Now that we confirmed Denver sucked

Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Register Log in
SharpesTriumph

SharpesTriumph

Well-Known Member
Joined
May 4, 2018
Messages
12,824
Likes
11,586
Points
113
The team that beat the Blazers 4 times in 6 games just got swept.

Does it change your opinion of the 2021 Blazers team?
 
I believed that shit Denver team should've been an easy playoff victory for their opponent.

Embarrassing the Blazers lost 4 times in 6 games to that team. I've never seen an easier playoff opponent in memory of my time as a fan back to 1989. Their second best player is coming off his rookie year, other forward can't shoot, and their starting guards are 9th men. Their second best player and another key starter were out the whole series.

Shit job by the Blazers coaching staff, shit job of the GM with roster construction having a full MLE hard cap addition getting DNP. Shit job on defense from CJ, Melo, Kanter while not even being average offensively. Shit job by Nurk getting in foul trouble and bitching about his role publicly during a season.

Dame, Powell, Simons and Roco are the only members of the franchise that were solid contributors.
 
2021 Blazers were always a team with very few quality wins IMHO. The playoffs always expose those squads.

Aaron Gordon being trash in the Suns series was a silver lining.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
The team that beat the Blazers 4 times in 6 games just got swept.

Does it change your opinion of the 2021 Blazers team?
Click to expand...
Depends on what you expected. Predicted 7th seed and first round exit here.
 
Maybe Barton was the issue. "Playoff Austin Rivers" is not bad at all.

Also maybe we should give respect to Phoenix who kicked the Laker's asses as well. They have won 7 games in a row
and none of them have been close.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
The team that beat the Blazers 4 times in 6 games just got swept.

Does it change your opinion of the 2021 Blazers team?
Click to expand...
No, just reinforces my view that the team as currently constructed will go nowhere and a full blow up should be seriously considered, and at least big changes should be made, and Olshey should be fired
 
Scalma said:
Rivers playoff career: 7 ppg on 40% shooting.
Click to expand...

Yeah well, I listened to a whole segment on the radio that discussed Rivers' playoff improvements. I guess they should have consulted with
Blazer fans first.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
I believed that shit Denver team should've been an easy playoff victory for their opponent.

Embarrassing the Blazers lost 4 times in 6 games to that team. I've never seen an easier playoff opponent in memory of my time as a fan back to 1989. Their second best player is coming off his rookie year, other forward can't shoot, and their starting guards are 9th men. Their second best player and another key starter were out the whole series.

Shit job by the Blazers coaching staff, shit job of the GM with roster construction having a full MLE hard cap addition getting DNP. Shit job on defense from CJ, Melo, Kanter while not even being average offensively. Shit job by Nurk getting in foul trouble and bitching about his role publicly during a season.

Dame, Powell, Simons and Roco are the only members of the franchise that were solid contributors.
Click to expand...
Agree on all points as well as your contributor list
 
WesleyMatthews said:
The team that beat the Blazers 4 times in 6 games just got swept.

Does it change your opinion of the 2021 Blazers team?
Click to expand...
Not really.
The '21 Blazers were not substantially different over the last 3-4 years. Some of the names have changed, but the foundation remained the same. The Stotts/CJ/Dame trio needed to be re-evaluated.

Also, I think you have to give the Suns a LOT of credit. They are a damn GOOD team. All the players fit really well together. Bridges is significantly under-rated player.
 
Denver looked to me like it took a lot of energy for them to beat us in 6 games....one being a double overtime game...sort of like when we beat them in 7 games and got swept in the conf finals......playing against the Suns on fumes.....has nothing to do with us being a bad team...has to do with the marathon to get to the finals and what it requires fitness wise.....this is new for the Nuggets to make a deep run this year and they are hobbled as well. Fact is the Suns are hot this season and they beat the Nuggets like a tin drum...Lakers as well. Impressive playoff run by them
 
The Denver/Portland series, and the subsequent Denver/Phoenix series showed a few things.

one of the glaring things was that the Blazers defense sucked still. But it also showed the Blazers have pieces that work, and pieces that don't.

The pieces that don't are CJ, Melo, Kanter and the coach.

So far they gotten rid of one of them, and hopefully 2 of the other 3 are gone too (or have their roles drastically changed).
 
I think it's always a bad idea to try to put wins and losses against various teams into some sort of mathematical formula like Po < D, D < Ph, therefore Po << Ph. There's too much variability in matchups and individual player performances for that to necessarily be true. I think that Jokic was MVP Jokic against the Blazers primarily because Nurkic couldn't keep from getting into foul trouble and the Blazers' backup options were Kanter (about the worst possible matchup is against Jokic is mobility impaired Kanter) or going small ball. Neither worked. Ayton was able to stay in the game and seems to have enough athleticism to really frustrate Jokic. I also think that the ability of the Denver scrub backcourt to be effective against the Blazers, but not against the Suns, had a bit to do with the fact that the Blazers guards had to spend more time doubling the Joker to try to slow him down. All of that said, I don't think the Blazers would necessarily have done as badly against the Suns as the Nuggets did, but they still would have lost. Changes are definitely needed.
 
reality is Denver was a pretender, not a contender. I don't think Murray would have changed that formula, but who knows...maybe

but as weak as Denver is compared to real contenders, Portland was weaker, and that wasn't just coaching. It's the talent of the roster and the mesh of the players on the roster. Billups or D'antoni wasn't going to guide the Blazers to a 2nd round win over the Suns. To think otherwise is delusion

Olshey-Stotts-CJ...they all need to be gone, but Portland sure appears to be only going 1/3 of the way thru the necessary changes...so next year, at this time, we'll be looking at another 1st round exit. Although if Powell leaves, maybe will be calculating the odds of moving into a top-4 lottery pick from the 13th slot
 
wizenheimer said:
reality is Denver was a pretender, not a contender. I don't think Murray would have changed that formula, but who knows...maybe

but as weak as Denver is compared to real contenders, Portland was weaker, and that wasn't just coaching. It's the talent of the roster and the mesh of the players on the roster. Billups or D'antoni wasn't going to guide the Blazers to a 2nd round win over the Suns. To think otherwise is delusion

Olshey-Stotts-CJ...they all need to be gone, but Portland sure appears to be only going 1/3 of the way thru the necessary changes...so next year, at this time, we'll be looking at another 1st round exit. Although if Powell leaves, maybe will be calculating the odds of moving into a top-4 lottery pick from the 13th slot
Click to expand...
This is so well said. I’m jealous of your ability to put your thoughts down in writing
 
It confirmed how portland needs a guy like Ayton. He was remarkable on keeping jokic in check w/o fouling. I mean jokic still did his thing of course. Portland also needs a veteran backup PG. You can't win without a backup PG. Neil is a moron to think Ant is a PG. Ant is about a close to a pure SG as you can get. It really hurt the team.
 
Cugel said:
It confirmed how portland needs a guy like Ayton. He was remarkable on keeping jokic in check w/o fouling. I mean jokic still did his thing of course. Portland also needs a veteran backup PG. You can't win without a backup PG. Neil is a moron to think Ant is a PG. Ant is about a close to a pure SG as you can get. It really hurt the team.
Click to expand...

CJ isn't a PG either. He is terrible at running the bench. Too much Mej. Too predictable.
 
Chris Craig said:
CJ isn't a PG either. He is terrible at running the bench. Too much Mej. Too predictable.
Click to expand...

This is what pisses me off when people say "Neil is a GM, you guys are just fans on a forum, if you think you know more blah blah blah"

A LOT of us were calling for a backup point guard before the season started. Why is it that we can see that Ant and CJ aren't point guards, clear as fucking day, but Neil's dumb ass can't get it through his skull?
 
Natebishop3 said:
This is what pisses me off when people say "Neil is a GM, you guys are just fans on a forum, if you think you know more blah blah blah"

A LOT of us were calling for a backup point guard before the season started. Why is it that we can see that Ant and CJ aren't point guards, clear as fucking day, but Neil's dumb ass can't get it through his skull?
Click to expand...

IDK. Before ANT and CJ became the Blazers back up point guards, Olshey did sign/ trade for a spate of back up point guards season after season that never worked out for the most part.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 1 (members: 0, guests: 1)
Back
Top