Game Thread: Blazers @ Hornets

[Purple Haze]

[Miss_318]

Oh my.......


but seriously the slander was so real on twitter after that dunk.....poor Brandon Knight....he is going to be known for 2 of the most embarassing things to happen to you on a court for the rest of his life......its hilarious and sad all at the same time.

[NOLa.]

You're welcome.

My favorite part of the game imo

[GeneralGreivis]

Inner GI only would have been impressed if it looked like this (lol bad photoshop, but true)

[Inner_GI]

I haven't posted on here in a while, but after reading your response I had to.

Doesn't change my opinion. I admire the hops and power in this dunk, but it's not like posterized Ibaka or Howard. He did it on a someone 10 inches shorter than him. Far from amazing.

[kinglio21093]

What do you guys expect when a guard goes up to contest a 7'0 footers alley-oop? Am I the only one not impressed?

Come on, we have to give credit where credit is due. I'll be the first person to **** on the Clippers but that dunk was ridiculous.

With that said, that dunk is more impressive than anything Blake Griffin has ever done in his NBA career.

[wuggie]

Oh my.......


but seriously the slander was so real on twitter after that dunk.....poor Brandon Knight....he is going to be known for 2 of the most embarassing things to happen to you on a court for the rest of his life......its hilarious and sad all at the same time.

The kid has a ton of heart though lol

[Kurgan]

Not a guard, but i remember when maxiell blocked the cp-tc alley-oop, i thought i was having a nightmare, i didn't think ANYONE save chandler could jump THAT high and be able to block the ball to boot. Geez. I mean ok nice dunk jordan, but whatever, still mr. no one (and paid handsomely to be such a one!)

[RaisingTheBar]

Two feet TOO far. My mistake.

I thought Lillard did a down screen and davis switched to stay with Lillard. They threw it in to the player at the top of the 3pt line. Lillard set another screen on inbounder who ran under the basket. Lillard flares out to 3pt line while Davis is stuck trying to prevent the inside pass.

I can't see the highlight or play again, so this is going off of memory, but that how I thought it went down.

Gotcha on the 2 feet too far. Here are some screen shots of the play right before the inbound and right before the shot. SORRY FOR THE QUALITY! Got it from nba.com, Davis was on Lillard the whole time, lillard set the screen on the inbounder (Ryno) and it looks like davis stayed with the inbounder (sorry dont know his name) instead of staying with lillard. Look we won the game, and I love AD and his defense, i just don't like him guarding lillard in that situation. Especially when they really only needed a 2, could have ran right past davis for an easy lay up/shot. Not a big deal since we won, just questioning that decision by monty.

[Purple Haze]

Yeah you live and learn, but he was too far inside.

[Inner_GI]

RTB,

Do you have shots to earlier than the first one? I thought Aminu had Lillard but once Aldridge went to the 3pt line Aminu and Davis switched. Nice work though. I don't dislike the AD on Lillard though. He was just a tad to low to recover.

[Inner_GI]

Players leaving the bench... if I remember from my Phoonix Suns fandom days, that's a 3 game suspension.

[RaisingTheBar]

RTB,

Do you have shots to earlier than the first one? I thought Aminu had Lillard but once Aldridge went to the 3pt line Aminu and Davis switched. Nice work though. I don't dislike the AD on Lillard though. He was just a tad to low to recover.

OOOO ok i see what you are saying now. Unfortunately I do not, this is fro nba.com and this is the earliest they have of that play. So you are saying we put AFA on lillard correct?

[AD23forMVP]

I'd be willing to bet they were banking on Aldridge screening for Lillard and that would have led to a switch putting Farouq on Lillard and Davis on Aldridge.

[FlyGirl]

Reading you guys' comments I just so happened to record the last qtr and coming out of that timeout, AD was on Aldridge and Aminu was on Lillard. Ryan was on the inbounder. Before the ball was inbounded, Lillard and Aldridge moved and that's when the switch came. AD stayed on Lillard while the inbounder got the ball to Aldridge who was being guarded by Aminu. Once the inbounder inbounded the ball, Ryan went with the inbounder and AD was about to go to the inbounder too until he realized that Lillard got freed and that's when he tried to recover. Hope that wasn't too confusing. LOL.

[Inner_GI]

Reading you guys' comments I just so happened to record the last qtr and coming out of that timeout, AD was on Aldridge and Aminu was on Lillard. Ryan was on the inbounder. Before the ball was inbounded, Lillard and Aldridge moved and that's when the switch came. AD stayed on Lillard while the inbounder got the ball to Aldridge who was being guarded by Aminu. Once the inbounder inbounded the ball, Ryan went with the inbounder and AD was about to go to the inbounder too until he realized that Lillard got freed and that's when he tried to recover. Hope that wasn't too confusing. LOL.

Exactly what I was trying to say, but failed horribly at it as I had too many beers last night when I heard Roberts was starting. I was pleasantly surprised with Roberts, but I lost all form of communicating my thoughts.

[NOLa.]

Exactly what I was trying to say, but failed horribly at it as I had too many beers last night when I heard Roberts was starting. I was pleasantly surprised with Roberts, but I lost all form of communicating my thoughts.

I'm was in the same boat. Made the last 2:00 minutes of the game hella fun though.

[FlyGirl]

Exactly what I was trying to say, but failed horribly at it as I had too many beers last night when I heard Roberts was starting. I was pleasantly surprised with Roberts, but I lost all form of communicating my thoughts.

I keep looking at it. When Lamarcus got the ball, it looked like he was about to face Aminu up to shoot the ball but instead he passed it to Lillard. I don't know if AD was going to try to get position to rebound in case Aldridge missed or what (see the vid on page 18) but he seemed to be distracted by Aminu and Aldridge which caused him to kind of lose Lillard. I don't know. But yeah, when the original play started, AD was on Aldridge and Aminu was on Lillard.

[Inner_GI]

I keep looking at it. When Lamarcus got the ball, it looked like he was about to face Aminu up to shoot the ball but instead he passed it to Lillard. I don't know if AD was going to try to get position to rebound in case Aldridge missed or what (see the vid on page 18) but he seemed to be distracted by Aminu and Aldridge which caused him to kind of lose Lillard. I don't know. But yeah, when the original play started, AD was on Aldridge and Aminu was on Lillard.

He was preventing the pass from going down low to the inbounder that took the lillard screen. Anderson is slow. Davis wanted to prevent the pass to Batum I think, and in doing that Lillard faeded out to the 3 point line.

[FlyGirl]

He was preventing the pass from going down low to the inbounder that took the lillard screen. Anderson is slow. Davis wanted to prevent the pass to Batum I think, and in doing that Lillard faeded out to the 3 point line.

Thank you! I kind of thought that and wanted to say that but couldn't quite put it into words. Thank you very much.

[IamQuailman]

[AD23nEG10]

the crazy thing about that AD guarding lillard play is how far away he was when Lillard caught it and he still got a decent contest on the shot. freak

[Miss_318]

[Inner_GI]

the crazy thing about that AD guarding lillard play is how far away he was when Lillard caught it and he still got a decent contest on the shot. freak

I actually thought lillard missed it. The net didn't move. I thought he banged it off the front of the rim.

[wuggie]

From the way GV played SG last I saw one of his main strength stand out, spot up shooting. He looks like he would be an excellent first guard off the bench for either positions.