Game 80 : Portland vs Golden State 7:00pm Root,Root+

[Brandon-Clyde]

vs.





Time: 7:00pm
Place: Moda Center
TV: Root, Root+


GLB of the game Angel Reese

Spoiler:

[soobias]

should be an easy "L" tonight.
lets goooooooooooooooooo

[Brandon-Clyde]

1st quarter GLB pic

Spoiler:

[DusterBuster]

Wtf was Billups doing just not starting Scoot from day 1. Who cares how bad he looked. Injury aside, he could have been getting comfortable with the NBA game in January vs doing this in **** April.

What pisses me off the most about this season is it feels like literally nothing was accomplished. There’s not a single thing you can point to of how the team is moving forward or really improved. Scoot needed to play through his lumps, not be babied.

[Brandon-Clyde]

2nd quarter GLB pic

Spoiler:

[Brandon-Clyde]

3rd quarter GLB pic

Spoiler:

[Norm2953]

Wtf was Billups doing just not starting Scoot from day 1. Who cares how bad he looked. Injury aside, he could have been getting comfortable with the NBA game in January vs doing this in **** April.

What pisses me off the most about this season is it feels like literally nothing was accomplished. There’s not a single thing you can point to of how the team is moving forward or really improved. Scoot needed to play through his lumps, not be babied.

Scoot was battling a lot of injuries early on but he's been playing better

Here's hoping he stays healthy and after summer league and off season workouts, he'll settle in as
a 14 ppg/ 7 APG as a second year player

[DusterBuster]

Wtf was Billups doing just not starting Scoot from day 1. Who cares how bad he looked. Injury aside, he could have been getting comfortable with the NBA game in January vs doing this in **** April.

What pisses me off the most about this season is it feels like literally nothing was accomplished. There’s not a single thing you can point to of how the team is moving forward or really improved. Scoot needed to play through his lumps, not be babied.

Scoot was battling a lot of injuries early on but he's been playing better

Here's hoping he stays healthy and after summer league and off season workouts, he'll settle in as
a 14 ppg/ 7 APG as a second year player

Yeah, I said injuries aside. He struggled with that intro and not much you can do about that, but the decision to keep him coming off the bench as long as he did was not related to the injuries.

Cronin didn’t cash in on Brogdon while he was healthy and playing well, Billups just kept Scoot on the bench to baby him, just… literally no positives to take

[Brandon-Clyde]

4th quarter GLB pic

Spoiler:

[Brandon-Clyde]

Consolation GLB pic

Spoiler:

[tacos]

I'd like to see less than 9 turnovers from scoot

[Shem]

Wtf was Billups doing just not starting Scoot from day 1. Who cares how bad he looked. Injury aside, he could have been getting comfortable with the NBA game in January vs doing this in **** April.

What pisses me off the most about this season is it feels like literally nothing was accomplished. There’s not a single thing you can point to of how the team is moving forward or really improved. Scoot needed to play through his lumps, not be babied.

Scoot was battling a lot of injuries early on but he's been playing better

Here's hoping he stays healthy and after summer league and off season workouts, he'll settle in as
a 14 ppg/ 7 APG as a second year player

Yeah, I said injuries aside. He struggled with that intro and not much you can do about that, but the decision to keep him coming off the bench as long as he did was not related to the injuries.

It was because Billups elected to start Sharpe instead. And at the time, it was the right move since Scoot was really struggling. It took some pressure off of him and he still got quality playing time anyway.

Cronin didn’t cash in on Brogdon while he was healthy and playing well, Billups just kept Scoot on the bench to baby him, just… literally no positives to take

Ant was part of the reason why Scoot didn't start for a time.

BTW, Brogdon is Portland's MVP this year. The Blazers are 15-24 when Brogdon plays and 6-35 without him. Plus, he's another coach for this young squad. Many of our young players really love his veteran presence. Plus, Brogdon knows how to win and you need guys like that on your roster to help teach the younglings.

[Pattycakes]

Wtf was Billups doing just not starting Scoot from day 1. Who cares how bad he looked. Injury aside, he could have been getting comfortable with the NBA game in January vs doing this in **** April.

What pisses me off the most about this season is it feels like literally nothing was accomplished. There’s not a single thing you can point to of how the team is moving forward or really improved. Scoot needed to play through his lumps, not be babied.

Scoot was battling a lot of injuries early on but he's been playing better

Here's hoping he stays healthy and after summer league and off season workouts, he'll settle in as
a 14 ppg/ 7 APG as a second year player

He’s already looking like a 14/7 player at this point, compensating for early season struggles now statistically. I always knew a 20 yr old pg could come around. Love how quickly people give up. Take notes

[DusterBuster]

Scoot was battling a lot of injuries early on but he's been playing better

Here's hoping he stays healthy and after summer league and off season workouts, he'll settle in as
a 14 ppg/ 7 APG as a second year player

Yeah, I said injuries aside. He struggled with that intro and not much you can do about that, but the decision to keep him coming off the bench as long as he did was not related to the injuries.

It was because Billups elected to start Sharpe instead. And at the time, it was the right move since Scoot was really struggling. It took some pressure off of him and he still got quality playing time anyway.

Cronin didn’t cash in on Brogdon while he was healthy and playing well, Billups just kept Scoot on the bench to baby him, just… literally no positives to take

Ant was part of the reason why Scoot didn't start for a time.

BTW, Brogdon is Portland's MVP this year. The Blazers are 15-24 when Brogdon plays and 6-35 without him. Plus, he's another coach for this young squad. Many of our young players really love his veteran presence. Plus, Brogdon knows how to win and you need guys like that on your roster to help teach the younglings.

There’s no such thing as an MVP when you’re 15-24 lmao.

Billups should have just started Scoot, Ant and Sharpe as you’re 1-3.

Billups wasted valuable time he could have been using to develop Scoot for what? What did playing those guys over him really do positive. They got maybe 2-4 extra wins in a season where they struggled to get over 20 wins and lost by 60 multiple times. Whoopty **** do. Seriously don’t understand what your standing up for here.

[m0ng0]

There’s no such thing as an MVP when you’re 15-24 lmao.

Billups should have just started Scoot, Ant and Sharpe as you’re 1-3.

Billups wasted valuable time he could have been using to develop Scoot for what? What did playing those guys over him really do positive. They got maybe 2-4 extra wins in a season where they struggled to get over 20 wins and lost by 60 multiple times. Whoopty **** do. Seriously don’t understand what your standing up for here.

I would raise you Ant, Scoot, Sharpe Walker and Ayton. Brogdon could coach from the bench and as 6th man. Players need reps TOGETHER, that's how chemistry works. Sub in and out as injuries happen, but make it known this is our lineup until something happens.

The goal starting this season was development and chemistry. People get pissed when we win, they get mad when we lose, people fretting over draft picks while bitching that it's a poor draft class wtf?!?! What is ït you want? Bitchng about the coaches, the owners, the cable network. Everybody can do it better obviously.

[JasonStern]

What pisses me off the most about this season is it feels like literally nothing was accomplished. There’s not a single thing you can point to of how the team is moving forward or really improved.

Banton and Camara were nice surprises. And we're finally done with Andrew Nicholson's dead weight stretched contract. Not exactly the sexiest moves. But, there is at least that.

[zzaj]

I'd like to see less than 9 turnovers from scoot

Agreed. He's shown willingness and vision with his passing. But if everybody knows that he's going to pass he's easy to defend. Consistency and efficiency are the things that need to be unlocked for Scoot to become a good player. IMO, he needs to establish at least one consistent mode of scoring in order to unlock that. Currently, probably the fastest path for him to add a consistent offensive weapon is in the mid-range. He did well there in the Gleague.

One thing I've been VERY disappointed in this season is the Blazers' pace. A lot of that is on Chauncey. Scoot, Sharpe, and Ant all would do well in a more uptempo system.

[DusterBuster]

What pisses me off the most about this season is it feels like literally nothing was accomplished. There’s not a single thing you can point to of how the team is moving forward or really improved.

Banton and Camara were nice surprises. And we're finally done with Andrew Nicholson's dead weight stretched contract. Not exactly the sexiest moves. But, there is at least that.

Banton is just this years Skylar May’s. Nice story I guess when nothing else was happening. Camara has a chance to be a good glue guy, but without a shot he’s just a rookie version of Thybulle.

[Dame Lizard]

Wtf was Billups doing just not starting Scoot from day 1. Who cares how bad he looked. Injury aside, he could have been getting comfortable with the NBA game in January vs doing this in **** April.

What pisses me off the most about this season is it feels like literally nothing was accomplished. There’s not a single thing you can point to of how the team is moving forward or really improved. Scoot needed to play through his lumps, not be babied.

Scoot was battling a lot of injuries early on but he's been playing better

Here's hoping he stays healthy and after summer league and off season workouts, he'll settle in as
a 14 ppg/ 7 APG as a second year player

He’s already looking like a 14/7 player at this point, compensating for early season struggles now statistically. I always knew a 20 yr old pg could come around. Love how quickly people give up. Take notes

It's hard to call him a 14ppg player when he needs 14+ shots to score the 14ppg.

I haven't actually looked at the stats for the record, but his efficiency has been poor. I have confidence that this will improve, but let's not give him his flowers too early.

[Shem]

There’s no such thing as an MVP when you’re 15-24 lmao.

Whatever, Brogdon is Portland's best player. The point I was trying to make that his impact on the team is valuable in terms of learning to win.

Billups should have just started Scoot, Ant and Sharpe as you’re 1-3.

Ant should be a 6th man if it were up to me. But politics plays a part in sports. With Ant and the money Portland has invested in him, it's hard to justify not starting him.

Billups wasted valuable time he could have been using to develop Scoot for what?

If you don't think Scoot didn't get enough minutes to develop this year, then I have a bridge in Baltimore to sell you. The worst part you should be mad about is that Scoot missed 19 games via injury.

Personally, I would be more upset with Sharpe who will miss 50 games by the time this season ends. That was a bigger blow to the season than Scoot's development.