is not LeBron or Giannis where he can just waltz into the lane against 3 defenders on each possession.

Theres so many things they can do scheme wise to keep from allowing the other team to trap. Maybe dont run the same screens at the top over and over for one...

 

[Rozay]

Say what you want about Stotts, but the personnel on this roster has flaws that no amount of scheming will magically turn it into a contender.

Matchup dependent with just an average level IQ and enough guys you can ignore that it makes it really hard on our better offensive players to perform.

Putting the ball in those guys hands isn't going to help either. Spacing, cutting and passing lanes are still compromised which affect Dame and CJ's ability to work off the ball.

That’s why it’s time to just go a different route. Fuck it. We try again. Build it the right way I know it sucks but since 2015 we haven’t showed any resemblance of a team that’s ready to take that next leap

 

[BonesJones]

Theres so many things they can do scheme wise to keep from allowing the other team to trap. Maybe dont run the same screens at the top over and over for one...

Exactly.

 

[Chris Craig]

The Glickman interview is in tonights game book

 

[BonesJones]

This team is not even a top 10 team out west... sorry.

Lmao. Nice to see your posts have been compromised.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

The Glickman interview is in tonights game book

Very cool.

We get a mention?

 

[Scalma]

I said fire Stotts if they lose two of these next three home games. Looks like theyre well on the way.

 

[DUB]

I think the biggest problem is the size of the lead we've allowed them to get. Our issues this game have been letting them shoot wide open threes, and turning the ball over. Those issues are not that hard to fix, but fixing them, and coming back from 15 points down is hard.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Ok well how to attack a trapping defense is literally something your taught as a PG in highschool. They need to stop sticking a big out there to screen for Dame, they need to attack the rim, If there 3-4 players on the perimeter there are plenty of lanes for back cuts, or for the ball handler to expose, if he’s trapped means there is an open man or lane. They dont attack traps at all. Every time their guards get trapped they BACK UP and allow the trapper to get into them.

Sure the roster has flaws and the trap expose some of them but it is really ugly the way they play trapping defenses. Its BAD basketball whether the talent is there or not you can at least play smart, they dont.

 

[B-Roy]

Theres so many things they can do scheme wise to keep from allowing the other team to trap. Maybe dont run the same screens at the top over and over for one...

The screen and roll is consistently the best play for the Blazers in terms of points per possession. Why do you think they run it so much? Why do you think it looks like the Blazers struggle on offense when they play an opposing team specifically takes away the high pick and roll?

 

[Scalma]

All you gotta do is blitz dame and congrats you’ve won the game.

 

[Chris Craig]

Very cool.

We get a mention?

Yes we did

 

[DUB]

Steak sauce is our only positive +/- with a +1.