Game 36: Portland vs Dallas 5:30pm Chargetv KUNP

[PDXKnight]

Dallas getting the homecooking calls in that last 2 minutes. Hopefully the NBA gets it right officially. Baffling...except when you think about the quality of NBA refs.

Good loss, probably!

I think its part home cooking but also having a bad record or the reputation of being garbage is a sure fire way to never get a call

[Walton1one]

Late night at work, good loss

lol, Simons

[DusterBuster]

Yeah, some silly calls and gross late whistles... but this game was lost the second Chauncey went small. He's such a bad coach, he has literally zero feel for game flow from the sidelines.

Someone give that dude the deflated game ball.

[PDXKnight]

Yeah, some silly calls and gross late whistles... but this game was lost the second Chauncey became head coach for the blazers. He's such a bad coach, he has literally zero feel for game flow from the sidelines.

Someone give that dude the deflated game ball.

Fixed it for you

[zzaj]

The NBA is trying to be an "entertainment" league, and the refs gave some entertainment to the hometown fans. So it goes...

Blazers shouldn't have been in the position to allow that to happen. Great tank coaching by Chauncey in the second half of the 4th.

Tankey Billups, FTW!

Positives?

Nice to see Clingan have a bit of a return to what we saw earlier in the season with more minutes.

Scoot with a good game overall.

I like seeing the aggressive version of Sharpe. He pulled his disappearing act in the 4th--I'd rather have him taking those 4th quarter shots than Simons.

[Moonbeam]

Tough to watch down the stretch, but not entirely surprising. There did seem to be some calls that went against the Blazers that could have had an impact late - oh well.

[PDXKnight]

Has ant just about always had a stupid turnover late?

[zzaj]

Dallas getting the homecooking calls in that last 2 minutes. Hopefully the NBA gets it right officially. Baffling...except when you think about the quality of NBA refs.

Good loss, probably!

I think its part home cooking but also having a bad record or the reputation of being garbage is a sure fire way to never get a call

While I agree, you can't tell me that Dallas went a full first quarter and half of the second without a team foul. That just isn't reality, but it was called that way.

FTA disparity again was +10 for Dallas, which isn't necessarily terrible--but not good. Blazers should have had at least 2 more trips in the closing 4 minutes.

But again, Tankey Billups is doing a good job leaning into his sub-mediocrity. I can't be too upset with any loss when the team DESPERATELY needs to nail a high draft pick if they want to make the POs in the next 10 years.

[zzaj]

And Simons is like the opposite of clutch. I don't care what you so, Shem. lol

I can't wait for him to be off the team. ISO ball is garbage when you don't have elite talent.

Not saying i disagree but at least in terms of hitting clutch shots he's somehow in the top 10 this year. Of course he can't make if he turns it over beforehand..

Where? Show me where. Shem said 6th. I can't find that statistically anywhere. So until I see it with my own eyes I won't believe it.

[PDXKnight]

And Simons is like the opposite of clutch. I don't care what you so, Shem. lol

I can't wait for him to be off the team. ISO ball is garbage when you don't have elite talent.

Not saying i disagree but at least in terms of hitting clutch shots he's somehow in the top 10 this year. Of course he can't make if he turns it over beforehand..

Where? Show me where. Shem said 6th. I can't find that statistically anywhere. So until I see it with my own eyes I won't believe it.

The TV crew is claiming this stat

[PDXKnight]

Dallas getting the homecooking calls in that last 2 minutes. Hopefully the NBA gets it right officially. Baffling...except when you think about the quality of NBA refs.

Good loss, probably!

I think its part home cooking but also having a bad record or the reputation of being garbage is a sure fire way to never get a call

While I agree, you can't tell me that Dallas went a full first quarter and half of the second without a team foul. That just isn't reality, but it was called that way.

FTA disparity again was +10 for Dallas, which isn't necessarily terrible--but not good. Blazers should have had at least 2 more trips in the closing 4 minutes.

But again, Tankey Billups is doing a good job leaning into his sub-mediocrity. I can't be too upset with any loss when the team DESPERATELY needs to nail a high draft pick if they want to make the POs in the next 10 years.

I dont disagree it was called unfairly more than likely. I'm just saying bad teams get less calls more oftej than not

[JRoy]

More of this would be great

[m0ng0]

So yeah do you want them to win or lose?

[JRoy]

So yeah do you want them to win or lose?

Short term lose

Long term win

[zzaj]

So yeah do you want them to win or lose?

Personally, want them to lose close games...with Scoot, Sharpe, Deni, Camara and Clingan having great games. I'd prefer Simons, Grant, and Ayton to be off of the team.

[DaVoiceMaster]

And Simons is like the opposite of clutch. I don't care what you so, Shem. lol

I can't wait for him to be off the team. ISO ball is garbage when you don't have elite talent.

Not saying i disagree but at least in terms of hitting clutch shots he's somehow in the top 10 this year. Of course he can't make if he turns it over beforehand..

Where? Show me where. Shem said 6th. I can't find that statistically anywhere. So until I see it with my own eyes I won't believe it.

The Blazers announcers literally talk about it every other game. Sharpe is #4 in the league, Simons moved up from #7 to #6. They even out the list on the screen.

[DaVoiceMaster]

Yeah, some silly calls and gross late whistles... but this game was lost the second Chauncey went small. He's such a bad coach, he has literally zero feel for game flow from the sidelines.

Someone give that dude the deflated game ball.

I'm yelling at Billups through the TV to put Clingan back in for Murray cuz the small lineup is killing them. 10-seconds later, here comes Clingan for Murray. I've never even played organized ball and I'm a better coach than Billups.

[zzaj]

Not saying i disagree but at least in terms of hitting clutch shots he's somehow in the top 10 this year. Of course he can't make if he turns it over beforehand..

Where? Show me where. Shem said 6th. I can't find that statistically anywhere. So until I see it with my own eyes I won't believe it.

The Blazers announcers literally talk about it every other game. Sharpe is #4 in the league, Simons moved up from #7 to #6. They even out the list on the screen.

Ah well, I mostly watch with the sound off. Sometimes I'll turn it on for certain calls, but...I can't stand Colabro.

Looking at NBA.com's Clutch stats if you go by points alone, Simons is tied for 5th (at 3 points) with Caleb Houstan, Torrey Craig and Jaime Jaquez...Trendon Watford is #1...so tells you how valuable that stat is.

If you go by FG% Simons doesn't make the top 50.

https://www.nba.com/stats/players/clutch-traditional?ClutchTime=Last%203%20Minutes&PointDiff=3&dir=A&sort=PTS

Sounds like the team is cooking up some special "positive" stats for viewers to me. Given "clutch" is always going to be super noisy, you could probably prove just about anything if you work them right.

Now maybe our goalposts are different...maybe they have access to stat tracking last shots in games through Synergy or something (NBA.com tracks last 3 minutes for "clutch"). But again, if you're making the last game winning shot 80% of the time only a handful of times in multiple sub-.300 seasons? Well, I just question whether that "clutchness" realistically has any real value...I seriously doubt it would be to a GM who is weighing Simons' worth to their franchise.

In any case, not really sure why I'm dying on this hill. How "clutch" Simons is is pointless if he's not leading the team to Ws...and so far he hasn't shown he can singularly win games for the team in any meaningful way.

[Walton1one]

Last 4min of last night’s game

4:10 Simons drive\blocked
3:45 Sharpe 3pt miss
3:15 Simons stripped TO
2:35 Sharpe drive miss
2:15 Simons 3pt miss
1:35 Simons 3pt miss
1:10 Camara drive miss
:28 Camara dunk
: 05 Simons 3pt miss

In there somewhere was the drive-by Sharpe, where he was fouled, and they changed it to ball out of bounds instead of him taking FT

Also drive by Camara was likely a foul by Lively, but they didn’t call it, I’m not gonna whine about the calls, both we’re in the margins where a home team could get that call so it just is what it is

[BlazersBroncos]

Great loss.

Building blocks played well and ping pong balls improved.

Team is much more fun to watch without Grant these past few games.

Ayton only playing 21 minutes is also great to see.