Hornets Sting the Trail Blazers in Crunch Time | Scoot Henderson Gets Lost in 4th Quarter Shuffle

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We're going to talk about a blazer's 103, 101 lost to the Charlotte Hornets.

A game of blazers had a big lead early and had multiple chances to win late and just

fell in crunch time.

We'll break down everything that happened to crunch time.

Scoot Henderson had a sterling first half and then they just didn't exist after half

time.

We'll get into all of that.

Everything that happened, unless we will sort through all of it, crunch time, scoot,

the choices they made and didn't make very familiar in bounds, fiasco at the end of

the game.

Let's just, let's sort through the mess, folks.

Here's your fast recap in the West.

Blazers lose 103, 100, blazers up 14 after 1, 34 to 20, Scoot, Scoot comes off the

bench, checks in, hits 3, 3s, blazers hit 7, 3s, 7 of 12, the second straight game where

they've shot it well early, but Scoot comes in and has 9 points in the first quarter.

He's home and he's looking like, oh, yeah, yeah, this is back to back games now where

it's like, yeah, that's an NBA point card, I remember this, a little double zero looking

like an NBA point card, but Portland is not in the, your 12 minutes of the game, you

got to finish the deal.

They lead by 19 early in the second quarter, Scoot's got 14 and a half time and blazers

go into the break just up nine as the hornets start to chip away.

I thought the third quarter was not a pretty basketball game, the blazers not play particularly

well in the third, but they didn't give up the lead.

In general, I thought they defended well all nights.

There wasn't an elite defensive performances, it wasn't locked down, but I thought they

were competitive and good on that end, like that wasn't the issue and they don't, despite

you know, some pushes by the hornets, they don't give up the lead, they're up four heading

into the fourth quarter.

Jeremy Grant's got 20, Danny Abbey's got 17 through three quarters, it's a four point

game heading into the fourth blazers, or excuse me, the hornets finally take their first

lead since the first quarter to Lamellabal, who was really quiet in the opening three quarters,

really quiet.

He has 12 of his 14 come in the fourth quarter, hits a three with seven half minutes left

and the hornets take their first lead since the first quarter.

And then we get down to the final three and a half minutes.

This is sort of like the crunch time moments that decided the game.

We'll get into all of it here and I'll go through it quickly and then we'll get a little

bit deeper.

But blazers, you know, they are down four, they get a bucket on a goal ten challenge,

then they get a stop and Danny throws a lob to Rob Williams, they're tied with just

under three minutes left.

Then two money, Kamara hits a three point of the blazers, have the lead to ten left

in the game.

They get two chances with the ball up one, they don't score on either of those chances.

And the hornets come the other way, Miles Bridges gets fouled, hits a free throw, hits

a couple free throws, hornets go up one.

Then with, again, down one, the blazers are going to get the ball back two times.

They're going to get the ball back two times with a chance to take the lead.

Then twice the chance to extend the lead, twice chance to take the lead.

On the first one, hornets double team Danny and Rob Williams turns the ball over, blazers

get the ball back and then Danny gets fouled just, just before the blazers actually completed

a play, completed a bucket, a lob to Rob Williams, but they rightly called a foul first.

And the blazers get a second chance, so really three chances down one with, you know, under

a minute, 20 left, you know, and they get the ball back down one with 25 seconds left.

And Jeremy Grant runs over con Caniple.

It probably was a foul.

I don't love that, that's even a call, I don't love that, that's even a style of defense

you can play, even though I watch Tomani Khmarr play all the time.

But like, yeah, he ran him over, it is what it is.

And then they called it and I'm sure they will uphold it as a correct call on the two minute

report, which I won't check, because I don't care, blazers have to foul, you know, three

chances down one, really two, but sort of three chances down one, they don't score neither

of them.

They have to foul, they get the ball back down three, turn it over.

And because that's what they do, of course, they turned it over.

And then they hit, scooters and hits occurred as you jumper from half court at the end of

the game.

It's instead of making a five point loss, a three point or two point loss, one, oh three,

one, oh one.

That's your fastest recap in the West, blazers lose.

I want to get deeper into crunch time stuff.

That was my version of a fast, fast going through crunch time quickly, but like, I just

think they had a lot of opportunities here that they'd let slip away, you know, after

the game, what the team lamented, both, both splitter and, and players spoke afterwards.

Lament is just like turnovers and offensive rebounds, you know, the, the hornets are one

of the best offensive rebounds teams leak there, they're third and they came in third and

offensive rebound rate just ahead of the blazers, you know, the, the best three, the best

four offensive rebounding teams leak are used in Detroit, Charlotte and, and Portland,

those have been pretty much there the whole, the whole season.

The blazers have been at near the top along with Detroit and Houston all year long.

Charlotte's, Charlotte has been up there as well.

They're, you know, they're doing what they do.

And it's not like they vastly out rebounded the blazers, but, you know, six more offensive

rebounds, those are extra chances.

You know, they got, they took seven, five more field gold temps and seven more free throws.

You know, that's, that, that's 12 shooting possessions in a game you lose by two.

That's, that's what, what Tiago splitter said, you know, kind of lost this game in the

margins.

And I, I do think it kind of came down to that.

I would probably point to the crunch time and some of those decisions that they made more

than that.

But like, I, yeah, I, I don't think the blazers played poorly.

The Hornets are legitimately good team.

They're, you know, they're a top 10 offense this year.

And they've been the best offense in the league since January 1st.

They're, you know, we're closing over two months of them being the best offensive team

in the league.

They're a very good defensive team.

They've been a top 10 defense since January 1st.

It's a good basketball team.

They're back to 500 now.

This, this is like the one of the best hornets teams in a long time.

They're pretty, pretty fun team to watch.

I like, I like what Charles Lee runs on offense.

I don't think this is like, you know, I don't think the blazers need to be ashamed.

And you should like feel like I can't believe they lost to the Hornets.

This is, this is a good, a good group.

But I think this was there for them.

And if they win this game, you know, they beat the Pacers and they're heading out on, they

played the Utah on Friday and they're heading out on a road trip that starts with three

relatively easy games or at least like lesser opponents.

Like the very beat up Phil Delphi 76ers to kick things off.

Like they were going to have a chance to stack a bunch of wins in a row.

They were, they really were going to have a chance to like, you know, rack up some wins.

So like they'll still have a chance to beat Utah and some bad teams on the road as they,

as they head out, you know, as they, as they head out on their, on their journey.

But like, you know, Philly, Brooklyn, Indiana to kick off that road trip after they play

Utah on Sunday.

But or on Friday.

I mean, excuse me.

It's, this isn't going to derail their season.

They can't finish any lower than 10th because no team in the West wants to win any basketball

games other than them.

And Danny, obviously afterwards, like he doesn't look at the standings as he's not worried

about it.

And I kind of, I feel, I feel similarly in general, like I mentioned sort of it in a show

earlier this month that like there's a sort of amount of nihilism about the Blazer situation.

It's like they can't fall out of 10th.

They might be able to climb up to eighth and it's right there for them.

But if they don't, if they don't, they're, you know, there's, there's no chance of them

falling out of the play.

And if they do start to lose some games, you know, they collect like a little extra ping-pong

balls in case they don't win in the play and which seems relatively likely.

There's a certain amount of, it doesn't like nihilism like truly nothing matters this

time of year considering their position.

But this was a game that felt like they could have won.

You know, I want to talk about the final three minutes.

I want to talk about Scoot who just like didn't play in the second half.

There's just like, didn't get, he didn't play very much, basically didn't exist in the

fourth quarter.

Let's talk about that, talk about some crunch time decisions, talk about that final

in-bounds play.

We'll get into all of that in the second segment and and beyond, join me there, won't you.

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Let's start with let's start with crunch time and then we'll get into the scoot stuff because

scoot was great in the first half.

Looks like he was humming, coming off a really good game, you know, he had 28 in the 28

in the prior game.

He had 14 and a half time.

He's on pace for another 28 scoot is just a due to score 20 is a 28 point per game score

now, doesn't score until the final basket of the game when he hit a 40 footer from half

court, swish, perfect shot, but unguarded, didn't take a shot in the fourth quarter, barely

played, went over two with couple turnovers in the third, we'll get into school.

Crunch time.

Hoof.

Okay.

So the hornets were late in the game, doubling Denny Avdia.

And I thought, you know, Portland is, they're, you know, down, down two after a, available

a lot of play in this game where he skips through the lane, kind of falls down, but doesn't

totally lose his balance or his dribble gets back up and then does a step through and hits

a shot to give the, give the hornets a two point lead.

That has to be a travel, right?

Like there's got to be rules in this sports.

But it was a cool shot for the vibes.

I bet the tweens loved it, shout out to the tweens, they don't, they don't know about

what kind of driver Lamello is, they just appreciate whatever it is that they appreciate

about Lamello.

Very popular with the tweens.

I'm happy for them.

They got to see Lamello hit a circus shot, which has to be against the rules.

In any case, I got sidetracked talking about Lamello and the tweens, he's very popular

with the youth.

What are you going to do?

Well, the hornets were sending two to the ball against Denny, they're double team and

Denny.

And an important thing about when you were getting double teamed is to accept it.

And I thought the first time that they did it in crunch time, Denny did a really good job

of accepting it.

The double team comes, they were doing this, they were doing this thing where they were

hunting Lamello on pick and rolls, they were saying, bring Lamello's man into the, into

the, into the mix.

It was mostly Drew holiday.

They'd get the switch.

Then the hornets would double off the switch.

They'd, they'd give up the switch initially and then they'd double with someone else or

they'd double with, with, you know, one pass away.

The first time they did it, Denny swung to Tumani Kamara who stepped into a three and gave

the blazers the lead.

Tumani hit two threes in the first quarter, then missed everything and hit this one three

with like two minutes left to give the blazers the lead.

He, he, you know, he had a really good game against Houston.

I thought it was great in the game on Friday.

Now Sunday and Tuesday's game, this last two games, he struggled to shoot.

When Tumani makes shots, this is, the blazers are pretty good when he doesn't make shots.

And I thought he shot the ball a lot tonight, 12 threes, but it's mostly taking the right

shots.

He's taking wide open shots.

You know, they don't need him to make many more, but he needs to probably make one more.

He needs to shoot at least 33% better than I can make five of 12, but you probably don't

get 12 and then the quality of looks he did, but it's the right play.

You know, the blazers, they get that, they, they take the lead there, then they get a stop

and then he gets a, it pushes in transition and gets a makeable layup that he just straight

at misses on the left side with a minute, 55 seconds left.

I ain't coaching, that's layup missing, right?

Like, I, I, I can't criticize anyone, but Denny obviya for missing that shot.

It's a good push.

It's good play.

You miss a layup.

And so this is a moment here, though, that, that, that, like, it's really sticks with

me.

So Denny crashes in on that layup, falls out of, falls like, you know, next to the stanchion

out of bounds.

He's like behind the play.

The Hornets get a five on four play and, but they don't score.

And he eventually recovers in the Hornets, the Hornets don't score.

Like, but he's, he's just crashed down.

And as the blazers come back across half court, Denny is hands on his shorts exhausted.

He is like holding his shorts with both his hands bent over and he kind of looks at

Drew in the moment and says, go, just go, like, I'm too tired to go, go.

Drew drives, throws a lob to Rob Williams and he gets stolen.

To me, the blazers sitting there up one, they, you know, they miss up one, Denny misses

a layup.

Again, and Denny's like too tired to play, sitting with two timeouts.

They don't take one, right?

They don't take a time out.

They give up a steal.

They give up, you know, they give up the lob pass gets broken up.

Drew kind of, like, he could probably just shot the ball, probably just shot the ball.

There he's in the pain, tries to force a lob, does it, doesn't work out.

And the Hornets get to run out the other way and get, and get a, get a foul and get

two free throws and they take the lead and they're not going to give it back.

It's a little bit second guessing to say, take a time out there.

And if you don't take a time out, the blazers, you know, they, they had a really important

challenge a couple of possessions later.

You need your time out for that.

And they call the time out the very end of the game to set up the final, the, the potential

final shot.

Of course, they turn the ball over because they didn't get it back.

But like, or they didn't get it in bounce because they're bad at it.

But like, you probably avoid that last time out if you just set up something there, like

if you just, if you just take a time out, take a deep breath and score to go up by a,

you know, a bucket.

I think when you see your star player that exhausted in that moment, because of how this

team is constructed, they kind of need Danny to be the guy.

Drew had, Drew did not play particularly well on offense in this game.

Like, and you can't really run offense through anyone else.

It has to be Drew or Danny right there because you're not playing scoot Henderson because

he's been banished to the shadow realm.

I think you got to, I think you got to look around and say, our best player is doubled

over exhausted.

We got a, we, we got to take a moment here.

But, you know, instead, so they, they go down, Hornets get a couple of free throws again.

Blades get a switch.

They get a double team.

Danny does the right thing.

But on this play, and this is again, has a coaching thing to me.

This is a coaching thing to me.

On this play, they, they come down, Danny's on the right hand side.

Typically, he likes to be on the left and attack moving to his right, but he was kind of

in the middle of the core, but shaded a little bit right.

And then, Tumani came up and set the screen to get the switch they wanted.

And Tumani said it so, Danny could get to his right hand, but he's kind of right hand

going right.

And because of that, because of where they said it, Rob Williams is in the strong side corner.

That's the close corner.

The opposite side corner is, is a Jeremy Grant.

You got to switch those, those, those, those guys need to switch places.

Because Danny gets, double, they get double team.

He can't get it up top to, to drew one pass away, because the horn, it's kind of help

all the way up from the weak side corner.

And teams don't typically help off the strong side, they help off the far corner, they help

off the, that side.

That's where that, when the double team comes, the guy lifts up from, from that weak side

corner.

Can't get it to Drew, Danny has a throw to the corner, but it's throwing it to Rob Williams

in the corner.

It's just like, he's not a threat to make moves off the dribble.

You don't really want him shooting in that situation.

And he tries to get it right back to Danny, who cuts off that double team.

I like that cut, but it's kind of the wrong, you know, right move wrong guy and, and

Rob tries to fire in a pass, he's good passer.

But like he tries to fire in a pass in traffic, and the blazer turned over.

That's just like, the configuration is wrong there.

Blazer get a huge, Rob comes down, makes a great play, it makes a great play, blocks on

the next, uh, uh, tripped down the floor, blocks, con, con, nipple, uh, and they call

a foul initially, but blazer win the challenge.

So blazer gonna get the ball back again, down one.

This is like, down one with a minute, down one with a minute again.

And then this time, uh, Danny, they don't double team.

And Danny throws a great pass inside to, to Rob, but they call the foul, it was right

foul.

They, Lamello fouled him.

They get the switch and Lamello fouled him before he gets the pass off.

Just, you know, I guess good foul, uh, Lamello fouled out there.

It's, uh, I like, uh, it'd be brave young man, uh, foul out because that foul saved, saved

your bacon and blazer get the ball back.

Um, and Danny drives kicks to Jeremy Grant in the corner and he runs over con, con, nipple,

uh, Jeremy Grant said after the game that maybe he should have, you know, taken his time

and taken just a mid-range jumper, make it easier, um, you know, I think con was moving

a little bit.

I think by the letter of the law, that's probably a charge.

I don't know that you win it on a challenge.

It's close.

It's close.

It's a, it's a close play.

I more just don't like that.

That's defense in crunch time.

Um, and then, you know, okay, so the blazer after foul, um, they're going to get it

back when nine seconds left and they run this play to get the ball in bounds.

Like, of course, they turn it over because it's what they always do.

But what I didn't like about this play is that it started with, you know, three guys

at the mid court line and then Danny kind of at the far, um, opposite, uh, couple steps

behind half court, but the opposite sideline.

So Danny's going to make a big looping run from behind half court towards, uh, the blazer

and bounding in front of their own bench.

So he's looping to his rights in front of the blazer's bench, um, and then that, the

guys that who are at mid court are going to run down and set what looks like a double

screen for Jeremy Grant's.

It's kind of just too slow developing because you have to move from mid court to inside

the three point line to set up that double stagger for Jeremy Grant and then an ISO for,

like, you know, ISO outlet for, um, for Danny on the sidelines.

It's too mony as the inbounder.

I don't understand why, uh, Drew Holiday is in the inbounder there.

I don't get that.

Or even you could, you're allowed to like put scoot in the game.

You could sub him in and then you could be the inbounder.

You could put a better passer in that spot, um, they throw the wall away, you know, Miles

Bridges had his hand on him, uh, Danny obviously said afterwards that he's just like,

you know, he's kind of marginal contact and he's not going to whine about that call,

but he felt like he got fouled.

I think he kind of did, did two, I guess, but like, I'm not going to shoot the blazer's

much bail for as many times this season as they've struggled to get the ball in bounds.

It's just, it's just, it's too predictably sloppy failure.

It's too predictably just clunky nonsense in those moments.

They throw the ball away.

Blazer's foul.

Bridges says two more free throw scoot hits one from half court.

Like, I just think they had, they had so many chances here twice, twice up one with

the ball, you feel score twice down one with the ball, you feel score.

And then, you know, when you really need it, you can't get the ball in bounds for your

final shot.

They had their opportunities.

They just didn't capitalize.

Let's talk scoot Henderson in the, uh, in the third segment.

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on Blazers.

Scoot Anderson played pretty darn well in the first half of this game, shot it really

well.

He had 14 and a half time, was a big part of the Blazers jumping out to a 14 point lead.

They led by as many as 19 in that second quarter Scoot was ballin, right?

This was like a, a hooray for Scoot, kind of a celebration of like, you know, he looks

so rough on that road trip, he bounces back and like against a not very good Pacers team

just has an awesome game, awesome game, one of the best games of his career, certainly

the best games played the season, awesome, 28 and 6, no turnovers, you know, it's like,

oh, this is the Scoot, this was the sterling, we were promised playing really well in

the first half, checks into the third quarter, missed a couple shots.

It was both of the threes, but turns a ball over a couple times.

And then like, he just like, they just took him off the ball, like, it was just a lot

of Drew Holiday and then a lot of Danny Avdia.

And then to start the fourth quarter, he's not out on the court, you know, they start

with like some of their, you know, some of their starters, because they're, I think Tiago

is kind of like feeling, Tiago's Twitter, that is kind of like feeling the game slip away,

right?

He's kind of like, you know, we haven't been great.

He's like, forgot how to make threes since he got here.

Chris Murray's not going to give you anything on offense, even though he's out there.

But like, you know, and Thibal, they don't play him a ton, right?

They kind of limit his minutes.

Those are, you know, Thibal and then Murray, kind of your defensive specialists off the

bench, but the blazers like don't need more guys who can't score.

That's like, not really their thing.

That's not what they're missing.

They could use some more like shot creators, this kind of their thing.

And and Scoot just like, doesn't, you know, he does not out there to start the fourth

quarter.

And then he checks in for like a minute, doesn't attempt to shot, doesn't do anything.

And then he's out of there.

He plays, he barely, he barely exists in the fourth quarter.

And they play down the stretch with probably their best five players for this type of game.

They took Donovan, clinging out about midway through the fourth quarter to and he was pissed.

And like he was kind of getting killed on the glass by Moose de Diabate.

And the last offensive rebound he gave up, he felt like he got pushed and he was really

mad about it.

It was really hot.

And as soon as he got beat for that offensive board, splitter, you know, put in, said Rob,

go get him.

And Rob comes in and clinging just, he didn't even do anything, but he just walked to the

bench.

You know, he didn't go dapp anybody up.

He just walked to the bench.

They came over, tried to offer him like a towel and a water bottle, whatever.

He's like, not now.

Like he's pissed, right?

He's a competitor.

He's mad.

But it's like, you know, you pull Scoot out, you pull clinging out and he closed the game

with probably your five best players.

You know, I think those are your five best players.

I can't, I can't, I can't sit here and tell you that Scoot Henderson is better than

Drew Holiday.

That would be a lie.

But it's, it's Drew and two.

That's Drew Holiday.

Two money tomorrow.

It's Jeremy Grant, Danny Avdea and Rob Williams.

You got your size, you got defensive acumen.

You got your, your ability to switch one through five.

They really liked the way Rob guards on the perimeter.

He is leading the NBA and block three point shots.

He had a huge block three in this game to keep the Blazers in it.

Like, yeah, I can't, I don't know, like under a minute blocking a three, blocking a three

point attempt is a huge defensive play.

Rob played pretty well.

I don't think Drew played particularly well in this game.

He had four points on two of eight shooting.

You know, he missed his both his threes and like, I don't think Scoot played well in the

third quarter.

I don't think he had a good third quarter shift.

And you know, I, I'm not going to sit here and cry and say that Scoot had, I mean, I

could cry.

I might make for a really exciting end to this podcast.

It's Mike has an emotional breakdown about Scoot Henderson.

Is that what, is that what y'all want?

Leave a comment.

No, but like, I'm not going to whine about it.

You know, I don't think in the grand scheme if you're trying to win the game that you

could make a compelling case.

But if it's supposed like, what is the point of what the Blazers are doing right now?

What is the point?

Because if Scoot can't get on the court at the end of games, unless he's having an electric

night and he can't really, he doesn't really get any opportunity in the fourth quarter

unless he's having an electric night because you're in a close game and you just like, don't

trust him on defense and you trust what the other guys do.

I'm just like, is he ever going to play this probably not under this coaching staff,

right?

I'd be surprised if this coaching staff has the past the job next year more on that

initial day, maybe later this week, but like, you know, I just, I kind of feel a little

bit, I don't know, deflated by the sort of the usage here.

I don't think like I couldn't, I can't say with confidence that like, if you play Scoot

in the final three minutes, anything changes, right?

I can't, I can't, but I will say that like, if you had to pick which point guard on

the roster had a better game, I'm not under a presenter.

You could make a really compelling case that it was, that it was true holiday.

Like, I, I just don't, um, I don't think it was, you know, I think they played the

better player because he has earned the coaches trust and I think Scoot gets kind of the

short end of it because he has an earn the coaches trust.

But, you know, what I would follow up is like, how could you possibly do that if you only

get 48 seconds of burn during, uh, before the, you know, the final play of the game or whatever

it was, he played like a minute before the final seconds of the game, um, like, yeah, you

know, I, I, I don't know, I, I just, I, here's what I know, Scoot's not going to have

any opportunity, any more opportunity next year, not with the return of, of, uh, of Damien

Law or not assuming that like true holiday is, is both like appreciated by the franchise

and hard to trade because of his salary.

Yeah, like, and, and, and then Danny's going to still have a bunch of point guard responsibilities

on chain sharp.

It's going to be back like, it's not like, it's not like Scoot's going to have more,

more opportunity next year.

If there was ever a time to say, you know what, let's try this.

It's now, they didn't do that.

I think it's a defensible position to not do that because I think true holidays are straight

up a better basketball player than him right now.

And if you're trying to win the final three minutes of a game and against a good NBA team,

I think it's very reasonable to say the drew holiday gives you a better chance to do that

regardless of who has played, who has played to what points, um, you know, at what level

of the success in, in the first 45 minutes of the game, right?

Yeah, I think that's true.

But if Scoot has no path to earning minutes, what are we doing?

What's the like, what is, um, you know, I guess one may be close with a little bit of the

same sort of nihilism about like it doesn't matter at this time of the season, whether

the blazers win or lose.

If they win, sure, they can get into eighth and that'd be nice.

If they lose, they're pretty much locked into tenth because the world is trying to lose to

get Carlos Boosers kid or whatever.

Or the well-funded Danny Ange product at BYU.

Um, AG DuPont said deserves more respect than that, but y'all know what the deal is.

Um, and if you don't, look it up.

Look up who's paying all that NIL money to BYU.

But like, what's the point?

Well, if you can't earn playing time by what you do in the game, or if you have such

little trust that like a bad third quarter, I don't think Scoot played particularly well

at all in the third quarter.

A bad third quarter just dooms you to not playing it all.

When is Scoot ever going to have an opportunity?

You know, he has to have a lights out game to have an opportunity.

Otherwise, he's banished to the shadow realm.

Um, I just, I get it.

Like, I'm not confused by why it happened, but I just,

I leave with nihilism.

What is the point?

What is the point?

Because if you're, if you have an eye on the future,

or a belief in anything that could be developed beyond this,

I, I think Scoot was the best point guard on the roster tonight.

But maybe you're not making decisions based on tonight.

Maybe you're only making decisions based on how you can win the final three minutes of a game

in the middle of March.

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