Game Thread GAME# 40: BUCKS @ BLAZERS - JANUARY 11, 2020 - SATURDAY, 7:00 PM, NBCSNW

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Who's your favorite new Blazer this season?

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wizenheimer said:
half way thru the season and OKC is 6.5 games ahead of the Blazers. I wasn't very optimistic about this season after seeing the roster, but I would have never expected the Thunder to have that kind of lead on Portland

all OKC has to do to hit 45 wins is go 23-20 the rest of the way. For Portland to hit 45 wins they'd have to go 29-13 the rest of the way. That would be Portland matching in the 2nd half of the season what the Clippers have done in the 1st half of the season. That would be a .690 winning percentage when the Blazers had a .646 winning percentage last season.

there are 16 games till the all-star break, and 11 of the games are against teams with winning record...ugh. Maybe more relevant, there are 11 games till the trade deadline and 9 are against teams with winning records. 19-32 at the trade deadline? 20-36 at the all-star break?
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Yep at this point they are in desperate need of wins to even become a playoff team. Couple weeks ago you could see a chance at getting back in the race but it's pretty bleak now.
 
kjironman1 said:
To be fair i don't either. But he seemed like a decent guy. Did not get the feel he disdained the fans at all.
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At the end of the day, the fans are the customers, and the customers are the ones that pay the bills... Neil knows what his job entails and that he should always be looking to make the team better, and if not then fans will be vocal about it. His job is not to just sign his guys to big contracts and then sit on his hands... the anger Neil showed towards the fans at that exit interview after the sweep, I will never forget.
 
Labinot41 said:
Little sucks and is worthless. Now i can see why nobody wanted him. Someone had to say it
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Little and Simons are 2-year projects. They get minutes now only because we have no depth. They will emerge in their 3rd years like all other Olshey draftees (except Lillard). Like the others, they will be dumped by Olshey after our assistant coaches have labored for 3 years, and help other NBA teams.
 
Neil O. Shyster said:
the anger Neil showed towards the fans at that exit interview after the sweep, I will never forget.
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Instead of his personality, why don't you find fault with his lethargy in finding trades, and his eternal inability to stock any forwards on the imbalanced roster due to his talent misevaluations.
 
Neil O. Shyster said:
There are fans who are calling for sweeping changes. Do you think the roster needs tweaking or significant changes?

“The same people that wanted sweeping changes last year?”

(Questioner responds: I don't know. I don't know them personally. I just hear from them all the time)

"Right. Great. Well, last year was going to take sweeping changes because we got swept by Golden State in the first round and all the alarmists overreacted.
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"But this idea that (we need) sweeping changes. Where were all these people that wanted sweeping changes 10 days ago? Where were they? They were the ones bouncing off the walls in the Moda Center when we got the third seed .
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Relative to people back in December who were complaining that we weren't going to make the playoffs and we were in purgatory because we weren't going to make the playoffs and we weren't going to pick high enough. Right? That was the rallying cry. Then it was, 'Oh my God. They're going to blow the third seed because they're going to lose all these games. They're not even going to get home court advantage.' They overreacted to that.”

Man, the disdain this guy has for the fans in Portland. He thinks we are all beneath him. I will never forget that exit interview.
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More than disdain, I think it reflects his insecurity and sensitivity to criticism.
 
Well reason the Bucks didn't have to many assist last due to majority there shots wide open. Then others shots was weak attempt to guard. That's this whole team from our best player to our worst player.
 
At what record do we say: It’s Official, we’re done this season?
 
Neil O. Shyster said:
Again, I just told you I don’t think fans are stupid... it was an implication of what Neil thinks of fans... he has shown his disdain for fans in interviews... sorry if you took it the wrong way.
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You might've meant to say it that way but that is not what you said.
Perhaps you should pick your words more carefully.
Because this is 100% what you said. Not how I took it.


Neil O. Shyster said:
Neil, Stotts, and CJ are still getting paid and laughing at the stupid fans
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But you're just one of many posters who show up when the team sucks. Only to be MIA last year.
Actually no, you prolly had an account last year. You're just some alt account trying to rile up the forum.
I bet I have your main account on ignore already too.
Thanks for calling me stupid for supporting the team.

Voice your displeasure by not paying for season tickets.
But don't call others stupid for not making the same decision as you.

Bandwagon fans man....
 
H.C. said:
You might've meant to say it that way but that is not what you said.
Perhaps you should pick your words more carefully.
Because this is 100% what you said. Not how I took it.




But you're just one of many posters who show up when the team sucks. Only to be MIA last year.
Actually no, you prolly had an account last year. You're just some alt account trying to rile up the forum.
I bet I have your main account on ignore already too.
Thanks for calling me stupid for supporting the team.

Voice your displeasure by not paying for season tickets.
But don't call others stupid for not making the same decision as you.

Bandwagon fans man....
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You must obviously have other things going on in your life since you are still getting so emotional after I explained multiple times what I meant... I am sorry. And it is not bandwagon to demand the team earn their pay checks... you are talking highest payroll in the league by a mile and that cost is passed on to the fans. And I thought the team was as flawed last year even when they were winning... I never thought the ISO ball style would lead to long term success. I thought the Blazers caught lightening in a bottle and the run was a fluke. It was one good playoff run and Neil decided to give CJ near max extension a year early instead of waiting to see if it was real. Instead of having options now he replicated his 2016 mistakes and we are stuck with no assets to improve. Sorry if I look at the big picture and don’t get excited about meaningless wins.
 
CupWizier said:
Yeah, cause all players are defined by their performance halfway through their first season and 19 years old. Imagine if Toronto felt that way about Siakam and dumped him after 2 seasons.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/pcm_finder.fcgi?request=1&sum=0&player_id1_hint=Pascal Siakam&player_id1_select=Pascal Siakam&y1=2017&player_id1=siakapa01&idx=players&player_id2_hint=Nassir Little&player_id2_select=Nassir Little&y2=2020&player_id2=littlna01&idx=players
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When you compare their advanced stats, Pascal has significant advantages. I don't think this is a good comp for Little.
 
tester551 said:
When you compare their advanced stats, Pascal has significant advantages. I don't think this is a good comp for Little.
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It wasn't necessarily meant to be a direct comparison but mainly to show how a player can develop in this league. One thing that you didn't factor in is that Nas is 19 years old and one year out of his freshman year in college where as Siakam was 22 when he came into the NBA and played 2 years and had a red shirt year to learn the game. If Nas had played 2 years and a red shirt year in college and came into the NBA at 22 years old, who knows where he would be at.
 
DDolla said:
At what record do we say: It’s Official, we’re done this season?
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For me it was official at 4 and 8. That’s about when I looked up the advanced stats of the players we had acquired vs the players we lost and found out we are a 34 win team.
 
bobf said:
For me it was official at 4 and 8. That’s about when I looked up the advanced stats of the players we had acquired vs the players we lost and found out we are a 34 win team.
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You saved yourself a lot of agony by doing your homework. :smiley-beerchug:
 
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