The third time's the charm - First Round Series vs Portland

[NaturalThunder]

Popovich would win us this series. Instead, we're stuck with Donovan's awfulness and he's definitely going to find a way to f**k this up.

[Pillendreher]

So I guess we're back to getting destroyed in the 1st quarter again. Very spotty defense and Portland makes about everything it throws up.

[NaturalThunder]

Lillard/McCollum finally miss a damn three and bleeping Kanter gets an offensive rebound because he has midget Grant on him, and sticks it back in.

Down 13.

We ain't winning jack chit. Donovan has to go if we lose this series. We have no business losing to the Nurkic-less Blazers in a best-of-seven.

[Dadouv47]

Popovich would win us this series. Instead, we're stuck with Donovan's awfulness and he's definitely going to find a way to f**k this up.

We can't underestimate the fact that we need PG13 to play. He isn't even capable of defending well enough. It kills our chances to win

[NaturalThunder]

So I guess we're back to getting destroyed in the 1st quarter again. Very spotty defense and Portland makes about everything it throws up.

It's been our MO since mid-February. No reason to think it'd all of a sudden change now, even though the stakes are 100x higher.

[Thundershock88]

Blazers in 4. Pg isn't even trying.

[Pillendreher]

What I don't understand is why Westbrook doesn't just go under screens if he doesn't even bother going over them. Instead of just guarding somebody else, he makes a big show out of trailing his assignments by 10 feet every possession. This isn't some meaningless game against Charlotte in November.

[CROklahoma]

Third time's the Billy charm.
First team to allow 40pt quarter in playoffs.

*Pitbull Timber Playoffs song 2014*

[NaturalThunder]

We blow an odd-man-fastbreak that would've cut the lead to 7.

Blazers rattle off 5 quick points to push the lead out to 14.

[NaturalThunder]

And if Lillard and McCollum shoot like this the entire series, you can't even be mad about losing.

They aren't missing anything beyond the arc.

[Pillendreher]

George pressing on offense and very inconsistent on the other end of the floor.

[NaturalThunder]

Blazers at 35 points and there's still 1/3rd of the quarter left to play.


What the hell is wrong with this garbage team?

[ThunderBolt]

George shouldn’t have played.

[Dadouv47]

Portland playing very good team defense (not a reason for us to struggle so much though)

[NaturalThunder]

That blown fastbreak that would've cut it to 7 was our chance. That was our chance to make this a winnable game by the second quarter.

[Jstock12]

No joke, Kanter looks playable.

[NaturalThunder]

Portland playing very good team defense (not a reason for us to struggle so much though)

Kanter's actually Nurkic-ing us, too. Like, he's being as big of a thorn in our side as Nurkic normally is.


And if that's a consistent theme throughout this series, it'll be over in 5 games.

[Jstock12]

On pace for a 156-100 scoreline

[Dadouv47]

Why PG13 passed the ball to Morris? I get his shoulder issue but he's playing dumb basketball

[NaturalThunder]

Ok, time to turn this off.

I haven't tried to watch a game from the opening tip since February. Should've known if/when I tried it again it'd go this way.

This team sucks.