Lillard's invisible performance

[HailBlazers]

Shocker.

 

[Strenuus]

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Shocker.

I was about to say that. LOL.

DAME SUCKS. (Watch, I'll get an auto like from Tunchi.) I think he has a program set up to like any post where Dame and Suck are in the same sentence... paragraph... post. And then has other words that could be as well.

 

[oldmangrouch]

I thought the expression was "tough ho I rode". ??

The next time HCP invites you for "catfishing", don't grab for your rod!

 

[blue32]

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Shocker.

Relax.

People should be able to have differing opinions and start dialogue about poor play/decision making without getting trashed by you white knights.


Dame is my favorite NBA player, but sometimes the decisions he makes out there are suspect for an all-star; and yes he did play like garbage last night, but yes he is the reason why we are here.

There is no shame in having a conversation about it. So chill out folks.

 

[dviss1]

This is getting ridiculous.

Lillard plays well, nobody says shit. Lillard plays poorly and people call him out.

The Clippers have literally made the call that they're going to let anyone else beat them except Dame and CJ. They are giving the rest of the team wide open shots because they don't want Dame to beat them. Aminu is getting wide open shots. Plumlee is being allowed to just stand at the foul line and find the open man while the Clips double and trap Lillard.

Yes, Dame took a few bad shots, but right now our offense is running through Plumlee because that's what the Clippers are giving us. There is a reason why Plums is getting so many dimes. The Clippers are gifting us free points right now. We should be thanking them, and Dame could be forcing things a lot more. He's allowing other players to shine.

The first 2 rules of Offense:

1. Don't wait for the Defense.

2. Take what the Defense gives you.

 

[Strenuus]

The next time HCP invites you for "catfishing", don't grab for your rod!

Heh... hehehehe.... HEHEHE.

 

[oldfisherman]

 

[Strenuus]

Relax.

People should be able to have differing opinions and start dialogue about poor play/decision making without getting trashed by you white knights.


Dame is my favorite NBA player, but sometimes the decisions he makes out there are suspect for an all-star; and yes he did play like garbage last night, but yes he is the reason why we are here.

There is no shame in having a conversation about it. So chill out folks.

Uhhh... he did fine with his decisions. 6 assists for being doubled the entire night means he made good decisions.

He probably had a half dozen good decisions that didn't come out on the box score cause he made a right read to a teammate.

You can have a discussion about it, that's fine. But he's doing fine.

He didn't shoot 33 shots and make 7... that would have been stupid.

He took what the defense gave him. So the discussion is about something (in your case decisions) that frankly isn't there.

Although, I will say... Sometimes he does rush his shot when he doesn't need to, and he has one or two "what?" plays. But everything else cancels it out. The guy is the leader, and he's showed it in more than just scoring... so I can handle those other plays that it seems others can't.

 

[dviss1]

You know what I love? I can click on a bullshit thread like this and see that most of the Forum has already SCHOOLED the shit out of it. I don't have to do one thing but simply read, enjoy, and post some general rules about Offense.

We're not soccer moms. We're optimists with high BBIQs.

Thanks for handling my light work.

 

[Natebishop3]

Uhhh... he did fine with his decisions. 6 assists for being doubled the entire night means he made good decisions.

He probably had a half dozen good decisions that didn't come out on the box score cause he made a right read to a teammate.

You can have a discussion about it, that's fine. But he's doing fine.

He didn't shoot 33 shots and make 7... that would have been stupid.

He took what the defense gave him. So the discussion is about something (in your case decisions) that frankly isn't there.

Although, I will say... Sometimes he does rush his shot when he doesn't need to, and he has one or two "what?" plays. But everything else cancels it out. The guy is the leader, and he's showed it in more than just scoring... so I can handle those other plays that it seems others can't.

He missed one or two layups because he was worried about Jordan, and he had two shots blocked.

Also he only had 2 turnovers.... and 6 assists.... so a 3-1 turnover ratio. So much for bad decision making....

 

[blue32]

Uhhh... he did fine with his decisions. 6 assists for being doubled the entire night means he made good decisions.

He probably had a half dozen good decisions that didn't come out on the box score cause he made a right read to a teammate.

You can have a discussion about it, that's fine. But he's doing fine.

He didn't shoot 33 shots and make 7... that would have been stupid.

He took what the defense gave him. So the discussion is about something (in your case decisions) that frankly isn't there.

Although, I will say... Sometimes he does rush his shot when he doesn't need to, and he has one or two "what?" plays. But everything else cancels it out. The guy is the leader, and he's showed it in more than just scoring... so I can handle those other plays that it seems others can't.

I can think of (3) crazy ass passes, (2) terrible 3-point shot bricks, and a various telegraphed layups.

Do I think hes terrible? No. Do I love Dame and realize he's the boss? Yes. Do I love his leadership? Yes.

Does he make stupid decisions sometimes? Yes. Can we talk about it on here and bitch and moan about it? Why not. He's elite and susceptible to criticism. It's how sports fans work, whether we're at a bar or on a forum.

If everyone just talked about the same thing you guys would just be in one big circle jerk and I can think of no one other than SLY that would like that.

 

[Cippy91]

Out of his 15 shots I literally only saw 4 or 5 bad shots and I can tell you what they were. The shot against Austin rivers, and three threes he took which were pretty poor shots. Here we go again though with calling out dame. It's really crazy. It's like nobody sees that he's the reason we are here and winning. If he was putting up ass shot after shot and we lost, then I would have something to say, until then move along

 

[Strenuus]

He missed one or two layups because he was worried about Jordan, and he had two shots blocked.

Also he only had 2 turnovers.... and 6 assists.... so a 3-1 turnover ratio. So much for bad decision making....

My post kinda contradicted itself in saying in a totalitarian way that he never makes a bad decision, and then said he did make a couple bad decisions. It's true, he can.

But he makes up for it with everything else... I can take a couple bad decisions if he does have that nice ast/to rate.

The ONLY thing I get on Dame is his rushing shot sometimes (especially if he's leaning)... but if we win, it doesn't matter.

If he scores 50 and we lose, then the 50 doesn't matter. The opposite is true if he sucks but we win, it doesn't matter. We won.

 

[dviss1]

He missed one or two layups because he was worried about Jordan, and he had two shots blocked.

Also he only had 2 turnovers.... and 6 assists.... so a 3-1 turnover ratio. So much for bad decision making....

The dissection continues.

 

[Strenuus]

I can think of (3) crazy ass passes, (2) terrible 3-point shot bricks, and a various telegraphed layups.

Do I think hes terrible? No. Do I love Dame and realize he's the boss? Yes. Do I love his leadership? Yes.

Does he make stupid decisions sometimes? Yes. Can we talk about it on here and bitch and moan about it? Why not. He's elite and susceptible to criticism. It's how sports fans work, whether we're at a bar or on a forum.

If everyone just talked about the same thing you guys would just be in one big circle jerk and I can think of no one other than SLY that would like that.

And we still won.

 

[Strenuus]

Out of his 15 shots I literally only saw 4 or 5 bad shots and I can tell you what they were. The shot against Austin rivers, and three threes he took which were pretty poor shots. Here we go again though with calling out dame. It's really crazy. It's like nobody sees that he's the reason we are here and winning. If he was putting up ass shot after shot and we lost, then I would have something to say, until then move along

Read my post earlier.

Give me a cookie.

 

[blue32]

And we still won.

Yeah we did, but this thread wasn't about that. It was created for a different discussion.

 

[blue32]

Out of his 15 shots I literally only saw 4 or 5 bad shots and I can tell you what they were. The shot against Austin rivers, and three threes he took which were pretty poor shots. Here we go again though with calling out dame. It's really crazy. It's like nobody sees that he's the reason we are here and winning. If he was putting up ass shot after shot and we lost, then I would have something to say, until then move along

"Calling out" and having a discussion about bad play for one game I believe are two different things.

I'd 'call out' Batum and LMA (back in the day), but I don't call out Dame. But I will discuss the results of his game after his game. Good or bad.

 

[Strenuus]

Yeah we did, but this thread wasn't about that. It was created for a different discussion.

Yet we still won.

And discussed why Dame still did well last night despite 4-15 shooting.

If Dame was invisible, how did he get 6 assists?

If Dame was invisible, how did he hit that 3 to pretty much seal the game?

 

[dviss1]

Yet we still won.

And discussed why Dame still did well last night despite 4-15 shooting.

In the playoffs.

 

[blue32]

Yet we still won.

And discussed why Dame still did well last night despite 4-15 shooting.

If Dame was invisible, how did he get 6 assists?

If Dame was invisible, how did he hit that 3 to pretty much seal the game?

I did not say he was invisible at all; that was the OP. I was adding to the discussion a tad, offering my take on portions of his bad (and good) play.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Relax.

People should be able to have differing opinions and start dialogue about poor play/decision making without getting trashed by you white knights.


Dame is my favorite NBA player, but sometimes the decisions he makes out there are suspect for an all-star; and yes he did play like garbage last night, but yes he is the reason why we are here.

There is no shame in having a conversation about it. So chill out folks.

You can have a discussion about this and when the points used to back one's opinion are inaccurate, prepare to read rebuttals....

Maybe if one of these guys made a positive thread, then threads like this wouldn't be jumped on as much.

Relax and make a positive thread about Dame.

 

[Cippy91]

"Calling out" and having a discussion about bad play for one game I believe are two different things.

I'd 'call out' Batum and LMA (back in the day), but I don't call out Dame. But I will discuss the results of his game after his game. Good or bad.

Then why does a lot of people on here constantly make dame posts? Why not aminu when he was playing like shit or cj mcollum? Nobody ever points out their bad games. Barely do I ever see a post of how good dame did in a game, I don't think I remember a lot of positive posts when he was averaging 30. When he does bad though, everybody comes out and wants to trash his play. What do you want the man to do? He's being trapped. He's not turning the ball over much and he's making the right passes. People refuse to look at that though, only checking whether or not the ball is going into the hoop. Tired of hearing it. For as much as I'm told I make excuses for dame, you guys make excuses just to call him out. There you go.

 

[Strenuus]

You can have a discussion about this and when the points used to back one's opinion are inaccurate, prepare to read rebuttals....

Maybe if one of these guys made a positive thread, then threads like this wouldn't be jumped on as much.

Relax and make a positive thread about Dame.

Nah, Blue32 is fine. He has a right to his opinion. I can see what he's talking about so I do see it. It's not negative...

Blue32 is my boy! I got what he was saying.

 

[Strenuus]

Then why does a lot of people on here constantly make dame posts? Why not aminu when he was playing like shit or cj mcollum? Nobody ever points out their bad games. Barely do I ever see a post of how good dame did in a game, I don't think I remember a lot of positive posts when he was averaging 30. When he does bad though, everybody comes out and wants to trash his play. What do you want the man to do? He's being trapped. He's not turning the ball over much and he's making the right passes. People refuse to look at that though, only checking whether or not the ball is going into the hoop. Tired of hearing it. For as much as I'm told I make excuses for dame, you guys make excuses just to call him out. There you go.

There were plenty about his 30 point games, but those were in the form of "See, he's an all star! Snubbed!" etc...

 

[Tunchi]

Relax.

People should be able to have differing opinions and start dialogue about poor play/decision making without getting trashed by you white knights.


Dame is my favorite NBA player, but sometimes the decisions he makes out there are suspect for an all-star; and yes he did play like garbage last night, but yes he is the reason why we are here.

There is no shame in having a conversation about it. So chill out folks.

Couldn't have said it better

 

[Strenuus]

I did not say he was invisible at all; that was the OP. I was adding to the discussion a tad, offering my take on portions of his bad (and good) play.

Fair enough. I can see where you're coming from.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Then why does a lot of people on here constantly make dame posts? Why not aminu when he was playing like shit or cj mcollum? Nobody ever points out their bad games. Barely do I ever see a post of how good dame did in a game, I don't think I remember a lot of positive posts when he was averaging 30. When he does bad though, everybody comes out and wants to trash his play. What do you want the man to do? He's being trapped. He's not turning the ball over much and he's making the right passes. People refuse to look at that though, only checking whether or not the ball is going into the hoop. Tired of hearing it. For as much as I'm told I make excuses for dame, you guys make excuses just to call him out. There you go.

It's called confirmation bias, on both sides. Those who have issues with Dame's decision making will see poor decisions. Those who have issues with Dame-bashing will see those more than threads that praise him.

We all have a tendency to see what we want to see, or what we expect to see.

 

[Strenuus]

It's called confirmation bias, on both sides. Those who have issues with Dame's decision making will see poor decisions. Those who have issues with Dame-bashing will see those more than threads that praise him.

We all have a tendency to see what we want to see, or what we expect to see.

Then what the hell is mine? I see both sides?! :MARIS61:

 

[Orion Bailey]

Find me one NBA player... hell find me one forum poster... Shit find me one HUMAN BEING that NEVER makes a bad decision. Ill start a thread about them!!!!

Nobody is perfect. Everyone has highs and lows. But when a person is mostly high, Why do some feel the need to kick when they are on a low?

Kick him while he is down, even though he is rarely down... great fandom! Its not a circle jerk to not care for this....Its realizing that we are all humans and accepting that nobody is perfect.

Why people just cant be happy with having one of the best Leaders in the NBA on this team...