Game 61: Phoenix Suns (18-42) at Portland Trail Blazers (33-26), Feb 24, 7PM MST

Post #101 » by **ATTL** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:30 am

Need to add talent this summer.

Blackification · Post #102 » by **Blackification** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:31 am

LukasBMW wrote:Wow.

I'm a tanker...but this loss...HURTS.

Gonna be an unhappy lockerroom.

I am beyond giving a **** about the lockerroom at this point, this team needs to be dismantled to the core.

JMac1 · Post #103 » by **JMac1** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:32 am

What a tank job! The bottom team fans are gonna be real upset tonight.

bhawk · Post #104 » by **bhawk** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:32 am

bhawk wrote:
Blackification wrote:
Young gun 6 wrote:**** we are going to be the ones who break the bottom 8 tanking streak.

and move like 5 spots because of it :/

See my post in the Draft watch... we suck at everything, why should tanking be any different???

The dream is still alive!!! Keep losing guys. It is for the best. Whew, that was close...

Post #105 » by **lilfishi22** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:32 am

grumpysaddle wrote:
lilfishi22 wrote:On the negative tho, Booker clearly is happy

You mean isnt?

Yeah he wasn't happy with that 5s violation and after his heroics (minus that terrible lob to Payton that went out of bounds), it's gotta be tough.

bhawk · Post #106 » by **bhawk** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:34 am

lespaul89 wrote:I love Book, but that loss is on him. From the final 2 minutes of the 3rd Q on, he slowly dribbled the ball up the court and waited too late in the shot clock to start the play. It lead to so many inefficient shot attempts. It's not like we were up 20. I'd much rather have ball movement that leads to a good look, than dribbling the air out of the ball and then taking forced tough shots.

Maybe Book is in on the tank? Conspiracy theories unite...

Hesh · Post #107 » by **Hesh** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:34 am

I'm conflicted. Happy that we got the L but the way it was "earned" was messed up. Wtf was Troy Daniels thinking with 20 seconds left on the clock. Why did we cause the offense to stagnate by going to Booker-ball when we had a good lead. Payton wasted so much time on that possession because he was suppose to get it it to Booker. Why was a G-league player in during clutch time.

Triano man.

Young gun 6 · Post #108 » by **Young gun 6** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:35 am

Chicago - we are the best at purposely throwing a bad inbound ball to tank a game

Phoenix.....Hold my beer.

Blackification · Post #109 » by **Blackification** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:35 am

lilfishi22 wrote:
grumpysaddle wrote:
lilfishi22 wrote:On the negative tho, Booker clearly is happy

You mean isnt?

Yeah he wasn't happy with that 5s violation and after his heroics (minus that terrible lob to Payton that went out of bounds), it's gotta be tough.

he made a couple big shots, but made his fair share of mistakes to let the Blazers come back in the first place. Either way he won't give a **** next year as long as we make the right moves over the off season to get rid of some of these bums and bring in players that should be on an nba team.

Hesh · Post #110 » by **Hesh** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:39 am

Why is Booker even bringing up the ball and handling the PG duties when Elfrid is on the court, since he's a non shooter that renders him useless so its basically 4v5

Midnight_Suns · Post #111 » by **Midnight_Suns** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:44 am

At least our future center is about to drop a 30 and 20 game.

Mulhollanddrive · Post #112 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:50 am

We were up 15 with 7 minutes to go.

WeekapaugGroove · Post #113 » by **WeekapaugGroove** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:55 am

Lol that was strong tanky.

I wonder why you even use the timeout that set up the awful play. They were just going to run booker iso anyway so why burn the last TO.

I'm predicting 3 wins the rest of the day.

Mulhollanddrive · Post #114 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:58 am

I don't see any of our Orlando friends around lol.

Post #115 » by **lilfishi22** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 5:04 am

Mulhollanddrive wrote:We were up 15 with 7 minutes to go.

lol EJ was preempting the viewers that CJ or Dame were due to go off. Stealthy tank commentary

Post #116 » by **lilfishi22** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 5:06 am

Shaq Harrison

garrick · Post #117 » by **garrick** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 5:21 am

Questionable coaching from Triano, your team is up by 15 and fail to manage the last several minutes of the game.

Should have called a timeout a lot earlier on the previous possession or just let them try and run a final play, instead they can't inbound the ball with no timeouts remaining.

Post #118 » by **bwgood77** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 5:29 am

I don't think it was such a huge choke job as much as they couldn't hit the broad side of a barn in the first half...or even through 3 1/2 quarters, and we had hit like over 50% on 3s early, and they finally started shooting better. That last non inbounds of course was awful, but we had been lucky they were so cold early to be up by so much.

thamadkant · Post #119 » by **thamadkant** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 6:02 am

This game is the perfect game for the pro-compete and pro-tank camps.

Players believed they had the chance to win... This is important for HUNGER and Motivation.

But GM is happy that the Suns remain bottom spot... And tankathon leader.

Perfect for getting players to try harder next time... They got beat by an awesome player in Lillard. This guy is CLUTCH and a half. Ice in his veins.

Much better than losing by 48 against them last time.

dremill24 · Post #120 » by **dremill24** » Sun Feb 25, 2018 6:03 am

Laugh at Shaq all you want but based on his 2 games he could very well be our best defensive player. I love his effort and hands.