Camden wrote:Q12543 wrote:Camden wrote:Also, why on earth did Mitchell go to Wiggins in the post when we absolutely needed a bucket to tie the game? Really? Over Towns? Really?
Not going to fault Mitchell for that. Towns will get his turn eventually, plus Wiggins is MUCH more likely to draw a whistle whereas Towns is still going through rookie hazing.
The out-of-bounds play for a 3.....that is probably worth getting upset about.
I won't argue with that aspect of it, but you don't draw plays to try and get foul calls. You want the scored bucket primarily. My problem with it was Wiggins couldn't score a field goal all night long. He couldn't score on McCollum in the post earlier in the game either. How many buckets did Towns score in the post? I can think of four and they were all good moves. If you wanted to try to work it in from the post in that situation, how in the world do you go with a struggling Wiggins over Towns? It baffled me.
Towns knocked down a jumper to start the first quarter, and made a 3 in the fourth while only making 5 shots, so he couldn't have 4 post scores, but I agree that Wiggins was not the answer tonight.
I don't know what we are going to do with AW. He looks like the same scared shitless kid that started last season. Same thing for Zach. What the happened to these two guys over the summer?
No blocking out tonight, and why didn't they trap Lilliard early on. The bigs weren't even getting out to show in the first half.
Why have a replay center if they can't get a simple call correct, and when will the NBA start fining officials for making calls that they can't possible see. That official was in the worst possible position to make that call. It was about to get even worse though. On the play that resulted in the jump ball before Towns (so called) foul, they never reset the shot clock. Portland would have gotten a last possession even if we got control.
They have got to do something to improve the officiating. Maybe actually hire some guys that understand the rules. How about that offensive foul on Ricky!
