Game 38: Portland vs Minnesota 5:00pm SNW

Brandon-Clyde · Post #1 » by **Brandon-Clyde** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 6:28 am

vs

Time: 5:00pm
Place: Minnesota
TV: SNW

GLB of the game Devon Aoki

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monopoman · Post #2 » by **monopoman** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:20 am

The battle of which team has more energy begins.

ducler · Post #3 » by **ducler** » Sun Mar 14, 2021 6:59 pm

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Brandon-Clyde · Post #4 » by **Brandon-Clyde** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:00 am

1st quarter GLB pic

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Brandon-Clyde · Post #5 » by **Brandon-Clyde** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:39 am

2nd quarter GLB pic

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JRoy · Post #6 » by **JRoy** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 1:11 am

Need a defensive upgrade

Brandon-Clyde · Post #7 » by **Brandon-Clyde** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 1:14 am

3rd quarter GLB pic

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Brandon-Clyde · Post #8 » by **Brandon-Clyde** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 1:51 am

4th quarter GLB pic

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Brandon-Clyde · Post #9 » by **Brandon-Clyde** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:01 am

Emergency GLB pic

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Post #10 » by **Moonbeam** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:09 am

Hard to win back-to-back games against any team. That said, Portland has one of the toughest schedules in the second half of the season, so they need to pile up wins against the sub-.500 teams they face.

Brandon-Clyde · Post #11 » by **Brandon-Clyde** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:37 am

d-train · Post #12 » by **d-train** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:51 am

JRoy wrote:Need a defensive upgrade

This is the 3rd game in a row I see Jones has lost minutes to Melo and Little. So, Stotts is looking for offense. Why not, if your best defense isn't stopping anyone.

monopoman · Post #13 » by **monopoman** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:30 am

These are the type of games where if we had better Defense we would win, or if we had back Nurkic or CJ we probably win.

Norm2953 · Post #14 » by **Norm2953** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:33 am

C'mon now, they were playing a team that was 8-30 going into the game.

Post #15 » by **DaVoiceMaster** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:34 am

Easily the worst game of the season. Even worse than the Phoenix blow out. Townes does not have as good a game if the Blazers had a second center available. Edward's is pretty good. I kinda wondered why they continued to leave him wide open behind the line after he already made several 3 pointers.

d-train · Post #16 » by **d-train** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:59 am

DaVoiceMaster wrote:Easily the worst game of the season. Even worse than the Phoenix blow out. Townes does not have as good a game if the Blazers had a second center available. Edward's is pretty good. I kinda wondered why they continued to leave him wide open behind the line after he already made several 3 pointers.

RoCo did a better job on KAT than Kanter did. We did alright against KAT. We need CJ and Nurk back. We aren't good with 2 of our best 3 players out.

Village Idiot · Post #17 » by **Village Idiot** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:12 am

Even having Giles would have helped. What ever happened to Harry?

JasonStern · Post #18 » by **JasonStern** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 5:34 pm

Bummer. Those are the games that you look back at the end of the season and wish you had back when it comes to seeding.

If the Blazers can't complete a trade for Gordon, I'm warming up to Jones+Collins+Hood for Aldridge. Not sure how it would play out long-term, but the Blazers probably win last night if they had Aldridge. Still rather make the Gordon trade, though.

Village Idiot wrote:Even having Giles would have helped. What ever happened to Harry?

Calf injury. Listed as "day to day". But Giles' health concerns were the reason why the Blazers were able to sign him to a minimum contract, so I'm less optimistic about a quick return.

Post #19 » by **DeBlazerRiddem** » Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:47 pm

That BS review on the "restricted area" cost us the game. Lillard was no where near the restricted area and everyone knew that, and in real-time they thought he got to the spot in time, so why can they go over-turn that on a clearly false claim of being in the restricted area?

That was basically a free coaches challenge to a team that had already used theirs. Essentially Minnesota got 2 coaches challenge in the last couple minutes of the game.

Epicurus · Post #20 » by **Epicurus** » Tue Mar 16, 2021 12:14 am

DaVoiceMaster wrote:Easily the worst game of the season. Even worse than the Phoenix blow out. Townes does not have as good a game if the Blazers had a second center available. Edward's is pretty good. I kinda wondered why they continued to leave him wide open behind the line after he already made several 3 pointers.

To get enough players to contest for misses, which the previous game was ridiculous with the Wolves' offensive rebounds. SOmething has to give when you have but one 6'9 or bigger player.