Game Thread GAME# 67: BLAZERS @ CLIPPERS - MARCH 12, 2019 - TUESDAY, 7:30 PM, NBCSNW

[BonesJones]

So we have HCP impersonating McCollum eh? Well i can enjoy that as we have had bonesjones impersonating Dan Morang in this forum. One chose a talented NBA player and the other chose a Blazer insider. Zing pop bam!!!

J/k

Why would I impersonate him?! Damn!

 

[tlongII]

Last night was another reason I've never been in favor of trading CJ. There just aren't many guys like that out there. He can have an offensive explosion at any time.

 

[illmatic99]

This is just an absurd split of the double by Dame.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

McCollum DOES NOT have a max contract and neither does Lillard.

Learn your Blazers son

Doesnt Dame have a Max contract for the year he signed it? The “max” keeps going up, but I thought he was at or near it when they signed him a few years ago.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

This is just an absurd split of the double by Dame.

Yeah that was pretty sick.

 

[CupWizier]

Doesnt Dame have a Max contract for the year he signed it? The “max” keeps going up, but I thought he was at or near it when they signed him a few years ago.

His contract is tied to the cap, but he left some money on the table. Off the top of my head i believe he could have been 30% of the cap and he took either 25% or 27.5% depending on who you read.

 

[illmatic99]

Doesnt Dame have a Max contract for the year he signed it? The “max” keeps going up, but I thought he was at or near it when they signed him a few years ago.

He does. He got the max when he extended. Even hit the Rose rule checkmarks and got more because he made All NBA. AD didn't even get it from his draft class.

 

[CupWizier]

Why would I impersonate him?! Damn!

Don't know.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Doesnt Dame have a Max contract for the year he signed it? The “max” keeps going up, but I thought he was at or near it when they signed him a few years ago.

His contract is tied to the cap, but he left some money on the table. Off the top of my head i believe he could have been 30% of the cap and he took either 25% or 27.5% depending on who you read.

He does. He got the max when he extended. Even hit the Rose rule checkmarks and got more because he made All NBA. AD didn't even get it from his draft class.

Cup got this one right. He did hit the Rose rule checkmarks as yuyuza said, but rather than taking a contract starting at 30% of the cap, he only took 27.5%. So more than the normal 5th-year-player max, but less than his personal max.

 

[illmatic99]

Cup got this one right. He did hit the Rose rule checkmarks as yuyuza said, but rather than taking a contract starting at 30% of the cap, he only took 27.5%. So more than the normal 5th-year-player max, but less than his personal max.

It's semantics. A 5yr 140 mil vs 5yr ~145 deal. Hardly meaningful. The key contract thing that we need to recount with Dame is his 5th yr not being a player option.

 

[julius]

I'm sure it was answered in the thread but I don't want to read through it all (and I didn't listen to the game, only had a chance to listen to some of the highlights), but where was Brian Wheeler?

 

[CupWizier]

It's semantics. A 5yr 140 mil vs 5yr ~145 deal. Hardly meaningful. The key contract thing that we need to recount with Dame is his 5th yr not being a player option.

It's not semantics it's a fact. It's not a max contract.

 

[Eastoff]

I'll echo @BonesJones in saying that I don't believe for a second that CJ legitimately took TPFKAHCP's phone and responded to posts.

Did you read the grammar and punctuation? John fooled me!!

Edit, before it said John filled me. I think I was channeling THE MRS.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I'll echo @BonesJones in saying that I don't believe for a second that CJ legitimately took TPFKAHCP's phone and responded to posts.

That was CJ.

 

[wizenheimer]

after all the talk about the genius of Doc Rivers, he sure took a damn long time to respond to CJ going nuclear in the 4th. He stayed with his base defense and didn't even change defensive assignments until CJ had aleady scored 18 points in the Q. Then he put Beverly on CJ and Beverly immediately fouled CJ on a three. You'd think a genius coach would have adjusted sooner

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

CJ says fuck you sportstwo.com

I hope he says it after every game.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

That was CJ.

If you say so. I've never seen him call people "sir" on Twitter as was done in several of those posts; doesn't seem likely that he'd reserve that mannerism for interacting with random message board peeps.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

I see I am going to have a problem with you. HERE WE GO BROWNIES HERE WE GO

CJ, why didn't you tell him Browns just signed Odell Beckham?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

If you say so. I've never seen him call people "sir" on Twitter as was done in several of those posts; doesn't seem likely that he'd reserve that mannerism for interacting with random message board peeps.

And @ThePosterFormerlyKnownAsTheHCP doesn't have a clue what naysayers means. He thinks it means a talking horse.

 

[CupWizier]

So we have a player averaging the following numbers since the all star break and is probably the most criticized Blazer player on this board.

24ppg
4.3 rpg
3.5apg
1.7 topg
49% from the field
40% from the 3

I'd say those are some pretty awesome numbers.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

So we have a player averaging the following numbers since the all star break and is probably the most criticized Blazer player on this board.

24ppg
4.3 rpg
3.5apg
1.7 apg
49% from the field
40% from the 3

I'd say those are some pretty awesome numbers.

And 0 dunks.

 

[andalusian]

And @ThePosterFormerlyKnownAsTheHCP doesn't have a clue what naysayers means. He thinks it means a talking horse.

Now that's a quality burn right there, sir.

 

[Hoopguru]

So we have a player averaging the following numbers since the all star break and is probably the most criticized Blazer player on this board.

24ppg
4.3 rpg
3.5apg
1.7 apg
49% from the field
40% from the 3

I'd say those are some pretty awesome numbers.

If he was in the East...All Star more than likely..

 

[CupWizier]

And 0 dunks.

I actually think he has had a dunk or two during that stretch. If he didn't, then he should be relegated to the bench.

 

[Cugel]

Enes finished his game well too

Hope you watched the whole game sir. Hope my first half didn't make you lose faith in us.

I sure did and the 4th quarter was great fun to watch
I am a bit of a negative nelly as the wife likes to say

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Notice el prez is staring at booty again...hey el prez….is that a Kemp number 40 jersey?

yep

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

lot of pics on the BFLA IG account

https://www.instagram.com/blazerfansla/

 

[PtldPlatypus]

So we have a player averaging the following numbers since the all star break and is probably the most criticized Blazer player on this board.

24ppg
4.3 rpg
3.5apg
1.7 topg
49% from the field
40% from the 3

I'd say those are some pretty awesome numbers.

Don't undersell him--he's actually shooting 46% from 3 since the all-star break.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

So we have a player averaging the following numbers since the all star break and is probably the most criticized Blazer player on this board.

24ppg
4.3 rpg
3.5apg
1.7 topg
49% from the field
40% from the 3

I'd say those are some pretty awesome numbers.

I could also point out, however, that while his overall production has taken an uptick, so has his inconsistency.

There are a few different ways to calculate volatility of performance, and by any measure, his performance since the all-star break has been much more up-and-down than it had been prior. Even using the larger standard deviation generated by looking only at his post-all-star game-logs, his variances from the mean are huge in comparison.

 

[noknobs]

I hope he says it after every game.

He's said it after quite a few games this year, but it always falls on deaf ears.