Game 65: Minnesota Timberwolves (38-26) @ Portland Trailblazers (35-26) - 10:30 PM ET

[Mattya]

Teague, Tyus, Dieng, and Crawford were just terrible. Wiggins had a great defensive showing. Towns was an all around beast. Taj was good. Bjelica was a good glue guy.

[MN7725]

WHat did I say. As soon as the threes started going in, we are done. We cant play with these modern 3 ball teams, just cannot hang, its way too powerful of a shot to not have. It's like trying to wrestle with a hand tied behind your back.

Wolves remind of raptors previous few years, who would have very good ORTG offenses but their greatest strength was getting to the FT line

And it just wouldn’t work nearly as well in playoffs, game is simply different than regular season

[FargoWolf]

I would kill to see tyus get some more run. Teague’s confidence has just been zapped all season


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Tyus hasn't been much better lately.

[Mattya]

Tyus needs to step up like he did earlier in the season. Been invisible for a long time.

[Shem]

With average officiating this game would've been over already. Atrocious calls that clearly went Portland's way... Lakers-Kings level of bs. I haven't been this heated because of a stupid game in a minute. That hook call was actually correct in my eyes, but all the freaking contact calls on layups are tragic.

That's funny. Remember December 18?

https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/portland-trail-blazers-minnesota-timberwolves-2017121816/

21 to 5 in FT attempts in favor of the Wolves. Not only that, the Blazers had 52 points in the paint. Just saying I don't think you have room to talk about that in this game.

[Mattya]

With average officiating this game would've been over already. Atrocious calls that clearly went Portland's way... Lakers-Kings level of bs. I haven't been this heated because of a stupid game in a minute. That hook call was actually correct in my eyes, but all the freaking contact calls on layups are tragic.

That's funny. Remember December 18?

https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/portland-trail-blazers-minnesota-timberwolves-2017121816/

21 to 5 in FT attempts in favor of the Wolves. Not only that, the Blazers had 52 points in the paint. Just saying I don't think you have room to talk about that in this game.

Why not?

[Crazy-Canuck]

we lost ut when crawford went into hero mode and ran everything through him like he was jimmy.

[red_power]

Great game for wolves, something just went wrong in the end

[Calinks]

Man we are in trouble. At this point we pretty much have to turn into an elite defensive team finish strong. We can't keep pace with these shooting teams and we will get bodied when the intensity turns up if we cant get any stops. Only reason why Blazers didn't make this game look easier early is because they were having an extremely bad shooting night from down town. Abnormal play for them. If they had been hitting their shots like normal we would be down all game.

I just dont see us being able to hold the great 3 point shooting teams to numbers as low as our own. We may drop down to 7th or 8th and then have to face Houston or GSW in the first round which will be an absolute slaughter even with Butler.

[Shem]

With average officiating this game would've been over already. Atrocious calls that clearly went Portland's way... Lakers-Kings level of bs. I haven't been this heated because of a stupid game in a minute. That hook call was actually correct in my eyes, but all the freaking contact calls on layups are tragic.

That's funny. Remember December 18?

https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/portland-trail-blazers-minnesota-timberwolves-2017121816/

21 to 5 in FT attempts in favor of the Wolves. Not only that, the Blazers had 52 points in the paint. Just saying I don't think you have room to talk about that in this game.

Why not?

So you don't see the irony here?

[Mattya]

That's funny. Remember December 18?

https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/portland-trail-blazers-minnesota-timberwolves-2017121816/

21 to 5 in FT attempts in favor of the Wolves. Not only that, the Blazers had 52 points in the paint. Just saying I don't think you have room to talk about that in this game.

Why not?

So you don't see the irony here?

You thought the officiating was good?

[theGreatRC]

If Taj is out for an extending period of time, we are ****.

We can't keep losing guys & not sign anyone

[AirP.]

Minnesota gave up 64 points in the 2nd half. Man, this team looks bad with it's top 2 defensive players not playing.

[Shem]

Why not?

So you don't see the irony here?

You thought the officiating was good?

Did you think the refereeing was good December 18? Or are you going to continue to dodge that game and continue to turn a blind eye to the irony?

[mantistoboggan]

I would kill to see tyus get some more run. Teague’s confidence has just been zapped all season


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Tyus hasn't been much better lately.

Totally get that - seemed like he was rolling earlier in the year with Teague out.

Just tough to win when your PG rotation isn’t offering any spacing, distribution or defense. I thought Teague would do so much more with his spot up opportunities this year.

[Mattya]

So you don't see the irony here?

You thought the officiating was good?

Did you think the refereeing was good December 18? Or are you going to continue to dodge that game and continue to turn a blind eye to the irony?

Reffing was good that game, and bad this game. Why do you continue to dodge the question of the quality of reffing this game?

[MN7725]

Man we are in trouble. At this point we pretty much have to turn into an elite defensive team finish strong. We can't keep pace with these shooting teams and we will get bodied when the intensity turns up if we cant get any stops. Only reason why Blazers didn't make this game look easier early is because they were having an extremely bad shooting night from down town. Abnormal play for them. If they had been hitting their shots like normal we would be down all game.

I just dont see us being able to hold the great 3 point shooting teams to numbers as low as our own. We may drop down to 7th or 8th and then have to face Houston or GSW in the first round which will be an absolute slaughter even with Butler.

I’ll be surprised if wolves make playoffs, although I might be underestimating how many tanking teams they face compared to other teams, haven’t checked that

KAT has to be at AD level to win against playoffs teams and I doubt he’ll get the ball consistently all game to do that

[life_saver]

Lol people **** on Teague just after 1 bad game and calling for Tyus as if he has been playing well...Teague has been playing well for last 6-7 games

[Shem]

You thought the officiating was good?

Did you think the refereeing was good December 18? Or are you going to continue to dodge that game and continue to turn a blind eye to the irony?

Reffing was good that game, and bad this game. Why do you continue to dodge the question of the quality of reffing this game?

Because I asked first. And if you thought Dec. 18 was a great officiating, then you have no idea what a foul is or you just think your Wolves team never committed a foul in their lives. Because your Wolves team got away with more than was called. Dame should have been to the line at least 6 more times TBH. If the reffing was fair throughout the 4 game series, the Blazers would have won the season series 3-1.

[mantistoboggan]

So you don't see the irony here?

You thought the officiating was good?

Did you think the refereeing was good December 18? Or are you going to continue to dodge that game and continue to turn a blind eye to the irony?

This is good - I’ll be sure to add this to my playbook next time anyone comments on a poorly officiated game... it was just a matter of time until the karma of 12/18/17 came back to bite us!


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