Game Thread GAME# 24: BLAZERS @ MAVERICKS - DECEMBER 4, 2018 - TUESDAY, 5:30 PM, NBCSNW

[Rastapopoulos]

I really hate this starting lineup, seems way to predictable.

Let's have Dame come off the bench.

 

[Chris Craig]

Seriously?

Yep

 

[Strenuus]

Um, because Harkless was one of the positives in this game? Wrong player to bitch about this time.

I'm not bitching about Harkless, I'm bitching about the lineup we've had since he came back, and the coaching that's non-existent and rigid.

 

[Propagandist]

Carlisle didn't wany anything to do with terry. Stotts shook and went for a hug. Carlisle blocked and walked away.

Yeah, he didn't want any of whatever-it-is to rub off on him. I get it.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Doncic was such a gift for Dallas.

Thank Vlade Divac for that.

 

[Chris Craig]

Dame is the only one who did anything in the 4th.

 

[JDC]

This team was playing so much better when Jake Layman was starting.

The bench was.

The starting five is slightly worse with Hark by the numbers and that's with Dame struggling.

Def would give Layman another shot though.

 

[Scalma]

Stotts should go, but we all know he’s safe. Best we can hope for is a lineup change. I’d go

Dame
CJ
Stauskas
Collins
Nurkic

Trent
Turner
Harkless or Layman
Aminu
Leonard

 

[Rastapopoulos]

the coaching that's non-existent and rigid.

Pick one - you can't have both

 

[James lamphear]

We actually play 3 QT of decent defense but the 1st QT was the killer. I give it to Dame never give up on trying to win the game and Aminu with double double and it was his 3 straight game that he look good. Stotts need to do something with that 2nd unit it just not working no more. Curry is not good it time see a fresh face to take his minutes.

 

[oldmangrouch]

Carlisle didn't wany anything to do with terry. Stotts shook and went for a hug. Carlisle blocked and walked away.

That confirms it! Whatever is loose in the Blazers' locker-room, it's contageous!

 

[tykendo]

The bench on this team is absolutely dreadful. The starters HAVE to play perfect right now. ET played OK, but I don't know WTF has happened to Zach's game. Meyers went back to being, well, Meyers. Sauce and Curry do nothing but look lost. Hello Stotts, where's Jake? Piss poor performance by the bench again.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

I would never play Stauskas again. Does he play defense? No. Is the team doing worse with him on the floor than ANY OTHER PLAYER? Yes. Do we have players who can do what he does? Yes.

 

[Scalma]

I would never play Stauskas again. Does he play defense? No. Is the team doing worse with him on the floor than ANY OTHER PLAYER? Yes. Do we have players who can do what he does? Yes.

We get it, you love Curry.

 

[James lamphear]

Stotts should go, but we all know he’s safe. Best we can hope for is a lineup change. I’d go

Dame
CJ
Stauskas
Collins
Nurkic

Trent
Turner
Harkless or Layman
Aminu
Leonard

I agree he needs to change things up but I don't see it happening.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

ET played OK,

Mayyyyyybe, but by strange coincidence, the Mavs played FUCKING AWESOME while he was on the court

 

[Rastapopoulos]

We get it, you love Curry.

Not nearly as much as I hate Stauskas. I was actually thinking of Simon.

 

[JDC]

This is a team with extreme strengths and weaknesses.

This hot and cold stretches of play should not be surprising.

 

[oldmangrouch]

Remind me again - what attributes did ET supposedly have that we wanted so bad?

 

[Titan]

Our current starting lineup hasn’t won a playoff game in awhile, so why use it in the regular season

 

[Bruno_Sabino]

Something needs to change. Anything. Trade

 

[kjironman1]

Well that sucked.

 

[tykendo]

We get it, you love Curry.

I don't think Sauce or Curry have earned their minutes. Maybe time to give Trent Jr' a look with the real players around him. Trent Jr' with Nurk, Dame, & Chief, might be able to get his 3 pt. stroke going. CJ would be resting while Trent Jr' was on floor. Plus, I've got to see Jake Layman involved again. Harkless has stepped his game up since I went on a rant about him, but I still want to see Jake. Zach needs a freakin' shrink to get him back going.

 

[beast blazer]

I think Paul Allen's ghost was helping us win games and he finally went to the light.

 

[Chris Craig]

Terry telling the Blazers to catch the ball

 

[kjironman1]

Kind of weird right now. They are not this bad. Not sure what is up but they are not this bad. Starting to think this is in their heads a bit. I also wonder if there isn't something going on with management that has the team thinking about something else?
My prediction for the season is 42-40 so their record is now about right. But they are playing awful at this point.

 

[tykendo]

this is , by far, one of the worst stretches of Blazer basketball I can remember. I love the Blazers, but this has been tough to watch. Not giving up hope, but this bench is testing that. Got to be frustrating for the starters to watch, and know they can't have an off night, EVER!

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Carlisle didn't wany anything to do with terry. Stotts shook and went for a hug. Carlisle blocked and walked away.

that's weird.

 

[tykendo]

Meanwhile opponents benches look stock full of stars right now. WHO DON'T MISS, at least against our Blazers.

 

[Rozay]

Remind me again - what attributes did ET supposedly have that we wanted so bad?

Nobody knows