GT: Charlotte @ Portland - Dec 17th 10:00pm

[Snidely FC]

Can’t believe Plumlee was traded for Nurkic at one point; wish they would do that swap again now

All those shots that fell for Gordon in SA fell off the rim tonight

Oubre missed his first 3: amazing how consistent an omen that is

Rozier never scores till q4 anyway and taking Oubre out of the starting lineup has hurt his flow why not start Oubre

Can beat this Por team when Lillard scores 40 but not when McLemore who avgs 7 scores 28; really annoying to watch him whoop it up; enjoy your one good night as a pro bro

[SWedd523]

Agreed with Bass pretty much across the board

One of Rozier or Gordo needs to be the centerpiece for a deal that gets us a true big. This is a "regular season" team as constructed and will be thumped in the playoffs when pace slows down and opponents decide to play defense.

They need to make a move or a gamble for someone who can change the trajectory while they can. Their ceiling is severely limited by hemorrhaging so much in the middle.

Melo needs all the incentive possible to stick around long term.

[KembaWalker]

Time for Terry to go back to his 6th man role and promote Cody. Doesn't fix all our problems but attempts to address a couple of them, keep the ball in lamelos hands and put someone out there who at least tries on wing defense. I hate when Terry tries to go PG mode with LaMelo out there

[amcoolio]

I agree that Terry is the one that doesn't fit now that LaMelo can hit big shots, but the problem is we just extended him and he is the hardest to trade. Id much rather keep Gordo.

​I'm 99% certain we will make the playoffs. That's not even an issue once this schedule goes in our favor. Agree with everything else, but seems like it's been 7 or 8 gamed like this instead of 4 or 5. Beyond frustrating

I'm not certain at all we make the playoffs, being bottom 3 in defense projects to a .500 season no matter how good your offense is. This team reminds me of the 2017-2018 Denver Nuggets - exciting young team but major flaws and they missed the playoffs

[JDR720]

Cody is probably our most well-rounded player. He can do most things Gordon can do offensively, and he's our best defender. There isn't any reason he shouldn't start.

Rozier needs to go to the bench. Between Melo/Miles and Gordon, he is the 4th option. But on the bench, he'd be a lot more useful. Especially when Oubre is bad Oubre.

I don't have a problem with PJ camping for threes, as long as he makes them. But our issues remain, we have no interior presence on offense or defense. We have a top 3 guard rotation, and a bottom 3 big rotation.

We need to make a trade to balance out the team. One of the guards (Gordon, Rozier) need to go and we need to find a center or even a physical PF would work at this point.

[Soul Rebel]

Agreed with Bass pretty much across the board

One of Rozier or Gordo needs to be the centerpiece for a deal that gets us a true big. This is a "regular season" team as constructed and will be thumped in the playoffs when pace slows down and opponents decide to play defense.

They need to make a move or a gamble for someone who can change the trajectory while they can. Their ceiling is severely limited by hemorrhaging so much in the middle.

Melo needs all the incentive possible to stick around long term.