Game Thread PLAYOFFS: ROUND 1, GAME 3: LAKERS @ BLAZERS - AUGUST 22, 2020 - SATURDAY, 5:30, ABC

[Serbian]

What if we had Caruso (an undrafted player) instead of Simons?

Simmons is not good enough for G league but our idiot staff think he has potential???

 

[BlazerRx]

Challenging that? Foh

Up 14 with 50 secs left haha. Fuck the Lakers!

 

[MadeFromDust]

Making the playoffs may have been the worst thing to happen to this team. Guarantee Neil is gonna run it back next year. Give it more time, right?

 

[bobf]

Lakers not even very good. We beat ourselves. Why didn’t Wenyen play more? Why we playing Ant and Hezonja??

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

What if we had Caruso (an undrafted player) instead of Simons?

What I am saying is; we can give Olshey a pass this year on forwards, with Hood, Ariza and Collins out? But NBA teams have to have four good guards and we don't.

 

[Buffalo Custard]

Lakers are not impressive

That's the saddest part. LA actually looks vulnerable.

 

[VenomXL]

I’ll leave with this.

Fuck the Lakers forever.

 

[BlazerBeav]

Was that Gary’s first shot of the night?

 

[brooklynballer]

Coming out flat after the half, game after game is inexcusable. Obviously no sense of urgency from the players or the coach. Must be nice for Stotts knowing that irrespective of what his team does on the court, his job is safe. I, personally, can’t wait until the Neil Olshey-Terry Stotts era is over.

 

[illmatic99]

Gotta remember it's just 2-1

 

[Serbian]

• I just want to know how every team in bubble has such team depth. Our bench is G league

 

[Labinot41]

Nurkic is gone right now. His grandma died. It's too much for him

Or maybe he's significantly worse than Davis, even McGee and Howard gave him a hard time this series. I would seriously think about if he's really the Center of the future, this series showed me he is not

 

[42N8Bounce]

Free Throws Attempted:
Blazers 19
Lakers 43

Wow. These games against the Lakers are hard to watch.

 

[wizenheimer]

lol...leave it to MeJ to get that trash bucket at the end

 

[riverman]

Free Throws Attempted:
Blazers 19
Lakers 43

Wow. These games against the Lakers are hard to watch.

This

 

[illmatic99]

LeBron and davis also shot nearly double the free throws as our whole team combined. 36 to 19

 

[Mediocre Man]

I think we look less talented.

boom

 

[BlazerRx]

Nurkic looked gas and missed many shots at the rim and played poor defense in the 4th quarter.

Was that Gary’s first shot of the night?

Right? Where is all the open 3 point looks he was getting in the restart games? We are definitely missing his 3 point shooting.

 

[ehizzy3]

Trent should be getting tons of open looks off the traps yet he just that and one and all game until the end

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

Free Throws Attempted:
Blazers 19
Lakers 43

Wow. These games against the Lakers are hard to watch.

Tonight I thought we deserved just about every FT we gave to them.

 

[Tince]

That's the saddest part. LA actually looks vulnerable.

I think the Clippers match up well with them. Granted, the Clippers have 4-5 solid/elite wing defenders and we have 1 who is 6'5".

 

[ehizzy3]

Also we can’t rebound for shit.

 

[Chris Craig]

Was that Gary’s first shot of the night?

Yeah, that is another big problem. We are using Gary almost exclusively on the defensive end. Using all his energy. We aren't getting the offense from him because of it.

 

[Darkwebs]

Was that Gary’s first shot of the night?

His first 3-pointer of the night. He had hit a mid range jumper earlier in the first half on an and-one with AD bumping him.

 

[DUB]

The refs called two totally different games. And I know the answer is that you’ve just got to be good enough to overcome that. But we’re not. So it all feels a little pointless.

 

[Chris Craig]

I think the Clippers match up well with them. Granted, the Clippers have 4-5 solid/elite wing defenders and we have 1 who is 6'5".

Clippers will best their ass

 

[riverman]

Another butt kicking...sucks...get the next one!

 

[ehizzy3]

Free Throws Attempted:
Blazers 19
Lakers 43

Wow. These games against the Lakers are hard to watch.

yeah it’s hard to watch us shy away from the basket literally every possession.

the refs wanted to even it out but we take jump shots every possessions

 

[BlazerBeav]

• I just want to know how every team in bubble has such team depth. Our bench is G league

It would look better with Hood, Ariza, and Collins....

 

[blazerkor]

We're still in this series but we have to play with a lot more effort. Getting out rebounded like this is just pathetic. We obviously have to shoot better and I think we will but we have to show more desire to win these games if we want to have a chance.