Game Thread Game #27 - BLAZERS VS TIMBERWOLVES - DECEMBER 12, 2012 - SUNDAY - 6:00 PM (PDT) ROOT SPORTS

[Zach Collins Enthusiast]

Also, I would rather go with Dame/Ant than with Dame/CJ. I wouldn't be surprised if this "collapsed lung" will end in a trade. Even if for something like draft picks/expirings

 

[riverman]

More incentive to make a big trade after the 15th....

 

[beast blazer]

He's not old...he just turned 31...he's prime time age...

He falls to the floor more than any player ive seen. A lot of players start going downhill at 31

 

[blazerfan11]

6 point in the last 7 minutes. Awful.

That is awful.

 

[DDolla]

Trade Dame he is getting old and get some players and picks back. Have him win a ring somewhere.

 

[blazerkor]

Also, I would rather go with Dame/Ant than with Dame/CJ. I wouldn't be surprised if this "collapsed lung" will end in a trade. Even if for something like draft picks/expirings

I would be cool with that.

 

[illmatic99]

that loss was on: 1)coaching, 2)Dame.

 

[Zach Collins Enthusiast]

Why did we foul after the Dame three with 30+ secs left? Fucking stupid.

With the team we had to close the game, fouling was our defensive philosophy

 

[illmatic99]

Why did we foul after the Dame three with 30+ secs left? Fucking stupid.

nonexistent coaching, no bball iq

 

[Labinot41]

the Lillard we used to know does no longer exists

 

[wizenheimer]

Dame off ball isn’t working.

it was a dumb idea from the beginning

 

[riverman]

He falls to the floor more than any player ive seen. A lot of players start going downhill at 31

Chris Paul made his first finals at 37......Chauncey beasted in his 30s in Detroit......Dame is just injured...his shots are short...it's not age it's injury

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

Minnehaha's defense was WAY better than ours.

 

[James lamphear]

The bench play well that the positive. Dame shot like shit and Billups took out players that was playing well to put in the starters that lost the lead and game. There was so good individual play by some players but some key players did not play well.

 

[Tince]

This was not Billups best game. The lineup change was not successful to start, yet after other lineups got is back in, he continued to revert back to it.

 

[BoomChakaLaka]

New GM - clean house!

 

[blazerkor]

Trade Dame he is getting old and get some players and picks back. Have him win a ring somewhere.

You don't trade Dame, find me a player who is as good of a shooter as Dame has been his whole career that just becomes a bad shooter. There isn't one. Dame's not right, it might take surgery to get him right or a lot of missed games with treatment but he'll be back.

I will say this for what seems like the hundredth time this season... we can't win games with Dame shooting like this.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

So many empty seats in the 200 level

 

[wizenheimer]

And that ending shows the value of cJ. Needed someone to create their own shot.......other than a 3

lol right...what the Blazers need is more dribbling and more iso

 

[HailBlazers]

Glad I didn't watch, timbers hangover

 

[Zach Collins Enthusiast]

Memo to Chauncey: Dame is in fact a very good on the ball defender, he is however clueless as a help defender. If you're hiding him on their weakest player you're making a mistake

 

[e_blazer]

I’m thrilled that Chauncey managed to keep his challenge instead of using it on that RoCo foul on Towns where he got all ball.

 

[Chris Craig]

So many empty seats in the 200 level

No one wants to pay to watch this team right now. It's a waste of money

 

[Zach Collins Enthusiast]

I really liked how Zeller and CJ didn't hurt us this game. I hope they sit from now on

 

[beast blazer]

Chris Paul made his first finals at 37......Chauncey beasted in his 30s in Detroit......Dame is just injured...his shots are short...it's not age it's injury

Maybe, but those two were a rarity. Most players don't keep it going that long.

 

[riverman]

I’m thrilled that Chauncey managed to keep his challenge instead of using it on that RoCo foul on Towns where he got all ball.

I don't know why he didn't use the challenge when they reset a 2.9 second possession to 24 seconds on that jump ball....that was a huge loss for us. They converted on that extra time and made it a two possession game when we could've tied it or taken the lead

 

[Chris Craig]

This was not Billups best game. The lineup change was not successful to start, yet after other lineups got is back in, he continued to revert back to it.

It was not an opportune time for the change. Not, that I'm saying it doesn't need to happen. But, when you have no bigs on the bench because they are all in your starting lineup, that's not good.

 

[illmatic99]

this team is playing like it knows changes are coming.

the coach is also coaching like it.

WTF was that display? outside of Nas/Ant/Larry and spells of Roco, no one seemed interested in playing tonight.

 

[James lamphear]

You don't trade Dame, find me a player who is as good of a shooter as Dame has been his whole career that just becomes a bad shooter. There isn't one. Dame's not right, it might take surgery to get him right or a lot of missed games with treatment but he'll be back.

I will say this for what seems like the hundredth time this season... we can't win games with Dame shooting like this.

If the injury effecting his shot then he not helping the team by the way he is shooting.

 

[riverman]

Maybe, but those two were a rarity. Most players don't keep it going that long.

Dame is a rarity too...my money is on Dame to beast in his early 30s....the Olympics and putting effort on defense while injured have sucked the air out of his offensive game but as I said...it's legs, not age in his case....