Game 2: Portland TrailBlazers (1-0) @ Phoenix Suns (0-1)

Post #201 » by **bwgood77** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:23 am

batsmasher wrote:Biggest positive for me is Horny tightening the rotation up. Can't please everyone if you want to win games.

Ronnie Price has done little wrong so far.

Yes, Price was not only good with D tonight and a good feed to Warren, but he is another vet that knows what's up. As much as I'd like to see Booker, the tightened rotation was good.

STEV13 · Post #202 » by **STEV13** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:26 am

TJ with 17 and 6 in just 21 minutes. Can't wait for him to start!

JMac1 · Post #203 » by **JMac1** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:28 am

bwgood77 wrote:My biggest worry about this team despite the talent and knowing we are a fringe team at this point is the lack of a go to player at the end. KIeff has been good at that. But I think the one guy who could become that is Warren. He is an awful lot like Melo, and it appears he is developing more range. He could very well become a star.

Hopefully Booker gets some minutes now.

Warren and Bledsoe circa OKC. Warren is so controlled, like Booker. I have no choice but to wait on Booker, even though I prefer Booker to Weems for spacing. I think Weems, Price, Bledsoe, Goodwin, and Knight are all redundant, then you through in all the other non shooters, how can you not play Booker?!

Funky Tut · Post #204 » by **Funky Tut** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:30 am

whew, much better performance tonight.

Sunlight · Post #205 » by **Sunlight** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:31 am

Nice to see winning game(s) although three point line stats 4-18 22.2%.

starbosa10 · Post #206 » by **starbosa10** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:31 am

good game. Effort was much better tonight

Mulhollanddrive · Post #207 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:32 am

1-1 perfect start for the 8th seed!

Cutter · Post #208 » by **Cutter** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:32 am

STEV13 wrote:TJ with 17 and 6 in just 21 minutes. Can't wait for him to start!

Agreed. And what I really like is the 6 rebounds. A 17/6 stat line for a SF is great, plus he had very good efficiency.

Sunsss · Post #209 » by **Sunsss** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:37 am

I've seen a couple of fist pumps from Len. He's gotta do that more and talk a little bit.

MrMiyagi · Post #210 » by **MrMiyagi** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:39 am

Tomorrow we gotta beat them again. Can't sleep on Portland at their place.

letsgosuns · Post #211 » by **letsgosuns** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 5:56 am

STEV13 wrote:TJ with 17 and 6 in just 21 minutes. Can't wait for him to start!

Tucker had 2 points in the first game. 4 points tonight. Idk why he even plays. He is awful. He is like a black hole on offense.

RaisingArizona · Post #212 » by **RaisingArizona** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 6:03 am

letsgosuns wrote:
STEV13 wrote:TJ with 17 and 6 in just 21 minutes. Can't wait for him to start!

Tucker had 2 points in the first game. 4 points tonight. Idk why he even plays. He is awful. He is like a black hole on offense.

Unleash the WAR HAMMER!

RaisingArizona · Post #213 » by **RaisingArizona** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 6:05 am

That Nash ceremony brought tears to my eyes. Not even kidding. Come back home and Coach/GM/do something here, Nash. Bring Chuckster with you.

RaisingArizona · Post #214 » by **RaisingArizona** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 6:14 am

Cutter wrote:We are up 20 with only 5 minutes left. Yeah, we suck and aren't worth following.

Bbbut we're boring... :cry:

spanishninja · Post #215 » by **spanishninja** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 6:25 am

Sunlight wrote:Nice to see winning game(s) although three point line stats 4-18 22.2%.

I hope this season we finally will learn how to rely less on the three. We simply don't have the personnel anymore to make that a major part of our offense. Love the toughness and interior work from the frontline tonight. See how many free throws we got today and how may fouls the Portland bigs picked up?

RunDogGun · Post #216 » by **RunDogGun** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 6:58 am

Well we lucked out from the line, and fouls called.

Did someone really say Tucker was a black hole on offense? He took 6 shots in 24 minutes.

Morris took 17.

A lot of active hands tonight, but we keep turning the ball over on silly mistakes and traveling. Strange, but when I was watching the game, I was thinking how great it was grabbing Chandler, but he has to stop moving on screens, for they call that on us. And within a few seconds, he gets called for one. He is too obvious when doing it. Tyson, just stay set dude!

spanishninja · Post #217 » by **spanishninja** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 7:01 am

RunDogGun wrote:Well we lucked out from the line, and fouls called.

Did someone really say Tucker was a black hole on offense? He took 6 shots in 24 minutes. Morris took 17.

A lot of active hands tonight, but we keep turning the ball over on silly mistakes and traveling. Strange, but when I was watching the game, I was thinking how great it was grabbing Chandler, but he has to stop moving on screens, for they call that on us. And within a few seconds, he gets called for one. He is too obvious when doing it. Tyson, just stay set dude!

And last game NONE of our shots were going in, which is as much of an anomaly as us getting calls tonight. It really is clear that we were much more aggressive tonight, and we all know that refs sometimes do award aggression with calls.

letsgosuns · Post #218 » by **letsgosuns** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 7:23 am

RunDogGun wrote:Well we lucked out from the line, and fouls called.

Did someone really say Tucker was a black hole on offense? He took 6 shots in 24 minutes. Morris took 17.

A lot of active hands tonight, but we keep turning the ball over on silly mistakes and traveling. Strange, but when I was watching the game, I was thinking how great it was grabbing Chandler, but he has to stop moving on screens, for they call that on us. And within a few seconds, he gets called for one. He is too obvious when doing it. Tyson, just stay set dude!

Tucker is a black hole on offense because he is such a non-threat to score. His offense has regressed dramatically. He averaged 2.5 ppg in preseason and so far is averaging 3 ppg in two regular season games. Obviously it is virtually no sample size but there is no denying that Tucker has become a huge liability offensively. Warren is far superior to him in every facet of the game outside of defense and that might even change one day. Starting Tucker is like having a starting lineup that is going four on five on offense.

Post #219 » by **Qwigglez** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 7:29 am

Well maybe if PJ decided to hit a diet over the offseason instead of eating fried chicken he'd play a little better. Seriously, PJ is hustle guy, fat PJ ain't gonna get the job done.
Also, I didn't watch the game. In Vegas. I wanna see the Warren highlights though.

Post #220 » by **batsmasher** » Sat Oct 31, 2015 8:12 am

PJ without his corner 3 ball looks like 12-13 PJ.

He'll hopefully get his eye in from the corner soon enough. He's not taking bad shots at all, they're just not falling.