Game Thread GAME# 32: NUGGETS @ BLAZERS - DECEMBER 22, 2017 - FRIDAY, 7:00 PM (PST), NBCSNW

[Nikolokolus]

I'd say blow it up, but they can't. So many shitty, unmovable contracts.

Fuck.

 

[TBpup]

1 rebound from Nurkic and 1 more assist from CJ than from Layman. That is pathetic!

Jokic' made Nurkic' is bic'.

 

[WillG]

What has happened to CJ? Woah, just not the same player as last season unfortunately.

Even more perplexing: How the fuck does Stotts still have a job???
That was seriously the least professional looking "professional" game I've ever seen from an NBA team.
Players playing listless, not prepared, can't execute worth a shit, selfish play - yet somehow the guy in charge of all of this still keeps his job.

What a slap in the face of fans - to play like that on your home court.
I've followed this team for decades, but I think it's time to put in as much effort to watching them as they put into their play - at least until some MAJOR moves are made.

Only saving grace is Collins is looking like a nice player.

 

[Driew]

What has happened to CJ? Woah, just not the same player as last season unfortunately.

His shoes.

 

[TBpup]

'What has happened to CJ? Woah, just not the same player as last season unfortunately."

@WillG ...he trained with 'Melo this off-season.

 

[Optimistic Bob]

Did any of you ever think it might be Portland that is the problem here ? I mean, if we would have got MJ...... or KD for that matter, would they have become what they have become ?

 

[BBert]

We should have got that guy

Instead of Swanigan

 

[TBpup]

Did any of you ever think it might be Portland that is the problem here ? I mean, if we would have got MJ...... or KD for that matter, would they have become what they have become ?

Skipped on Jordan, Durant, Larry Bird, Giannis....and now Kuzma and Bell in the same draft where we had 2 picks. And then there is drafting Meyers....and then re-signing him.

 

[THE HCP]

Fuck it we will

Sigh......fair weather fans baffle me.

 

[Labinot41]

Just finnished the Game on League Pass. I didn't watched all tue Game because that was horrible from the Blazers. Big thanks to the 2nd Unit who made it way better than the S5. Collins was good,but he has to learn to play smarter. I am Sure he will ne better in the Future. Nurkic was extremly Bad today, even in the D. CJ also bad again. Allen and Neil better see that is Time to blow it up

 

[BlayZa]

ok i think im on the fuckin do something train now.

new coach
trades
i dont care.

just make a fuckin change, this is brutal

 

[THE HCP]

Best thing to come from tonight's game...... a little quality time with The People's Champ.......

 

[Nikolokolus]

I think the misery of this season is that so many people let themselves get swept up in the Nurkic hype train in that 20 game run last season. Hell, I even started to convert from my skepticism about him being on a hot streak.

Maybe the worst thing that could have happened to him is a full off-season getting indoctrinated into Stotts' system? Add in the invisible man Harkless, Turner's erratic play, and CJ the black-hole and the whole thing is just a fucking mess.

 

[THE HCP]

I think the misery of this season is that so many people let themselves get swept up in the Nurkic hype train in that 20 game run last season. Hell, I even started to convert from my skepticism about him being on a hot streak.

Well said. I truly believe they hadn't scouted us enough with Nurk playing with our backcourt. We caught them off guard last spring.

 

[riverman]

Best thing to come from tonight's game...... a little quality time with The People's Champ.......

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That Mr T medallion is over the top dude!

 

[riverman]

No matter what we spew here on the forum, when the home crowd boos like that at the TEAM....it's a sign of heads rolling

 

[riverman]

Best thing to come from tonight's game...... a little quality time with The People's Champ.......

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Where's the Mason selfie dude?

 

[Jade Falcon]

I think the misery of this season is that so many people let themselves get swept up in the Nurkic hype train in that 20 game run last season. Hell, I even started to convert from my skepticism about him being on a hot streak.

Maybe the worst thing that could have happened to him is a full off-season getting indoctrinated into Stotts' system? Add in the invisible man Harkless, Turner's erratic play, and CJ the black-hole and the whole thing is just a fucking mess.

Nurk is the least of our problems. At least the guy can play. It's not like he's getting ANY help out there in the paint....Stotts refuses to play the key people who help him play to his full potential. Last I saw, him and Vonleh were tearing it up in the paint.

No Vonleh tonight though.

You know who's a problem? This idiot:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BWF1Pc8hgo7/?taken-by=evanturner

Who leaves lovely comments like this to people on his Instagram:

• evanturner@aweeden17 lol I'm not a home wrecker and if I was then I'd prob cum all over your girl and mom's face. And a trash player doesn't make 100M playing that game.

• evanturner@aweeden17 i honestly don't care about you and yours. Go to hell and eat shit

Fuck this idiot. What the hell Olshey saw in him is beyond me.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Fire Terry, Bring in Fizdale. Trade CJ

So Fizdale can try to coach a broken roster too?

 

[Mediocre Man]

Why are some of you so mad? This is what the Blazers are. They are an average team, and have been for years. They'll get on a little win streak, get in the playoffs and lose. WE NEED ANOTHER STAR.

 

[jlprk]

Nurk is the least of our problems...You know who's a problem? This idiot:

Who leaves lovely comments like this to people on his Instagram:

Fuck this idiot. What the hell Olshey saw in him is beyond me.

In Boston, the media loved him for his qurious quotes.

bonesjones_20@evanturner Dude what the fuck is wrong with you. Just came across this shit you're saying. Get out of Portland and retire. This city can't stand you.

 

[jlprk]

Why are some of you so mad? This is what the Blazers are. They are an average team, and have been for years. They'll get on a little win streak, get in the playoffs and lose. WE NEED ANOTHER STAR.

As I've posted a hundred times in the many years since the week Aldridge left and Olshey added half of the present team, he failed to get a hot-shooting little SF that week, so we have no roster balance. Everyone told me, oh he'll do it soon, stop complaining. I knew that he loves a guard-oriented team and is ideologically opposed to a good SF.

 

[BonesJones]

In Boston, the media loved him for his qurious quotes.

Lol you quoted my IG comment? I hope he sees it. Fuck him. Felton 2.0.

 

[jlprk]

You're far more quotable than him.

 

[BonesJones]

You're far more quotable than him.

Thanks!

 

[jlprk]

As I've posted a hundred times in the many years since the week Aldridge left and Olshey added half of the present team, he failed to get a hot-shooting little SF that week, so we have no roster balance. Everyone told me, oh he'll do it soon, stop complaining. I knew that he loves a guard-oriented team and is ideologically opposed to a good SF.

Just get a 6-6 guard who can dribble and shoot, and make him a SF. There might be one in the G-League, but for sure there are many late in the 1st round each year. Olshey is even less active than Pritchard. Bring back Bob.

 

[BonesJones]

I was just about to say... to make it all worse Kuzma is the fucking truth yet we decided to draft our second PF in the same draft instead of our position of most need.

Kuzma was looked at as a PF entering the draft so...

 

[BonesJones]

Sigh......fair weather fans baffle me.

Fairweather players baffle me.

You know what else baffles me? Only getting to see 80% of the action when watching on TV. If I wanted to watch NASCAR, I would.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Nurk is the least of our problems. At least the guy can play. It's not like he's getting ANY help out there in the paint....Stotts refuses to play the key people who help him play to his full potential. Last I saw, him and Vonleh were tearing it up in the paint.

No Vonleh tonight though.

*snip*

Not to put everything at Jusuf's feet because I sort of assumed he was an afterthought in the trade with Denver in the first place and cautioned people at the time not to expect too much. But once he flashed a level of dominance that he did, it suddenly reset expectations and seemed to provide a path out of the spiral of mediocrity the team was locked in. Him regressing to the mean isn't the primary reason the team has backslid, but by being "just OK" they don't really have any shot at being something better than what they are presently -- it means that we're right back where we were last year before the Nurkic trade: A bloated payroll, a bunch of journeymen, and a couple of guards that are very good and pretty good offensively (Damian and CJ respectively) but are inadequate defensively as a pair to ever seriously form the bedrock of a championship team.

So no, I don't blame Nurkic for the team's overall performance; Turner, and Harkless have been much more disappointing (for instance), but his erratic and sloppy play have been a pretty reliable bellweather for the fortunes of the team.

 

[TBpup]

Nurk is the least of our problems. At least the guy can play. It's not like he's getting ANY help out there in the paint....Stotts refuses to play the key people who help him play to his full potential. Last I saw, him and Vonleh were tearing it up in the paint.

The best Nurkic played last year and this year was when combined with Vonleh....and Vonleh was rebounding better and shooting a much higher percentage. So makes sense Stotts would totally go away from that, right?