Luck of the draw?

[THE HCP]

Have we been looking coy this year playing against teams playing WITHOUT their best or one of their better players? I know we didn’t handle our business at home earlier in the season in this situation.
A friend of mine with the league sent me this today and was wondering what you guys thought.

Key players who have missed games vs. Portland this season:

Blake Griffin
Stephen Curry
Draymond Green
John Wall (2x)
Kawhi Leonard (2x)
James Harden
Jimmy Butler
Tony Parker (twice)
Mike Conley
Hassan Whiteside
Paul Millsap
Eric Bledsoe
Myles Turner (2x)
Serge Ibaka
Rudy Gay

 

[illmatic99]

Friend in the league? lol



This was yesterday.

Rudy Gay does not belong on that list. Come on now.

 

[Chris Craig]

Have we been looking coy this year playing against teams playing WITHOUT their best or one of their better players? I know we didn’t handle our business at home earlier in the season in this situation.
A friend of mine with the league sent me this today and was wondering what you guys thought.

Key players who have missed games vs. Portland this season:

Blake Griffin
Stephen Curry
Draymond Green
John Wall (2x)
Kawhi Leonard (2x)
James Harden
Jimmy Butler
Tony Parker (twice)
Mike Conley
Hassan Whiteside
Paul Millsap
Eric Bledsoe
Myles Turner (2x)
Serge Ibaka
Rudy Gay

Its not the Blazers fault those players were injured and not able to play. They just had\have to take advantage of that. Blazers still lost some of those games. I believe the Blazers can still beat a lot of those teams even with those guys playing.

 

[Boob-No-More]

Have we been looking coy this year playing against teams playing WITHOUT their best or one of their better players? I know we didn’t handle our business at home earlier in the season in this situation.
A friend of mine with the league sent me this today and was wondering what you guys thought.

Key players who have missed games vs. Portland this season:

Blake Griffin
Stephen Curry
Draymond Green
John Wall (2x)
Kawhi Leonard (2x)
James Harden
Jimmy Butler
Tony Parker (twice)
Mike Conley
Hassan Whiteside
Paul Millsap
Eric Bledsoe
Myles Turner (2x)
Serge Ibaka
Rudy Gay

I'd like to see that same list for all other Western Conference playoff teams, or at least the ones closest to us in the standings. It's not like Kawhi (and Conley, Millsap, Wall, Parker, etc.) have only missed games against us. Hell, Kawhii has only played in 9 games all season.

And, don't forget, other teams (SAS and OKC) have gotten to play against us without Dame as well. It works both ways.

BNM

 

[BonesJones]

Since we've lost to bad teams and have a propensity to get trapped, I don't think our record has benefitted.

 

[handiman]

I'd like to see that same list for all other Western Conference playoff teams

I've wondered the same thing for a while. It seems the past few years, star players have a high frequency of being out injured or rested against us. It's almost a sign of disrespect, like the league is saying we're not good enough to worry about, but just good enough to make them put in more effort than they want to. And they can grant us some cheap wins that'll give us a worse draft pick and still go nowhere in the playoffs.

But, without following other teams' day-to-day scheduling, maybe that's the perception of many fan bases?

 

[THE HCP]

Friend in the league? lol



This was yesterday.

Rudy Gay does not belong on that list. Come on now.

Said this as a joke homie. Thought I had shared my history with this guy before on here.

 

[H.C.]

What an awful post.
HCP has really lost something this year.

 

[Charcoal Filtered]

Said this as a joke homie. Thought I had shared my history with this guy before on here.

I was wondering how you got it. I would never joking quote Canzano.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Key Players who have missed games this season for the Blazers:
Damian Lillard
Greg Oden
Brandon Roy

Have we been looking coy this year playing against teams playing WITHOUT their best or one of their better players? I know we didn’t handle our business at home earlier in the season in this situation.
A friend of mine with the league sent me this today and was wondering what you guys thought.

Key players who have missed games vs. Portland this season:

Blake Griffin
Stephen Curry
Draymond Green
John Wall (2x)
Kawhi Leonard (2x)
James Harden
Jimmy Butler
Tony Parker (twice)
Mike Conley
Hassan Whiteside
Paul Millsap
Eric Bledsoe
Myles Turner (2x)
Serge Ibaka
Rudy Gay

 

[BonesJones]

What an awful post.
HCP has really lost something this year.

He's trying to act like we didn't break him this summer but he can't move past it. Now he babbles about the same stuff and is even quoting Jason Quick! And now rooks are invading! We broke him!!!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

He's trying to act like we didn't break him this summer but he can't move past it. Now he babbles about the same stuff and is even quoting Jason Quick! And now rooks are invading! We broke him!!!

Play nice.

 

[H.C.]

I'm not going to go back and check the history, but wasn't @HCP one of those who agreed with Curry when asked about the ease of the 2015 championship run?
You know when the Warriors played every injured team?
HCP was one of those who said. 'You can only play whos in front of you'.

Now HCP starts a thread like this?
Guess we all have an agenda. HCP's is to convert every Blazer fan to a Laker fan.

 

[riverman]

Have we been looking coy this year playing against teams playing WITHOUT their best or one of their better players? I know we didn’t handle our business at home earlier in the season in this situation.
A friend of mine with the league sent me this today and was wondering what you guys thought.

Key players who have missed games vs. Portland this season:

Blake Griffin
Stephen Curry
Draymond Green
John Wall (2x)
Kawhi Leonard (2x)
James Harden
Jimmy Butler
Tony Parker (twice)
Mike Conley
Hassan Whiteside
Paul Millsap
Eric Bledsoe
Myles Turner (2x)
Serge Ibaka
Rudy Gay

How is the Big Baller?

 

[BonesJones]

Play nice.