Game Thread PLAYOFFS: ROUND 1, GAME 5: BLAZERS @ NUGGETS - JUNE 1, 2021 - TUESDAY, 6:00, NBATV & NBCSNW

[blazerkor]

they stopped putting em up on youtube after losses long ago
https://www.nba.com/blazers/video/2021/6/1/coach-media

Thanks for the link, I'll look there from now on... I really hate Stotts' approach to things or at least what he shows us in interviews and when mic'd up during games and in the locker room and pretty much always.

 

[AldoTrapani]

Lmao no comment

 

[KSF-ERIC]

An all-star power forward? Yes. You're exactly right. Can you go get us one of those?

He would lock up Jokic.

 

[noknobs]

fuck man, that game has me depressed. someone cheer me up

 

[illmatic99]

Thanks for the link, I'll look there from now on... I really hate Stotts' approach to things or at least what he shows us in interviews and when mic'd up during games and in the locker room and pretty much always.

i hate stotts period.

but his mentality is what you need after games like this i suppose

 

[illmatic99]

Damn we didn’t score after a Dame banked 3 with 3:45 left in the game. Incredible. That’s where we need to put some fresh legs in the game. That’s how we won the 4OT game in 2019. Hood came in and hit big shots.

hood came in only because harkless got hurt. not because stotts is some genius who came up with a clutch decision.

 

[THE HCP]

Alright, home from work watching the game. I'm going to go read this (instant classic I'm sure) of a thread.

 

[THE HCP]

Denver in 6 by the way.

 

[DDolla]

fuck man, that game has me depressed. someone cheer me up

We got them where we want them. We got this and game 7

 

[THE HCP]

This is all stotts. Worst coach in history of basketball. Clueless clown. Steal for a living making millions. Disgraceful scum

I understand that english isn't your native language, but "DISGRACEFUL SCUM". With all that's going on in the world today, you think Terry Stott's is "DISGRACEFUL SCUM"?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

 

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[mook]

This was such a crushing loss. Portland hasn't let slip such an NBA-defining moment since the 2000 Western Conference Finals. If anybody other than Dame could've contributed just a little fucking bit, this would be remembered as one of the all-time greatest playoff performances.

But we lost. And now we are facing a first round exit. Nobody but loyal Dame fans and the record keepers will remember this performance. Fucking tragic.

 

[perkinsfor3]

What we see:

What Monte Morris sees:

 

[bobf]

One more thought.

We missed Harkless, Aminu AND Turner this entire series. Who would have thought? We are getting POUNDED on the boards because every player that plays forward minutes is awful at rebounding. I mean, we are already relying on luck for the Nuggets to miss shots, you can't compound that issue by not securing the defensive rebound. I can't count how many fouls Melo has gotten trying to box out. Guys just consistently jumping over RoCo and Powell.

Me... I would have thought.

Well, not Turner, but Hark and Aminu. Melo’s horrific rebounding puts the cherry on top of our already terrible 2nd unit D. RoCo is great in many ways but doesn’t rebound like Aminu. Nurk fouled out trying to contest a shot that RoCo didn’t.

 

[Fairly-Hard]

Again, Jokic manages to get called for one foul. The rest of our team played like shit, but a whistle now and then would be nice.

Jokic 1 foul in 46 minutes of play.
Blazers 31 fouls
Nuggets 24 fouls
Blazers foul out three starters. Nurk plays a grand total of 24 minutes in a double over time game.

Even Kanter had 4 fouls.

 

[crandc]

Maybe if Portland hadn't fallen behind by 22 points we wouldn't have to tear our hair over missed dunk and out of bounds.

 

[Fairly-Hard]

Maybe if Portland hadn't fallen behind by 22 points we wouldn't have to tear our hair over missed dunk and out of bounds.

That seems to be the way the players are responding. They are blaming bad defense to begin the game and having to work to come back.
Can't say i disagree. Over 5 mins in the game and the score was Blazers 1 Nuggets 14.
In the first two minutes the Blazers missed 4 wide open looks from 3.
Blazers also gave up 3 offensive rebounds that gave the Nuggets 7 second chance points in the first 5 possessions.

Things like that lose games.

 

[SIeepwalker]

Whole damn team let dame down this game

 

[brooklynballer]

Dame just dropped the word "shit" in the post-game talking about nurks 5th foul lol

He was right though. Nurk gets called for those stupid moving screens when every team, including Denver, do the same thing on literally every offensive possession.

 

[e_blazer]

Had anyone other than Dame been able to do anything positive in either OT, the Blazers would have had to give the game ball to Michael Malone for his stupid insistence on playing Dame straight up with Rivers. I can only imagine how a Nuggets board would have roasted him for that.

 

[MickZagger]

He was right though. Nurk gets called for those stupid moving screens when every team, including Denver, do the same thing on literally every offensive possession.

It wasn’t even a moving screen though. It was about as clear cut of a legal screen as there is. Rivers just played it off like he was hurt.

Shit like that makes the NBA almost unwatchable for me.

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Lmao no comment

So…….can we make this a permanent thing? Asking for a forum………..

 

[Rastapopoulos]