Game Thread GAME# 54: BLAZERS @ JAZZ - FEBRUARY 20, 2015 - FRIDAY, 6:00 PM (PST), CSNNW

[SlyPokerDog]

Is there a 2nd trade deadline?

 

[Sinobas]

The Bulgarian Trailblazers!

 

[julius]

remember when they said they improved on defense?

 

[Strenuus]

Cool dunk dame. Now we're down 18. So cool. Wow.

 

[MickZagger]

I wonder if Stotts ever goes full on jackass and reams the guys for not showing up. I'm not in the locker room, so I don't know. Every coach has different ways of letting his team know that kind of play isn't going to cut it. I mean I'm not talking about going Jerry Sloan on the fellas. But, I wonder if Stotts is just too nice sometimes?

 

[EGame]

Cool dunk dame. Now we're down 18. So cool. Wow.

its as if he won the championship, or better yet, the dunk contest!

-Mike Barret.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

You can't overcome bad coaching and I'm starting to think Stotts is that. Sometimes he can draw up good plays, but his rotations are brutally dumb and he allows us to go behind in a lot of games at one point or another (usually in the first half).

We better not play Blake and Dame together anymore when Afflalo comes. I'm tired of 3 guard lineups.

 

[Strenuus]

Thank god Utah aint making the playoffs and we only see them one more time.

This is gonna be a damn good team in 2 years. Give credit to them, for sure.

 

[OneLifeToLive]

I wonder if Stotts ever goes full on jackass and reams the guys for not showing up. I'm not in the locker room, so I don't know. Every coach has different ways of letting his team know that kind of play isn't going to cut it. I mean I'm not talking about going Jerry Sloan on the fellas. But, I wonder if Stotts is just too nice sometimes?

It's a players organization. Prob not.

 

[KingSpeed]

Fluke game. Jazz got insanely hot and surprised the Blazers. No biggie. The real season with our full team starts on Sunday. We still have the 3rd best record in the West,.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Gobert is Mutombo-esque.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

The only player who played decently tonight was Dame. And that's not saying much...

 

[tbird05]

Stotts needs to go back and look at the first 25 games and see what we were doing then compared to now. Crisp ball movement, and easy shots. Now it's Dame dribbling for 20 seconds and everyone standing around, and him jacking up a contested 3.

 

[kingslayer]

Well, welcome to the Blazers, Arron!

 

[Strenuus]

Bench the guys. Focus on sunday. Bigger game.

 

[Sinobas]

Clear the bench....

 

[MickZagger]

I'm old school. Give me a Jerry Sloan, Thibodeaux, Popovich kind of guy all day.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Someone needs to tell the players it's next year's draft pick that is lottery protected.

 

[EGame]

We have a bench?

 

[KingSpeed]

This here and how they approached this game this eve is why I say they can't and won't ever win 60. Certainly can't use fatigue as an excuse. Maybe too much partying.

Won't EVER? Huh?

 

[Strenuus]

Fluke game. Jazz got insanely hot and surprised the Blazers. No biggie. The real season with our full team starts on Sunday. We still have the 3rd best record in the West,.

Pretty much how I'm thinking about it. Utah played well. What can you do?

 

[julius]

The division lead isn't safe, especially considering the way they've played the last month+ and how OKC is playing lately (and their trade).

They aren't doing themselves any favors.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

This has arguably been Lopez's worst game as a Blazer.

 

[OneLifeToLive]

Won't EVER? Huh?

Not this team. No.

 

[Strenuus]

The division lead isn't safe, especially considering the way they've played the last month+ and how OKC is playing lately (and their trade).

They aren't doing themselves any favors.

It's the first game after the break. calm down. lol.

 

[KingSpeed]

It happens. We've only lost 4 games all year to sub 500 teams. The Warriors lost to the fuckimg Lakers. How we play the Jazz without Afflalo and Gee in February will mean nothing come playoff time.

 

[KingSpeed]

Not this team. No.

Not next year, not the year after, never?

 

[MickZagger]

its as if he won the championship, or better yet, the dunk contest!

-Mike Barret.

lol really?

I'm watching the Jazz telecast. I missed the dunk too.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

So, is there a Gobert-esque guy out there that will be available around our draft choice?

 

[KingSpeed]

The division lead isn't safe, especially considering the way they've played the last month+ and how OKC is playing lately (and their trade).

They aren't doing themselves any favors.

Derrick Favors?

 

[OneLifeToLive]

Not next year, not the year after, never?

Mindsets and approaches to the to game can change with further maturity. But with the way they are now...

No.