An ugly opening night ended in a blow out loss for the Trail Blazers. Scoot struggled, Deandre Ayton got lost in the shuffle. It was a mess, but at least Anfernee Simons was good? There might be a lot of these.
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21 Comments
A starting five of Roco Norm Batum and Plumdog would fold our starters. Dont ever blame Dame Nurk or Olshey for this mess ever again.
Billups showed out last night as a coach who may have gotten even worse as time has gone on, now that takes talent! 😂 But now he gets to enjoy his full contract as the idiots running the show don’t care about winning and only setting the team up to be sold hopefully soon. But enjoyed the flashes of good we saw last night inbetween the obvious faults. 🤘🏼
Personal watching the game looked like the offense running through brogdon and that’s not gonna get it done. At all
Scoot got his 1st big welcome to the NBA education. He showed his resolve by scoring all 11 in the 2nd half. Ayton seems out of place, Brogden and Time Lord made it respectable.
Defense – terrible. Grant – worst rebounding 'PF' in the league. Offense – disjointed. Ayton – no NEARLY enough touches. Struggles are one thing. HOW they struggle is of a much bigger issue. Have never been a fan of Billups. I'm seeing some of the same issues as the last 2 years with entirely different personnel.
Sharpe and Ant are clearly the best players on the team
Turn overs were rough, nerves looked to be a major factor. Opening night a lot to grow from going forward
As a heat fan I laugh at ya poverty franchise 😂
No this team will be awful. No defense, young AAU dunkers, no offense scheme. Basically the Rockets from last year.
It looked like they've played together for two weeks.
Looked like a g league team playing an nba team!!! Oh wait!! 😂😂 amazes me how there is always so many blind eyes looking at this every summer
Who wants more First Round exits? Does four over-matched playoff games make any difference over a mediocre at best Regular Season? Isn’t that just continuing the mediocrity? Oh, what fun! Are the 30ish y/o vets good enough for you? Not… Me.
Money Ball scene: Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) told Art Howe (Phillip Seymore) to play Hatterberg at 1st and to trust him with the process; when Howe refused, Beane traded Howe’s players so only his were left. “You can’t start Peña at 1st tonight.” “I am starting Peña at first.” “No? Peña’s playing for Detroit now.”
I think Cronin will have to play Billy Beane before the Trade Deadline so Billups can’t pull an Art Howe. Grant, Brogdon and Thybulle are Billups go-to guys that will maximize wins, but will syphon PT from Cronin's new guys; so sorry coach, but you can’t rebuild halfway, you gotta go all in, are you with me?
I'm waiting to comment until these kids know each other's names, let alone each other's games!
From my point of view Malcolm Brogdon was maybe the closest a Blazers player came to putting their mark on this game. He is really good, really seemed able to dictate how the game would be played more than anyone else. Unfortunately, it should be Ant or Grant that can dictate something from tipoff but neither of them brought a whole lot of fire to this game. Was surprised Ayton didn't get many touches, I'll give it a few more games until I have an opinion about that. Sharpe looked comfortable but he's another guy that tends to "float" a little bit. All that to say, the Blazers need somebody dedicated to being "the guy" right from the jump without Dame here.
I'm not one to overreact especially the first game into a season where we most likely won't make the playoffs. But the team has too many capable players for the offense and defense to both look lost, I'm thinking it's a Chauncy issue but we'll see if they play better in the next one.
Agree w/Mike. Not worried. If you are, your expectations are not aligned with reality. NEXT!
Clippers are an elite team when Kawhi and PG13 play. Didn't really expect to win this one. I feel like I'll learn more about this team from the home opener against the Magic. I knew we weren't going to be competitive against contenders.
Excited to see what they look like at the average of their current potential. That was clearly their worst case
In todays shoooooowwwww… ugh
y’all made a great trade Portland 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 #heatin5
Ayton needs to learn to hold a screen and then roll or pop. His screens are useless. Maybe run some handoffs with him to create some space.