Game Thread GAME# 40: PELICANS @ BLAZERS - MARCH 18, 2021 - THURSDAY, 7:00, NBCSNW

[B-Roy]

I love winning games on the defensive end

 

[Titan]

FREE CHICKEN McNUGGIES!

Another clutch shot by Dame.

 

[Darkwebs]

Ironic that our 3 leaders in assists tonight are Melo, CJ, and GT. The three guys most Blazers fans would call chuckers

 

[Serbian]

Lillard easily could have had 10 assists, all wide open bricks by his team mates. Totally fucks him in assists ratio

 

[James lamphear]

We really haven't play good basketball after the all star break but we are 3-1. Now the games get little tougher starting with a hot Dallas team coming in. Tonight I give to the defense for this win.

 

[bobf]

Blazers lose 24-11, bummer.

At least they outscored them!

But we’d have 26 more points if we tied assists.

 

[BlazerBeav]

Suns lose at home to the Wolves.

 

[illmatic99]

great defense tonight, most consistent effort we've seen all season. hope we sustain this.

if we hit shots like usual, we woulda won in a blowout

 

[Tince]

But we’d have 26 more points.

I'm guessing our assisted attempts resulted in a worse FG% than our non-assisted ones. Crazy.

 

[MadeFromDust]

Suns lose at home to the Wolves.

Blow it up

 

[Tince]

Suns lose at home to the Wolves.

Unacceptable! I hope Dwight is all over Monty tonight in the press conference!

 

[James lamphear]

I just wondering if some of the guys playing right right due to the trade deadline. Maybe that's what happening to Trent.

 

[bobf]

Blazers lose 24-11, bummer.

At least they outscored them!

Pyrrhic victory.

 

[DDolla]

We played defense wow

 

[bobf]

I'm guessing our assisted attempts resulted in a worse FG% than our non-assisted ones. Crazy.

Certainly resulted in some ugly turnovers. Do they count it as an assist when the other team scores off our pass?

 

[Serbian]

Suns loosing to wolves. Towns and rookie Edwards 40+ each damn

 

[kjironman1]

Nice win Blazers. That's 6 of the last 8 including 2 against the Pels and one against the Warriors.
Looking like they might be starting to play some defense.

 

[bobf]

Ironic that our 3 leaders in assists tonight are Melo, CJ, and GT. The three guys most Blazers fans would call chuckers

They probably passed to each other.

 

[Darkwebs]

We got the sweep of the Pelicans this season. THIS IS FOR THE 2018 PLAYOFFS!!!!

 

[Tince]

 

[illmatic99]

We got the sweep of the Pelicans this season. THIS IS FOR THE 2018 PLAYOFFS!!!!

their announcer was so salty all game. apparently they think dame gets every call and we were allowed to play very physical defense on zion without repercussions.

but he repeated that they usually sweep us, including in the playoffs.

 

[Pinwheel1]

Nice win considering CJ and Trent went 4-27
Not much scoring from Hood, Little, or Jones.
But great defense from almost everyone.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Following the thread while doing work, I thought we were down rather than mostly in control of the game.

I don’t know why I rely on y’all bitches instead of real sites with real scores.

 

[Tince]

Following the thread while doing work, I thought we were down rather than mostly in control of the game.

I don’t know why I rely on y’all bitches instead of real sites with real scores.

I haven't had a chance to read the thread yet. I assumed a near wire to wire victory that this thing would be full of nothing but unicorns and rainbows!

Edit: After a quick skim, still pissing and moaning about Hood (who has been bad all year) & Melo (who was more than fine). Now that Ant isn't playing, people have gone from saying how much he sucks to saying he should be in the game. Minimal praise for the defense.

Tough crowd!

 

[kjironman1]

@SlyPokerDog has several cardboard cutouts in the moda center

I noticed that. Either that or those are his kids?

 

[hoopsjock]

The Blazers beat the Pelicans to sweep the season series behind some good defense! The Blazers Uprise Postgame Show begins now:

 

[kjironman1]

Suns lose at home to the Wolves.

But the T-Wolves are supposed to suck.

 

[Darkwebs]

 

[wizenheimer]

* weird game in my view. In the 1st Q, Portland (Dame) picked up where they ended in the 4thQ Tuesday night. After that, the Blazers got worse...for 3 Q's

* Dame was so pissed off at all the assists his teammates robbed from him that he decided to pad his turnover numbers

* CJ and Trent updated their resumes for joining the bricklayers union....I mean, c'mon 4-27??...really?? Add Jones and it was 7-38....yikes!

* in these two games, Portland was 52-56 on FT's (93%). Blazers won the two games by a combined 9 points. Blazers won the foul line by 19 points

 

[Tince]

Trade him while his value is high!