Game Thread GAME# 41: MAVERICKS @ BLAZERS - MARCH 19, 2021 - FRIDAY, 7:00, NBATV & NBCSNW

[wizenheimer]

youre so salty. i love it. almost like youre rooting for him to fail

salty?

can you tell me what it is I said in that post that is unreasonable?

 

[kjironman1]

salty?

can you tell me what it is I said in that post that is unreasonable?

 

[calvin natt]

This is the worst Blazer team I’ve seen in my lifetime

 

[bobf]

Dallas won’t look back now

Blazers unraveling

yup u can just feel it

Makes sense. We have one of the worst defenses in nba history

I don’t see blazers pulling this off unless Dame goes supernova

Fucking Doncic is smart as fuck

Nostradamus told me to tell you he approves of your superb reverse jinxing.

 

[Strenuus]

He's lost the locker room. Giles looks real pissed about not being a bigger part of the rotation this year.

Winning cures all.

Stotts will be exposed and fired soon.

 

[tiredhunter]

This is the worst Blazer team I’ve seen in my lifetime

The 2011 Felton Blazers existed

 

[Tince]

Winning cures all.

Stotts will be exposed and fired soon.

I agree he'll be fired. Define "soon". This season? This summer?

 

[kjironman1]

Winning cures all.

Stotts will be exposed and fired soon.

I'm gonna say i hope not.
I hope this team plays really really well and Stotts gets them far enough into the post season there is no chance he would be fired.
As far as I'm concerned i hope he relies on CJ, RoCo, Melo, Kanter Jones, Nurk, and Dame to all bail him out every game and they end up in the Finals.
I would be happy with that.

 

[Tince]

I'm gonna say i hope not.
I hope this team plays really really well and Stotts gets them far enough into the post season there is no chance he would be fired.
As far as I'm concerned i hope he relies on CJ, RoCo, Melo, Kanter Jones, Nurk, and Dame to all bail him out every game and they end up in the Finals.
I would be happy with that.

If the Blazers make it to the 2nd round, I would be shocked if he were fired. I'm not even sure he gets fired after a 1st round loss. Missing the playoffs might do it though.

 

[AldoTrapani]

Who is this and what have you done with Aldo?

Wow Sly like that?!

 

[blazerkor]

CJ's improvement IS sustainable. Waiting for all you guys who doubted to acknowledge it now.

this makes us scary. just need ONE more piece who we can count on on defense

CJ is great and has been great for a long time now, he's getting even better at what he does. Also I figured it out tonight, in Stoffense where everyone just takes turns and there is no congruent offense, Dame and CJ are fine together even though they haven't developed any kind of flow between the two of them because there really is rarely flow in Stoffense.

The problem might be what you just said about needing "ONE more piece who we can count on on defense" Who does that piece need to replace because DJ, RoCo and Nurk are really good defenders? That's the problem I have. CJ is amazing... he can score with the best of them, he can be a top facilitator when he wants to and he's seemed to have wanted to this entire season and he's a helluva guy. I just don't know what we do if we get that ONE special defensive piece that makes us into something other than an absolute sieve defensively.

 

[Tince]

The 2011 Felton Blazers existed

2021 Blazers > 2020 Blazers > 2011 Felton Blazers > 2005 Telfair Blazers

 

[KSF-ERIC]

The 2011 Felton Blazers existed

That team played decently in 2011. It was when the calendar turned to 2012 that things got ugly.

 

[kjironman1]

If the Blazers make it to the 2nd round, I would be shocked if he were fired. I'm not even sure he gets fired after a 1st round loss. Missing the playoffs might do it though.

To be expected i guess. I would think an awful sweep in the first round or missing the playoffs due to a loss in the tourney would doom him as well.

 

[Tince]

Season over boys.

Got two more months left!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Wow Sly like that?!

ALDO, IF THIS IS YOU I'VE RAISED 10 DOGECOIN FOR YOUR RANSOM! HOLD ON, WE'RE COMING FOR YOU!

 

[jlprk]

CJ's improvement IS sustainable. Waiting for all you guys who doubted to acknowledge it now.

Don't forget about financially sustainable in a couple of years, when Lillard and McCollum make $90 million/year combined or whatever it is.

 

[kjironman1]

So i watched not just this one but about three passes like this from Doncic. He is looking at where the shooter is and driving and throwing no look passes backwards.
Blazer defenders need to watch some film and see this. The defenders need to slide into the lane and start picking these off.


If you watch this you actually see him look back for a second and give a little head nod to Hardaway.

 

[blazerkor]

I'm gonna say i hope not.
I hope this team plays really really well and Stotts gets them far enough into the post season there is no chance he would be fired.
As far as I'm concerned i hope he relies on CJ, RoCo, Melo, Kanter Jones, Nurk, and Dame to all bail him out every game and they end up in the Finals.
I would be happy with that.

If the Blazers make it to the 2nd round, I would be shocked if he were fired. I'm not even sure he gets fired after a 1st round loss. Missing the playoffs might do it though.

@kjironman1 I'm with you all the way. I would love it if this team can make a run that justifies keeping Olshey and Stotts around but @Tince I really hope you're wrong because the only thing I think that justifies keeping Olshey and Stotts around is a run that goes further than they've gone before. That means winning at least one fucking game in the conference finals. I hope everyone realizes that we would still be settling for unprecedented longevity without a finals appearance if we kept them on. I hate it that we feel like it's a good thing to settle.

This was a good win though... that's the first thing I said when it wrapped up and I said it without equivocation but if we're going to bring this shit up, I'm going to try and be real.

 

[bobf]

youre so salty. i love it. almost like youre rooting for him to fail

I don’t know the whole history, but all I see there is skepticism... not rooting for CJ to fail.

I happen to think CJ may have made a real leap... because I see differences in his approach, not just getting hot shooting. He’s taking more threes. His assists are way up. His turnovers are ridiculously low. His rebounding is up. He’s even playing better D.

I still have some healthy skepticism that he may end up some where in between, but even that would be a big leap.

 

[Tince]

@kjironman1 I'm with you all the way. I would love it if this team can make a run that justifies keeping Olshey and Stotts around but @Tince I really hope you're wrong because the only thing I think that justifies keeping Olshey and Stotts around is a run that goes further than they've gone before. That means winning at least one fucking game in the conference finals. I hope everyone realizes that we would still be settling for unprecedented longevity without a finals appearance if we kept them on. I hate it that we feel like it's a good thing to settle.

This was a good win though... that's the first thing I said when it wrapped up and I said it without equivocation but if we're going to bring this shit up, I'm going to try and be real.

I think this is an unfair standard for Stotts, but reasonable for Olshey. No way they're a top 2 roster in the West, so to expect them to produce like one on the court makes little to no sense to me. Now, if you want to fire Olshey for failing to put together a top 2 roster in the West for 9 years in a row, then that's fine. We both agree that a new GM will likely fire Stotts regardless, which I'm ok with as well.

 

[AldoTrapani]

Congrats Coach ....

Man U can tell guys really love Stotts. I don’t think this guy will ever get fired

 

[jlprk]

So i watched not just this one but about three passes like this from Doncic. He is looking at where the shooter is and driving and throwing no look passes backwards.
Blazer defenders need to watch some film and see this. The defenders need to slide into the lane and start picking these off.
If you watch this you actually see him look back for a second and give a little head nod to Hardaway.

He also missed badly 1 or 2 no-look backward passes that I saw, maybe more that I missed. You're right that when other teams catch on, he'll stop getting away with it. Good catch.

 

[blazerkor]

I think this is an unfair standard for Stotts, but reasonable for Olshey. No way they're a top 2 roster in the West, so to expect them to produce like one on the court makes little to no sense to me. Now, if you want to fire Olshey for failing to put together a top 2 roster in the West for 9 years in a row, then that's fine. We both agree that a new GM will likely fire Stotts regardless, which I'm ok with as well.

100% That's why I kept saying "and". I think everyone who pays attention to what I have been posting knows that I don't want Terry fired by Neil. I want Neil fired and a real basketball person put in his place. If that basketball person holds a press conference and says, "We think Terry Stotts is a treasure and we're keeping him as head coach and getting him an associate head coach that helps support him in the areas he needs support." I will not be mad. There just has to be some accountability and for me it has to start with Olshey. He definitely shouldn't be able to just fire Stotts and keep his job after all of these years. If Stotts has been the problem that needs to be removed then it's a fireable offense that Olshey hasn't done that for 9 years.

 

[AldoTrapani]

Remember Folks wanted to replace Cj with Gary Trent. Lol

Gary is a nice player but please nobody ever compare him to Cj. He’s nowhere near his level whatsoever

 

[AldoTrapani]

Nostradamus told me to tell you he approves of your superb reverse jinxing.

I get panicky that’s for sure. *palms face*

 

[AldoTrapani]

That team played decently in 2011. It was when the calendar turned to 2012 that things got ugly.

Glad it did. There would be no dame in a blazer jersey

 

[PCmor7]

Now we need Nurk to come back and GT to catch fire again.

Spontaneous combustion probably wouldn't help Trent's shooting.

 

[AldoTrapani]

Man I can def see why NY got rid of Porzingas and now he’s in trade talks. He looks like he doesn’t really have passion for the game or something. Cant really put my finger on it. Crazy thing is he’s still good as hell but something about him

 

[blazerkor]

Remember Folks wanted to replace Cj with Gary Trent. Lol

Gary is a nice player but please nobody ever compare him to Cj. He’s nowhere near his level whatsoever

I think that it's important to remember that no one in here has ever wanted to replace CJ with Gary. People in here thought (maybe right or wrong) that Gary could do well at starting SG. I'm pretty sure all of those people also thought/think that we could get a lot of trade value out of CJ and maybe by himself or in a package, get a second option that fits better with Dame. In that scenario I'm pretty sure everyone has thought of Gary as an OK fourth option or good fifth.