Game Thread PLAYOFFS: ROUND 1, GAME 2: BLAZERS @ GRIZZLIES - 4/22/15, WEDNESDAY, 5:00 PM (PST), TNT & KGW

[MickZagger]

Lillard if I ever hear you whine about not making an All Star team....

 

[blue9]

What time does the game start?

Sometime between October 30th and November 1st.

 

[PTBfanEST87]

Damn lets just make it close so LMA can see what he has

 

[KingSpeed]

We should run all our plays for Leonard

 

[santeesioux]

How did we just stop moving ball like we did earlier in the season? It's hard not to feel like Stotts lost the team somewhere

Anyone think there's a chance he's fired if this is as good as they play the last two games?

 

[Rhal]

That really looked like it was off memphis.

 

[MickZagger]

Hows that Memphis ball?

 

[LuckyShot]

That's what I've been proclaiming, but some people just can't see what's plain as day. Terry Stotts is the offensive version of Nate McMillan.

All I can see that Stotts did for our offense was let our players play with zero discipline, where Nate as the opposite. He was made them play too slow and cautious.Now the players have the green light to shoot any time, anywhere. Sometimes it works when they shoot the lights out, but when a team game plans to take away our top 2 options, the refs let them play physical, we shrink away and have NOTHING. Then on defense we just hope they miss enough shots for us to stay in it.

 

[KingSpeed]

Damn we should've gotten a better shot at the end there.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Anyone think there's a chance he's fired if this is as good as they play the last two games?

I was about to ask the same question. If we get bounced in 5 or less, heads will roll.

 

[blue9]

Has a coach ever been fired in the middle of a game? Or even between games of a Playoff series? I highly doubt either have happened, but if I was Paul Allen I'd do it just to make history.

 

[PTBfanEST87]

Wow Lillard has not made 1 three pointer this whole series and game 2 is almost over


I'm burning my jersey

 

[illmatic99]

When did we become such a selfish team?

 

[santeesioux]

I was about to ask the same question. If we get bounced in 5 or less, heads will roll.

As they should, as was mentioned this just feels like the offensive version of Nate.

 

[blue32]

Wow Lillard has not made 1 three pointer this whole series and game 2 is almost over


I'm burning my jersey

Dude come on --- stop trolling

 

[Darkwebs]

Anyone think there's a chance he's fired if this is as good as they play the last two games?

I think Stotts deserves one more year before you consider firing him. If we don't get deep in the playoffs next year, that's when you let him go.

 

[PTBfanEST87]

If we fire Stotts then LMA is gone. Thats a sign of a rebuild and he's not doing that here.. Again

 

[KingSpeed]

CJ 1/8 just like last game. We need to run plays for Leonard. He can shoot and is clearly not affected by the pressure.

 

[KingSpeed]

Dude come on --- stop trolling

He's right

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I think Stotts deserves one more year before you consider firing him. If we don't get deep in the playoffs next year, that's when you let him go.

We will probably let lamarcus make the decision

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

PTB is so obviously a rockets fan.

 

[santeesioux]

If we fire Stotts then LMA is gone. Thats a sign of a rebuild and he's not doing that here.. Again

Not if he gets to make the decision like Caravan said.

 

[PDXFonz]

Wow Lillard has not made 1 three pointer this whole series and game 2 is almost over


I'm burning my jersey

Make sure you are wearing it at the time

 

[KingSpeed]

Put Frazier in please

 

[blue9]

Why hasn't Nic guarded MEM's PG at all (actually, I saw one possession last game) this series? Everyone says VC isn't a threat, but we have our best defender on him...because that makes sense when MEM's PGs are going off.

 

[PTBfanEST87]

Make sure you are wearing it at the time

Haha that was good

 

[Rhal]

Off the ball movement has been nice so far, need to keep that up if we want to make this a game.

 

[PCmor7]

Yep. We need to build a better team around him this summer. If he bolts, this is another 4-5 year rebuild.

If he bolts, the rebuild might take a lot longer than that.

 

[LuckyShot]

Why hasn't Nic guarded MEM's PG at all (actually, I saw one possession last game) this series? Everyone says VC isn't a threat, but we have our best defender on him...because that makes sense when MEM's PGs are going off.

He has. It's not the on ball defender that's the problem, it's our system that puts the opposing PG in open space and allows them to attack us in the paint with a one man advantage. If the opposing PG is competent, we get torn up. We have to hope his misses or makes a bad decision.

 

[PTBfanEST87]

Wow beno is no joke