Game Thread GAME# 26: BLAZERS @ NUGGETS - DECEMBER 12, 2019 - THURSDAY, 7:30 PM, TNT

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Dame could score the next 20 and it wouldn't matter if they can't stop anyone it's so bad...

 

[VenomXL]

Another prime time beat down. Fun.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Ah damn Little not playing because of back spasms. Thanks for letting us know in the 4th quarter lol

Yep, so we can't blame Stotts for not playing him over Hezonja. But maybe we could blame someone that Hezonja is even on the team? Or that we only we have 13 active guys on the roster?

 

[BBert]

This teams collapse in middle and the corner 3 open and it the same corner. I have this all season not one adjustment yet to take that away that on the coach.

My pet peeve right here. Every team we play can get a wide open easy corner 3 whenever they want. SMH

 

[KingSpeed]

He wins.
His presence results in better team defense.
He is a smoother athlete.
He gets his opponents mentally rattled.
His chemistry with Dame is unparalleled.
And..
Passing.

We are 0-5 in playoffs when Nurk plays.

 

[Strenuus]

At this point its not even a meltdown, just an acceptance of reality for the fans

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Pretty nice pass by Mc collum; he should try that more often.

 

[BonesJones]

Lol.

 

[BonesJones]

We are 0-5 in playoffs when Nurk plays.

This team with Whiteside isnt even a playoff team...

 

[bobf]

This hasn’t been his whole game. He’s played like All Star this season.

He’s playing great I’ll give you that. But he’s not Nurk.

 

[DDolla]

Dame talking about being lock in before the Knicks game then lay another egg in this game lol

 

[blazerfan11]

Why did we have 2 guys running at the same 3-point shooter? I guess that's better than leaving him open.

 

[BonesJones]

Blazers are allergic to defense.

 

[OneSport3]

I still say we win this. Dame Time coming...

There’s optimism, then there’s delusion...

 

[DDolla]

What an embarrassment.... smh.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

K just sit the starters.

 

[BBert]

You're seriously complaining about the guys shooting a combined 60% shooting too much? Lmao.

Danny misspelled Moron

 

[Strenuus]

We are 0-5 in playoffs when Nurk plays.

You pick the oddeet arguments to have. Everyone knows nurk is better for this team tha. Whiteside. There literally is no argument.

 

[James lamphear]

The problem with Whiteside he doesn't move his feet very well. That one thing Nurk does decent job doing.

 

[B-Roy]

How could anyone watching this game, this team, think that offense is the problem? This team misses Zach, Nurk, Aminu, and Harkless like nobody's business.

 

[Chris Craig]

You can't win when your top 2 scorers don't show up

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

How could anyone watching this game, this team, think that offense is the problem? This team misses Zach, Nurk, Aminu, and Harkless like nobody's business.

It literally looks like they didn't practice defense at all during camp... How can the entire team even the vets like Dame and CJ not know who they're responsible for, who should rotate and all that the team defense is about as bad as I've ever seen a Blazer team...

 

[OneSport3]

How could anyone watching this game, this team, think that offense is the problem? This team misses Zach, Nurk, Aminu, and Harkless like nobody's business.

This team has problems on offense and defense. So pretty much they’re no good.

 

[Jon]

Who the fuck dressed chris paul?

 

[twobullz]

How can you win when ever game the other team has one or two bench players outscoring your entire bench.

 

[PCmor7]

So frustrating watching this team.

-- Defensive rebounding. Yuck. If we aren't going to send five guys to the defensive glass, then at least release CJ so the other team has a consequence to hitting the offensive boards hard. Our reluctance to run any kind of break just makes it easier to defend us.

-- Defensive rotation = garbage. And not only don't we get out on shooters, we give up dunks. Our bigs in the pick and roll always are stuck in no-man's land, playing completely between blitzing the screen and defending the rim. They just hang 12 feet from the hoop guarding no one. Meanwhile our small guards end up defending 6-9 guys or no one at all.

-- Dame's fallen into this trap that he thinks there's a four-point shot. If he misses from 32 the next shot's going to be from 35.

-- CJ trying to dribble through three guys. Ugh.

-- Ant's a black hole with the ball. Once it gets to his event horizon it's never coming back.

-- Dame and CJ need to start using their skills to get to the line. I'm sorry, but doing that gets us easy shots and stunts opponents' runs, and they get defenders off-balance so much they definitely can draw the contact. Beyond our two leaders, though, we make bad decisions in general, and that seems to become worse in critical stretches.

-- I don't get how these guys have seen how well we play when we move the ball ... and then we just stop doing it. We've had multiple games where we've had double-digit or close to double-digit assists in the first quarter and a half-dozen or less assists in the second half.

-- Herzonja needs a change of scenery. He doesn't know his role or fit it or something.

 

[MickZagger]

We don’t play any damn perimeter defense. We haven’t since Stotts has been here! Look at how many wide open looks from deep Denver has got tonight and how many we have had. Crazy.

 

[VenomXL]

Hassan has been great on offense tonight.

 

[KingSpeed]

Dame with 11 assists

 

[B-Roy]

Whiteside is not the greatest defender, but faults and all, I still think he's been the second or third best player on this team.

We needed Zach badly.