Game Thread GAME# 69: ROCKETS @ BLAZERS - MAY 10, 2021 - MONDAY, 7:00, NBCSNW

[James lamphear]

If I was coaching I be disappointed in the defense right now.

 

[Hoopguru]

That Tate dude is a full back that can shoot the ball!

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Nice little sequence where Powell puts enough muscle into Olnyk to hold him until Nurk arrives. Once Nurk arrives, Powell finds and goes to the guy that Nurk left, in the blink of an eye.

 

[PCmor7]

Powell and CJ are losing to the Rockets by 16.

 

[DDolla]

Dame with 6 points… he need to step up

 

[James lamphear]

Well the thing is keeping them focus in the 3rd and get a big lead so Dame don't have to play the 4th. This where I think there getting better majority of those games lately.

 

[DDolla]

Norm is better than GT. Hope he re-sign

 

[Hoopguru]

DJ need to hit the weight room!

 

[Titan]

Oh come on Brooke, don’t jinx the McNuggets

 

[James lamphear]

We had 19 assist that half.

 

[KSF-ERIC]

Dame with 6 points… he need to step up

No. He needs to sit down. CJ and Norm got this.

 

[BlazerBeav]

That DJJ air ball is why he hasn’t been playing.

 

[KSF-ERIC]

Well the thing is keeping them focus in the 3rd and get a big lead so Dame don't have to play the 4th. This where I think there getting better majority of those games lately.

Knock on wood but we haven’t blown big leads this season. Seems in past seasons, it happened all the time.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

That DJJ air ball is why he hasn’t been playing.

I think it's more how he lets guys blow right by him.

 

[Hoopguru]

We better play hard D or it could get interesting.

 

[Hoopguru]

This quarter will tell us a lot about thier improvement.

 

[julius]

Knock on wood but we haven’t blown big leads this season. Seems in past seasons, it happened all the time.

Um, yes they did. They started the year off doing that at least twice.

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Lillard and CJ taking turns shooting threes and now we are only 10 ahead.

 

[James lamphear]

Look like we think we take the night off on the defense side of the ball tonight.

 

[B-Roy]

What are we even doing on defense?

 

[julius]

What are we even doing on defense?

They're just playing the only kind of defense that Stotts knows. Make more shots and outscore the opponent.

 

[Chris Craig]

They're just playing the only kind of defense that Stotts knows. Make more shots and outscore the opponent.

Well...it's working so far

 

[bobf]

Flagrant

 

[B-Roy]

I can’t tell if we are trying to switch everything. Seems like the whole team is confused as well.

 

[julius]

Well...it's working so far

Against the JV team.

 

[OneSport3]

I guess we can’t blame Melo for the shitty defense tonight. I wonder who we can blame…

 

[bobf]

Nurk is turning into Jokic. Never seen him so under control and deliberate in the paint.

 

[Hoopguru]

Dame, CJ & Powell reminds me of Run TMC
Hardaway, Richmond & Mullin.

 

[julius]

They counted that pass from Kanter (to DJJ) as an assist.

That's quite a liberal use of the phrase.

 

[James lamphear]

Seems like we are just playing with them.