Game Thread Game #56 - BLAZERS VS LAKERS - FEBRUARY 9, 2022 - WEDNESDAY - 7:00 PM (PDT) ROOT SPORTS

[Voodoo]

Blevins got cut from the YMCA team.

Why do you think he’s playing for the Blazers, duh it’s because he couldn’t make the YMCA team tonight.

 

[Tince]

Every part of my brain knows that it would be best if we lost that game, but my emotions fully took over as I was watching that Laker meltdown, and I loved it!

 

[Voodoo]

Anybody miss that other CJ guy?

Absofreakinglutly not.

 

[Cugel]

It's funny how much fight and team effort counts when all is said and done. It cannot be discounted.

 

[wizenheimer]

I hope that's our last win of the season.

need two more against New Orleans

 

[blazerfan11]

First game I have watched even part if in two years, and a great game to choose to watch. Ant was on fire, and the team ran. Fun game to watch, id nothing else this team is at least entertaining unlike the last four iterations.

Good passing by both guards down the stretch. Instead of the usual holding the ball.

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

Anybody miss that other CJ guy?

McCallum? I think he was a British movie star in the 60s. Liked him in The Prisoner.

Oh wait, that was David.

Nevermind.

 

[OneSport3]

 

[TBpup]

McCallum? I think he was a British movie star in the 60s. Liked him in The Prisoner.

Oh wait, that was David.

Nevermind.

'The Invisible Man'

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

Oh, this is doubly special now.

 

[illmatic99]

Beating LA at Moda always feels good.

Beating LA at Moda with our 4th string team while trying to tank.... Just hits different

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

F
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C
K

 

[TBpup]

If CJ is still here, I don't think we win this game.

 

[Cugel]

That tweet by Magic makes this, maybe, the best win of the year.
Oh...and fuck the Lakers.

 

[illmatic99]

about to rewatch this with the laker broadcast

 

[OneSport3]

CJ Elleby plays a team high 43 minutes. This game couldn’t get weirder.

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

'The Invisible Man'

Yes, you are correct, that other CJ was an invisible man tonight.

New CJ, on the other hand, was definitely visible.

 

[illmatic99]

If CJ is still here, I don't think we win this game.

man, he's gone already, no need to do drivebys on the guy

 

[tlongII]

Sooo sorry for @THE HCP

 

[hoopsjock]

LMAO

Blazers Uprise Postgame Show
Blazers 107, Lakers 105
The tank is put on hold for a game as the Blazers clown the Lakers who had both AD and LeBron in this one. The young Blazers just wanted this one more. Come talk about the game and the trade deadline!

 

[blazerfan11]

Tanking will only get harder if Hart joins the team. We will find out tomorrow!

 

[e_blazer]

Joe Cronin is like, what more do I have to do to this roster to lose?

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

man, he's gone already, no need to do drivebys on the guy

Oops, sorry. I’ll try to do better.

 

[OneSport3]

Enjoy.

 

[Scalma]

Brown might be a rotation player before 2024.

 

[blazerfan11]

Brown might be a rotation player before 2024.

If he can defend well enough, dunk when possible and hit some three-pointers, that would do it.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

CJ Elleby plays a team high 43 minutes. This game couldn’t get weirder.

Minutes played is a real measurement of how a coach values a player.

 

[wizenheimer]

I was cracking up when a lineup of Smith-Elleby-Blevins-Brown-Watford won the first 5 minutes of the 4th Q and built a 7 point lead. Laker mystique my ass

* Simons is better as a scoring guard than a play-making guard. His floor game is quite a bit better when he's searching for his own offense than when he's running the team. I still question how Dame & Ant will sync, but there's a chance it will be better than Dame/CJ. Hart may be a good 3rd guard in that rotation

* I was skeptical about Winslow, but I think he might be an effective 7th or 8th man in a rotation. He's a solid ball-handler and passer, just not a shooter. But perhaps more important is he's a physical perimeter defender against guys like Lebron and Kawhi. Greg Brown is showing some upside as well

* I haven't watched much of the Lakers but my god they have shitty ball security. 21 turnovers and Westbrook didn't play. DSJ was a real ball hawk around Laker carelessness

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Jon Heder was in the crowd

THE Napoleon Dynamite

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

We out-rebounded them by three, 10 less turnovers and we even shot more free throws!