Trail Blazers Heartbreaker: Portland Rallies Back from Down 21 to Lose to Bulls at the Buzzer
The shorthanded Trail Blazers looked well on the way to a blowout loss until a fierce fourth quarter rally put them up four with 16 seconds left. Then Nikola Vucevic hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to hand Portland an excruciating less.
Plus, injury updates for Shaedon Sharpe and Scoot Henderson. Ugh.
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35 Comments
We want Herscu!!!
They play much better without Sharp , ball is moving , players feel involved, then it effects defense. If one player just throw a ball on 30 possessions as there is no tomorrow, no-one is involved. Clingan what a game . If game flows every one is better.
I'm not even mad at this loss.
It's the kind of game we were hoping to see all last year and that hopefully tells FO that we need a true star player (through the draft or through trades) to take the next step.
Deni with 26 passes to shots, from them 11 assists, really nice
played so much better without sharp . that how basktball should look like
Drives me fucking crazy when pros miss that many freethrows…. woulda made our freethrows woulda won the game with ease…
Not sure if it’s a lucky streak, or if he’s trying to avoid getting traded so he can play with Dame next year, but JG has been a lot better this year. The missed FT near the end was tragic but 5-9 from deep and 4 offensive rebounds? Very nice
Do we really want to give Chicago our 1st round pick this year? It looks like a hard NO. That last play was a horrible coaching decision where a 3 will kill you. I would have gone zone with Clingan in there. Starting to think Tiago is not the guy– decent big man coach but lousy decisions in too many games so far this year. The comeback was a hell of a lot of fun, but too many mistakes once they got the lead. The foul to give was taken WAY TOO early to be of much use, as just one example.
In a normal team, sharp should play 15-20 minutes off the bench
Deni is an Allstar, he is the engine
Needs help tho
Kamara isnt an nba starter sorry
Deni’s defense in that last play was terrible! He left their best shooter for a drive to tie!
Fantastic proof of concept for Clingan. This game is who the Blazer drafted, Vuc's shooting made it rough at first, keeping Clingan's defense stretched out, but that 4th was something to behold. Absolutely dog walked Vuc for an entire quarter
We are living in the Turbo era !
The team is young with half the roaster …
It was a beautiful comeback.
We are F-ing teams up ..
Lets go Blazers
Good games by DC, Deni, and Grant. But we basically played with no PG, and bad defense again. Mostly, from Tounami.
Also, Vuc is good. That’s why I found it weird when it was either Nurk or Whiteside that we moved on from, and Vuc was available for cheap, but we never even made a try for him.
this one really hurt 💔 respect to grant, deni and Clingan doing exactly what needed to be done to keep this close. They played like true leaders
The whole team miss free throws including Shaedon. Maybe this season yang is the best free throw shooter in the team.
Shaedon getting MRI’s done😭😭 we may need a video on Tarheel legend Caleb Wilson soon
It got very quiet.. could not believe it! We had it 😞
Cronin seemed unusually excited, as the Bulls ran their victory lap, happily hopping past Emperor's Row. Winning isn't everything .. not under Cronin. Remember last year? when "his" post game show told Blazer fans, "This team is more exciting, then the Western Conference Finals team in 2019."
Much better effort last night vs the game against the Suns. Gotta make your free throws.
Splitter did still say DTD on Sharpe
Mike, you are the Man!!! next game with the Bulls, Deni will score 43 Point, Please take a Note!!!
So, as it looks now the blazers are going to lose at list 6 of the next 8 games (most likely all 8), thats put them in 8 wins to 14 Loses –
its going to take a miracle to get to the play in
32% on 3pters is not going to get this done on the volume we shoot the 3.
Sharpe being out is a great thing.
I usually agree with you but your description of the last 8 seconds and excuses for what Camara and Deni did just don't hold water. That should have been 3 on 3 with Clingan in the game to change the arc of any shot inside and Camara and Deni in the shorts of the 2 guys beyond the 3 point line. Best 3 point center in the game and there's no one within 15 feet of him. Camara was non committal to anyone. And I knew that it was coming. They have plenty of time to get in the hunt when the rest of the team gets healthy.
Caleb Love was 1 for 12 including a missed dunk. Make the dunk game over.
“You’ve got… to make.. your free throws… “ ~ Bill Schonely 🐐
I would've loved to see Simons stay one more year and evaluate whether or not Scoot or Shae should be on the chopping block instead. I feel like we spent so much time developing someone and then traded them away before their prime we could really have used Simons scoring about now. Sorta feeling like we lost this trade bad, and I'm sorry, but Holiday isn't going to stay long term, we just tossed away a great underrated player for the thought of a better defense without the patience of developing our current players
Camara has regressed alot this season. He Shouldn't be taking so many threes either.
Punch Drunk Love reference 🔥
Here are two trades to help the Blazers: 1) go for CJ. If he’s too expensive, go for Gary Trent Jr. either of these point guards play better when they’re close to Damian Lillard. Pick one!
The Blazers don’t need to win consistently until after the all star break. They just need to learn how to get better until then. Go get GT3 from Milwaukie. He’ll thrive just being around Dame. If CJ is obtainable, he may or may not be a better point guard choice.
The absence of Sheadon is a blessing. His game is so inefficient.
give Avdija 2 40% shooters they'll get to 50%. so many open shots because he is triple teamed.