Game Thread GAME# 66: WARRIORS @ BLAZERS - MARCH 9, 2018 - FRIDAY, 7:00 PM (PST), NBCSNW

[handiman]

I honestly think ed is the hometown discount kinda guy. Maybe not a lot but he isn’t gonna squeeze us for every penny, he wants to be here.

After Ed signed with us for relatively cheap and was playing great basketball, he was asked if he felt underpaid. He was very clear that he feels he's paid quite well to do something, and in an environment, that he enjoys. He seems as grounded off the court as he is on it. Wait, that sounded like an insult.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Ed.

Davis.

 

[handiman]

Another benefit of this win is that the Blazers win the season series 2-1, and therefore have the tiebreaker in the event that both teams end the season with the same records......

We need to run the ol' 6-players trick play, snag our free point, and see if we can get the league thinking tie breakers come before overall record.

 

[KingSpeed]

The teams over .500 we play are Heat Monday, Cleveland Thursday, Clippers Sunday, Rockets tuesday 20th, Boston friday the 23rd, Thunder sunday the 25th, NO tuesday the 27th, Clippers friday the 30th, houston thurday the 5th, spurs saturday the 6th, nuggets monday the 9th, utah wensday the 11th. So we have a ton of games against teams that are good regardless if you think we are better then them or not we have a tough remaining schedule.

Merely being "over .500" makes you a good team? Warriors are over .500 and they weren't much of a threat. I'm talking about elite teams. When do we face an elite team? Seems like we only have 3 more games against teams with a better record than us. So why did people say we have a difficult schedule?

 

[H.C.]

So, after losing the season series to Portland 1-2.
Think KD will request a trade this off season?

 

[Jade Falcon]

https://streamable.com/qda5z

Fuck Durant. Slither your ass back to that cesspool you call the Bay Area.

 

[Cippy91]

 

[DameLill379]

Beautiful team win. It got scary there for a while in the third but we pulled together and adjusted greatly. Man, when this team puts it all together .. WATCH OUT because they can fucking BALL. I love this streak and I hope we keep it alive against Miami. Just a fantastic win. Curry or not. You know, I keep hearing idiots outside of our fan base say “OH BUT THEY WONT DO IT IN THE PLAYOFFS. FIRST ROUND EXIT AHAHA.” “THEY ARE THE WEST VERSION OF THE RAPTORS.”

Man, this team isn’t seeing no first round exit if we are the third seed. We’ll be playing a division opponent most likely and we faired well against all our division opponents this year. Hell, we may even see the Pelicans. No Cousins. We can do this shit. It will get tough if we see the Rockets or Warriors...which we will have to eventually if we proceed to move on in the playoff bracket... but I’m confident this team has a chance every time out there if they all play hard. ON TO WIN #10 !!!! #RIPCITYONTHEYASS

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

KD is a douche.

 

[riverman]

KD is a douche.

We made Greg Oden proud tonight!

 

[SportsAndWhine]

Hardhat Bros Zach & Ed: 22 points, 19 rebounds on 9-11 shooting.

 

[42N8Bounce]

Awesome!

Can you update your "win against teams with a worse record/lose to teams with a better record" prediction graph?

Here you go -



There's always unexpected wins, and unexpected losses. But wow. The trajectory they're on right now is amazing. If they beat the teams with worse records, and lose to teams with better records, they'll finish 53-29.

 

[LayneStaley]

Pussy

 

[LayneStaley]

Hardhat Bros Zach & Ed: 22 points, 19 rebounds on 9-11 shooting.

“The Closers”

 

[riverman]

Bench mob!!!!

 

[SportsAndWhine]

Bench mob!!!!

I hesitate to say our bench is Really Good™, but... I think they're really good!

 

[riverman]

Ed Davis....6 man of the year folks!

 

[ripcityboy]

KD is a douche.

If he really holds something against us for picking him second....

 

[LayneStaley]

We are a solid SF away from big things.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Everyone on our team played well - it was really neat to see that.

 

[SportsAndWhine]

“The Closers”

Ed "Hardhat" Davis & Zach "Lunchpail" Collins.

 

[SportsAndWhine]

Everyone on our team played well - it was really neat to see that.

I agree! Funny to say "Total Team Effort!" in a game where CJ scores 30 and Dame scores 28.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

We are a solid SF away from big things.

Whether people want to believe it or not, we have solid SFs. They just aren't consistent enough yet and we may not be able to wait.

 

[SportsAndWhine]

Dan Marang... goddamn why is this dude on TV...

Because The FAN kept the wrong guy five years ago.

 

[hoopsjock]

We just need to take it one game at a time.

You shouldn't question anyone else's math skills when making comments like this.

 

[hoopsjock]

@KingSpeed is probably wondering why Portland isn't one of the choices in the poll.

 

[Darkwebs]

Blazers were absolutely on fire in the 4th; they made 8 out of 12 from downtown! Just incredible!

 

[42N8Bounce]

Some nice photos from the Blazers team page -

That was a good win.

 

[SportsAndWhine]

Sign of good leadership: when a player does a swag move, Dame will do their swag move back at them (see Ed Davis's flex chest bump with Dame)

 

[THE HCP]

What a great win by our boys. Bench was amazing! I absolutely LOVE Ed Davis. WHat a beast! Can’t wait to read this thread!