Game Thread GAME# 45: HAWKS @ BLAZERS - JANUARY 20, 2016 - WEDNESDAY, 7:30 PM (PST), ESPN & KGW

[riverman]

Get the next one. Go Blazers!

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Crabbe was a no-show.

Leonard is turning into Ha-Seung Jin-ian entertainment.

CJ got into the lane whenever he wanted.

Dame hit the side of the backboard twice.

 

[riverman]

Turnovers and 3 pt attempts?

Yeah, there are those too..been awhile since he got ten rebounds

 

[Tunchi]

Dame is so feast or famine. This is his 3rd straight inefficient night.. Can't stand his inconsistency this season

 

[42N8Bounce]

We played a good Atlanta team down to the wire tonight. If not for a couple of dry spells, we could have easily won that one.

 

[riverman]

We stunk at the deep ball pretty much all night and the Hawks are a pretty good team

 

[blue9]

Can't stand his inconsistency this season

Why? This is the best season for him to be inconsistent. I love that he's actually been trying passes he wouldn't have attempted in previous seasons - they may lead to TOs now, but it'll pay dividends in the future.

 

[Tunchi]

Why? This is the best season for him to be inconsistent. I love that he's actually been trying passes he wouldn't have attempted in previous seasons - they may lead to TOs now, but it'll pay dividends in the future.

I guess that's fair

 

[blazedanugz]

He didn't have any turnovers tonight..

 

[BonesJones]

Dame is so feast or famine. This is his 3rd straight inefficient night.. Can't stand his inconsistency this season

I can't stand you. God damn.

 

[riverman]

Just the word turnovers makes me hungry

 

[Tunchi]

I can't stand you. God damn.

I can tell you get sad too dame is inefficient

 

[BonesJones]

I can tell you get sad too dame is inefficient

What? You can't tell me shit.. And your sentence structure is what's inefficient.

 

[handiman]

This game was a microcosm of the roster. We're way more competitive than most people expected, because we've always got 2-3 hustle players on the floor along with at least one hot perimeter player. It also showed the limitations, however. CJ carried the team for three quarters, and Dame carried the team in the 4th. One guy firing away can keep you in the game, but the general inability of them to do it simultaneously makes it easier to defend than the theoretical dilemma of how to focus on both at once.

 

[SpamKing]

My girlfriend finally figured out the message on my t-shirt:
"Moisten needle before inserting"

 

[kjironman1]

The best team won. It's a talent thing. The Blazers simply don't have enough of it.

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

The Hawks are good. I thought the Blazers played a pretty good game and it was a really fun one to watch.

 

[handiman]

The best team won. It's a talent thing. The Blazers simply don't have enough of it.

I think the game showed just the opposite. The Blazers had plenty of talent to keep it competitive, and the outcome uncertain, right up until crunch time. Our problem is the talent isn't complimentary, so we can't load up down the stretch and have our five best players firing on all cylinders like the good teams can.

 

[Blazers Roy]

Give the ball to CJ and get the fuck out of the way people!

Big guys who shoot 3s are killing us this season, when will Terry wake up to this problem? and can we just get Markieff Morris already?

Vonleh is starting to cook though!

 

[HolyBackboard]

Chalk this L up to Coach Stotts and his maddening rotations. Plumlee and Vonleh had things rolling in the first quarter, yet he takes both of them out at the 6 minute mark and everything went downhill from there. Then, in the fourth quarter, Stotts decided to go small when the Hawks had Millsap and Horford on the floor and our defense was completely nonexistent. Maybe one day Coach will actually give Vonleh 20+ minutes of playing time a night ...

 

[Natebishop3]

Crabbe was a no-show.

Leonard is turning into Ha-Seung Jin-ian entertainment.

CJ got into the lane whenever he wanted.

Dame hit the side of the backboard twice.

It looked to me like he was trying to shoot a bank shot. Is he trying to add that to his repertoire?

 

[blue9]

Chalk this L up to Coach Stotts and his maddening rotations. Plumlee and Vonleh had things rolling in the first quarter, yet he takes both of them out at the 6 minute mark and everything went downhill from there. Then, in the fourth quarter, Stotts decided to go small when the Hawks had Millsap and Horford on the floor and our defense was completely nonexistent. Maybe one day Coach will actually give Vonleh 20+ minutes of playing time a night ...

Certainly when a team goes 5.5 minutes without scoring a point coaching is to blame. The Hawks played some great defense for much of the game, but half of Stotts' job is to come up with something to counter the opponent's defense.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

It looked to me like he was trying to shoot a bank shot. Is he trying to add that to his repertoire?

One of those "looks like shit in January, mastered by April" things he does every season.

 

[Blazers Roy]

Certainly when a team goes 5.5 minutes without scoring a point coaching is to blame. The Hawks played some great defense for much of the game, but half of Stotts' job is to come up with something to counter the opponent's defense.

In Stotts defense, he did have to face an upper tier coach.

 

[kjironman1]

I think the game showed just the opposite. The Blazers had plenty of talent to keep it competitive, and the outcome uncertain, right up until crunch time. Our problem is the talent isn't complimentary, so we can't load up down the stretch and have our five best players firing on all cylinders like the good teams can.

Sorry bro. The Blazers got outclassed by a better team last night. Simple as that.

 

[Natebishop3]

One of those "looks like shit in January, mastered by April" things he does every season.

Wasn't it Pop who was just talking about how the bank shot is great, but nobody uses it anymore?

 

[THE HCP]

Better, MORE TALENTED team won the game last night.

 

[kjironman1]

Better, MORE TALENTED team won the game last night.

Totally agree on that.

 

[BBert]

Wasn't it Pop who was just talking about how the bank shot is great, but nobody uses it anymore?

John Wooden was a huge proponent of the bank shot. Forced his players to practice it.

 

[THE HCP]

Totally agree on that.

Well that sucks! Agree with me after 5000 posts young buck!#IGNORED