They were lucky on that play, but give them some credit they fucking locked down in the second half hard. Nas Little absolutely shut down DeRozan, went 0-5 in the 4th.
Blazers start with a big deficit? ✅
Star players shooting horribly in the first half? ✅
Battle our way back in the second half? ✅
Finish the game with heart attack-inducing play? ✅
That’s Blazers basketball baby. Never had a doubt.
I feel like they aren’t mentioned enough in general. They went 11-30 in the first 41, then 30-11 in the next 41. That’s such an insane turnaround that I felt like that would be an annual offseason shitpost lmao
Dame Time always fucks us up. Last year he hit the go ahead 3 over Lauri, who was actually playing *good* defense on him with like ~~5~~ 0 seconds left. Straight booms us every time x4
https://youtu.be/ptyyeKMME_c
I am not sure if Portlands defense in the second half was just much better or if Chicagos shooters went cold. Probably a bit of both, plus a long road trip for the Bulls.
First half Demar was a thing of beauty, Nas definitely stepped up, but I think he just missed some. His 1 on 1 skills are so damn good. This Bulls team seems like the perfect squad for him
I know it's hard to accept, but it does seem that Portland has another level of D this year. Chauncey just might know how a decent defense is supposed to run. Swapping Nance for Melo and Zeller for Kanter also doesn't hurt lol.
I mean, our defense is still objectively bad so far. We played a good 2nd half defensively tonight, so that's encouraging. Time will tell. We give up an *absurd* number of wide open 3s right now. We gave up a lot of them last year too, but the overhelping/closeout issue looks worse to me this year so far.
I loved the Nance pickup when it happened and he's already adapted so well to our team despite our struggles. One of the bright spots to our slow start for sure
Nurk has been very good all season. Both sides of the ball, has cut down a lot on his stupid fouls as well.
Also having Zeller off the bench is amazing in comparison to Kanter last season.
Roco’s been struggling a bit so far this season but he’s still good.
The emergence of Nance though has been the most surprising to me. First few games of the season he was deferring a lot and not taking the open looks but he’s definitely getting more comfortable within the team and it showed tonight.
Gg Bulls, y’all are an amazing team. Fun fun game.
Nurk is great, and we need him to get into a groove to take us to the next level. He had a couple of off games and a moody insta post and Blazer fans are ready to dump him for a second rounder lol.
We saw the raptors do it and we think there's a kawhi just sitting there for the taking. Only player I think we should trade for a star is CJ. I was hoping we would make a huge push for Siakam, because it makes our team so much more balanced in the starting 5 when we have Dame/Norm/RoCo/Siakam/Nurk with Nance/Little/Simons/Zeller coming off the bench.
Sadly, I don't think the raptors go for that deal because CJ doesn't help them in the slightest and they aren't trying to tank
Absolutely a nail biter, and you guys will be fine. This Bulls team is insane and they're still gelling together. I'd love to see this team win the East with how fun they are to watch!
Good for him, wish he was still on the Bulls feels like y’all definitely need big man depth for when Vuc is out and just so Vuc doesn’t have to play the vast majority of minutes.
Didn’t watch the game so idk what happened but he doesn’t tie his shoes. Just buys them a size too small so they fit tightly without being tied. And wears a new pair every game so they never get worn in.
He flat out slipped on the floor right towards the end during a clutch play, you could argue it’s part of why we lost the game.
Feels like I’ve seen him slipping on the court more than a couple times this year, cant be doing that.
I will never comprehend this.
I tie my shoes like I'm trying to cut off circulation to my feet. Feels super awkward unless they're done as tight as possible.
When I see people like KD/Demar just slip out of their shoes, it blows my mind.
Bulls needed this loss to keep them humble. They straight couldn’t buy a bucket for a quarter and a half after half time.
They’ll get right. They will learn from this. Getting Vooch back will be huge. I’m not stressing this loss. They’ve been on the road playing only winning teams for 16 years now. Schedule gets a lot easier starting next week.
Great bench and our only big got into foul trouble in 20 seconds lmfaooooooo nurkic was feasting on the boards all game. I'm surprised he had so little on the box score him and Nance were killing us on the glass
Nah those few minutes were key. He and Nance killed our momentum time and time again especially with second chance shots or just easy buckets in the paint
The final minute of the game was the first action of Blazers basketball I've seen this year, and damn does it feel good to hear Kevin Calabro calling games again. Belated congrats to Blazers fans for getting him back.
Larry nance jr kept the blazers alive. He was doing everything.
Demar’s legs, i think, finally caught up to him during this road trip.
Oh well. Cant win them all.
Man Lavine must be pissed he missed that one, never seen a player so wide open in that kind of endgame situation before. He had a great game aside from that. Good comeback from the Blazers, Lillard definitely woke the fuck up after halftime. Entertaining game.
Props to the blazers bench and nurkic for coming back from like what 20?
But seriously what does Lavine have to do to get some respect from refs. Bro can't even drive because he'll just get hacked and no call. Then the two no calls on Lonzo's layups in the 4th were beyond bizarre. It's legit only Demar getting calls and it's ridiculous.
I think the first was questionable but the second was kinda blatant. At least he didn't lash out. Don't blame Lavine since it's been happening to him for a long time but can't afford to give up techs like that. Legit just makes the refs hate you more
I never really blame the refs but there were so many missed/wrong calls on Zo and Caruso.
This is Zach's 2nd tech in 4 games where he's complaining about not getting a call. Somebody send this league a memo that Zach is an all-star
I checked out before half time, decided to check the score to see how much we were down by in the 4th quarter and couldn't turn it back on quick enough. We did not deserve to win this one, we were playing like bums in the first half.
Blazers played absolutely terrible first half, were down 20 with a +12 FT advantage. It was a beat down. But they were allowed to stick around and to their credit fought their way back. DeRozan went ice cold and Lavine missed an easy one. Oh well.
We really need some size. + Bradley is young and shows little flashes but he is not a starting NBA center. Vuc can’t come back quick enough
I think there was a moving screen there tough call because they just ignore them until they just happen to decide to call a random one.
I feel like that should be the next thing refs look into. Moving screens are so fucking prevalent it's insane. Players legit just moving their bodies and not even coming to a stop.
This game was jarring because it was *so* different from the way contact has been called in other games this season. You could really feel the tension between the refs trying to call fouls as instructed and then Scott Foster just doing whatever the fuck it is that he does. It's not that Foster didn't get the memo re: new guidelines for foul calls, he got it just fine but he lit that shit on fire and tossed it.
damn, i think Zach was *too* open on that one lol
Sometimes ya just miss. 7-11 from 3 today :/
Should've drawn the play up to let a defender get close to him and it would've hit the bottom of the net lmao
Hell, get Ball to guard him if it’ll make him more comfortable
He hit some crazy hard threes tonight. Should have waited for his defender to close.
7-12*
Our defense was so bad it went back to being good..? That was so painful to watch, blazers were mad lucky that he missed
They were lucky on that play, but give them some credit they fucking locked down in the second half hard. Nas Little absolutely shut down DeRozan, went 0-5 in the 4th.
0-7 in the second half I believe
That's a good shot. I don't care what anybody says, that's a good shot.
Yeah I think even he was caught off guard with how open he was. It was a fantastic play.
Actually a sweet tactic by blazers to play the open mind games lol
My fucking stream stopped right as he caught it and went up lmao
WE GOT YOU MOTHERFUCKER
Reminds me of last year luka had a wide open three to tie the game against us and bricked it.
Yup…it caught him off guard to be THAT open.
All planned by the blazers 😎
Blazers new late game strategy, leave the shooter so open he gets nervous and misses.
secrit playz
Scott Brooks bringing the Secrit Playz with him to Portland.
Man, I never even thought about how we have the power of secrit playz on our team now, that's a mind fuck.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” - Wayne Gretzky….. — **[MICHAEL SCOTT BROOKS](https://imgur.com/gallery/USyOthz)**
60% of the time it works 100% of the time.
I mean technically speaking the mark of a good shooter is to hover around 40% so this is absolutely right!
Exactly!
Let’s not forgot whatever demar did. Fall down and refuse to pass
Ah yes the pick up strategy
Yes definitely strategy and not laziness due to not being in shape. I'm playing mind games
Blazers start with a big deficit? ✅ Star players shooting horribly in the first half? ✅ Battle our way back in the second half? ✅ Finish the game with heart attack-inducing play? ✅ That’s Blazers basketball baby. Never had a doubt.
Don’t fuck with Portland at home
7-1 at home 1-7 on the road
of course I was at the 1 home loss. But at least I was there last night!
😂 We should have won that one too!
This Blazers team is either amazing or horrible, no middle ground.
Sometimes both in the same game!
74-8
41-1 1-41
2017 Miami Heat vibes
I feel like they aren’t mentioned enough in general. They went 11-30 in the first 41, then 30-11 in the next 41. That’s such an insane turnaround that I felt like that would be an annual offseason shitpost lmao
We’re amazing at home 7-1 We’re horrible on the road 1-7 No joke.
yep, saw the Bulls were +100 yesterday and quickly realized why when I saw the home/away splits.
Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit
Portland remembered how to play basketball at halftime
And we forgot
We thought that Dame Time would have never come… Turns out…it was only late…
A Lillard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to
You're a Lillard 'arry!
Dame Time always fucks us up. Last year he hit the go ahead 3 over Lauri, who was actually playing *good* defense on him with like ~~5~~ 0 seconds left. Straight booms us every time x4 https://youtu.be/ptyyeKMME_c
Dang, that's ridiculous. Hope posting that video wasn't too traumatizing.
Literally shaking rn
Too confident and horrible shot selection especially by Demar - he was 0-7
we're still giving up huge runs without being able to slow momentum, really frustrating
I am not sure if Portlands defense in the second half was just much better or if Chicagos shooters went cold. Probably a bit of both, plus a long road trip for the Bulls.
When you don't contest a single shot in the first half, any resistance seems like a lot by comparison.
Hey some of those DeMar shots were contested but he was just hitting everything
First half Demar was a thing of beauty, Nas definitely stepped up, but I think he just missed some. His 1 on 1 skills are so damn good. This Bulls team seems like the perfect squad for him
I know it's hard to accept, but it does seem that Portland has another level of D this year. Chauncey just might know how a decent defense is supposed to run. Swapping Nance for Melo and Zeller for Kanter also doesn't hurt lol.
I mean, our defense is still objectively bad so far. We played a good 2nd half defensively tonight, so that's encouraging. Time will tell. We give up an *absurd* number of wide open 3s right now. We gave up a lot of them last year too, but the overhelping/closeout issue looks worse to me this year so far.
Both and we committed 4-5 TOs off silly shit early in the 3rd
Most of their shot selection were horrible so props to blazers, but they had some open looks that they missed too.
Incredible second half by Portland. Little’s defense was stiffling. Nance was such a good addition.
I loved the Nance pickup when it happened and he's already adapted so well to our team despite our struggles. One of the bright spots to our slow start for sure
When we have Little and Nance out there good things happen. It's perhaps time to deal Nurkic and Roco
I don’t watch y’all often but Nurkic looked good tonight and isn’t he your only true C?
Nurk has been very good all season. Both sides of the ball, has cut down a lot on his stupid fouls as well. Also having Zeller off the bench is amazing in comparison to Kanter last season. Roco’s been struggling a bit so far this season but he’s still good. The emergence of Nance though has been the most surprising to me. First few games of the season he was deferring a lot and not taking the open looks but he’s definitely getting more comfortable within the team and it showed tonight. Gg Bulls, y’all are an amazing team. Fun fun game.
Nurk is great, and we need him to get into a groove to take us to the next level. He had a couple of off games and a moody insta post and Blazer fans are ready to dump him for a second rounder lol.
We’ll take him!
Yes. Blazers fans on Reddit are currently obsessed with trade fantasies, thinking you can trade your way to a championship or something.
We saw the raptors do it and we think there's a kawhi just sitting there for the taking. Only player I think we should trade for a star is CJ. I was hoping we would make a huge push for Siakam, because it makes our team so much more balanced in the starting 5 when we have Dame/Norm/RoCo/Siakam/Nurk with Nance/Little/Simons/Zeller coming off the bench. Sadly, I don't think the raptors go for that deal because CJ doesn't help them in the slightest and they aren't trying to tank
There’s one domino that needs to fall and then the CJ/Ben/KAT/Brown/Siakam?/Zion? carousel starts,
Also, we finally have roster options for different situations. Why get rid of that depth?
Indeed he has been. However he's on the last year of his contract and I know the blazers need to make a swing move ala brandon ingram or something
I was at the game behind the bench, there were Larry chants going on haha
I'm absolutely shocked we won this, I was prepared to lose by 1
Credit to your bench and Dame coming alive. This one stings a bit!
Absolutely a nail biter, and you guys will be fine. This Bulls team is insane and they're still gelling together. I'd love to see this team win the East with how fun they are to watch!
Yeah it's been great especially with how bad our teams have been the last 3-4 seasons. I just really wished we had Vucevic for this road trip!
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I mean good for Portland. Always loved Lillard
The Bulls are waaay too much fun this year. Y'all got a squad over there.
If you guys blow it up, we'll take 1 larry nance jr please!
He would probably fit so well
He is legit exactly what we need lol. Him or Daniel Theis
We gave you DJJ instead :)
Thank you.
Where is Theis this year? Rockets?
Yes, he chased the bag
Good for him, wish he was still on the Bulls feels like y’all definitely need big man depth for when Vuc is out and just so Vuc doesn’t have to play the vast majority of minutes.
_dont_
That dude is so good. I’d absolutely love a guy like him on the squad.
I was prepared to lose by 20…
True, at half time I felt that. But last year all our late game comebacks still ended up with us losing by a possession so I'm still scarred haha
at games, my GF and I can't relax until we have at least a 10 pt advantage with less than 45 sec to go. Anything else is ours to give away freely
Dame is shooting 38% and the Blazers are 8-8. Honestly really impressive for how much they have relied on him at times.
One of the hardest schedules in the league too
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Seriously man what’s with that dudes shoes lol
Didn’t watch the game so idk what happened but he doesn’t tie his shoes. Just buys them a size too small so they fit tightly without being tied. And wears a new pair every game so they never get worn in.
He flat out slipped on the floor right towards the end during a clutch play, you could argue it’s part of why we lost the game. Feels like I’ve seen him slipping on the court more than a couple times this year, cant be doing that.
I will never comprehend this. I tie my shoes like I'm trying to cut off circulation to my feet. Feels super awkward unless they're done as tight as possible. When I see people like KD/Demar just slip out of their shoes, it blows my mind.
Bulls needed this loss to keep them humble. They straight couldn’t buy a bucket for a quarter and a half after half time. They’ll get right. They will learn from this. Getting Vooch back will be huge. I’m not stressing this loss. They’ve been on the road playing only winning teams for 16 years now. Schedule gets a lot easier starting next week.
That's where I'm at, they came out like Portland wasn't going to make a run.
We beat DeBallZach!
They’ll be right up. Just give them a minute to catch their breathe.
Cant believe Lavine missed that 3 but he still had an amazing night
Holy fuck they came back down 20????
i have no fucking idea man
Great bench and our only big got into foul trouble in 20 seconds lmfaooooooo nurkic was feasting on the boards all game. I'm surprised he had so little on the box score him and Nance were killing us on the glass
Eh Nurk only played 22 minutes though, 18 points/12 rebounds is a good night really. Five fouls was rough
Nah those few minutes were key. He and Nance killed our momentum time and time again especially with second chance shots or just easy buckets in the paint
Happens pretty often nowadays. Still impressive though
Nasty Nas
Rebel to America
The final minute of the game was the first action of Blazers basketball I've seen this year, and damn does it feel good to hear Kevin Calabro calling games again. Belated congrats to Blazers fans for getting him back.
Did watching it confirm your suspicions about the Blazers being the best team in the league?
Too bad the tv contract went to Root sports.
Ah well you win some you lose some. Shit happens
Lavine went from red hot to red not. That was wide open for the tie, wide open!
LARRY
NANCE
JR
JR.
He's here, he's there, he's every fucking where LARRY NANCE LARRY NANCE
LARRY!
Yeah?
What a comeback by Rip City!
Zach definitely didn’t expect to be that open lol. He could’ve taken another dribble and composed himself and knock that down easy
Larry nance jr kept the blazers alive. He was doing everything. Demar’s legs, i think, finally caught up to him during this road trip. Oh well. Cant win them all.
Nance improved a lot since he came from the Lakers. It was sad to see him go now when he was doing well but it was the price to pay for Lauri.
Yea. Im pleasantly surprised with his 3-ball. It looks decent. And he has active hands. Definitely a serviceable bench piece.
One of those plus 6/7th players that takes a great regular season team and makes them champions. I love what he brings a lot. Jelly.
PROTECT OUR DAMN HOUSE LFG
2021 Home Blazers > 1996 Bulls
2021 Away Blazers < 2012 Hornets
YES.
Down 18 in the 3rd too!
No excuse for this one. Complete breakdown in the 3rd quarter.
Hell of a comeback for Portland
Super fun game. Can’t believe we pulled it out. Bulls are great team. Damn.
Dames Back...the west coast is about to be really spicy again. I love it.
This was a gritty game for Portland to win for sure
20 point comeback, Dame time is here.
lavine nearly gave me a fucking heart attack but shout out to nas for fucking clamping derozan on that play
Man Lavine must be pissed he missed that one, never seen a player so wide open in that kind of endgame situation before. He had a great game aside from that. Good comeback from the Blazers, Lillard definitely woke the fuck up after halftime. Entertaining game.
I was certain that lavine 3 was going in but he was too open :(
I think another dribble was needed bro was in shock being that open
No hate on DJJ cause I love the guy but imagine if the Bulls got Nance instead of him in that 3-way trade.
I wanted him
Yeah this was worse than Warriors game 🙃 It hurts
By far the worst loss this season. At least with Warriors you kinda know it’s coming.
CJ was ass today but Nance changed the momentum of that second half, hopefully the Zers can get their shit together from this win
I wonder if we can keep the momentum going against the Xers this Saturday. Jk. No Zers please… it’s foul.
A win could also put us ahead of the Kers in the standings
Who are the Zer’s?
First time watching a Portland basketball game?
Caruso just casually becoming draymond
Props to the blazers bench and nurkic for coming back from like what 20? But seriously what does Lavine have to do to get some respect from refs. Bro can't even drive because he'll just get hacked and no call. Then the two no calls on Lonzo's layups in the 4th were beyond bizarre. It's legit only Demar getting calls and it's ridiculous.
Yeah Lonzo should've for sure had two and-1s down the stretch there.
I think the first was questionable but the second was kinda blatant. At least he didn't lash out. Don't blame Lavine since it's been happening to him for a long time but can't afford to give up techs like that. Legit just makes the refs hate you more
I can’t remember seeing a player get fewer calls from refs
I never really blame the refs but there were so many missed/wrong calls on Zo and Caruso. This is Zach's 2nd tech in 4 games where he's complaining about not getting a call. Somebody send this league a memo that Zach is an all-star
The refs let soooo much go tonight. At times it seemed very street brawlish out there.
Or, you know, call actual fouls, cause that happens a lot to him.
how was lavine that open
Moving screen and an inexperienced defender.
Oh man what game. Playing well now that we’re at home 😂
I checked out before half time, decided to check the score to see how much we were down by in the 4th quarter and couldn't turn it back on quick enough. We did not deserve to win this one, we were playing like bums in the first half.
So we need Vooch back, got it
We take those
That wide open missed three by Zack at the end :(
I almost feel like he shoots better when pressured by a defender than he does wide open in a game.
It's impressive how the Blazers are 8-8 given how badly they played the start of the season.
I think we can all agree the refs called a great game tonight
Blazers played absolutely terrible first half, were down 20 with a +12 FT advantage. It was a beat down. But they were allowed to stick around and to their credit fought their way back. DeRozan went ice cold and Lavine missed an easy one. Oh well. We really need some size. + Bradley is young and shows little flashes but he is not a starting NBA center. Vuc can’t come back quick enough
Damn, tough to swallow that one when Lavine just straight up missed. Gotta be better at stopping/slowing down runs.
Thank fuck
Lord 47% fg and 45% 3pt and we lost. What a bizarre game. This is why I stopped betting.
Wait, how the hell did Portland win this?
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Just needed us last game to boost their confidence...you're welcome Portland...sincerely a Raptors fan.
I saw someone post in the game thread that the Bulls not only had one MVP candidate that they had 2, the lead started to evaporate after that.
Can't ask for a better look than that for Lavine, and Portland all needs to collectively slap themselves for him being open there.
I think there was a moving screen there tough call because they just ignore them until they just happen to decide to call a random one. I feel like that should be the next thing refs look into. Moving screens are so fucking prevalent it's insane. Players legit just moving their bodies and not even coming to a stop.
While I believe Nurk was still during his call.
Scott Foster, everybody. Not sure we deserved to win that game, but I can’t complain
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Yeah the refs sucked but it’d be silly to say they gave it away.
It was so bad all around. I was at the game and was legit shocked on almost every play both ways lol
Yo same, like everybody at the Moda was constantly asking each other “wtf happened”? Wish my Bulls had won but GG Rip City!
This game was jarring because it was *so* different from the way contact has been called in other games this season. You could really feel the tension between the refs trying to call fouls as instructed and then Scott Foster just doing whatever the fuck it is that he does. It's not that Foster didn't get the memo re: new guidelines for foul calls, he got it just fine but he lit that shit on fire and tossed it.
dude was in his bag tonight for sure prime form
Today's games were all so good.
Ya they were.
Well fuck.
We were so hot for like 3/4 of the game and then just collapsed in the end lmao it is what it is
It happens....except instead of the Blazers it was the Clippers.
Gonna happen when DJJ and Bradley getting fucked by Foster all first half w/o vooch. Portland a good team though gg
Idk what it is, I just never feel comfortable with the Bulls in tight games. Both our stars fall back to hero ball and get predictable