[Post Game Thread] The Portland Trail Blazers (3-8) fall to The Memphis Grizzlies (7-4) 89-134
November 11, 2024
[Post Game Thread] The Portland Trail Blazers (3-8) fall to The Memphis Grizzlies (7-4) 89-134
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A merciful ending to an awful game. We just have to survive one more season of Chauncey coaching at least.
We aren’t even a fun bad 🙁
Here are my thoughts about this game:
Positives:
* I dunno man, I really can’t think of too many. I guess Scoot had a few good passes and Clingan looked good in garbage time.
Negatives:
* I can’t believe we had people on here saying things like “Chauncey is doing a pretty good job this year” like a week ago. Not trying to take shots at any users at all, but games like this make it abundantly clear that Chauncey is what it seems like.
* Maybe it’s just wishful thinking and what I want to believe, but I’ll die on the hill that ant and grant chucking up a million contested shots is more of a symptom, than the problem. I think the root cause of this is our ridiculously uncreative offense that doesn’t manufacture open looks, and doesn’t really put guys in position to succeed. There’s no off-ball movement, no cutting, no making use of Ant’s off-ball gravity, and no pushing the ball in transition, so everything just devolves into (Ant/Grant/Scoot please save us in a late shot clock).
* I don’t say this to absolve Ant Ayton and Grant (particularly Ayton and Ant) of the horrible low-effort plays they’ve been making so far this season – there’s gotta be some accountability for that. That being said, I do think that the offense would look so much better (and guys would be a lot less frustrated and maybe give more effort) if our offense was more…creative.
* I know we’re not like trying to win games here, but that Scoot/Deni/Sharpe/RW3/Clingan has ZERO hope of working. Like, there is just no, zero, nada, zilch chance that that lineup has ANY chance of doing something on offense. And on defense we just got lit up because the Grizzlies were playing 5-out with JJJ at the 5, so we didn’t have an advantage on either end of the floor. Almost feels like chauncey is using a random number generator to make lineups at times.
* You know the effort was bad when even Lamar (ever the optimist) is saying things like “maybe if we saw more effort from the team, the fans might have an actual reason to be enthused” and “the Grizzlies really play basketball the right way. They move the ball, they give energy, etc. etc. etc.”
* Before this game, we were 20th in pace and 17th in transition frequency. I sound like a complete broken record here but with a team this young, this athletic, and full of guys who can dribble, that’s just a damn shame that we’re not running more.
* I sound like a total old-head saying this, but look at the way the Grizzlies were running offense vs. the way we were running offense today. The Grizzlies were passing the ball around the perimeter, and if you didn’t have the ball you were either screening or cutting. And if you had the ball, you made a quick decision on the catch, or passed the ball. Meanwhile off the ball our entire team was standing around – and you saw the results. I don’t generally believe in ball movement for the sake of ball movement (and obviously it makes it easier when you have actual shooters) and I have nothing against running high PnR, but the amount of standing around off the ball we do is bad. really freaking bad.
* We traded 2 FRP for Deni to be the SF of the future, and I get that he hasn’t been shooting well, but at least he’s been playing good defense, moving the ball, and giving effort. I don’t understand why he’s being benched and losing minutes to Banton (no shade to Banton, but he’s like a fringe rotation guy on a good NBA team) when Ant and Grant are still getting their full feature of minutes and I don’t think they’re necessarily part of this team’s long term future. I’m not saying we should go bench ant or grant necessarily, but do they really need to be averaging 33 minutes each (which was dragged down by 2 blowout games, so really more like 36 minutes in actual “competitive” games?
I don’t want to overreact, but Billups may be the worst basketball coach ever.
Simply ran out of time on this one
Happy Veterans day folks. Enjoy the free food tomorrow and remember to pour one out for your dead homies.
To have the fans cheer for the other team- damn That’s so fucking embarrassing and shameful. Hope that’s out of the system for the next few months. Fuck
Never thought I’d see an opposing players name being chanted at home by home fans.
Moral is destroyed.
Chauncey gotta go along with Simons/JG/DA.
I’ve always been on team ‘give Chauncey another chance’, but after paying to watch this game in person – fire Chauncey, out of a cannon… to Detroit. Maybe JB Bickerstaff can teach Chauncey how to coach.
Capturing the Flagg or not, this was a rough game. I understand that basketball is a team effort, but head coaches fall on the sword if the team is playing bad. We got blown out by the grizzlies 2nd string and rookies.
To quote a more competent coach than Chauncey, that was a masterpiece of dogshit.
These are the types of nights where I like to rewatch the game where CJ Elleby and Keljin Blevins beat the Lakers.
Banton should never take 18 shots in a game.
What the hell was Banton doing there at the end? Embarrassing way to end an embarrassing night.
Tied for 8th worst loss in history
We shot 4/42 (10%) from 3 🙂
Chauncey fire game. Periodt
I donated my BlazerVision free tickets for tonight’s game to a children’s charity and now I’m probably gonna get a visit from CPS tomorrow.
Billups is really a bad coach.
You guys have a wonderful crowd. Enjoying ball is what its about. Would love to be a Portlander and cheer with y’all
The team looked a not more creative in preseason with Nate running the show. Just saying
Fire Billups
We got fucking dogwalked by Memphis without Ja, Bane, or Smart. Absolute joke of a performance. Clingan was the only guy out there who didn’t have a barf worthy performance. I can’t even think of constructive criticism for that shitshow I just witnessed. Just astoundingly awful across the board
Ggs. Grizz play you lot rather shortly in the future I believe
i’m convinced Lamar would be a better coach than Chauncey
Okay I’ll admit Chauncey is doing a fantastic job at tanking tho
Please just fire him dude. Please
All Time Stinker
What a disgrace. Everything that this team has done is a complete and utter mess. Develop or sign some guys with value like Grant, Ayton, Thybulle or Ant? Don’t trade them and have their value tank. Draft a downhill PG who likes to get others involved? Play him as a backup with your floor spacers being Rob Will and Deni Avdija. Draft a high potential center who needs minutes to get used to nba games? Bench him for 0 reason down the stretch. Try to lose games? You got that, all while killing morale to the point the other team got cheered and blazers got none all game. Throw in the fact garbage time was basically in the second quarter and they played none of their young guys properly and instead hoped Dalano Banton would stir something fun up. A fucking joke. Adrian Griffin must have been caught red handed in a murder if he lasted half a season as a 1 seed and Chauncey has been sitting with his hands in his pockets for 4 years now.
the Blazers play the Timberwolves and Thunder 3 out of the next 4, great opportunity to bounce back and be competitive in some winnable games!
will the team pick up Scoot’s 4th year option?
Let’s add this game to the “Started Bad / Ended Bad” square.
Would love to consider hiring one of the grizzlies assistants that’s been there a while.
Every time I watch them they have multiple guys out but fight hard and often win. At the bare minimum, they’re competitive and stay in games.
That’s all I want for a rebuilding team.
Anyone clip the Brian Wheeler tribute?
There is a worse thing than being mad or upset about how well you or your team are playing and that is apathy. The veteran leadership does not care, the coach does not care, and the GM doesn’t care how we lose as long as we lose.
We’re in for a longer season than we originally thought.
If Joe won’t trade him, Ant has to volunteer to come off the bench.
For any competent franchise that would be the game that gets a head coach fired.
My expectations were low but holy hell
4/42 for three. That’s 9.5%. That’s 8th all-time worst team 3-point percentage with at least 30 attempts in NBA history….. Oh by the way 5th worst is 9.4% by Portland in February this year.
Billips: “It was fucking embarrassing.”
This team has zero identity and no chemistry. They seem like they don’t even like each other. I don’t see this getting better until these vets are moved, coaching change or not
Utterly putrid performance.
Trade or a firing has to come soon, this team gets more dysfunctional the healthier it gets.
That press conference was just…. not it.
Looking at the box and it looks like the whole team played bad – what happened? Bad chemistry this game?
11 games in and we’re already losing by 40+.
great to be back in form from last season.
Why were people cheering for Yuki ?
Billups does not set up any of his players up for success. Ant isn’t a PG, Scoot isn’t a SG, yet he plays them in lineups if they were. Rob and Clingan are playing in the same lineup. Moving Deni to the bench puts Shae as 4th option and takes away the only natural playmaker in Deni. That leaves the second unit to be led by a PG in Scoot playing with all non-shooters.
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A merciful ending to an awful game. We just have to survive one more season of Chauncey coaching at least.
We aren’t even a fun bad 🙁
Here are my thoughts about this game:
Positives:
* I dunno man, I really can’t think of too many. I guess Scoot had a few good passes and Clingan looked good in garbage time.
Negatives:
* I can’t believe we had people on here saying things like “Chauncey is doing a pretty good job this year” like a week ago. Not trying to take shots at any users at all, but games like this make it abundantly clear that Chauncey is what it seems like.
* Maybe it’s just wishful thinking and what I want to believe, but I’ll die on the hill that ant and grant chucking up a million contested shots is more of a symptom, than the problem. I think the root cause of this is our ridiculously uncreative offense that doesn’t manufacture open looks, and doesn’t really put guys in position to succeed. There’s no off-ball movement, no cutting, no making use of Ant’s off-ball gravity, and no pushing the ball in transition, so everything just devolves into (Ant/Grant/Scoot please save us in a late shot clock).
* I don’t say this to absolve Ant Ayton and Grant (particularly Ayton and Ant) of the horrible low-effort plays they’ve been making so far this season – there’s gotta be some accountability for that. That being said, I do think that the offense would look so much better (and guys would be a lot less frustrated and maybe give more effort) if our offense was more…creative.
* I know we’re not like trying to win games here, but that Scoot/Deni/Sharpe/RW3/Clingan has ZERO hope of working. Like, there is just no, zero, nada, zilch chance that that lineup has ANY chance of doing something on offense. And on defense we just got lit up because the Grizzlies were playing 5-out with JJJ at the 5, so we didn’t have an advantage on either end of the floor. Almost feels like chauncey is using a random number generator to make lineups at times.
* You know the effort was bad when even Lamar (ever the optimist) is saying things like “maybe if we saw more effort from the team, the fans might have an actual reason to be enthused” and “the Grizzlies really play basketball the right way. They move the ball, they give energy, etc. etc. etc.”
* Before this game, we were 20th in pace and 17th in transition frequency. I sound like a complete broken record here but with a team this young, this athletic, and full of guys who can dribble, that’s just a damn shame that we’re not running more.
* I sound like a total old-head saying this, but look at the way the Grizzlies were running offense vs. the way we were running offense today. The Grizzlies were passing the ball around the perimeter, and if you didn’t have the ball you were either screening or cutting. And if you had the ball, you made a quick decision on the catch, or passed the ball. Meanwhile off the ball our entire team was standing around – and you saw the results. I don’t generally believe in ball movement for the sake of ball movement (and obviously it makes it easier when you have actual shooters) and I have nothing against running high PnR, but the amount of standing around off the ball we do is bad. really freaking bad.
* We traded 2 FRP for Deni to be the SF of the future, and I get that he hasn’t been shooting well, but at least he’s been playing good defense, moving the ball, and giving effort. I don’t understand why he’s being benched and losing minutes to Banton (no shade to Banton, but he’s like a fringe rotation guy on a good NBA team) when Ant and Grant are still getting their full feature of minutes and I don’t think they’re necessarily part of this team’s long term future. I’m not saying we should go bench ant or grant necessarily, but do they really need to be averaging 33 minutes each (which was dragged down by 2 blowout games, so really more like 36 minutes in actual “competitive” games?
I don’t want to overreact, but Billups may be the worst basketball coach ever.
Simply ran out of time on this one
Happy Veterans day folks. Enjoy the free food tomorrow and remember to pour one out for your dead homies.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ripcity/s/qyfkYdDOlR](https://www.reddit.com/r/ripcity/s/qyfkYdDOlR)
Was clearly a bit ambitious with my request tonight 🙁
Woof.
Woof, I say!
To have the fans cheer for the other team- damn That’s so fucking embarrassing and shameful. Hope that’s out of the system for the next few months. Fuck
Never thought I’d see an opposing players name being chanted at home by home fans.
Moral is destroyed.
Chauncey gotta go along with Simons/JG/DA.
I’ve always been on team ‘give Chauncey another chance’, but after paying to watch this game in person – fire Chauncey, out of a cannon… to Detroit. Maybe JB Bickerstaff can teach Chauncey how to coach.
Capturing the Flagg or not, this was a rough game. I understand that basketball is a team effort, but head coaches fall on the sword if the team is playing bad. We got blown out by the grizzlies 2nd string and rookies.
To quote a more competent coach than Chauncey, that was a masterpiece of dogshit.
These are the types of nights where I like to rewatch the game where CJ Elleby and Keljin Blevins beat the Lakers.
Banton should never take 18 shots in a game.
What the hell was Banton doing there at the end? Embarrassing way to end an embarrassing night.
Tied for 8th worst loss in history
We shot 4/42 (10%) from 3 🙂
Chauncey fire game. Periodt
I donated my BlazerVision free tickets for tonight’s game to a children’s charity and now I’m probably gonna get a visit from CPS tomorrow.
Billups is really a bad coach.
You guys have a wonderful crowd. Enjoying ball is what its about. Would love to be a Portlander and cheer with y’all
The team looked a not more creative in preseason with Nate running the show. Just saying
Fire Billups
We got fucking dogwalked by Memphis without Ja, Bane, or Smart. Absolute joke of a performance. Clingan was the only guy out there who didn’t have a barf worthy performance. I can’t even think of constructive criticism for that shitshow I just witnessed. Just astoundingly awful across the board
Ggs. Grizz play you lot rather shortly in the future I believe
i’m convinced Lamar would be a better coach than Chauncey
Okay I’ll admit Chauncey is doing a fantastic job at tanking tho
Please just fire him dude. Please
All Time Stinker
What a disgrace. Everything that this team has done is a complete and utter mess. Develop or sign some guys with value like Grant, Ayton, Thybulle or Ant? Don’t trade them and have their value tank. Draft a downhill PG who likes to get others involved? Play him as a backup with your floor spacers being Rob Will and Deni Avdija. Draft a high potential center who needs minutes to get used to nba games? Bench him for 0 reason down the stretch. Try to lose games? You got that, all while killing morale to the point the other team got cheered and blazers got none all game. Throw in the fact garbage time was basically in the second quarter and they played none of their young guys properly and instead hoped Dalano Banton would stir something fun up. A fucking joke. Adrian Griffin must have been caught red handed in a murder if he lasted half a season as a 1 seed and Chauncey has been sitting with his hands in his pockets for 4 years now.
the Blazers play the Timberwolves and Thunder 3 out of the next 4, great opportunity to bounce back and be competitive in some winnable games!
will the team pick up Scoot’s 4th year option?
Let’s add this game to the “Started Bad / Ended Bad” square.
Would love to consider hiring one of the grizzlies assistants that’s been there a while.
Every time I watch them they have multiple guys out but fight hard and often win. At the bare minimum, they’re competitive and stay in games.
That’s all I want for a rebuilding team.
Anyone clip the Brian Wheeler tribute?
There is a worse thing than being mad or upset about how well you or your team are playing and that is apathy. The veteran leadership does not care, the coach does not care, and the GM doesn’t care how we lose as long as we lose.
We’re in for a longer season than we originally thought.
If Joe won’t trade him, Ant has to volunteer to come off the bench.
For any competent franchise that would be the game that gets a head coach fired.
My expectations were low but holy hell
4/42 for three. That’s 9.5%. That’s 8th all-time worst team 3-point percentage with at least 30 attempts in NBA history….. Oh by the way 5th worst is 9.4% by Portland in February this year.
Billips: “It was fucking embarrassing.”
This team has zero identity and no chemistry. They seem like they don’t even like each other. I don’t see this getting better until these vets are moved, coaching change or not
Utterly putrid performance.
Trade or a firing has to come soon, this team gets more dysfunctional the healthier it gets.
That press conference was just…. not it.
Looking at the box and it looks like the whole team played bad – what happened? Bad chemistry this game?
11 games in and we’re already losing by 40+.
great to be back in form from last season.
Why were people cheering for Yuki ?
Billups does not set up any of his players up for success. Ant isn’t a PG, Scoot isn’t a SG, yet he plays them in lineups if they were. Rob and Clingan are playing in the same lineup. Moving Deni to the bench puts Shae as 4th option and takes away the only natural playmaker in Deni. That leaves the second unit to be led by a PG in Scoot playing with all non-shooters.