Blazers falling fast, Why?

[tamaraw08]

Are they just being exposed?
What the heck is happening to their 11.5 mil guy, Batum? 9 pts at 38%:eek:
Teams like Cavs, Houston, OKC, Griz etc cannibalizing weak teams with good players like Mozgov, Shumpert, Green, Waiters,Smith etc, Oshey has been freakingly slow to get them help. :rant
Arguably have the weakest bench and yet, other teams have found ways to acquire better players.

[Bobcats2013]

Fatigue. The young teams are thinking about all star break. Same thing happening with GS right now.

[Cocaine80s]

East is just stacked.

Trashblazers need to gather as many wins in the western conference as they can

[Wavves]

Lost Robin Lopez to injury, then lost Joel Freeland who did a good job in the starting lineup while Lopez was out and now Aldridge is hurt, Lillard has hit a shooting slump and just had a long road trip.

We're fine, just a little mid season unluckiness imo.

[navy]

Everyone went ghost these past few weeks accept the one who was suppose to be out with surgery. LMA.

[RightTwoCensor]

They were watching me post about Dame Lizard.

[Magic731]

Nothing at all is wrong with the Blazers it's an 82 game season at some stage every team is going to go through a rut. It's unavoidable. They may lose a few more before they come out of it but they will be there as a top seed in the western conference when the whips are cracking.

[T_L_P]

East is just stacked.

Trashblazers need to gather as many wins in the western conference as they can

Teams under .500 can make the Playoffs out East :roll:

[AussieG]

One factor is that most of their wins came from an easier schedule and over time it balances out.

[Darius]

Lillard fell back to earth.

Same thing happened last year. Law of averages.

[konex]

3pt% regressing to the mean but they are still shooting 30+ a game

[imdaman99]

They tryin to slip into the spot to play Houston in the 1st round again :pimp:

[Moonbeam]

Lillard went from winning Portland games to losing them. He has been awful throughout January. He's my favorite player, and it's super depressing. Missing Robin Lopez and Joel Freeland hurts, too, but Portland hasn't played well in a long time. Even when they were getting wins against weak teams in December, they were developing bad habits and getting away with it. It is costing them now.

[Lexington Steel]

Lillard is a ballhog and chucker. That's why.

Wes Matthews is Portland's best player. Shame that he barely gets touches with Lillard running the offense.

[tamaraw08]

Lost Robin Lopez to injury, then lost Joel Freeland who did a good job in the starting lineup while Lopez was out and now Aldridge is hurt, Lillard has hit a shooting slump and just had a long road trip.

We're fine, just a little mid season unluckiness imo.

you really think that bench would hold up esp with Batum struggling all year? I don't think so. Were would the Spurs, Clips, Warriors be without their bench.
Portland has no Crawford, or Ginobli or Iggi or Udrih or Lee etc out there.

[Moonbeam]

Lillard is a ballhog and chucker. That's why.

Wes Matthews is Portland's best player. Shame that he barely gets touches with Lillard running the offense.

That's crap. Matthews gets a lot of open looks from Lillard. I know Lillard has been brutal lately, but Wes has also struggled, and not from a lack of opportunities.

[el gringos]

That's crap. Matthews gets a lot of open looks from Lillard. I know Lillard has been brutal lately, but Wes has also struggled, and not from a lack of opportunities.
That was a funny post. Sure. Wes Mathews is their best player. Sure. Sad that people don't watch how teams defend another team and it's players. There are reasons that teams and players get defended the way they do, and that's the truest indicator of talent. More than stats or percentages.



Blazers should trade Mathews and batum and picks for Carmelo. Lillard/Aldridge/Carmelo would be pretty special

[KNOW1EDGE]

East is just stacked.

Trashblazers need to gather as many wins in the western conference as they can

What a loyal fan you are! :oldlol:

NE wayz, no Robin Lopez is def hurting them. And Lillard & Batum have both been playing poorly.

Not to mention Aldridges injury

[KNOW1EDGE]

Lillard is a ballhog and chucker. That's why.

Wes Matthews is Portland's best player. Shame that he barely gets touches with Lillard running the offense.

Kill your self.

[tamaraw08]

That was a funny post. Sure. Wes Mathews is their best player. Sure. Sad that people don't watch how teams defend another team and it's players. There are reasons that teams and players get defended the way they do, and that's the truest indicator of talent. More than stats or percentages.



Blazers should trade Mathews and batum and picks for Carmelo. Lillard/Aldridge/Carmelo would be pretty special

I can't believe you guys are arguing who is better, Lillard or Matthews:facepalm. BOTH are really good players, the problem is that they have no help from anybody but LMA. Replace Damien with Curry and this team would still struggle. You put to Beal or Waiters instead of Wes, this team would not go anywhere.

[Magic731]

Lillard is a ballhog and chucker. That's why.

Wes Matthews is Portland's best player. Shame that he barely gets touches with Lillard running the offense.
wtf

[qrich]

Lillard is cooling off greatly, Aldridge is playing through injury and Batum can't hit water falling off a damn boat in the middle of the Atlantic.

Losing Robin Lopez was painful, though, Kaman is doing a solid job in his place. Freeland was a pretty costly loss as well.


you really think that bench would hold up esp with Batum struggling all year? I don't think so. Were would the Spurs, Clips, Warriors be without their bench.
Portland has no Crawford, or Ginobli or Iggi or Udrih or Lee etc out there.

Sans Crawford, what bench do we exactly have?

Hawes has been injured and struggling. Turkoglu just got burn. Davis has been horrible. The guys that were waived/dealt were crap (Farmar/Douglas-Roberts/Cunningham) or didn't get enough time (Bullock). Rivers is Rivers.

Everytime our bench goes in, we take a 10 point lead into a 15 point deficit...in 3 minutes.

[BlazerRed]

Is it really that hard to figure out?

Rolo - out.
Freeland - out.
Batum - injured.
Lamarcus - injured.

Who knows who else is carrying something. When you have these kinds of injuries a little slump gets magnified tremendously because you have very little room for error.

[tamaraw08]

Is it really that hard to figure out?

Rolo - out.
Freeland - out.
Batum - injured.
Lamarcus - injured.

Who knows who else is carrying something. When you have these kinds of injuries a little slump gets magnified tremendously because you have very little room for error.

so why the heck are they taking forever in getting help?:rant
OKC, got Waiters for nothing. Memphis traded their old and ineffective player for a really good SF, Houston got Brewer for nothing etc etc Portland has.....:facepalm

[tamaraw08]

Lillard is cooling off greatly, Aldridge is playing through injury and Batum can't hit water falling off a damn boat in the middle of the Atlantic.

Losing Robin Lopez was painful, though, Kaman is doing a solid job in his place. Freeland was a pretty costly loss as well.



Sans Crawford, what bench do we exactly have?

Hawes has been injured and struggling. Turkoglu just got burn. Davis has been horrible. The guys that were waived/dealt were crap (Farmar/Douglas-Roberts/Cunningham) or didn't get enough time (Bullock). Rivers is Rivers.

Everytime our bench goes in, we take a 10 point lead into a 15 point deficit...in 3 minutes.

Crawford's 16 pts is better than the 4 bench players of Portland but you are right, they can use another reliable reserve I bet Rivers would do everything he can to get somebody unlike Portland.

[BlazerRed]

so why the heck are they taking forever in getting help?:rant
OKC, got Waiters for nothing. Memphis traded their old and ineffective player for a really good SF, Houston got Brewer for nothing etc etc Portland has.....:facepalm
We're pretty restricted with cap space. Paying a useless Batum 11mil.

[tamaraw08]

We're pretty restricted with cap space. Paying a useless Batum 11mil.

I thought Griz and Clips were capped out too, can't you packaged any of your bench guys for guys like Wilson Chandler and/or Randy Foye? include a 2nd rounder perhaps?:confusedshrug:

[Bandito]

because gravity = 9.8 m/s^2 ?????

[BlazerRed]

I thought Griz and Clips were capped out too, can't you packaged any of your bench guys for guys like Wilson Chandler and/or Randy Foye? include a 2nd rounder perhaps?:confusedshrug:
Chandler would have been nice. Not sure what happened to those rumors. That being said I like watching him play here so I'm not too fussed :oldlol:

Such a bummer, this season was looking so good until all the injuries took over.