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They did check for Vax cards/negative test.

I could definitely see that getting lengthy but wasn't an issue for me. Crowd was 80% full, very light for the Blazers, but quiet.
Just judging from you and gut, neither of you are particularly enthusiastic about the team. You’ve done the love Dame but can’t improve thing now for like six years straight. You can kind of guess the season trajectory before it starts. I pick up that on nba boards among Blazer fans. Usually among the most rabid, but kind of tired of the whole win 45-52 games and second round exit thing. Lot of do something, anything, different feel. I’d guess it’s just bleeding over t the fans. Plus I was watching that game as the Cavs were also playing and I was flipping back and forth. Both games were very weird where Dame and Cj weren’t shooting particularly well, probably like high 30% combined, but you were winning through the rare defensive effort and Nurkic and others playing decent. Plus Ja was incredibly sloppy with the ball and many probably showed to see him like you. He was meh. None of the usual crowd pleasers were really doing anything.

Cavs shot 3/20 from 3 and couldn’t hit a shot and won by double digits. I thought this was going to be a horrible defensive team and somehow it’s now the strength with all the size. The Lakers blew a 26 point lead against OKC which I watched the last few quarters of. Strangest comeback ever we OKC didn’t even want to win and couldn’t give it away. At the end of the night I thought what a weird ass basketball night.

I noticed on Cavs board it was a little subdued for a big win. Like is this sustainable? It was like there was a full moon last night for all those late games.
I mean, I know irl, and thus probably on here, i've been saying trade CJ for at least 3-4 years. Great player, seems like a good dude....but doesn't fit with Dame. You win titles now with a couple wings/bigs who can be ball dominant/quasi-PG's and provide solid defense as well. You can win a title with ONE of a Dame/CJ type (Golden State) but not two of them being turnstiles on the other end.

Still hoping for a CJ package for Simmons....but who knows. We are slowly approaching "Dame wants out" territory, so they have to do something quick, or else it might become a full rebuild.

Oh and Nurkic basically fucking blows now, injuries seemed to have sapped him of anything.