Wednesday 11/5 NBA Game Thread

[Memories]

Don't even care what happened in Lakers/Spurs...I watched the correct game, it sounds like. That is a MASSIVE win for the Blazers, to come back from down 22 to win against an undefeated team.

Haven't been this excited about the Blazers in 6 years.

I don’t understand how the Blazers could win against an undefeated Thunder team, yet lose against a hospital Lakers team carried by the likes of Nick Smith Jr on a back-to-back just a couple of days ago?

[Lalouie]

The fourth quarter lasted a whole hour. NBA needs to do something about all these free throws, stoppages for reviews, and timeouts. This is not entertaining.

You can thank Adam Silver for this bullcrap. Dude likes to constantly over-inflate scoring numbers, nobody allowed to play defense and then play coward when it comes to punishing players/teams like the Clippers/Leonard.

basketball is such a fast game the color analysts don't have time before the next play is on

i think the reaction to the ft's is overblown because of it..some people have to take a break to go use the restroom

[Statlanta]

Victor has to solve the flopping against him. He's too valuable to be in consistent foul trouble if he's going to be the entire backbone of their defense. That's 2 games thrown away because of his lack of availablity.

[Edrees]

Don't even care what happened in Lakers/Spurs...I watched the correct game, it sounds like. That is a MASSIVE win for the Blazers, to come back from down 22 to win against an undefeated team.

Haven't been this excited about the Blazers in 6 years.

I don’t understand how the Blazers could win against an undefeated Thunder team, yet lose against a hospital Lakers team carried by the likes of Nick Smith Jr on a back-to-back just a couple of days ago?

The main difference between the best teams and players and the worst ones in a NBA where everyone has immense talent, is just effort. (Exceptions being the top 10 players in the league who are just super talented)

The Blazers saw the 3 best players on the Lakers weren't playing and probably went into the game relaxed thinking an easy W.

Then they were probably pissed for losing that game so went into the next game extra focused.

[Archx]

I don't know what kind of negative achievement points is Nico collecting there in Dallas but it looks like he'll collect all of them. Trade for "defense" and yet i'm not sure if a certain fat guy having more steals and blocks, than a future DPOY Shaolin monk, was on his bingo card.

[Johnny Tomala]

Cavaliers, Timberwolves, Nuggets, Lakers, Thunder

3/5 correct picks.

50-23 season results.

[The4thHorseman]

Victor has to solve the flopping against him. He's too valuable to be in consistent foul trouble if he's going to be the entire backbone of their defense. That's 2 games thrown away because of his lack of availablity.

The 2 charges he was called for were definitely good calls. The one against Hachimura was a blatant charge.

[WestbrookGOATed]

Russ looked like Russ last night. Vintage.

[Mamba Mentality]

I remember someone kept track of the free throw advantage for the Spurs in the 3rd, I wonder if that same guy did the same in the 4th

Both fanbases can agree that the officiating tonight was dog ****.

Before this, the net advantage in the FTA department thru 9 games is 40. Any dog **** officiating going on then? Or maybe it wasn’t that big of an advantage tonight?

Where were you the last two games where our opponents shot 14 more free throws (Blazers) and and 13 more free throws (Heat)? I can tell you one thing, I wasn't crying about the free throw disparity...

[Liam_Gallagher]

The Lakers are just a good, solid, all-around team. They were a 50-win team last year with Jaxson Hayes as their only center, and now Ayton is playing like a fringe all-star. LaRavia and Smart have both outplayed the productivity of DFS last season.

All without LeBron too.

[Homer38]

The Lakers are just a good, solid, all-around team. They were a 50-win team last year with Jaxson Hayes as their only center, and now Ayton is playing like a fringe all-star. LaRavia and Smart have both outplayed the productivity of DFS last season.

All without LeBron too.

Luka was also out for 4 games and Reaves for 2 games now!

[Mamba Mentality]

The Lakers are just a good, solid, all-around team. They were a 50-win team last year with Jaxson Hayes as their only center, and now Ayton is playing like a fringe all-star. LaRavia and Smart have both outplayed the productivity of DFS last season.

All without LeBron too.

Luka was also out for 4 games and Reaves for 2 games now!

on top of all that we've played 7 different starting lineups, JJ is putting on a coaching clinic

[zzaj]

Don't even care what happened in Lakers/Spurs...I watched the correct game, it sounds like. That is a MASSIVE win for the Blazers, to come back from down 22 to win against an undefeated team.

Haven't been this excited about the Blazers in 6 years.

I don’t understand how the Blazers could win against an undefeated Thunder team, yet lose against a hospital Lakers team carried by the likes of Nick Smith Jr on a back-to-back just a couple of days ago?

The main difference between the best teams and players and the worst ones in a NBA where everyone has immense talent, is just effort. (Exceptions being the top 10 players in the league who are just super talented)

The Blazers saw the 3 best players on the Lakers weren't playing and probably went into the game relaxed thinking an easy W.

Then they were probably pissed for losing that game so went into the next game extra focused.

There was certainly a bit of this. They played much worse defense in the game then they had been showing through the first few. And kudos to the Lakers, they attacked the Blazers where they are weakest (midrange) and hit huge shots in the 4th.

However, the Blazers literally laid bricks from 3 in that Laker game...to the tune of like 25% from 3. If they would have even shot 30% from 3 they would have won the game. If they would have shot league average they would have won by 10.

The OKC game, it looked like SGA got tired in about the 3rd quarter and never quite had his usual sauce. He was also playing with 5 fouls for a good portion of the 4th, and the Blazers were smartly going right at him for easy buckets.

This was a bit of 'proof of concept' for the Blazers--showing when they play defense at their typical level and hit 3s at even league average, they can beat a lot of teams.

[Harry Palmer]

Grizz look bad as expected. When are the rockets gonna face a good team lol? These power rankings have them as 4th best team and they haven't won against anyone with a record better than .500.

Please.

First, on opening night in OKC, they went to double OT (or was it triple?) and had KD(!) hit either ft he missed at end of regulation to mention one of many careless plays, they give the Thunder their only loss so far this season. Then again in Detroit they play very sloppy and lost a 4 point game to what we are coming to understand might be a pretty damn good team, and in their games against under .500 opposition..which again, this early on, might mean anything, they have been winning by massive margins except Dallas where they only won by 8. And some games weren’t even as close as they seemed, for example they beat Boston by mid 20’s but were up mid 30’s when they sent in the mop-up squad.

Now, will they have some issues with teams who can show consistent supported ball pressure, like OKC did? I think so, but it’s improving and not too many teams can do that as well, and like I mentioned, even in their first live action without FVV, facing fantastic supported ball pressure the game is theirs if not for a fluke. So, yeah, there’s a reason people are so high on their start.