Game Thread GAME# 55: BLAZERS @ MAVERICKS - FEBRUARY 10, 2019 - SUNDAY, 12:00 PM, NBCSNW

[LuckyShot]

I cant believe 28 would rather reduce Turners pt over Leonard!
Who's the better basketball player?

More the fact that we have fewer big guys probably.

 

[TBpup]

Nurk with the Rolling Thunder!!

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Let's call that a pass! lol

 

[LuckyShot]

Nice... "Pass" by Dame.

 

[VenomXL]

Zero defense.

 

[BonesJones]

Our defense has been awful this half.

 

[B-Roy]

Dame is really uncharacteristically ignoring the easy pass to Nurk to try and get his own....

 

[Labinot41]

Wtf

 

[TBpup]

Starters just don't have the same fire/energy that the bench does. 3+ minutes will LaHood is back!

 

[DDolla]

Blazers Bench please save us!!!

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Our defense has been awful this half.

Starters defense was awful the first half too.

 

[craigehlo]

Dame is such an easy double team with the garbage starting forwards. This is the Pelicans sweep defensive scheme.

 

[KingSpeed]

Starters just don't have the same fire/energy that the bench does. 3+ minutes will LaHood is back!

When our bench plays well, I like them more than starters.

 

[James lamphear]

This 1st unit the last 3 games been really bad on defense. If wasn't for Nurk with this unit we probably be getting blown out.

 

[ripcityboy]

Our defense has been awful this half.

Yeah. We really do have a good 11 this year. If Terry fucking blows it in the playoffs he only has himself to blame. He really is limited in many ways as a coach. Anx the rest of the league knows it.

 

[BonesJones]

Starters defense was awful the first half too.

I wish we'd trap off pick n roll just to switch it up and stop dribble penetration.

 

[riverman]

feed Nurk

 

[Labinot41]

Lillard...

 

[riverman]

Nurk gets called for smiling...

 

[OneSport3]

Dame is really uncharacteristically ignoring the easy pass to Nurk to try and get his own....

What's new? Dallas has some guy named Kleiber trying to check Nurkic yet Dame and CJ continue to jack up shots, going 6-21. Meanwhile Nurkic is 9-10...

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Dame is such an easy double team with the garbage starting forwards. This is the Pelicans sweep defensive scheme.

I love Dame so don't get me wrong, but I think the one area where his height is an issue is that he can't just pass over the double teams, and he's not "great" at splitting double teams either. Some guys you can't really trap like that because they're so tall it doesn't really bother them, or they can split the trap. Dame's reaction to the trap is almost always to get on his heels where he can't attack it.

 

[VenomXL]

Time to see if they can win with both Dame and CJ playing poorly.

 

[Darkwebs]

Hardaway just flopping all over the place to try to defend Zach

 

[B-Roy]

Dame is really fucking Nurkic on those screen and rolls.

 

[LuckyShot]

Flagrant? Just grabbed him and pulled him to the ground.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Are they seriously playing baby shark in the background...

 

[riverman]

We got a Scott Foster call...mark your calendar

 

[VenomXL]

Zach...

 

[TBpup]

Damn Zach....go ahead and make a FT.

 

[VenomXL]

Fucking brutal.