Game Thread GAME# 27: BLAZERS @ THUNDER - DECEMBER 16, 2015 - WEDNESDAY, 5:00 PM (PST), KGW

[jlprk]

I turned it off in the last minute. Leonard is irretrievable, hopeless. Lillard misses almost all his layups. Our best shooter, Ed Davis, isn't used in the offense.

Boring game.

 

[Strenuus]

I turned it off in the last minute. Leonard is irretrievable, hopeless. Lillard misses almost all his layups. Our best shooter, Ed Davis, isn't used in the offense.

Boring game.

.... what?

 

[Strenuus]

God, HCP getting love for his song choice tonight. I thought it sucked, per usual.

(gotta deflate the ego somehow)

 

[jlprk]

.... what?

Our players are boors. Just boors. I will finish my Scotch and quinine now while rubbing my lambskin shoes.

 

[jlprk]

Ed Davis makes every shot he tries. Why isn't he the center of the offense? Give him Leonard's shots. And Lillard's missed layups. With those 40 shots per game, Davis will be a superstar.

 

[riverman]

God, HCP getting love for his song choice tonight. I thought it sucked, per usual.

(gotta deflate the ego somehow)

Did he play the Tex Mex polka band with 5 accordians and a tuba again?

 

[PCmor7]

Our players are boors. Just boors.

Did you mean "Moors"? I'm sorry, the answer is "Moops."

 

[jlprk]

How do you know Ed Davis can't make 30-footers until you try him in that role for a season or two?

 

[jlprk]

114-pound, 200-year-old salamander found living by himself in a cave in China. The old hermit was driven to town, to be made a celebrity.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbe...er-just-chilling/ar-BBnCKdw?ocid=ansmsnnews11

 

[Strenuus]

How do you know Ed Davis can't make 30-footers until you try him in that role for a season or two?

This is you right now, I am assuming.

 

[jlprk]

Man, that game was slow and depressing. Teams play us like we're the winners of the last couple of seasons. They need to adjust their expectations, so that we'll have a chance. Let the word ring out to the world...we suck!! Take it easy on us!

The OKC commenters marveled over how the inside game was coming easy tonight. Thunder players who they thought had no inside game, suddenly had it. The play-by-play guy is the main Thunder media guy now. He was around in the last years of the Sonics. He just did a few minutes per game to give Kevin Calabro a post-game rest, like Adam Bjaranson for the Blazers now. Now he's a VIP.

 

[jlprk]

Watching this video cheers me up. Maybe there's hope for Leonard.

http://www.sportstwo.com/posts/3782387/

 

[KingSpeed]

Yes. I remember the Pacers were 16-23 at one point during the 1993-94 season. They pulled it together and went 31-12 the rest of the way and then made it to the ECF. I think our team can do the same. Our schedule has been incredibly difficult, we're still getting to know each other, and we're competiting in every game. I think we'll eventually click and run off some nice winning streaks. This also reminds me of the 2001-02 season when we started 13-18 but ended up finishing 49-33. So yes, I think we can go 37-19 the rest of the way with me winning $1200 along the way. Absolutely. Don't underestimate the talent we have on our team.

Bump.

 

[BlazerBeav]

The Blazers keep making Speed look smarter and smarter....