Game 1 Rd 1 Portland vs OKC 12:30pm Sunday KATU

[Moonbeam]

That second quarter was as ugly as the first quarter was beautiful. Lillard had a pretty brutal quarter with TOs and bricks.

[PDXKnight]

Lillard is harming the team badly this quarter.

Cj too. That highly contested fade away is typical cj and when he does things like that we’d be better without him on the court..

[Epicurus]

4 steps to ram into a retreating defender--no charge according to Van Gundy.

[monopoman]

Offense came to easy in the first quarter they need to focus and not get caught up in trying to play ISO ball.

[red_power]

Blazers have 9/10 AST/TO ratio tonight.. Oklahoma doing a big favor not taking a lead in this game.

[Wizenheimer]

Blazers went to far into iso-mode in the 2nd Q. OKC ramped up their defense and Portland resorted to 1-on-1

[monopoman]

That second quarter was as ugly as the first quarter was beautiful. Lillard had a pretty brutal quarter with TOs and bricks.

Nearly the entire team looked like **** in the 2nd except Curry.

[Oneluckbox]

7 TOs in the quarter + bad shooting. That's how you let a team back into a game SMH...

The shots have been incredibly bad

Yeah I don't want to criticize Dame/CJ too much because they were lights out that 1st q, but those shot they were both taking down the stretch were cringe-worthy.

[Brandon-Clyde]

3rd quarter GLB pic

Spoiler:

[Wizenheimer]

7 TOs in the quarter + bad shooting. That's how you let a team back into a game SMH...

The shots have been incredibly bad

Yeah I don't want to criticize Dame/CJ too much because they were lights out that 1st q, but those shot they were both taking down the stretch were cringe-worthy.

what was cringe-worthy was those 2nd Q shots came from one-on-one instead of offensive flow. CJ got lucky on his coast-to-coast when he made that difficult shot, but 9 times out of 10 he'd miss that one. And Dame was quick-launching-too-early-in-the-shot-clock three's. He's not Klay Thompson

5 points in 29 minutes of SF (Mo-Hood-Turner) isn't going to cut it either

[Epicurus]

Just a thought----Lillard got wacked pretty damned hard earlier. Has that whack impacted his play? His shots and passes since then indicate yes.

[The Sebastian Express]

Thoughts:

For the second quarter I think, no offense to OKC, that the primary reason the lead was cut was we just had some really bad and unforced turnovers. I'm cautiously, extremely cautiously, optimistic if we can ct those down.

Man. Turner was awful. The dribble off his foot pretty much sums up in one play my concerns for him in the playoffs. I'm horrified honestly.

Yet somehow LEonard was worse. The only people who want to see Leonard play more than a minute are Thunder-affiliated. The one-legged Dirk fadeaway he did in the second? Don't need it, don't want it. Nope. Insert Shannon Sharpe headshake.gif.

Bonus thought: omg Dame flopped on that last charge on Westbrook to end the half.

[Oneluckbox]

Blazers getting some good looks on floaters/putback layups but bricking everything. I guess its lucky OKC can't make anything outside of a Westbrick semi-transition drive? Should be up 15 smhhhh

[DaVoiceMaster]

Why dont they rotate Harkless and Aminu on George so Harkless isnt always picking up the defensive assignment. Harkless can guard Grant.

[Moonbeam]

Brick City out there.

[monopoman]

Westbrook is almost single handily keeping them in this game period. Feels like anytime they score it's because of Westbrook.

[The Sebastian Express]

Or CJ can somehow turn it over on an inbound from two feet away

[red_power]

Playoffs has come so Lillard's playing like supermax level player.. Once again.

[The Sebastian Express]

Much needed basket by Dame.

[Sinobas]

Our offensive droughts are usually the result of Dame and CJ going into one on one mode. It's like they are so eager to go off and be the hero, and more often than not it hurts us.