Game Thread GAME# 35: BLAZERS @ HAWKS - DECEMBER 30, 2017 - SATURDAY, 4:30 PM (PST), NBCSNW

[Mr. Robot]

this team would be better with less quality player(s) than CJ, but who are a better fit
if only Neil Olshey could see that and make some trade, but I think he wont trade CJ, hes proud of him, cause he drafted him of course

also I dont think he believes he can make POR better team with trading CJ, he wont risk anything

 

[jlprk]

Our team got dunked on by marco belinelli. Without lube . . .

First, watch that word.

Second, Belinelli missed both dunks.

Belinelli is a cuss word in Italian?

 

[jlprk]

hes not better player at all, nevermind much better player, but his playing style is

You mean to say that you think McCollum is more talented. I still say Napier is the better player. Get the hotdog showoff off the team.

 

[Blazers Roy]

Read the posts right around his. Everyone was saying McCollum can't pass, is hogging the ball, etc. That's because McCollum was playing like trash. Napier is a much better player.

Where's the guy who said we need to dump everyone and build around Armon Johnson and Tim Frazier?
He should be here to witness his glorious triumphant! now everyone here are like him

 

[Hobbesarable]

I’ve been around a few years and I’ve had my share of experience coaching youth basketball (which is worth little if anything in the long run) but if there is one thing I learned very early is that you can’t “make” anyone play team basketball. It can be taught but it can’t be forced. Over the years I saw far more than my share of mini CJs, sucking the energy out of the team game just so they could stand out individually before moving on to the next level. They weren’t there for the team, they were there for themselves. And they didn’t have anything else to get them there but one on five skills. And it’s (dismayingly) amazing how many coaches will tolerate that if it helps their own bottom line. CJ didn’t get to the show by playing team ball. He grew up an incredibly undersized kid who’s only chance to stand out was to be a ball hog, who scored enough (or entertainingly enough) to make everyone overlook his selfish tendencies. And anyone who takes the time to dig into CJs history a little will see what I’m talking about. In CJs mind, he made it against all adversity. But I suspect that in the minds of his various teammates at all levels growing up, CJ was THEIR adversity......CJ McCollum is fully made. He is what he’s going to be as a basketball teammate. Now Portland needs to send him somewhere that might actually work.........

There are a handful of bottom dwelling teams who could use his scoring and we can use their draft picks (at least 2 first round picks):
Atlanta, Memphis, LA Lakers, Orlando, Dallas, Sacramento, Charlotte, Chicago, or Brooklyn.

 

[riverman]

thats funny cause fans around the league think hes the worst coach in the NBA

Rockets fans? Maybe you don't like him but I wouldn't look to fans as analysts for the most part.......Kidd was called out in the coach's corner on NBA TV as one of the brightest players turned coach in the league.....he's turned the Bucks around in a pretty short time.

 

[BonesJones]

Dude, you're way out of line.

Lol. He's a trash passer, trash defender, trash rebounder...

He's a good scorer. That's it.

 

[BonesJones]

Where's the guy who said we need to dump everyone and build around Armon Johnson and Tim Frazier?
He should be here to witness his glorious triumphant! now everyone here are like him

Who the fuck is saying that...?

 

[jlprk]

Lol. He's a trash passer, trash defender, trash rebounder...

He's a good scorer. That's it.

Only if you ignore all his misses, butterfinger passes, butterfinger dribbles, lazy incompetent passes, lazy incompetent selfish rushes to the basket, no court vision due to selfishness, I'm tired of typing, error after error after error, on and on...

You summed it up into one word. Trash. Good job. But Napier is a better scorer because he scores the way a player should.

I've been typing this since McCollum's first game in Summer League. I said the same about that egomaniac Bayless during his first Summer League, when everyone except me thought he was a great player.

 

[Strenuus]

Only if you ignore all his misses, butterfinger passes, butterfinger dribbles, lazy incompetent passes, lazy incompetent selfish rushes to the basket, no court vision due to selfishness, I'm tired of typing, error after error after error, on and on...

You summed it up into one word. Trash. Good job. But Napier is a better scorer because he scores the way a player should.

I've been typing this since McCollum's first game in Summer League. I said the same about that egomaniac Bayless during his first Summer League, when everyone except me thought he was a great player.

Validation is the 3rd door on the left.

 

[Blazers Roy]

Lol. He's a trash passer, trash defender, trash rebounder...

He's a good scorer. That's it.

But Lillard can lead us to a championship?

I could understand your strive for perfection if you applied those standards upon everyone on the team, in which case you would call for a complete rebuild.

 

[BonesJones]

But Lillard can lead us to a championship?

I could understand your strive for perfection if you applied those standards upon everyone on the team, in which case you would call for a complete rebuild.

Good teams have multiple players that excel in multiple things.

 

[riverman]

everyone except me thought he was a great player.

wrong! HE THOUGHT HE WAS A GOOD PLAYER TOO!!