Game Thread GAME# 42: MAGIC @ BLAZERS - JANUARY 13, 2017 - FRIDAY, 7:00 PM (PDT), KGW

[Nikolokolus]

I'm not. I want him to do well. He's having his worst season yet man, that's just a fact.

No that's hyperbole.

 

[riverman]

You're not driving are you?

He'll be fine these are really stable

 

[Cippy91]

I'm not. I want him to do well. He's having his worst season yet man, that's just a fact.

lol uhhhh what? how so? FG percentage is 44 percent, best it's ever been. 3 point percentage isn't good at all but on par with the 14-15 season as I sit here looking at actual numbers.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/l/lillada01.html

 

[Scalma]

When you're playing with al Farouq Aminu, mason Plumlee, Meyers Leonard, etc I couldn't give one shit less about Lillard or mccollums shot selections...if anything I wish Lillard would be more selfish because I'm not sure a wide open Aminu is better than a contested shot for dame.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Listening to Dwight Jaynes say he thought Meyers had a "good game" because he had the highest plus-minus is fucking hilarious.

 

[DUB]

CJ cruising to another 27+ point game!

What a weird game by CJ.

He was 5 pts @ 11.1% (1/9) at halftime.

He finished the game with 26 pts @ 66.7% (10/21).

Meaning CJ shot 21 pts @ 75% (9/12) in the second half.

I don't know what CJ did at half time, but can he do it before the game next time?

 

[ChadWick]

What a dogshit loss to follow up the best win of the season. Smh.

 

[riverman]

When you're playing with al Farouq Aminu, mason Plumlee, Meyers Leonard, etc I couldn't give one shit less about Lillard or mccollums shot selections...if anything I wish Lillard would be more selfish because I'm not sure a wide open Aminu is better than a contested shot for dame.

But a wide open Crabbe should be....he's the third option....7pts.....Chief had 8

 

[Cippy91]

When you're playing with al Farouq Aminu, mason Plumlee, Meyers Leonard, etc I couldn't give one shit less about Lillard or mccollums shot selections...if anything I wish Lillard would be more selfish because I'm not sure a wide open Aminu is better than a contested shot for dame.

I would be frustrated as fuck too playing with that squad. I honestly think Lillard is at a point of frustration, something he hasn't dealt with before with past teams. Dude averaged 30 plus for the first 10 games or some shit like that, 3 point FG was at around 40 percent

 

[Nikolokolus]

Maybe they had lagged jetlag?

 

[LuckyShot]

So disappointing. Only game I can make it to this year and I was so excited thinking they had turned the corner. Defense started way too lax and the shots just wouldn't fall.

 

[craigehlo]

I just got back from the game. Pat C and Meyers were just awful. Pat I can forgive since he probably won't get a 2nd contract in the NBA, but Meyers is highly paid and useless.

We need some post scoring yesterday since this team has zero margin for error as they continue shooting low percentage jumpers.

 

[LuckyShot]

Meyers sucks. So fucking tired if him. It's worse in person.

 

[julius]

making free throws alone would win this game

Not starting the game down 20-3 probably had more to do with it, but yet, missing free throws hurt.

 

[craigehlo]

There's no identity for this team other than Dame and CJ freelancing. It's a hodgepodge of dudes dribbling into traffic without a plan and jacking up contested jumpers. There's no discipline. No game plan.

 

[Nikolokolus]

There's no identity for this team other than Dame and CJ freelancing. It's a hodgepodge of dudes dribbling into traffic without a plan and jacking up contested jumpers. There's no discipline. No game plan.

That's the key phrase. It's a mishmash of mismatched parts -- the NBA equivalent of the Island of Misfit Toys.

 

[Chris Craig]

Tonight is what happens when you play both Meyers and Connaughton. No Layman?

 

[Chris Craig]

We need a trade, but no one will take our Shitty guys. Shit creak?

 

[Nikolokolus]

Tonight is what happens when you play both Meyers and Connaughton. No Layman?

Six of one, half dozen of another.

 

[Chris Craig]

That's ok 4 more shots and I won't remember

 

[Chris Craig]

Maybe seven more

 

[Nikolokolus]

We need a trade, but no one will take our Shitty guys. Shit creak?

We'll see (or not) in about a month or this July. Who knows.

 

[DUB]

making free throws alone would win this game

We shot 21/25 (84%) from the stripe. We lost by 6, so even if we had have shot 100%, we still would have lost.

 

[Chris Craig]

We shot 21/25 (84%) from the stripe. We lost by 6, so even if we had have shot 100%, we still would have lost.

It would have kept us close enough to hit a game winner.

 

[riverman]

We shot 21/25 (84%) from the stripe. We lost by 6, so even if we had have shot 100%, we still would have lost.

I'd have sworn we seemed to miss every other one...must have been mostly at the end when it counted most

 

[DUB]

It would have kept us close enough to hit a game winner.

Technically true.

 

[DUB]

I'd have sworn we seemed to miss every other one...must have been mostly at the end when it counted most

I agree, it did feel like we missed the clutch ones.

 

[MAS RipCity]

This Blazers team is what it is: inconsistent.

I don't see any way this team moves up from the 8 seed when they drop games to Detroit and Orlando ... AT HOME.

 

[riverman]

Supposed to be a really deep draft....I sense a development season that's winning just enough to hide the tanking..hate to think it, but being the 8th seed in the west and losing a draft pick might not be that wise...why would Vonleh and Layman sit tonight in favor of Meyers and Pat C?

 

[SheedSoNasty]

I miss being a good team

Ftfy