Interested to hear the Lillard/McCollum excuses by this board

[blue9]

That all sounds well and good....but Stotts will still play Turner if he can. ET must go.

Regardless of our injuries, Terry's coaching deficiencies were on full display. With proper coaching all of those games were winnable, and yet we won none because of coaching decisions.

 

[Strenuus]

lol.

"What excuse does Dame have?"

I don't know, seperated ribs and still trying to carry a team that overachieved?

Now CJ? Yes, CJ fucked up. I still want him traded.

But the way I see it, without Dame all year, you don't get to bitch tonight, so it's kind of weird.

I'll never doubt Dame. That's the smart thing to do.

The other is to know facts. Like separated ribs. But that goes against the narrative people want to push. Which is sad, it mirrors society a bit. But I digress.

 

[Strenuus]

Regardless of our injuries, Terry's coaching deficiencies were on full display. With proper coaching all of those games were winnable, and yet we won none because of coaching decisions.

Also facts.

Hopefully this sweep gets Stotts fired. That'll be the best thing to happen from this.

 

[BoomChakaLaka]

This team just blew 3 consecutive 17+ point second half leads

Just wasted a 25 point Meyers Leonard 1st half

I'm not sitting here saying we should have won the series....but how do you lose all 3 of those games? Especially this one? They need more help? Meyers had 25 points in the f-ing first half.

Inexcusable.

Lillard wants superstar respect. I've never seen a superstar do what he just did.

Simple:

Aminu + Harkless + Turner [you don’t score with them, they play lack-luster defense, they turn the ball over, they don’t rebound AND they don’t score.

This loss to GS had nothing to do with Dame, CJ or Leonard.

 

[BoomChakaLaka]

Kerr said it best on his post game /

Dame and CJ are fantastic . You don’t break them up. This entire playoffs made things our issues crystal clear: WING and an active PF

 

[TBpup]

Kerr said it best on his post game /

Dame and CJ are fantastic . You don’t break them up. This entire playoffs made things our issues crystal clear: WING and an active PF

....and a coach who's Game 1 strategy is not to leave Curry wide open.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Lillard and McCollum are so bad I think they should be benched for the next game.

 

[blue9]

....and a coach who's Game 1 strategy is not to leave Curry wide open.

...and a coach who knows how to handle a defense that double-teams his PG.
...and a coach who recognizes when his 3-guard line-up is getting killed on the offensive board.
...and
...and
...and

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

Kerr said it best on his post game /

Dame and CJ are fantastic . You don’t break them up. This entire playoffs made things our issues crystal clear: WING and an active PF

Yeah Kerr is like please keep all this group together so we can keep destroying them every year.

 

[MarAzul]

Also facts.

Hopefully this sweep gets Stotts fired. That'll be the best thing to happen from this.

Well that would be a hell of a step forward.

 

[BlayZa]

as much as that post hurts, its hard to argue n quantify

im literally amazed at the leads we've thrown away in this series and at some points the lack of heart, fire and passion i saw.

It's not like that it was all the post season, but this series, its like GSW just was inside our head and even with a lead we were like 'well, ya know terry gonna put in Evan any sec, so there goes 8-10, all they need is a few key more buckets and there goes the lead' and that's kinda what happened in some instances.

some of the lineups we had on the court whilst in the midst of losing large leads was just fuckin mind boggling.

i know dame was injured and CJ had a rough series, but as they go, we go. CJ and Dame had some fuckin horrific periods in this series - and that combined with pissing away every good lead pretty much sums it up.

overall tho, this post season was a huge success.

no nurk
half an enes
half a dame
playing turner lots of minutes
aminu doing god knows what

we were up against it and i think if anyone would have offered us a bump from 1st round sweep exit to WCF sweep exit, we'd take it with both hands.

hopefully we can do something with the ET and Meyers contracts and the 40m+ we're paying them. hopefully meyers trade value went up!

but if he's gonna finally play like that, well im happy to keep him. but, how likely is that?

 

[BlazerWookee]

And yet he's not wrong - not in any way, shape, or form.

Sure he is. He's a serial rabble-rouser with a talent for building straw men, and his sole purpose here is to troll for discord and then feign sincerity and play the victim. He's done it using the exact same M.O. in multiple forums using multiple monikers dating back at least to the Darius Miles/Mo Cheeks days at OLive.

 

[borim69]

I am sorry but since we started our playoff series in mid march where we were the 6th seed? and went all the way to the WCF? and you folks are bitching? Some of you weren't even born the last time we got here. So give the guys a break and be happy that we did. An amazing team we just could not pull off the 69 Mets no one can.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Trash brothers slogan is lame as fuck.

They were exposed by the best guard tandem in the league. No shame in that.

When you are considered the second best backcourt in the league, you have to be better than that.

 

[GDiama]

When you are considered the second best backcourt in the league, you have to be better than that.

Not really if the rest of the team is average at best. And with average I'm being generous.

 

[TBpup]

Dame gets at least a partial pass due to playing with separated ribs. That doesn't excuse the all to frequent turnovers but certainly some of the shooting.

CJ on the other hand....

Can someone find out what his shooting percentage was in the 4th quarter of this series? Seemed like he was decent to good early and then a bricklaying fool late. Perhaps that is not right which is why I'm inquiring.

 

[Sedatedfork]

They lost those games to a very good team. They have only been to the NBA Finals 5 straight years. I never feel like any lead is safe against the W’s. Blazers made some mistakes but I wouldn’t start trashing CJ and Dame. Without them we don’t even get to the WCF. So, what was your point again?

 

[Dutchman063]

Yeah Kerr is like please keep all this group together so we can keep destroying them every year.

LOL...you beat me to it

 

[bigbailes]

I preface this with the fact that yes, without Dame and CJ the Blazers would have never even sniffed the WCF, let alone the playoffs, BUT if you want to be considered a superstar and the 2nd best back court in the NBA, then you CANNOT give up those leads. It's a players league, and flat out they didn't make enough plays, especially Dame. He has to take this loss on him, hell you guys are giving him a pass for everything from game two on, but he wasn't good in the Denver series either. He looked disinterested after beating OKC, he wasn't the same guy. I'm not sure what was going on in head and maybe it was just hitting a wall mentally and/or physically but to give him a pass isn't right. Yes Aminu/Harkless were horrible and ET was a one man turnover machine. Not putting it all on Dame but he is the leader of this team and when they win, he gets the praise, when they lose, he has to shoulder the blame.

 

[Orion Bailey]

How many free throws did we miss in this series too? Im thinking 20+. What was the total margin of victory in points?