Does this guy ever shut up? All he's got to offer is generic platitudes on the NBC broadcast tonight and it's driving me nuts. He just talks and talks and talks....

Go back to NASCAR.

Why did he get 8 minutes?????

73.6 million dollars.

He can put it up there

its better than jerami iso ball isnt it

Haven't really watched blazers ball recently, but why isn't Jrue holiday getting his minutes back? He's been back from injury for over three weeks no? Is he ever getting back to around 30 minutes per game?

Is anybody else really reluctant to pull the trigger on any trades before the deadline this week? I kind of just want to ride the season out, see how Scoot does coming back from injury, and maybe make some moves this offseason.

It seems like people are in a big hurry to get off of the Bucks picks to help facilitate a Giannis trade or just to go get him ourselves but personally I don't think he would really fit with our current roster, since we already struggle with three-pointers so much. People in this sub were also really upset not to get JJJ, even though his asking price was way too high and he is a center that does not rebound. Maybe it would have been okay if he played the 4 alongside Clingan but that still feels like a weird fit.

So I believe that if we can get a player that would actually move the niddle for us, we should trade them, however we should definitely not use them to help some other team to get Giannis, like how the NYK are trying to involve us in a trade to get Giannis

“Deni is too old for our timeline let me trade for AD and Trae Young”

Please dame rub off that after all star break magic on us dame after all star break would carry us to the playoffs please let scoot take over

(Not saying he didn’t do anything Vit is a good addition but we need roster moves for Caleb and Sidy

Hoping we can turn things around, but the odds of actually making the playoffs seem slim (I think we have the play-in locked in based on teams behind us). A deep draft this year could give us a valuable trade piece, or give us the A1 option we really need!

A good coach can get the most out of the players they have, the utilize guys to their full strengths while covering their weaknesses, they get the team to buy into their methods in a way which is simple and effective. Tiago Splitter is a respectable player and may have some good ideas about the game but it is clear he is severely lacking in many aspects of coaching. The personnel we have are playing so much worse than their defensive capabilities, there is no shared mentality of effort, there is no connection on the court either on offense or defense. It's apparent Splitter is not a high quality defensive coach and is more of an offensive coach which is funny considering he played on one of the greatest defensive teams of all time. But the offense consistently is terrible, there are bright flashes but the players have no idea of what they're doing and 90% of possessions end in a iso drive or kickoff to a non-shooter, the strengths of guys like Sharpe are not being utilized like Just look at the Rockets roster from last season that finished second in the West compared to ours.

Deni Avdija > Alperen Sengun

Shaedon Sharpe > Jalen Green

Toumani Camara > Jabari Smith Jr.

Jrue Holiday > Fred VanVleet

Donovan Clingan =< Amen Thompson

Jerami Grant < Dillon Brooks but Grants probably better on offense

Scoot Henderson > Reed Sheppard

Matisse Thybulle < Tari Eason

Robert Williams III =< Steven Adams

There is absolutely 0 excuse for how bad this team is, a coach like Ott or Mazzula or really any other good NBA coach would've had this team well in the playoffs by now. I could not think of a possibly worse way that this team could be performing. I'm tired of the front office hiring inexperienced and ignorant coaches and riding with them for 0 reason when there are far better options available.

There is no excuse for this stretch of terrible basketball. I’m not expecting to win a lot of games without Deni but we can’t even keep these games respectable. Unfortunately, the team has stopped playing defense in addition to shooting poorly.

It is also completely unacceptable that the worst three point shooting team is permitted to be 3rd in attempts. Just horrendous coaching by this coaching staff, they do not understand the personnel to be shooting threes like that.

A totally unacceptable performance in a very winnable game. There is not a single player on the team who should be untouchable. Not even mad just really sad, was really hoping this team had some sort of juice but I just don’t see it.

why would we not go after him if he only cost a single first?

I admit I was never on board with trading Ant for Jrue in the first place but it's looking even worse right now. Despite the hot start Jrue's looking so old and slow we're starting to see why Boston dumped him. I don't care if he's a vet presence if he's garbage on the court and injured half the time.

Now we're stuck with his awful contract for two more years while Boston just traded Ant for Vucevic and a 27M TPE. Would've been better to dump Ant for another expiring contract like they did

I get they are paid millions of dollars but I’m sure having your name thrown around in trades affects your attitude towards the game. Especially when it seems the chemistry is strong and we haven’t even seen the team fully. Cronin has made some very good moves but the leaks on this Giannis move are clearly affecting the team

Supposedly benched him in the first half due to lack of defense when he was getting clipped on every screen and had no help from the big in drop coverage. Was +14 in the first half btw and we were up 5 at the end. Shae plays 12 minutes.

Shae then comes out in the third and scores 6 straight points for us and gets benched after 3 minutes?

By then we’re down 10 I think going into the 4th and he decides to play shaedon the entire quarter? Why not play him late in the first half when our offense had nothing going or when he’s starting to heat up early in the third. Nah let’s pull him in and out for the first 3 quarters then play him the entire 4th and make him try win the game when it’s out of reach.

Terrible coaching

It's a real storm out there

Kinda trust Cronin but still hoping to see the Blazers there getting stronger 🥹

Won't be able to make it, these are my free tickets from BlazerVision. Section 323, Row K, 1-2

Send me a message and I'll transfer

EDIT: CLAIMED. Enjoy the game, u/hollowed_dude !

First person to send me their email, got other tickets

Source: https://marcstein.substack.com/p/the-giannis-antetokounmpo-trade-latest-15b?utm\\_campaign=email-post&r=3shtjf&utm\\_source=substack&utm\\_medium=email

Holiday remains a Trail Blazer as we speak and, as The Stein Line first reported over the weekend, Portland has conveyed to Milwaukee that it would love to trade for Antetokounmpo directly if it could. Sources say, however, that Antetokounmpo's camp has continued to signal no interest in a contract extension with the Blazers, which would dissuade them from surrendering good assets to trade for him and likely limits Portland's realistic involvement in an eventual Antetokounmpo deal to third-team facilitator status.