Game Thread GAME# 46: BLAZERS @ RAPTORS - MARCH 28, 2021 - SUNDAY, 4:00, NBCSNW

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Pick the 5 Blazers you want to close games with (for non-blowouts, obviously)

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BonesJones said:
So you're a prononent of being satisfied with one-night stands instead of pursuing something more serious?

To each his own, I guess.
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Well the reality is if you do it enough, you are bound to strike gold eventually and live happily ever after.
 
Hoopguru said:
I hear ya but the reality is only a few teams every year are realistically in the hunt so to compete against say 26 other teams every year to get to the finals is really and uphill battle and the planets better line up or you attract super stars.
10 teams of 30 have won it all in the last 4o years. Personally because much is driven my marketing & PR if Im Jody or Bert, I hire EX NBA stars as GM and Coach as a way to0 possibly entice Big Time FA's to come here. Someone to promote the merits of PTown. Its a step below whats happening now with super stars coupling up and promoting and team or city.
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The issue with this is that Neil keeps adding pieces like we have what we need to win the chip. Sorry but Dame and CJ is not enough of a foundation to win a title. This is why I keep likening it to putting nice rims on a Geo Metro. When you go down the list of teams that are mentioned in contention you have duos (or trios) like this

Durant/Harden/Kyrie
LeBron/AD
Kawhi/George
Simmons/Embiid

Then you have some of the other potential contenders
Giannis/Middleton
Butler/Bam
CP3/Booker
Mitchell/Gobert
Jokic/Murray


Then you have some other talented teams that are on the fringe
Luka/KP
Tatum/Jaylen Brown/Kemba
Randle

Where do you put Dame/CJ in all of that? The biggest discrepancy is that a lot of those tandems are actually good defenders. Dame and CJ are god awful on defense. So if if entire foundation is built on something shaky, how could we ever hope to actually contend? So what are we even doing?
 
Natebishop3 said:
The issue with this is that Neil keeps adding pieces like we have what we need to win the chip. Sorry but Dame and CJ is not enough of a foundation to win a title. This is why I keep likening it to putting nice rims on a Geo Metro. When you go down the list of teams that are mentioned in contention you have duos (or trios) like this

Durant/Harden/Kyrie
LeBron/AD
Kawhi/George
Simmons/Embiid

Then you have some of the other potential contenders
Giannis/Middleton
Butler/Bam
CP3/Booker
Mitchell/Gobert
Jokic/Murray


Then you have some other talented teams that are on the fringe
Luka/KP
Tatum/Jaylen Brown/Kemba
Randle

Where do you put Dame/CJ in all of that? The biggest discrepancy is that a lot of those tandems are actually good defenders. Dame and CJ are god awful on defense. So if if entire foundation is built on something shaky, how could we ever hope to actually contend? So what are we even doing?
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First and foremost Im sure the mandate from the Vulcans is to maximize profits, keep expenses under control, keep the fans satisfied enough to watch & Listen to games broadcasted, fill Moda, & participate in Blazer fan forums. As long as we all think the NBA is fantastic and want spend countless hours talking hoops, its a job well done. Then if we do well in the offs or win the grand salami its even better and keeps the synergy going.
 
Look at March madness...we are all caught up in NBA madness! which is cool...
 
being a fan of a team is an emotional investment and we tend to mate for life

I'm not sure why so many people get pissed off when there are emotional posts in a game thread. And I'm not excluding myself from that either. People vent in game threads. Hot takes between plays. Sure, there's always some trolling, but no big deal

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when Stotts challenged his players to improve their defense enough to move into the top 15 on defense by the end of the season, Portland's defensive rating was 116.4. This was during the all-star break. Since then, the Blazers have played 10 games. Weighting the double games equally, the combined winning percentage of opponents over those 10 games is .425 (a 35 win pace in an 82 game regular season)

in this stretch, Portland's defensive rating has dropped from 116.4 to 117.6. Portland has became 1.2 points worse on defense, since the Stotts 'challenge', while playing a very easy schedule, often against teams missing a lot of their best players, either from injury or trade
 
Hoopguru said:
First and foremost Im sure the mandate from the Vulcans is to maximize profits, keep expenses under control, keep the fans satisfied enough to watch & Listen to games broadcasted, fill Moda, & participate in Blazer fan forums. As long as we all think the NBA is fantastic and want spend countless hours talking hoops, its a job well done. Then if we do well in the offs or win the grand salami its even better and keeps the synergy going.
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And that's why you don't want a corporation running a team and not someone who actually is invested. I have been concerned that this was the case since Paul died. The team is in treadmill mode. Keep the team competitive, keep the fans watching etc etc etc. That's all well and good, but I want to see the team win a title in my lifetime. We have our best player in decades on the team, maybe our best player ever, and we're just running it out. It's such a horrible waste. It's extremely frustrating to watch in real time. Paul didn't care about profits. Paul cared about winning, and that's how most owners operate. It's like Hollywood these days cranking out super hero movies and predictable comedies with the same tired names over and over. Our team is essentially an Adam Sandler movie. It's predictable and it makes money but there's nothing new or exciting. It's the same movie with a different title every year.
 


Too bad the name Clutch City has already been taken.
 
TBpup said:
What they have done given the injuries has been pretty remarkable. At the same time, there is the reality of 'we have seen this before, quite a weak schedule so far, and what has happened in the Playoffs more often than not....being swept or gentlemen's swept out of the Playoffs and not really being close to competing.

Of course as a fan, I'm glad they are winning games but to be a Polyanna and think that HOW they are playing when they are squeaking by bottom feeder teams who are even more depleted or decimated than we are, doesn't raise some concerns would seem to be quite unrealistic.

I hope they win. I hope they get better. I hope they get to a place where they can compete. I hope with their main talent that is so untradable, we will be better than bottom 1 or 2 in defense far too often.

Unreasonable?
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Reasonable for sure.

What I don't get is that we knew before the season started that this wasn't a championship contender. Yet it seems there is a group of people up in arms that we're not doing the things championship contending teams do. It's obvious I had lower expectations than some, which is probably why I'm enjoying their 28-18 record more than others.
 
Tince said:
Reasonable for sure.

What I don't get is that we knew before the season started that this wasn't a championship contender. Yet it seems there is a group of people up in arms that we're not doing the things championship contending teams do. It's obvious I had lower expectations than some, which is probably why I'm enjoying their 28-18 record more than others.
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Darkwebs said:


Too bad the name Clutch City has already been taken.
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That is tremendous and a tribute to Dame who has been historically clutch.

However, way to many of those clutch wins have come against teams that we shouldn't be in that close of a game with in the first place. Eeking out wins against quite an easy schedule so far gives me concern about what happenes when they play the better teams.
 
TBpup said:
That is tremendous and a tribute to Dame who has been historically clutch.

However, way to many of those clutch wins have come against teams that we shouldn't be in that close of a game with in the first place. Eeking out wins against quite an easy schedule so far gives me concern about what happenes when they play the better teams.
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kjironman1 said:
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Feel free to point out one thing in the supposed 'wet blanket' post that wasn't true. Easy to find. It's the post that starts off with, "That is tremendous and a tribute to Dame who has been historically clutch."
 
Natebishop3 said:
The issue with this is that Neil keeps adding pieces like we have what we need to win the chip. Sorry but Dame and CJ is not enough of a foundation to win a title. This is why I keep likening it to putting nice rims on a Geo Metro. When you go down the list of teams that are mentioned in contention you have duos (or trios) like this

Durant/Harden/Kyrie
LeBron/AD
Kawhi/George
Simmons/Embiid

Then you have some of the other potential contenders
Giannis/Middleton
Butler/Bam
CP3/Booker
Mitchell/Gobert
Jokic/Murray


Then you have some other talented teams that are on the fringe
Luka/KP
Tatum/Jaylen Brown/Kemba
Randle

Where do you put Dame/CJ in all of that? The biggest discrepancy is that a lot of those tandems are actually good defenders. Dame and CJ are god awful on defense. So if if entire foundation is built on something shaky, how could we ever hope to actually contend? So what are we even doing?
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Well the only SGs in the entire NBA who have a higher PER than CJ are Harden and Beal. You underrate CJ greatly because you watch him a lot and take him for granted. How many people on your list can do what CJ did on the road in a Game 7? He did it again vs Toronto just last night! CJ is clearly better than Booker, PG13, Mitchell, and Murray. Obviously, he’s not as good as LeBron or AD but we can’t trade CJ for him so what are you asking? Dame/CJ IS the best backcourt in the league and the Pistons have won titles with two similar backcourts though I’d argue ours is better than both. With Aminu/Harkless and an injured Kanter (with Nurk out altogether), we reached WCF. Olshey’s current roster is better than that one and Nurk is healthy. If we have to play Lakers in first round with or without homecourt this year, that is unfortunate. But we can beat the other teams and maybe get lucky in a WCF vs Lakers.
 
TBpup said:
Feel free to point out one thing in the supposed 'wet blanket' post that wasn't true. Easy to find. It's the post that starts off with, "That is tremendous and a tribute to Dame who has been historically clutch."
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Pretty much everyone on the planet knows EVERYTHING before "However" "But", "Nevertheless", "Even So", "yet" is pretty much bullshit.
TBpup said:
However, way to many of those clutch wins have come against teams that we shouldn't be in that close of a game with in the first place. Eeking out wins against quite an easy schedule so far gives me concern about what happenes when they play the better teams.
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kjironman1 said:
Pretty much everyone on the planet knows EVERYTHING before "However" "But", "Nevertheless", "Even So", "yet" is pretty much bullshit.
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this Monday was a good day, however, tomorrow is Tuesday, but yesterday was Sunday. Nonetheless, Wednesday will follow tomorrow. Even so, that's only 4 days of the week, yet we all know three more days follow Wednesday before the week is over

no bullshit zone
 
wizenheimer said:
this Monday was a good day, however, tomorrow is Tuesday, but yesterday was Sunday. Nonetheless, Wednesday will follow tomorrow. Even so, that's only 4 days of the week, yet we all know three more days follow Wednesday before the week is over

no bullshit zone
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Exactly. Another Monday was good BUT the week could still suck post. Thus "Wet Blanket". By the way the weather looks pretty good for Wednesday as well as the Blazers chances to get another road win. I wonder if it will be another bad win on the road because the team they are playing doesn't have a winning record? Looking forward to both Wednesday and Friday.
You see how that works without the Buts and however's?
 
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