Our head to heads against Phoenix and GSW will determine a lot. However, I believe they’ll be the kind of games we get destroyed (like how we were swept by Phoenix last year) and certain influencers will talk like the regular season bad showings are meaningless in predicting potential playoff matchup.
Spurs cut it to single digits against our scrubs before Quin bring the starters back in but by then Spurs already got the momentum going
Something must be going on behind the scenes. Right now he is as much use to us as Dok, Hughes and Oni.
Paschall and Hughes had less than 1 minute each. Forrest had 19 minutes so he was in the rotation. Ingles had back to back crap plays and we had several defensive lapses. Unless you consider Ingles a scrub the scrubs most definitely were not responsible for the melt down.
We will win a few of those games but we need to actually win the series with those teams to get to 1. Basically if we don’t get some injury luck it is likely a futile effort.
Both Paschall and Hughes were -6 in the "less than 1 minute" you mentioned. pretty much explains it all.
They singlehandedly caused Joe to have 2 turnovers in the crucial stretch. Gotcha. They got on the floor, the main guys with them **** the bed and we were outscored by 6 in that time. You do know how +/- works right?
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Nah… Portland sucks. They been staying down… no bounce. Think Nurkic and Roco are in protocols… don’t think CJ is back. Team is trash.
Shhhhhhhhhh. Don't ruin it. I'll be at the game.
Ah, so watching Phoenix exploit us last year very specifically with CP/DB midrange and/or Ayton lobs, accompanied by our collapses and inability to hang in close games and OTs in highly anticipated games doesn’t have any relevance to how we’d play them in the post-season? That’s a huge relief because here I’ve been complaining about all those weaknesses that we haven’t / won’t / can’t address and now that I know they’re meaningless helps me breath a sigh of relief and can be reassured by our HISTORIC offense.
Indiana, Orlando, New Orleans and others all suck too.
True but Portland sucks butt.
We could lose to the Washington Generals. That wouldn’t even be the worst part. The worst part is the rationalization and normalization of “oh, yeah… you don’t know any of the guys on the Generals so it’s soooo hard to game plan for that. And the Generals are going to get up and play their A game against a great NBA squad. These games happen all the time to great teams. I mean, it’s expected. This is nothing to worry about. I’m more worried about whether or not my toast will be dry tomorrow.”
I think Portland is about to shut up shop… who knows… dame could go bonkers… I don’t see porty as a “bounce back” scenario. I think I could see us missing shots and having a low energy stinker… a pat yourself on the back narrative “ hey all you want is a split… winning on the road is tough… mission accomplished”.
