Matthews "We're not feared right now"

[blue32]

“We’re not feared right now. I don’t think teams come into the Moda Center and fear a game. I don’t think teams know that when they wake up and have shootaround at their place that the Trail Blazers are in town. That was like that earlier in the season. We’ve got to get that back and we can.”


Taken from : http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2015/02/03/morning-shootaround-feb-3-2/#blazers

 

[blue32]

Oops mods, please delete the "a" in the thread title, my bad, phone typo.

 

[MAS RipCity]

I want to say it started right after Christmas, but we were putting up a shit ton of 3's. I'll be the first to admit, the 3's taken against the Sixers and Knicks were fine, because they were open and came off of dribble-penetration. Once we had success shooting so many from downtown, everyone on the squad fell in love with the shot and that's when I really started to worry. It's even worse at home, because I feel like we go for the home run shot way to often, trying to ignite the crowd into a frenzy, rather than working the clock and beating the defense with movement, precision, and execution.

Go back to playing that way and teams will start to fear us.

 

[BlazerWookee]

Oops mods, please delete the "a" in the thread title, my bad, phone typo.

Mods, please change to "We ain't a'feared nohow."

 

[riverman]

All this changes with the return of Rolo and Kaman coming in off the bench. Now Meyers can actually sub in for Lamarcus and hold his own most of the time.

 

[riverman]

I predict Dame will not shoot 28% from deep this month. Shots are due to start falling again

 

[KingSpeed]

I want to say it started right after Christmas, but we were putting up a shit ton of 3's. I'll be the first to admit, the 3's taken against the Sixers and Knicks were fine, because they were open and came off of dribble-penetration. Once we had success shooting so many from downtown, everyone on the squad fell in love with the shot and that's when I really started to worry. It's even worse at home, because I feel like we go for the home run shot way to often, trying to ignite the crowd into a frenzy, rather than working the clock and beating the defense with movement, precision, and execution.

Go back to playing that way and teams will start to fear us.

We've always shot lots of threes and they usually come from movement, precision, and execution, usually starting with LaMarcus getting the ball in the post. We're a good three point shooting team. We're in a slump but we should through it. In the meantime, LaMarcus has been dominating. So when the other guys get it going, we'll be fine. Tonight will be a good win for us.

 

[Strenuus]

I predict Dame will not shoot 28% from deep this month. Shots are due to start falling again

Unfortunately, the law of averages is a myth. It's all independent events, there's no real 'due'. Though, it's highly unlikely he'll continue this trend.

Damn you stats class for taking away my fun!!

 

[Strenuus]

We've always shot lots of threes and they usually come from movement, precision, and execution, usually starting with LaMarcus getting the ball in the post. We're a good three point shooting team. We're in a slump but we should through it. In the meantime, LaMarcus has been dominating. So when the other guys get it going, we'll be fine. Tonight will be a good win for us.

Crap...

 

[KingSpeed]

If a player shoots 70% from three in the first month of the season, he does not shoot it that way the rest of the season. He always regresses to the mean. Doesn't it happen the other way around? That means Batum is about to dominate, lol.