Game Thread GAME# 56: BLAZERS @ JAZZ - FEBRUARY 15, 2017 - WEDNESDAY, 6:00 PM (PST), KGW

[Strenuus]

We have someone that knows how to box out on this team?


The hell are we watching?

 

[Cippy91]

pretty sure this game is evidence we just need to dump Meyers for whatever

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Are my eyes deceiving me or are we actually pretty good when Connaughton is out there?

 

[Nikolokolus]

pretty sure this game is evidence we just need to dump Meyers for whatever

A future 7th round pick ...

 

[Scalma]

I'm marrying Nurk everyone back off.

 

[ripcityboy]

We got Nurkic AND a number one for Mason?! And you aholes thought the Barton trade was bad?!

 

[Strenuus]

Wow. Gobert poked the wrong fucking bear.

 

[H.C.]

Are my eyes deceiving me or are we actually pretty good when Connaughton is out there?

He made some plays, made some mistakes... but the baseball player wasn't too bad no.

 

[julius]

The Blazers should trade Meyers at half for a 1984 6th round draft pick.

 

[Chris Craig]

Haha Stotts telling Ingles to stop being a crying bitch....

He's standing behind the ref and Ingles looking at Ingles and I imagine he's saying..."bitches get stitches"

 

[Cippy91]

Nurkic has played barely any basketball and he's already a favorite of mine. An actual big. Who provides inside scoring, mediocre defense and can still be developed? Knows how to box out. Just his presence alone helps. It's crazy how deprived we were of a big. Nurkic feels like shaq out there to me, that's how deprived I was

 

[Cippy91]

Are my eyes deceiving me or are we actually pretty good when Connaughton is out there?

Nurkic you mean

 

[LuckyShot]

Meyers out, Nurkic in, Jazz stop scoring.

 

[Strenuus]

The Blazers should trade Meyers at half for a 1984 6th round draft pick.

What would Orwell say about this?!

 

[Chris Craig]

Connaughton needs to go play baseball and never pick up a basketball again

 

[LuckyShot]

Gobert gets a tech.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

At the half:
Biebs: -19 in 14 minutes
Nurkic: +17 in 10 minutes

#whoshouldstart?

 

[ripcityboy]

Nurkic has played barely any basketball and he's already a favorite of mine. An actual big. Who provides inside scoring, mediocre defense and can still be developed? Knows how to box out. Just his presence alone helps. It's crazy how deprived we were of a big. Nurkic feels like shaq out there to me, that's how deprived I was

Yeah. You were so deprived you were like Oliver Twist with a Empty Beerhat on.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Gobert given T at halftime I think if I am hearing my feed right.

 

[Strenuus]

At the half:
Biebs: -19 in 14 minutes
Nurkic: +17 in 10 minutes

#whoshouldstart?

That's freaking nuts.

And think about it.... Meyers hit his first two 3's... that's how bad he was.

 

[H.C.]

Connaughton needs to go play baseball and never pick up a basketball again

So question.
If this forum is giving Nurkic a pass for at times trying to hard, and making some first game mistakes.
With as often as the baseball player has actually got meaningful game-time action. Shouldn't he get the same pass?
The baseball player actually made some plays, to go along with the mistakes he made.

 

[LuckyShot]

Gobert given T at halftime I think if I am hearing my feed right.

I heard the same.

 

[ripcityboy]

We NEED a true big man coach..... FOR REAL.

 

[Jade Falcon]

I feel like this when Nurkic is in...

 

[julius]

What would Orwell say about this?!

The Blazers fleeced the other team?

 

[Scalma]

Hobert threw an elbow at Nurkic and now I think he might want to check on his family in st ettiene.

 

[Strenuus]

So question.
If this forum is giving Nurkic a pass for at times trying to hard, and making some first game mistakes.
With as often as the baseball player has actually got meaningful game-time action. Shouldn't he get the same pass?
The baseball player actually made some plays, to go along with the mistakes he made.

How do the two correlate, at all? Nurkic is in his LITERAL 1st game with his new team

Connaughton has been our cheerleader for 2 years... How can you even compare the two? Connaughton shouldn't make mistakes at this point because he's practiced and played with these guys....

 

[noknobs]

And think about it.... Meyers hit his first two 3's... that's how bad he was.

I don't know how he pulls it off, but even when Meyers hits a few shots it feels like he's done literally nothing.

 

[Jade Falcon]

So question.
If this forum is giving Nurkic a pass for at times trying to hard, and making some first game mistakes.
With as often as the baseball player has actually got meaningful game-time action. Shouldn't he get the same pass?
The baseball player actually made some plays, to go along with the mistakes he made.

This. I don't get why everyone is on Pat's ass. He's hustling his ass off out there. Chill out folks.

 

[Scalma]

Connaughton cleaned up the boards Nurkic created by boxing out, congrats pat.