Game Thread PLAYOFFS: ROUND 2, GAME 5: BLAZERS @ NUGGETS - MAY 7, 2019 - TUESDAY, 7:30 PM, TNT

[wizenheimer]

I'd love to have a tough defender like Baldwin now too...he never got a chance.

you're hilarious...you're trashing Lillard and missing Baldwin....yeeeeeesh.

 

[BonesJones]

This team desperately needs a legit starting PF.

Aminu is a bench player

We need Blake Griffin.

 

[RonBrewer]

Dame's 7/12 with 1 turnover.

Great, He's having his only good game of the series and we're down 18

 

[BonesJones]

Man...I remember this game a couple years ago where Yusuf Nurkic put up a 30 spot and made Jokic look like a little baby..
Was just thinking about that.
If only Nurk was here. Not saying this series would or wouldn't go seven, but Blazers wouldn't look like a bunch of toddlers hanging onto daddy's leg.

If Nurk was here, wed still be getting crushed. He wouldnt be able to fix the problems we have right now.

 

[OneSport3]

Hopefully they start missing some shots. We cant beat a good team with our second best player injured and the fucking refs with them shooting the lights out.

They're not going to miss any shots if CJ's lazy ass keeps going under screens

 

[Natebishop3]

This team desperately needs a legit starting PF.

Aminu is a bench player

In the worst way.

 

[GhostOfPGA]

Our second best player is hurt and we have won 2 games in the second round. You don't think Stotts deserves any props for that?

Yeah, this series isn’t on Stotts, what more can he do? I mean I’d like to never see ET play again but we don’t have a third ball handler other than him, so we are stuck.

Couple that with having to play by another set of rules than the other team and it’s a hard day.

 

[Lukee]

The team is dead. They are not even making a serious effort. Stotts is the coach and Dame is the leader. Both of them should be deeply embarassed by this.

What's wrong with you people?

Oh, Lillard doesn't make shots, he should be embarrassed by himselft
Oh, the team doesn't make shots, Lillard should be emarrassed as a leadear, he sucks.

Stop it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[oldmangrouch]

This game is NOT on Lillard. Who else has showed up at all for the Blazers? All you Lillard haters can fuck all the way off unless you can tell me who else has showed up in this game.

Bull Dada. He is the leader of this team. If they play without heart/balls/brains, he and Stotts deserve to be on the hot seat.

 

[Haakzilla]

...Jockitch fouled out already!

 

[BonesJones]

Our second best player is hurt and we have won 2 games in the second round. You don't think Stotts deserves any props for that?

I gave Stotts props for the 1st round. None for this round thoug . Funny how he struggled when we go up against a competent coach.

 

[twobullz]

Great, He's having his only good game of the series and we're down 18

Dames only good game of the playoffs. You must not have watched the first round of the play offs. Dame is playing good, the rest of the team is the issue.

 

[Jade Falcon]

Our second best player is hurt and we have won 2 games in the second round. You don't think Stotts deserves any props for that?

Not one fucking bit. Are you kidding me? We BARELY scraped together those wins by the skin of our teeth, and it came down to tenacity, not Terry.

Terry SUCKS, and he is grossly overrated. And every fucking goddamn time I hear his name being used in the same sentence as Dr. Ramsay, I want to fucking vomit.

 

[James lamphear]

Right now we look tired and they look fresh.

 

[riverman]

Outscore them by 20 in the second half and win by a bucket! It's possible...Dame and CJ have been known to score in bunches in the 2nd half...Go Blazers!

 

[Rastapopoulos]

This one hurts:

 

[HailBlazers]

If Nurk was here, wed still be getting crushed. He wouldnt be able to fix the problems we have right now.

Na. Defense is our glaring weakness right now.

 

[RonBrewer]

Dames only good game of the playoffs. You must not have watched the first round of the play offs. Dame is playing good, the rest of the team is the issue.

Series. Dame has been dog shit this series.

 

[wizenheimer]

Dame's 7/12 with 1 turnover.

it's astonishing how some people are working so hard to blame Dame for this situation

actually, astonishing isn't the right word...fuckingidiotic is the right word

 

[Boise Blazer]

Like I said, @oldmangrouch you can yap all day but tell me who else showed up so far tonight?

 

[Rastapopoulos]

I gave Stotts props for the 1st round. None for this round thoug . Funny how he struggled when we go up against a competent coach.

Struggled his way to 2-1 up without arguably our second best player.

 

[beast blazer]

Do the blazers want the season to end?

 

[MightyMouseOps1]

I just wish for once we’d have the refs on ourside in a series

We aren’t losing this game because of the refs. We are losing because of one dimensional specialists like Aminu, harkless, and Curry. Denver’s offense looks like a well oiled machine. All their players can shoot and even though they have no shot blockers they have guys at the rim even when our guards get thru the double on the pick and roll . Nobody is worried about Aminu and Harkless and turner on offense. Curry no shows anytime someone is physical with him.

 

[Lukee]

Aminu 0-6, how bad can you be ffs

 

[hoopsjock]

We need Blake Griffin.

I was talking to my Pistons guy earlier and he said he would do this:

ET, Leonard, Collins, 2019 25th pick, and 2020 1st (lottery protected) for Blake Griffin

 

[Jade Falcon]

Stotts isn't doing wmthe aame things he was against OKC in regards to their pressure.

OKC was a horribly overrated team, and their best player was hurt, and their franchise player is a fucking head case who can't make a shot.

They are NOTHING like Denver. Denver would have wiped the floor with them too.

 

[LayneStaley]

With the way this series has gone I wouldn’t be shocked if we make a run here, get it to 8 going into the 4th and I think a young team will start to get tight.

 

[RonBrewer]

it's astonishing how some people are working so hard to blame Dame for this situation

actually, astonishing isn't the right word...fuckingidiotic is the right word

This is stupid. Nobody is blaming Dame but it's okay to say someone is playing one of their worst playoff series to date. Good lord some of y'all are such sunshine pumpers.

 

[KingSpeed]

I have the Blazers in 7 and since we’re not going to lose at home again, this is the loss. Relax guys. We’re good.

 

[GhostOfPGA]

I was talking to my Pistons guy earlier and he said he would do this:

ET, Leonard, Collins, 2019 25th pick, and 2020 1st (lottery protected) for Blake Griffin

Giving up Collins would hurt... especially with Blake’s injury history and contract.