Game Thread GAME# 81: BLAZERS @ NUGGETS - APRIL 9, 2018 - MONDAY, 6:00 PM (PST), NBCSNW

[Chris Craig]

Let's hope he's horribly ineffective...

Not suprising. Guys always return against us and have career nights.

 

[Driew]

Not suprising. Guys always return against us and have career nights.

Not really this season though. If anything we've had a lot of luck with players missing games against us.

 

[kjironman1]

Not suprising. Guys always return against us and have career nights.

Well. Ed Davis is coming back also. So there is that right?

 

[Chris Craig]

Well. Ed Davis is coming back also. So there is that right?

You saying he going to have a career night...nice

 

[DDolla]

I think the Blazers will try to get this one tonight so they can rest up against Utah

 

[Labinot41]

I think the Blazers will try to get this one tonight so they can rest up against Utah

Blazers can't rest if Utah wins against Golden State

 

[Scalma]

I think the Blazers will try to get this one tonight so they can rest up against Utah

A win tonight doesn’t necessarily lock up the third seed. I think it does lock up Home court though. I personally don’t care about either lol.

 

[SIeepwalker]

How is it we have two of the most unorthodox shooting forms in our top-7 players?

Wait, who's the other o--... oh

 

[SIeepwalker]

More likely it’s Evan “Curveball” Turner........

It's knuckleball, get it right !

 

[Lanny]

I noticed you didn't put the Blazers in the poll. So i didn't vote.

And I noticed there was no selection for None of the Above listed so I didn't vote, either.

 

[Lanny]

Talkin Ball pretty much agreed with quite a few on here. CJ is tired. Aminu is tired. Nurk is tired. Collins is tired. Pat is tired. Turner is tired. I can see it in every shot they take. Pretty much the whole team is burnt out. Front of the rim clankers and flat shooting all night.
I'm going with throw the end of the bench in against Denver and sit the starters. Get em home and win one against Utah if you can. Crazy thing about the whole situation is how many games they lost this year against teams they should have beat. Remember the Blake Griffin buzzer beater loss? How about the meltdown in Utah in OT? Then there was the Home loss to Memphis by a point. Home loss to Brooklyn in the last seconds. At Minny by one point. The Spurs beat them at home on a last second shot. How about that loss in Boston that they essentially gave away? Not to mention the loss to Boston here that they had also. Then there is the losses most recent to Memphis and Dallas.
Every team every year loses it's share but i swear this year has been riddled with close losses that could have gone the other way. It's a testament to the team for pretty much always being in a position to win (Defense does that), but it also kind of makes the situation they are in now all that much more difficult to accept.

This team when healthy has shown it can beat any team in the league. Not sure about winning a series at this point because of health issues. I don't like that they didn't have the luxury to sit Dame the rest of the way after rolling an ankle. They made a decision to pull Moe and get his surgery done. I still back that but almost immediately Davis and Lillard get hurt. Left the team reeling and because they had to rely so heavily on starters again this year they are now burnt to the point where a day off isn't enough.

When the regular season is over and all is said and done the NBA will schedule the playoffs. There is usually a little unrealized benefit in being a small market team. The Blazers usually do not get opening day billing to start the playoffs. They usually get second day and the benefit of an extended first round series because the NBA wants to have it's big names on the rolling schedule. With any luck the Blazers will again get this extra day before the start of the playoffs. And the 2 games in 5 days to start the playoffs.

One other nice thing about this years playoffs is that Dallas won't be in them and the Rockets and Spurs don't look to be a first round matchup at this point. I always have had a problem with the way the Spurs could spend essentially the entire month of April and even as much as the first two weeks of May in Texas when they pulled Dallas or the Rockets in the first and second rounds. Then even getting OKC in there is not really travel now is it? It would be even worse if the Clippers and Lakers were ever good at the same time and had to play each other. NBA needs to get a team back in Seattle ASAP. Travel most definitely has it's effect on the Blazers by the end of the season.

It has now been eleven days since Mo Harkless had his surgery. Two weeks when the season is done. He will get a few days before the start of playoffs. I'm wondering how he will respond? Game shape is elusive but he is young and i'm betting playoff atmosphere will carry him a bit. Getting home court would also help him stretch out that rehab time maybe? Can he make it back for a first round series? Sure could use him.

Like i said to start this all off the team looks like it is playing very tired to me. Stotts doesn't seem to do rest schedules so i would bet he will continue to drive the team the way he always does. So the Denver game might be a real difficult game to watch as both CJ and Lillard try to hero their way to a win and Aminu keeps shooting them right out of it. Then look for limited minutes from guys with plenty of steam like Baldwin because that just seems to be the way Stotts does it.

Kjironman is a fan!!!

Can't throw in the third string. This game is too important.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

It's knuckleball, get it right !

Actually you’re supposed to say, “Get the pitches right, then post.”

 

[Driew]

Blazers can't rest if Utah wins against Golden State

Well if we win against Denver we're guaranteed either 3 or 4--home court advantage. And depending on what we know of the seeding come game time tomorrow we could easily decide to throw the game for a better matchup at the 4.

Edit: Right? haha

 

[BonesJones]

I voted "Golden State" because they've already won, so no one I hate as a player would get their first ring.

 

[Boob-No-More]

I voted "Golden State" because they've already won, so no one I hate as a player would get their first ring.

Swaggy Pee?

BNM

 

[Labinot41]

Well if we win against Denver we're guaranteed either 3 or 4--home court advantage. And depending on what we know of the seeding come game time tomorrow we could easily decide to throw the game for a better matchup at the 4.

Edit: Right? haha

I guess you right, i would prefer Okc or new orleans instead of San Antonio or minnesota (with jimmy)

 

[Driew]

I guess you right, i would prefer Okc or new orleans instead of San Antonio or minnesota (with jimmy)

Agreed--although Melo, Westbrook, and PG13 scare me with the refs haha

 

[THE HCP]

Dame is ready

 

[Boob-No-More]

Agreed--although Melo, Westbrook, and PG13 scare me with the refs haha

Only one ball, and with the game on the line, it will be this one freezing out his teammates:



BNM

 

[Darkwebs]

 

[Boob-No-More]

Ed is a high energy player and has a couple weeks of pent up energy to unleash on DEN tonight!

BNM

 

[H.C.]

Go Blazers.

 

[Chris Craig]

GO BLAZERS! Beat the Thuggets!

 

[SIeepwalker]

ED SCORES 50 !!

 

[Jade Falcon]

Two things:

1) I think we'll lose this one tonight. This team has done little as of late to convince me otherwise.

2) I am NOT answering that poll. They can ALL go fuck themselves as far as I'm concerned. REALLY don't want to see GS win....if I HAD to pick, probably Houston. And that leaves a really bad taste in my mouth saying that.

 

[Jade Falcon]

Ed in tonight? YES!

GO BLAZERS! Smack people around with your massive cock, Ed!

 

[H.C.]

If Portland is going to come away with a W tonight.
They must run Denver off the 3 point line.
If that happens a W is assured... If it doesn't... Well Portland's going to lose.

 

[BlazerBeav]

Please, please, please, please, please show up tonight Blazers!

 

[H.C.]

I want to see a 30/30 game from Nurk!

 

[Jade Falcon]

"WITH METRO PCS, YOU GET FAST...." Fuck you. Mute.