Game Thread GAME# 39: BLAZERS @ TIMBERWOLVES - JANUARY 9, 2020 - THURSDAY, 5:00 PM, NBCSNW

[Tince]

It would seem as though the Blazers need players who make winning plays.
What does that even mean?
They figure out how to win.
The Blazers have talent, and they play teams on equal footing, really, so why aren't they winning?..

My first guess would be that virtually none of the new players they added this summer have a history of being winners. Obviously something changed since last year and this year and there aren't many things to point at other than roster change and injuries.

 

[BBert]

Fail

Wrong

Not the same

Timberwolves is one word

Trail Blazers is two words

Thanks for playing

Idiot

 

[BBert]

No they dont, its not a defense of Stotts but the the talent is pretty bad. I think at this point they have a bottom 5-10 roster in the NBA, at least of available players, they’re bad.

Hey Ho, Olshey must go

 

[kjironman1]

Because we don’t have talent. Outside of Dame, Hassan, and CJ our talent sucks.

And then get this.... One of those guys knows he is gone.

 

[kjironman1]

Portland has enough talent to be a 500 team. Idiotic strategies on both ends are the issue.

Seriously? "Enough talent to be a .500 team". That means if anything at all goes wrong. If they have a bad game every third or fourth game they fall significantly below .500. Enough talent to be .500 means they are really really bad.

 

[stampedehero]

PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS
102 - 116
MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES

(16-23)
FINAL
(15-22)
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
POR 34 13 27 28
MIN 28 31 41 16

Leading Players




Damian Lillard
20
Points


Andrew Wiggins
23




Hassan Whiteside
14
Rebounds


Gorgui Dieng
10




Damian Lillard
8
SOURCE: MSN SPORTS

 

[HailBlazers]

Blazers are playing absolutely SPINELESS right now. Watching players get disrespected and thrown to the floor over and over again without so much as a peep. When you see a player get literally thrown to the floor you got to have a response. What are they worried about? Is Dame really worried about getting thrown out of a game at this point?
Blazers need an Enforcer. Been saying it all year.

His name is Zach Collins and as soon as he went down I wrote the season off.

 

[kjironman1]

PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS
102 - 116
MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES

(16-23)
FINAL
(15-22)
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
POR 34 13 27 28
MIN 28 31 41 16

Leading Players




Damian Lillard
20
Points


Andrew Wiggins
23




Hassan Whiteside
14
Rebounds


Gorgui Dieng
10




Damian Lillard
8
SOURCE: MSN SPORTS

I went to the Twolves game here in Portland. Then last night watched Dieng close. The guy is good for about 6 mins. After that he drops off like stepping into quicksand.
Way too many people want that dude on this roster. He played so old and slow I seriously mistook the guy for Luol Deng.

 

[Labinot41]

We're so garbage lmao. I never wann hear how "elite" our Backcourt is, a Team with Lillard/McCollum and Whiteside, Melo and Bazemore in the S5 shouldn't be this bad

 

[kjironman1]

His name is Zach Collins and as soon as he went down I wrote the season off.

Him and Nurk.
Somebody has to at least get in a guys face and say “You ain’t getting away with hard fouls when I’m on the court!”

 

[BBert]

Him and Nurk.
Somebody has to at least get in a guys face and say “You ain’t getting away with hard fouls when I’m on the court!”

That elbow that undercut Mario, causing his injury, was some dirty shit on a vulnerable player. I can't believe no one called it out.

 

[illmatic99]

Heads need to f-ing roll after that performance. Who gives a damn if it was at the end of the road trip? They had absolutely no one on their team and we got run out of the building.

I don't get this complacency.