Game Thread GAME# 41: CAVALIERS @ BLAZERS - JANUARY 11, 2017 - WEDNESDAY, 7:30 PM (PDT), ESPN & KGW

[SlyPokerDog]

 

[illmatic99]

CJ McCollum is the first Trail Blazer with 7 straight games of 25+ points in a single season since Clyde Drexler (9, Nov. 20-Dec. 6, 1987).

Didnt dame do that with games above 30 last season?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

CJ McCollum joins Anthony Davis, James Harden and Russell Westbrook as only players with at least 7 straight games of 25+ points this year.

 

[BonesJones]

Excitement !!

 

[Cippy91]

Might coaches pick CJ for All Star game?

Both deserve to be all stars. You cant dislike dames insane beginning to the season and you also can't dispute cj's insane play as of lately. If we had a better record, they both would get in. Who knows who will be an all star. Proven to be bullshit anyways

 

[riverman]

Pretty sweet stealin' this game tonight!

 

[KingSpeed]

Where did this defense come from?

Aminu

 

[ripcityboy]

If only I had four middle fingers....

 

[LuckyShot]

Where did this defense come from?

Stotts scrapped the "let's just sag off and let people attack the paint" defense and started allowing the team to play a style that actually fits the players currently on the team.

 

[noknobs]

I took a shot of whiskey every time Hubie mispronounced Amino. I think I blacked out late in the 2nd, but just regained consciousness and saw we're up big. Sweet.

 

[Strenuus]

It's true. All year long, we've played well with Aminu in the game. We missed him terribly and now that he is integrated back into the team, we are seeing success again especially since Turner is now playing better.

So it's turner.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

I just don't understand where this team has been all season. Even with dame struggling, defense is great, effort is there and guys like turner, crabbe, Davis are stepping up

I don't know if they have turned it around yet; but a working hypothesis is that Turner and Davis struggled at the beginning of the season. So Napier, Vonleh and Leonard played quite a bit. Once Turner and Davis got going, those players who aren't playing well enough to be rotation players have been dropped out. Now that there are not so many players, it's easier to work with each other.

 

[KingSpeed]

Both deserve to be all stars. You cant dislike dames insane beginning to the season and you also can't dispute cj's insane play as of lately. If we had a better record, they both would get in. Who knows who will be an all star. Proven to be bullshit anyways

CJ and Dame may split the votes and neither get in. I mean Curry, Klay, Draymond, Durant, Harden, CP3, Westbrook, Kawhi, Gasol, Davis, and Cousins are locks. That leaves one more spot. Dame, CJ, Aldridge, or somebody from Utah.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Evan Turner's 11 assists are the most by a Trail Blazers reserve since Mo Williams (11, 3/27/14 at ATL). He has 6 in the 4th quarter alone.

 

[Nikolokolus]

If only I had four middle fingers....

Why? That wasn't a dig.

 

[Cippy91]

Matt Moore is shit. Dislike the guy. Always hates on the blazers. Once told me on twitter about last years season that "it would be a great story to tell at a bar".

 

[LuckyShot]

I think Hubie has pronounced Aminu's name about 6 different ways tonight.

Edit: I should add that none of them have been correct.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Matt Moore is shit. Dislike the guy. Always hates on the blazers. Once told me on twitter about last years season that "it would be a great story to tell at a bar".

I'd talk about last season in bar.

 

[Chris Craig]

 

[Nikolokolus]

Yeoman's work tonight. Very impressive.

 

[RipCityDSCPL]

Tremendous effort by the team tonight!!! What a win!

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Pretty sweet stealin' this game tonight!

What do you mean stealing it? HUH?

 

[riverman]

BEAT THE CAVS!!! YEAH BABY!!!

 

[LuckyShot]

 

[ripcityboy]

 

[LuckyShot]

So what were the Cavs protesting this time? Or were they just too tired?

 

[Strenuus]

Okay.

Now prove it again.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

I think Harkless had the best plus minus for the second night in a row.

 

[illmatic99]

Easily the best effort of the season given the circumstances.

 

[ripcityboy]

How the Blazers win.....

1.) Allow Evan Turner to run the offense for long stretches.

2.) NEVER PLAY MEYERS EVER AGAIN!!!!!