Portland Trailblazers – Page 7

Zach Collins 14 Points/5 Blocks Full Highlights (5/9/2019)

It says something about the Blazers’ center rotation when Jusuf Nurkic is out and Meyers Leonard still doesn’t get to play. It appears that Terry Stotts is perfectly content to just run Enes Kanter and Zach Collins out there for all the center minutes. Is there such a thing as being too deep? That’s a…

Rodney Hood 25 Points Full Highlights (5/9/2019)

Remember when LeGM specifically targeted Rodney Hood to bring to the LeCavs so they could win LeChampionship? It was part of the same three-team trade that saw George Hill come to the team. I don’t hold LeBron’s player evaluation abilities in the highest esteem, but acquiring Hood made sense at the time because he had…

Zach Collins 14 Points/2 Blocks Full Highlights (5/7/2019)

The most notable thing that Zach Collins did was almost get into a fight with Nikola Jokic. He hit some shots, blocked some shots, and even dunked it with a medium amount of power, but those things are unlikely to be remembered by the casual fan who was watching this game. They’ll remember the fact…

Al-Farouq Aminu 19 Points Full Highlights (5/5/2019)

Even with this loss, we are currently being confronted with the very real possibility that the Trailblazers make the WCF Conference Finals. That possibility would have been realer had they won this game like they should’ve (can’t be wasting a primo 19-point game from Al-Farouq Aminu, come on now), in which case it would almost…

Seth Curry 16 Points Full Highlights (5/5/2019)

Seth Curry was ultra-hot from the threezone in the second quarter of this game, hitting four triples (including three of them on back-to-back possessions, a feat which I feel like has to be uncommon as eff), but he only scored two points outside of the second quarter, and none in the second half. I could…

Enes Kanter 18 Points Full Highlights (5/3/2019)

What Enes Kanter is doing for the Blazers in these ‘offs is great, 18 points in this game is great, but I have to take issue with the narrative surrounding him. No, I’m not talking about his whole dealio with his home country or whatever, because I’m not about to make comments about that right…

Rodney Hood 19 Points Full Highlights (5/3/2019)

By scoring 7 straight points in the final minute of the fourth overtime, Rodney Hood officially made himself the hero of this game. Lamian Illard and B.J. McSuckballsum, the Blazers supposed “stars”, were made to stand around and watch as Hood took over the game, declaring “I’m tired of watching you losers fail to put…

Enes Kanter 26 Points Full Highlights (4/29/2019)

Since Enes Kanter played this entire game with a painful shoulder, it’s impossible for me (a narrative-starved pseudojournalist who is tasked with writing something meaningful about him) to not draw comparisons to Michael Jordan’s infamous “Flu Game”. So that’s what I’m going to do right now. Compare MJ’s “Flu Game” to Kanter’s “Shoulder Game”. One…

Maurice Harkless 17 Points Full Highlights (4/23/2019)

The narrative from this game, carefully curated by the media for mass consumption by an undiscerning populace, is that Damian Lillard is the hero of this game for hitting a three-pointer as time expired. As the narrative goes, Lillard’s shot was a game-winner, and it gave him fifty points for the game, so he’s the…

Al-Farouq Aminu 19 Points Full Highlights (4/21/2019)

The Trailblazers are a lot harder to beat when Al-Farouq Aminu is hitting a large amount of his catapaulted rainbow threes. This is his season-high in threes, with four, and the three other times he’s done that this season Portland has a record of… 1 win and 2 losses? Okay, well it SEEMS like the…