Laverne & Shirley Time! - Blazers @ Bucks GAME THREAD

[craigehlo]

Wesley finally coming alive.

 

[VenomXL]

Wesley and LA are going hard tonight, they need some teammates to join them.

 

[MickZagger]

Matthews the reason were in the game. 12 pts on 4-8 shooting.

 

[Driew]

I just love watching Armon play and develop as a player. You can see him improving already.

 

[ABM]

Wesley finally coming alive.

...and so are you.

 

[craigehlo]

We're actually getting some good looks tonight, but obviously not hitting many of them.

A steady diet of jumpers always bites us. Misses lead to fastbreaks and they don't generate many FT opportunities.

 

[Natebishop3]

Maggette is one of those guys that just irritates me. I hate his game.

 

[craigehlo]

...and so are you.

I'm looking for any signs of life. He and LMA are the two guys playing with hustle right now.

Rudy looks like he's scared to death of the ball.

 

[hasoos]

Nobody are hitting their jumpers , maybe we should start attacking the rim instead?

You can't attack the rim when you are a jump shooting team. That is the unfortunate reality.

 

[MickZagger]

Matthews with 12 straight points for us.

 

[craigehlo]

Maggette is getting to the paint with ease. They need to pick him up earlier.

 

[MickZagger]

Make that 14 straight.

 

[VenomXL]

Wesley!

Nice looking 3 on 1.

 

[alex42083]

Matthews is playing well. Good to see him come alive!

 

[Natebishop3]

At least the bench is bringing the effort tonight.

 

[VenomXL]

I hate Maggette SO much. Can we get him?

 

[craigehlo]

Maggette = Blazer killer

 

[Natebishop3]

Fuck you Maggette!

 

[Natebishop3]

Maggette = Blazer killer

He always has been.

 

[VenomXL]

Can't he just retire already?

Cunningham's jumper is NICE.

 

[ehizzy3]

johnson has played well. nate must have seen something he really didn't like in andre.

 

[craigehlo]

He always has been.

At least he's in the East now. Didn't the Bucks essentially get him for short-term contracts? Their bench would be brutal w/o him.

 

[Natebishop3]

I think as long as Dante is in the game, they should be looking for that mid-range jumper. He's automatic. I swear, I wonder what percentage he shoots on that shot.

 

[STOMP]

A steady diet of jumpers always bites us. Misses lead to fastbreaks and they don't generate many FT opportunities.

no it doesn't. Portland is a solid jump shooting team... they've many players who can drain. If they're hitting at the sort of rate they usually do the D plays up on the shooters which sets up their drives, cuts & post ups.

how do you think they've won at the rate they have the last couple years?

Wes looking solid

STOMP

 

[VenomXL]

Holy shit B-Roy.

 

[Natebishop3]

no it doesn't. Portland is a solid jump shooting team... they've many players who can drain. If they're hitting at the sort of rate they usually do the D plays up on the shooters which sets up their drives and cuts.

how do you think they've won at the rate they've posted the last couple years?

Wes looking solid

STOMP

You know what though, when the jumpers AREN'T falling is when we start to hear the old "we're a jump shooting team" stuff. When we're on, people love it.

 

[VenomXL]

You know what though, when the jumpers AREN'T falling is when we start to hear the old "we're a jump shooting team" stuff. When we're on, people love it.

Oh no. Then it's "fools gold".

 

[hasoos]

no it doesn't. Portland is a solid jump shooting team... they've many players who can drain. If they're hitting at the sort of rate they usually do the D plays up on the shooters which sets up their drives and cuts.

how do you think they've won at the rate they've posted the last couple years?

Wes looking solid

STOMP

Sure they have a lot of great shooters. But how have they done in the playoffs? It was just a day ago this team got creamed because their jumpers weren't falling and they had nothing to fall back on. Not just beat. But got their ass handed to them. Good teams have a paint game to fall back on. Good players start to get to the rim when their jumper isn't falling. When Portland's jumpers aren't falling, game over.

 

[craigehlo]

You know what though, when the jumpers AREN'T falling is when we start to hear the old "we're a jump shooting team" stuff. When we're on, people love it.

It's not that every shot needs to be a post up, but we take a lot of jumpers against the clock with pressure. I've got no problems with taking the wide open J, but that's the exception lately.

 

[Natebishop3]

It's not that every shot needs to be a post up, but we take a lot of jumpers against the clock with pressure. I've got no problems with taking the wide open J, but that's the exception lately.

That's why I miss Bayless, and why I hated trading him in the first place.