Game 3 Portland vs Dallas 4:00pm SNW

Post #81 » by **DeBlazerRiddem** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:40 am

Crazy finish. Go coaches challenge lol, I can see a lot of Mav fans being salty at that however. Tough break for them. They are going to be a dangerous team for a long time with that big 2.

Post #82 » by **DaVoiceMaster** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:41 am

Sinobas wrote:Huge steal. Coming down from down 18. Thank god for the challenge. I swear to God, if coaches had unlimited challenges, I bet about 33% of every call would be over-turned, as refs just guess most of the time.

More like 33% of the calls would be correct!!!

Goldbum · Post #83 » by **Goldbum** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:42 am

Skal looks like a high caliber reserve big. More offensive than defense but a good player. If Collins misses flipping I’d start Skal and Bazemore to balance the lineups...

Blazinaway · Post #84 » by **Blazinaway** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:42 am

Now lets hope it just a mild sprain for Zack and he's not out too long

Post #85 » by **DaVoiceMaster** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:43 am

Maybe he dislocated the shoulder?

monopoman · Post #86 » by **monopoman** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:44 am

I hope it wasn't dislocated it didn't look that bad in real time though obviously we will have to see.

Blazinaway · Post #87 » by **Blazinaway** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:44 am

DaVoiceMaster wrote:Maybe he dislocated the shoulder?

thats what I thought at first but not sure, didn't see any really bad or even significant contact but maybe I missed it

Post #88 » by **DeBlazerRiddem** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:45 am

DaVoiceMaster wrote:Maybe he dislocated the shoulder?

That's what it looked like to me too, his reaction looked really similar to when Meyers dislocated it.

Brandon-Clyde · Post #89 » by **Brandon-Clyde** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:46 am

Victory GLB pic

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Brandon-Clyde · Post #90 » by **Brandon-Clyde** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:46 am

Victory GLB pic

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d-train · Post #91 » by **d-train** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:47 am

Zach might need an appointment with Nurk's hickie doctor.

monopoman · Post #92 » by **monopoman** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:54 am

Wow Tolliver with a -15 in 3 minutes of game time how on earth do you even do that. That has to be a record or something...

Goldbum · Post #93 » by **Goldbum** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:59 am

I say cut Tolliver and sign Melo... Sounds crazy but if he’ll take the minimum to have a chance at redemption then I would be excited about a potential Melo/Gasol boost...

Post #94 » by **Moonbeam** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 2:00 am

monopoman wrote:Wow Tolliver with a -15 in 3 minutes of game time how on earth do you even do that. That has to be a record or something...

How quickly we forget Nolan!

https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201301190POR.html

Blazinaway · Post #95 » by **Blazinaway** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 2:02 am

Stotts just said "discolated", depends how severe but per Reddit avg NBA shoulder dislocation is 27 games missed

monopoman · Post #96 » by **monopoman** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 2:08 am

Zach said his shoulder popped back in cleanly but they are going to have an MRI done just to make sure.

Blazinaway · Post #97 » by **Blazinaway** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 2:16 am

Blazinaway wrote:Stotts just said "discolated", depends how severe but per Reddit avg NBA shoulder dislocation is 27 games missed

whats the deal on bringing back guys on 2-ways?

Post #98 » by **Moonbeam** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 2:20 am

Moonbeam wrote:
monopoman wrote:Wow Tolliver with a -15 in 3 minutes of game time how on earth do you even do that. That has to be a record or something...

How quickly we forget Nolan!

https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201301190POR.html

Just to remind everyone of the hilarity, here's what Ben Golliver wrote on BlazersEdge after the game in question:

There are drop-offs and then there are D-R-O-P-O-F-F-S. Hyperbole is easily abused and my memory has been totally destroyed by Twitter, as I've written many times previously. I just can't recall ever seeing a stretch of basketball in which a substitution caused the type of swift and total destruction that Nolan Smith's entry for Lillard brought in the first quarter of this game.

The numbers are flabbergasting. In less than three minutes of action, Smith finished with zero points, zero rebounds, zero assists, zero steals, zero blocks, shot zero-for-zero from the field, committed three turnovers and was a -17. His three turnovers all were inexcusable and led directly to seven points from three lay-ups (one with an and-one). He turned blindly into a double team on one of them, his soft perimeter pass was intercepted on the second, and his pocket was picked on the third.

Blazers coach Terry Stotts even called a 20-second timeout following the first 12 points of the 17-point run. It was one of those "OK, WTF, get your head in the game, guys" timeouts that was promptly followed up by five more points being conceded in a row. If the goal was to stop the bleeding, that timeout worked about as well as putting a dinosaur band-aid on a land mine mangled leg. By halftime, the score was 62-45. In the 21:23 that Smith wasn't on the court, the score was tied 45-45. During the 2:37 that he was on the court, the Bucks won 17-0.

Just to reinforce the impact of that substitution: this stretch was the equivalent of Smith making a free throw into the Bucks' hoop every 9.2 seconds for as long as he stayed on the court with everyone else on both teams just standing around watching him.

d-train · Post #99 » by **d-train** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 2:24 am

I would rather have Zach healthy. But, Tolliver is going to be fine with the starters. Maybe we go with Mario. I think we will go with Tolliver.

Post #100 » by **DaVoiceMaster** » Mon Oct 28, 2019 2:28 am

Aldridge will kill anyone the Blazers play against him. Won't be pretty.