Game Thread GAME# 31: PELICANS @ BLAZERS - DECEMBER 23, 2019 - MONDAY, 7:00 PM, NBATV & NBCSNW

[AldoTrapani]

So you were both Aldo and Blazers 1977?

no

 

[kjironman1]

right now Portland is 3-4 against teams with less than 10 wins....that's bad

So their overall record is over achieving again? Nice!

 

[kjironman1]

So we're really bad against good teams, awful against the worst teams, but pretty darn good against the teams who are horrible at tanking?

This sounds about a right as anything?

 

[DUB]

We are the sixth best three point shooting team in the NBA @ 36.6%.

If we'd even shot 24.2% (so three more threes) let alone our season average, we'd have won.

We were missing wide open threes, so I wouldn't read too much into this result on the offensive end.

Defensively however, we were bad tonight, especially in the second half.

NOLA was 6/18 (33.3%) from deep in the first half, and 9/17 (52.9%) in the second, to finish with 15/35 (42.9%).

Our season opposition 3P% is 35.2%, which is good for 13 best in the NBA.

NOLA came to play, we were already on our Christmas break.

 

[noknobs]

NOLA came to play, we were already on our Christmas break.

We've been on Christmas break since October.

 

[DUB]

Why did @THE HCP have to put out egg nog in the locker room before the game?

NOLA was 6/18 (33.3%) from deep in the first half, and 9/17 (52.9%) in the second, to finish with 15/35 (42.9%).

So it was half time when @THE HCP nogged our players!

 

[OneSport3]

Dame definitely doesn't play well against him, that is for sure.

That’s why we should trade CJ for him so he won’t have to play against him anymore.

 

[Bruno_Sabino]

I miss the quoteS books

 

[Bruno_Sabino]

We are the sixth best three point shooting team in the NBA @ 36.6%.

If we'd even shot 24.2% (so three more threes) let alone our season average, we'd have won.

We were missing wide open threes, so I wouldn't read too much into this result on the offensive end.

Defensively however, we were bad tonight, especially in the second half.

NOLA was 6/18 (33.3%) from deep in the first half, and 9/17 (52.9%) in the second, to finish with 15/35 (42.9%).

Our season opposition 3P% is 35.2%, which is good for 13 best in the NBA.

NOLA came to play, we were already on our Christmas break.

Great stat

 

[Blazers Roy]

 

[SIeepwalker]

god this game was brutal. I can't believe the shots we missed

 

[TBpup]

In past years, we would be laughing at some team from the East for being in the Playoffs with a sub .500 record...

 

[Orion Bailey]

At aBout 8:10 left in the third i think i saw @MARIS61 ’s brother with a maga hat turning and smiling for the camera?

 

[Orion Bailey]

“Well umm you know, uhh it came down to three point shooting. Uhhmm they shot uhh them aNd uhh we didn't make ours. Uhh. “

no shit...

 

[stampedehero]

Another loss! That sucks, especially so since they are a 8 win team!

INJURIES
PELICANS
Zion Williamson (Right Knee Scope): OUT
Darius Miller (Right Achilles Surgery): OUT
TRAIL BLAZERS
Carmelo Anthony (left knee contusion): QUESTIONABLE
Mario Hezonja (back spasms): QUESTIONABLE
Rodney Hood (torn Achilles): OUT
Zach Collins (dislocated left shoulder): OUT
Jusuf Nurkic (left leg): OUT

 

[AldoTrapani]

In past years, we would be laughing at some team from the East for being in the Playoffs with a sub .500 record...

This team sucks

 

[James lamphear]

You live or die by the 3 and we die last night.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

You live or die by the 3 and we die last night.

Well the NBA in a lot of ways has turned into a 3 point contest. Blazers for whatever reason just couldnt get shots to fall.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

A steaming pile of horseshit might be more appropriate.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Please fire Stotts. Look at what a team of mostly scrubs can do with ball movement

Nate Mc Millan's team had 34 assists last night in their victory over Toronto, while Blazers had 17. BTW, aren't KP and Nate doing a pretty damn good job! Without their best player?

 

[twobullz]

Went to the game last night, not sure if this was mentioned since I didn't read this whole thread. One thing that drives me crazy is the blazers defense on in bounds. At least twice last night whiteside would stand under the basket and one player would try to guard two guys at the three line. They would fake a pass to the guy at the top of the key then thrown it to the guy in the corner who would be wide open for easy three.

 

[crandc]

When Portland got to within a point I thought they had pulled their heads out of their assess and would win. Then New Orleans went on a run, and Lucia suddenly ran into a corner and barfed up her dinner. I told her I know how she feels.

Lucia is fine, just hairballs. I hope the Blazers barf up whatever hairball is choking them.

 

[wizenheimer]

We are the sixth best three point shooting team in the NBA @ 36.6%.

If we'd even shot 24.2% (so three more threes) let alone our season average, we'd have won.

usually that's not how it works though. It's more like a game of bop-a-mole when a team is struggling like Portland is. They shoot better on three's but they double their turnovers or clank their FT's. They rebound better but double their fouls.

Portland is a perimeter oriented team; their average shot distance ranks 23rd, and perimeter shooting is not the most dependable offensive weapon. It may be one of the least dependable, and when Dame and CJ combine for 2-20 on three's, Portland will lose a lot of games

by the way, after last night Portland isn't 6th in the NBA in 3pt shooting, they are 14th. One bad night

 

[CupWizier]

usually that's not how it works though. It's more like a game of bop-a-mole when a team is struggling like Portland is. They shoot better on three's but they double their turnovers or clank their FT's. They rebound better but double their fouls.

Portland is a perimeter oriented team; their average shot distance ranks 23rd, and perimeter shooting is not the most dependable offensive weapon. It may be one of the least dependable, and when Dame and CJ combine for 2-20 on three's, Portland will lose a lot of games

by the way, after last night Portland isn't 6th in the NBA in 3pt shooting, they are 14th. One bad night

Blazers are still at 36% shooting from 3 which is way above what they shot last night and they are only 2.5% off the leader. Most people call last nights shooting an anomaly.

 

[James lamphear]

Well the NBA in a lot of ways has turned into a 3 point contest. Blazers for whatever reason just couldnt get shots to fall.

That why i wrote that opinion and you figure if not hitting the 3 you would other ways to score. Coaches and players have to be smarter if your shot is not going in you might have attack the basket or just better ball and player movement. But we to much iso or PNR with at least 3 player just standing there and watching.

 

[hoopsjock]

For me, in order to use the "shots didn't fall" reasoning for losing I have to feel like the team left it all on the floor elsewhere. In this game the Blazers mostly played like they could just show up and win because they had won 4 in a row.

 

[TBpup]

For me, in order to use the "shots didn't fall" reasoning for losing I have to feel like the team left it all on the floor elsewhere. In this game the Blazers mostly played like they could just show up and win because they had won 4 in a row.

Somehow they got overconfident winning (and sometimes barely winning) against garbage teams. #MentalMidgetry

 

[KingSpeed]

Pelicans looked good in Denver. We actually played better D on them than Denver did.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Pelicans looked good in Denver. We actually played better D on them than Denver did.

Yeah...our defense wasn't the reason we lost Tuesday.

 

[kjironman1]

Pelicans looked good in Denver. We actually played better D on them than Denver did.

Pelicans played well again. That team is coming around nicely.