Game Thread GAME# 53: HEAT @ BLAZERS - APRIL 11, 2021 - SUNDAY, 7:00, NBATV & NBCSNW

[Natebishop3]

Keep Terry. Let's ride this bitch to the lotto.

 

[DDolla]

Clippers and Heat defense are the type of Defense will see in the Playoffs and Stotts still don’t know how to adjust.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Can we just head to Cancun already? This is going to be a death march to the end of May.

3 1/2 weeks!

 

[KSF-ERIC]

I know people want to bench Melo but the answer isn’t less Melo, it’s more Melo. For better or worse, we are best when he scores 18+. He wasn’t involved enough tonight.

 

[hoopsjock]

The Blazers get beat badly once again, this time by the now 28-25 Miami Heat. Come hang out with the Blazers Uprise Postgame Show and try and salvage the evening with some friendly hoops chat.

 

[Tince]

Hopefully we matchup with a smaller, more unathletic team than us in the playoffs.

 

[wizenheimer]

Collins knows he’s missing piece. With him last season, we were 8-3. Without him 28-40 including playoffs.

with much respect, and it all seriousness...can you just fuck off with the Zach lunacy?

 

[Natebishop3]

Looking good so far

 

[KSF-ERIC]

3 1/2 weeks!

Season ends in 5 weeks

 

[TBpup]

Hopefully we matchup with a smaller, more unathletic team than us in the playoffs.

Doubtful the Kings make the Playoffs.

 

[KSF-ERIC]

Looking good so far

You know you’ll be wrong so why even post it?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Season ends in 5 weeks

I'll be in Playa Del Carmen in 3 1/2!

 

[Tince]

Doubtful the Kings make the Playoffs.

Damn, you're right... that's about the only team that fits that criteria huh?

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Let’s wait til Collins comes back and we have a full roster. He’s doing the best he can with this ragtag bunch.

Stop it; I don't even know if you are trolling or not, that is so out there.

 

[KSF-ERIC]

The Blazers get beat badly once again, this time by the now 28-25 Miami Heat. Come hang out with the Blazers Uprise Postgame Show and try and salvage the evening with some friendly hoops chat.

beat badly? We lost by 9

 

[KSF-ERIC]

with much respect, and it all seriousness...can you just fuck off with the Zach lunacy?

Just stating the truth.

 

[illmatic99]

dame also doesn't look right. he keeps getting hit in the muscle above his knee. got hit there again by butler in the first and could get no elevation after that. he's not even faking trying on defense right now.

i know he would hate to do it, but he needs to sit right now.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Well, Miami does wear you down with their D. But still, the Blazers all looked tired (except for the 3rd team) Not a good time to have a back to back against a rested team.

Yes, there is some validity to that. And somehow they got us to play at a fast pace. I thought once I heard that Miami likes to play at a slow pace, but it sure doesn't look like it.

 

[Haakzilla]

dame's agent

...it's over, at wha

Keep Terry. Let's ride this bitch to the lotto.

 

[Darkwebs]

Picture of the game:

 

[TBpup]

I would love to see Stotts face New York or Philly media with this type of performance against anyone that is a decent Playoff team.

 

[blazedanugz]

Stotts post game - “defense wasn’t the issue tonight”
Nurkic post game - “we’re clearly not on the same page defensively”

 

[illmatic99]

Stotts post game - “defense wasn’t the issue tonight”
Nurkic post game - “we’re clearly not on the same page defensively”

are these real?

 

[wizenheimer]

remember when teams waited till the playoffs to completely sell out their defense to blitz and stop dame? when they would trap, double, and triple him to exhaustion?

well, they aren't waiting till the playoffs anymore. The formula is obvious: "sell out your defense to shut down Dame because the rest of the team won't beat you". It works like magic. When was the last time, other than the 76ers, when the Blazers beat a good team when Dame didn't produce at a high level? 7 years after Memphis employed the strategy to great success and Portland still doesn't have a fucking answer. It's not going to be solved by 3 points shooting or a backup PG or shuffling in different role players, year after year. Portland needs another elite talent that can consistently punish defenses in 4-on-3 situations

and while so many in this thread were hammering Dame for not being able to beat two or three players shadowing him, CJ had a shit game too.

the Stolshey ship has run aground.

 

[Scalma]

WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT IM TIRED OF IT

 

[DDolla]

When you lose a playoff series like the one we got swept by the Pelicans. You look back on the things what happened wrong and try to improve it the next season. Stotts up to now don’t have an answer of Dame being double team from the half court... none. The Front Office always rewards him for making the playoffs every year. That’s the goal of this franchise, just making the playoffs.

 

[BigGameDamian]

dame's decision making has been awful. he's not reading these double teams

I think he's just frustrated and rightfully so.

 

[illmatic99]

WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT IM TIRED OF IT

the first problem is acknowledging that there is one.

 

[Natebishop3]

WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT IM TIRED OF IT

Terry Stotts is Baghdad Bob.

 

[BigGameDamian]

WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT IM TIRED OF IT

Terry has been getting pissy when Jason asks the tough questions.