Fork in the Road - Blazers at Wolves GDT

[Q12543 [enjin:6621299]]

You can never trust this team with a big lead. So frustrating.

[m4gor [enjin:6667447]]

man those final minutes were so terrible, esp. Ricky, c mon man

[Hicks123 [enjin:6700838]]

Yeah, again Ricky makes zero impact at the end of a game. I don't care how many assists he had...none of them came at the critical moments at the end of the game. I am so sick of watching guys like Lillard close out every game while Rubio just dribbles around out there.

[Coolbreeze44]

Really bad feeling about this one. Losing confidence in Ricky's ability to lead us to where we need to go. Gave up that late drive to Lillard, not sure why we need to press up against him 40 feet from the basket. At the end of games you need a ball handler that is a legitimate scoring threat. Zach is getting there but his game still has to mature. Andrew's hands were terrible tonight for some reason, he was a non factor in the 2nd half. And blowing another 17 point lead at home to Portland is just inexcusable.

[Monster]

Rubio's ankle looks 100% to me tonight. He looks quick and is giving Lillard fits.

He still looks a half step slow to me. He makes up for it with sticktuitiveness and anticipation. I'm sure his ankle is feeling OK-ish, but I still question whether he's 100%.

A shout out to K-Mart for some solid defense on McCollum that half.

Martin's D was pretty good in the first half. The 2nd it was t so good but I also imagine Portland made some adjustments. Bazz has come along defensively. He isn't there yet but he is making progress. What I had issue with was a couple times he could have gone all the way to the basket instead of that flip shot he takes.

Nothing really more to add except I wasn't really that depressed after this game. Maybe that's because I didn't think we were gonna pull it out even in the 3rd quarter. At least the energy was there from the start at home. It's a step I guess.