Game Thread Game #51 - BLAZERS @ OKC THUNDER - JANUARY 31, 2022 - MONDAY - 5:00 PM (PDT) ROOT SPORTS

[OneSport3]

Without a doubt CJ and Norm gotta go next week.

Without them, the ball was zipping around, players were moving and they were actually playing good defense.

 

[Blazinaway]

It appears I have underestimated our tanking ability.

perhaps a watershed game to get the tank fully back in gear

 

[BlazerBeav]

Would it kill them to post up Nurk once?

 

[blazerkor]

Trade every fucking healthy player that we have that has any trade value while they still do. That means CJ, Norm, RoCo, Nurk and Ant. Trade all five of those guys for the most concentrated talent you can get for them involving as many teams as you have to in as many separate moves as you have to in order to get Dame some guys that can actually help him content during his career.

 

[illmatic99]

wtf just happened

 

[Blazinaway]

games were much more watchable when CJ and Norm were out and Nas was healthy and started, this is pure shit

 

[James lamphear]

I think blazers need to put everyone on the trading block after this performance.

 

[blazerkor]

Oklahoma City crowd looking like they have some kind of COVID capacity restrictions but they tended to before the virus was ever around. Fucking ridiculous for that city to have Seattle's team.

 

[OneSport3]

Let me rub some salt in our wounds right now.

 

[James lamphear]

Didn't take long to go what they was doing at the beginning of the year since CJ and Norm came back.

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

wtf just happened

NBA is a game of runs. I had tamales for lunch.

 

[OneSport3]

Didn't take long to go what they was doing at the beginning of the year since CJ and Norm came back.

CJ said when he returned that he was going to try to fit into what the team was doing. That didn’t last too long.

 

[ehizzy3]

Bad

 

[illmatic99]

this is embarrassing.

 

[Scalma]

This is the most Stotts game of the season. Just forcing the perimeter game with a bunch of iso bullshit.

 

[OneSport3]

Wow, it takes a ton of IDGAF to go from up 20 to down 18 to this OKC team.

 

[James lamphear]

6-25 tonight from our 6'3" starting guards and small forward.

 

[Fairly-Hard]

Fun fact.
Both teams have had an 18 point lead!

 

[illmatic99]

Wow, it takes a ton of IDGAF to go from up 20 to down 18 to this OKC team.

and they're missing SGA

 

[illmatic99]

This is the most Stotts game of the season. Just forcing the perimeter game with a bunch of iso bullshit.

why we went away from nurk is baffling to me

 

[PCmor7]

I think all the injuries caught up with the Blazers tonight. They looked fatigued.

Ant had about four of his first 13 shots go in and out and that seemed to get into his head. After that, he was missing layups and badly missing 3s.

 

[Mr. Robot]

what is chauncey doing, pull the starters out

this is embarrassing & disappointing on so many levels

 

[Strenuus]

Wow. From up 18 to down 18.

Proud of you boys. That's how you fucking tank!

 

[blazerfan11]

It's one thing to miss shots, it's another thing to do nothing different about it as a team.

this tells you everything you need to know about these motherfuckers

they cant guard nurk and instead giving him the ball down low, they just chuck shot after shot and they cant hit anything

remember how team played without dame, cj mccollum & powell... good times, it wont happen again

Those were good days.

 

[blazerkor]

I think we can keep Dame if we're only keeping Dame but Chauncey is telling these guys to play the right way and they just won't do it on either end... we need a Stotts cleansing. Every player that is still playing Stottsian basketball needs to go. Nas doesn't and never did (probably why Terry wouldn't play him) but the rest of the guys seem to be hooked, poisoned or diseased with it.

 

[Scalma]

why we went away from nurk is baffling to me

Cuz the guards need their 15 shots

 

[illmatic99]

this would be tolerable if we had all youngins playing. this is unacceptable with vets playing

 

[Blazinaway]

Wow. From up 18 to down 18.

Proud of you boys. That's how you fucking tank!

especially to OKC - this is PRIME TIME tanking

 

[Strenuus]

especially to OKC - this is PRIME TIME tanking

Yeah.

COME ON GUYS THIS IS GREAT! GO BLAZERS!

 

[illmatic99]

sheesh, we jinxed ant, didn't we?