Game Thread GAME# 4: PELICANS @ BLAZERS - OCTOBER 24, 2017 - TUESDAY, 7:00 (PDT), NBATV & NBCSNW

[rotary111]

Does Boogie make his team better?? He's a great stat stuffer. That's for sure.

 

[Pinwheel1]

CJ doubled his assist total for the year!!! Went from 2 to 4.

So last game he should have passed to Dame. This game he should never have passed to anyone.......

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Blazers in a 2-way tie for 4th in the west.

 

[StumptownHoliday]

I'm not sure what some of you fellas (and ladies) were watching... that was a great win

 

[Wizard Mentor]

I'll take an ugly win every damned day. Dame won't have many games like this. And Nurk played well after those 3 quick fouls.

Ugly? Learn to appreciate rebounding a little more. This was a dominant rebounding display.

 

[theprunetang]

Ugly? Learn to appreciate rebounding a little more. This was a dominant rebounding display.

The rebounding has me sprung.
Like I said, I'll take an ugly loss any day. And the offense was pretty ugly.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Does Boogie make his team better?? He's a great stat stuffer. That's for sure.

He seems to play best when he is the focal point. Does he get in the same rhythm when Davis is on the floor?

 

[Trackjack]

This team rebounding like the old days. When your pounding the boards especially on the offense it take a toll on the other team. That means if they lost there legs maybe that was the reason they miss there shots even if they was open.

 

[Darkwebs]

Boxscore (view at your own risk)

 

[StumptownHoliday]

I don't know if you guys have noticed this or not, but the blazers have transformed into a team where winning is the default... not the exception. In every game this season (and pre-season) we've either had a chance to win or have won. Appreciate it... you could be a kings/knicks/pels/lolakers fan

 

[Jade Falcon]

You're going to lose 99 games out of 100 playing like this. The Pelicans really outplayed us tonight, they got a lot of open shots, and the Blazers had to scratch and claw for everything.

Abysmal performance by Damian. And just when you thought he may have finally gotten out of his funk, he misses to clutch FTs and dribbles right into a crowd of Pelicans on a fast break with no apparant idea what he was doing.

Someone might look at the box score and think he just had a bad shooting night, but he wasn't even getting off good attempts, he was just putting up crap. His attempts to drive were embarassing. I have no idea what is up with this guy. Is it the Vegan diet or whatever, but at times he seems intent on playing 1 on 2 or 1 on 3. He just plays right into the defenses hands.

Any quality team would have murdered us tonight.

And Nurk...it's 4 games into the season now, and he is not the same guy he was last year. Ed Davis has out played him by a long shot.

Statistically, this was Dame's worst game of his entire career, going 3/16 with 6 turnovers.

That's terrifying to me.

 

[Trackjack]

Did we deserve to win not really but they didn't either the way they play and someone had it might as well be us.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Blazers in a 2-way tie for 4th in the west.

all alone in 1st place in the NW division!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Denny Crane]

I'll take this win.

When you hold the opponent to 93, the defense worked. When the offense isn't there, the defense still won the game.

 

[GrandJury]

Statistically, this was Dame's worst game of his entire career, going 3/16 with 6 turnovers.

That's terrifying to me.

I’m hoping he’ll shoot around 46% from the field this season

 

[BlazerBeav]

I'm encouraged. Can't think we won many games last year shooting under 40%. We murdered them on the boards.

 

[Scalma]

So how do we keep Ed Davis next season?

 

[GrandJury]

So how do we keep Ed Davis next season?

Let Vonleh go and get a great deal on Nurk

 

[theprunetang]

Let Vonleh go and get a great deal on Nurk

We need to hire trump as our next gm.

 

[GrandJury]

We need to hire trump as our next gm.

Just being realistic

 

[Mote]

I'm encouraged. Can't think we won many games last year shooting under 40%. We murdered them on the boards.

When your all-star, team franchise, player has one of the worst games of his career and you still win, it tells me we have a very bright future Blazer fans.

 

[Elton]

I love the smell of an ugly win in the morning.

Smells like...victory?

 

[BonesJones]

Do wet played awful, they played great, and we won, in a game that we would've last by double digits last year. I'll take it.

 

[Boise Blazer]

Whether we are or not remains to be seen but this is the kind of game that good teams win. Games that they didn't play great and that sometimes they had no business winning but that they played enough defense and rebounded well enough to sneak it out. I choose to see this a potential positive.

 

[noknobs]

I'm encouraged. Can't think we won many games last year shooting under 40%. We murdered them on the boards.

I think the worst they shot last year in a win was 39.3%.

 

[Chris Craig]

We need to hire trump as our next gm.

We will win bigly

 

[ripcityboy]

At first I thought embarrassing richness of front court depth would be a real problem. But now, well my current mindset.....

 

[Paine Tablet]

No, they aren't shooting well enough to look like women's basketball.

They aren't shooting with the same size ball neither. : ) I don't disagree entirely though, women can shoot it.

 

[Haakzilla]

...anyone go to the game? Was the fan experience better, worse, or the same as the last couple seasons? The free t-shirt was cool again, but seemed very subdued overall...maybe it was just the poor shooting FG% Spot on with @Boise Blazer though about good teams winning garbage looking games like this! 60+ rebounds is unreal.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Nice hard fought victory. Sucks for NO and Davis, not sure we win tonight if they have him. Dame has to be better, period.