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kjironman1 said:
Oh Fucking please.....

Who in their right mind thought this team was a championship contender all of the last 6 years.

Enjoy your day Bones. It's painfully obvious the only thing you can do to make yourself feel more validated is to pick apart another persons/teams success. In this case you are picking apart my favorite team and it's players/coach.

I'm a Blazer fan. You want to bash my favorite team and the success it has achieved then have at it. I would rather spend my time on another forum that doesn't have a kid with thousands and thousands of negative comments about my team.

You see how this works. You are not doing this forum any favors at all.
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You sound emotional as hell right now. Sit down and take a break.
 
I hope Stotts is watching this series. Hopefully he can take some of the things Nick Nurse is doing and apply to the Blazers. But, I have my doubts.
He is probably on a cruise somewhere ... saying "The Warriors can't be beaten".
 
kjironman1 said:
The part about the Blazers being a ways off i agree with. They need a reliable 3 and D wing and they need to be healthy.

It's the "LONG" way off part i just don't understand?
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Where is POR way off? Just look at the level of defense being played by TOR and GSW and compare that to this team. Not even in the same league. And most people will say we don't have the personnel that TOR and GSW have and I would agree to that. But it's not just the personnel, it's the defensive strategy that is being utilized/coached.

Stotts uses a very passive defense intended run shooters off the 3-point line and to force teams to take low-value midrange shots. Therefore they switch everything causing mismatches all over the floor. That's why POR is always ranked high in 3-pt FG% defense. During the regular season when you play less talented teams that aren't able to adjust and settle for what POR is giving them, it works. But once you get in the playoffs the teams are more talented and have the ability to adjust more easily. They are not going to settle for the midrange jumper, they will pass the ball and kill the defense just like GSW did.

This is why we saw that ridiculous defensive strategy against Steph in Game 1. Stotts thought that they could entice Steph into those midrange shots if they dropped the big into the paint. But this is Stephen Curry. He will never pass up 3s for midrange jumpers, yet pass up wide open 3s.

And until we have a change in the coach or he changes his defensive philosophy, this team will be way off. The problem is, at this stage in his career, Stotts is who he is. Most likely he's not going to change. And they just extended him...
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
If Toronto who is ok but not exactly great can beat a KD less GS team, and the Blazers got swept, Im not sure they’re that close.
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I still think if we had Nurk they wouldn't have swept us. Toronto has defenders with length which is the warriors weakness.
Durant playing would make a huge difference.
 
Hoopguru said:
He's stays in GS hands down if they lose, if he comes back next game and helps them win 3 straight, I think he's gone.
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I wouldn’t be so sure. I think he’s still gone no matter what, I think he sees the writing on the wall... Golden State is getting older (I mean not just age wise but they’ve played a TON of basketball the past half decade...).
 
Blazers made it to the conference finals hurt and without Nurk and with an injured Kanter. It was the first year with Kanter, Hood, and Curry on the team. They were a top four team in the league. They come back healthy. They get a chance to run with these guys again, the Blazers can get back to the WCF's and further.
 
GhostOfPGA said:
We don’t choke those leads with Nurk. Look at the impact Gasol is making rn for Toronto defensively and GS doesn’t have anyone who can defend players with a shred of post ability.
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Nurk would have killed them. A healthy Kanter too.
 
Durant is going. He will not play in this series. He won't return to the Warriors.
 
GhostOfPGA said:
I wouldn’t be so sure. I think he’s still gone no matter what, I think he sees the writing on the wall... Golden State is getting older (I mean not just age wise but they’ve played a TON of basketball the past half decade...).
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you may be right...however I think GS stills has an elite team for a couple more years if he comes back. If he goes to the Knicks or Nets or even lakers/clippers he's got it a whole lot harder to get them over the top and add to his legacy. He stays in GS and they win a couple more with him, his legacy is sealed.
Right now many say he's the best player on the planet and if he stays and wins they will continue to say he's one of the all time best.
 
Hoopguru said:
you may be right...however I think GS stills has an elite team for a couple more years if he comes back. If he goes to the Knicks or Nets or even lakers/clippers he's got it a whole lot harder to get them over the top and add to his legacy. He stays in GS and they win a couple more with him, his legacy is sealed.
Right now many say he's the best player on the planet and if he stays and wins they will continue to say he's one of the all time best.
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If he goes to the Lakers they become the best team in the league over night. Him AND LeBron?
 
Hoopguru said:
you may be right...however I think GS stills has an elite team for a couple more years if he comes back. If he goes to the Knicks or Nets or even lakers/clippers he's got it a whole lot harder to get them over the top and add to his legacy. He stays in GS and they win a couple more with him, his legacy is sealed.
Right now many say he's the best player on the planet and if he stays and wins they will continue to say he's one of the all time best.
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His legacy isn't sealed if he stays with GS. Unless he goes and wins without coattail riding, his legacy will be incomplete. He will always be the guy who took the easy way.
 
Chris Craig said:
His legacy isn't sealed if he stays with GS. Unless he goes and wins without coattail riding, his legacy will be incomplete. He will always be the guy who took the easy way.
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If he stays after they lose and he comes back and they win couple more I think the coattail image wears off some?
Im not saying I agree with him staying or that he even joined their team.
 
Hoopguru said:
If he stays after they lose and he comes back and they win couple more I think the coattail image wears off some?
Im not saying I agree with him staying or that he even joined their team.
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No it won't.
 
BonesJones said:
Honest question to Stotts defenders... Do you seriously think Toronto would be playing such a great style of offensive basketball like they are now with Terry Stotts as their head coach...?
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Honest question for you.
I've just read about 11 of your posts...
Why do you call yourself a Blazer fan?
Everything you post is derogatory towards them.
Now, you're probably gonna go to the ridiculous"I'm a real fan 'cos I point out what needs to get better" bullshit, so be it.
But you're a "bones jones" fan, not a TrailBlazer fan as far as I'm concerned.
"Hope the Raptors don't' Blazer it."
One of many.
 
joeBlazers said:
I hope Stotts is watching this series. Hopefully he can take some of the things Nick Nurse is doing and apply to the Blazers. But, I have my doubts.
He is probably on a cruise somewhere ... saying "The Warriors can't be beaten".
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A comment with zero intelligence.
Nothing but a unfounded swipe.
You and BJ should get a room.
 
Chris Craig said:
Blazers made it to the conference finals hurt and without Nurk and with an injured Kanter. It was the first year with Kanter, Hood, and Curry on the team. They were a top four team in the league. They come back healthy. They get a chance to run with these guys again, the Blazers can get back to the WCF's and further.
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Kanter, Hood, Curry, and possibly Aminu won't be back. Individually, each is replaceable. Collectively, losing them all kills our depth.
 
oldmangrouch said:
Kanter, Hood, Curry, and possibly Aminu won't be back. Individually, each is replaceable. Collectively, losing them all kills our depth.
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If they can be replaced individually then the logic to follow would be to say that collectively the new players replace the depth we lost.
 
Wade Garrett said:
Honest question for you.
I've just read about 11 of your posts...
Why do you call yourself a Blazer fan?
Everything you post is derogatory towards them.
Now, you're probably gonna go to the ridiculous"I'm a real fan 'cos I point out what needs to get better" bullshit, so be it.
But you're a "bones jones" fan, not a TrailBlazer fan as far as I'm concerned.
"Hope the Raptors don't' Blazer it."
One of many.
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Nah. Bones just doesn’t like Stotts. He’s actually a big fan of the team.
 
tlongII said:
Nah. Bones just doesn’t like Stotts. He’s actually a big fan of the team.
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I know he's a fan and I like much of his input, plus I know how he feels about Stotts and thats his prerogative, it just gets a bit tired to hear the constant negativity about the team that brought me a whole lot of enjoyment this year and exceeded most everyones expectations. There were a couple that predicted 50 plus wins and to accomplish that in the west is commendable. Yeah Stotts has areas to improve on, yep the D needs to improve and it will.
 
Hoopguru said:
I know he's a fan and I like much of his input, plus I know how he feels about Stotts and thats his prerogative, it just gets a bit tired to hear the constant negativity about the team that brought me a whole lot of enjoyment this year and exceeded most everyones expectations. There were a couple that predicted 50 plus wins and to accomplish that in the west is commendable. Yeah Stotts has areas to improve on, yep the D needs to improve and it will.
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I agree. However everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
 
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