[Game] Kings v. Blazers 11/08/13 Game Thread
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Please, please, PLEASE let Wiggins decide to stay two years at Kansas! I'm so sick of this bull****! For seven years I've had to listen to people talk about "lins," and "wossess," and tanking, and "Wait until next year, when we get that superstar in the draft! Then it'll be worth it, you'll see!" Play to win, god damn it!
It would so serve all of these Rigging for Wiggins people right if he doesn't come out...
Preach it, coach!
It would so serve all of these Rigging for Wiggins people right if he doesn't come out...
Preach it, coach!
Don't know if this was commented on in game thread... What was up with Aldridge on Portland bench with his I-pad and looking at the screen while laughing it up with Batum during game action? Is that how little they take seriously facing the Kings... View a flick? Watch some music vids? Laugh at replays of Kings defense in action?!!
Our problem tonight wasn't IT, it wasn't GV and it wasn't even JT. It was that we might as well have put two chairs out there instead of Salmons and Thornton. Starting them is like having a one-legged monkey as the first leg of your four-man relay. There is no way on earth they would be starting on ANY other team in the league, including D-League. They need to trip over chairs or get lost on the way to the arena or something... Maybe aliens could abduct them?
Don't know if this was commented on in game thread... What was up with Aldridge on Portland bench with his I-pad and looking at the screen while laughing it up with Batum during game action? Is that how little they take seriously facing the Kings... View a flick? Watch some music vids? Laugh at replays of Kings defense in action?!!
Don't know if this was commented on in game thread... What was up with Aldridge on Portland bench with his I-pad and looking at the screen while laughing it up with Batum during game action? Is that how little they take seriously facing the Kings... View a flick? Watch some music vids? Laugh at replays of Kings defense in action?!!
I feel like much of the roster doesn't know how to play outside of Hero Ball, F**k ball and general Chuck-It offense. There's been defensive problems, but the missed open looks is what disturbs me every game. We have shooters that can't shoot unless they dribble for 5 seconds.
We're running a sort of offense that the personnel doesn't match. The Magoof era spent so much time gathering street hoop heroes that the concept of half-court movement bewilders the team's "offensive firepower".
Just watching the stark difference between how McLemore plays off-ball and how the rest of the team does is telling. Ben is playing a totally different game than the rest. I'm not praising him here. It's just that most of the roster is meant for something we aren't doing anymore, and since they fail at the new thing, they revert to their comfort zone. The team has been more in-synic while in chuck-it mode, but it's not a good thing.
We're running a sort of offense that the personnel doesn't match. The Magoof era spent so much time gathering street hoop heroes that the concept of half-court movement bewilders the team's "offensive firepower".
Just watching the stark difference between how McLemore plays off-ball and how the rest of the team does is telling. Ben is playing a totally different game than the rest. I'm not praising him here. It's just that most of the roster is meant for something we aren't doing anymore, and since they fail at the new thing, they revert to their comfort zone. The team has been more in-synic while in chuck-it mode, but it's not a good thing.
I don't buy it. Front offices tank, not the players. By doing next to nothing this offseason, other than losing your 2nd of only two elite talents, the front office would have to be completely delusional to think this team would be any good. Throw a rookie coach at this mess? Losing was the only possible result.
Apparently you don't remember the last time somebody (ahem Westphal ahem) asked Jimmer to guard Batum. I think it was three successful post-ups in a row while Jimmer was throwing his hands up at the coach asking what the hell he was supposed to do.
At least Salmons only gave up three points to Batum while guarding him tonight.
At least Salmons only gave up three points to Batum while guarding him tonight.