Game Thread GAME# 8: BLAZERS @ CLIPPERS - NOVEMBER 7, 2019 - THURSDAY, 7:30 PM, TNT

[B-Roy]

Part of me wonders how long Whiteside will be a Blazer.

To New York for Gibson/Portis works on Dec 15th. They kinda suck, but they'll probably give more effort on the court than Hassan.

Hassan and CJ make up almost half our payroll this year. Fucking hell.

 

[B-Roy]

I was kind of thinking that too. It reminds me of 2-3 years ago, where it was like they basically had to have Dame play out of his mind to be in ball games. It's a long season though, I still have hope they'll figure out somethings

He needs a Harden-esque run like Harden had at the begining of last year when the Rockets were injury riddled and losing games.

 

[blazerfan11]

Watching this team....Dame basically needs to go MVP mode and seek out his offense the entire game for this team to go above .500....

Simons is shooting the ball very well so far this season. Lillard does not need to do it all.

 

[blazerfan11]

Stotts's offense is terrible at getting the ball to the good shooters. In his scheme everyone is equal. You have Bazemore taking as many shots as Simons.

 

[julius]

This is a game where the only thing I'm interested in is seeing Simons having a good game.

 

[hoopsjock]

Weak ass foul call

 

[illmatic99]

God Damn, Baze. Stop jumping

 

[HailBlazers]

McCollum and Whiteside should be coming off the bench.

If only Collins and Nurk were healthy.

 

[illmatic99]

I can’t even knock Olshey on Whiteside it was a great try and he still will hopefully benefit us at the trade deadline.

Cut bait quick before he drags us down with his low energy/effort

 

[hoopsjock]

Bazemore fouls way too much. He's always getting us in the penalty.

 

[AldoTrapani]

Cut bait quick before he drags us down with his low energy/effort

Yea I think we definitely will. We’ll be Ight there will be a team out there that will love the combo of Whiteside and Bazemore to clear cap space for themselves

 

[DDolla]

McCollum and Whiteside should be coming off the bench.

They should be traded lol

 

[julius]

All things told, the fact they're only down 4 is pretty damned amazing.

 

[illmatic99]

Great defense Dame

 

[Chris Craig]

Only down 4

 

[James lamphear]

We playing a lot worst then the score indicates.

 

[Road Ratt]

Both teams shot terrible in the first quarter

 

[B-Roy]

Sense some frustration coming from Dame.

 

[B-Roy]

Clippers have 7 offensive rebounds already? Am I reading that right?

 

[blazerfan11]

Lillard obviously is in great playing form, but if he could get the offense running and a couple other guys scoring he'd be better off with his own scoring. He's forcing it and he doesn't need to .

 

[DDolla]

Both teams shot terrible in the first quarter

But the Clippers can just flip that switch and blow us out in a second.

 

[hoopsjock]

Clippers have 7 offensive rebounds already? Am I reading that right?

Seems right, our rebounding sucks since Collins went down.

 

[blazerfan11]

Clippers have 7 offensive rebounds already? Am I reading that right?

5 from Zubac. I suppose when Whiteside was in the game.

 

[KingSpeed]

This is a game where the only thing I'm interested in is seeing Simons having a good game.

He looks good so far. He's hustling to lose balls, had a great assist, got to the line. Loving Simons even though he missed a FT.

 

[Tince]

Not sure how the fact he's not playing much is a sign one way or the other.

We'll have to flag this for 5 years from now and see.

 

[illmatic99]

Sense some frustration coming from Dame.

he sees the season slipping. as i said when zach went down, this year will be his greatest test of leadership yet

 

[B-Roy]

WTF Baze??? Are you fucking kidding me???

 

[illmatic99]

holy hell what was that shot baze

 

[BonesJones]

I hate Bazemore's shot selection.

 

[blazerfan11]

How is that a foul by Simons? The other guy ran into him. BS.