Re: Its official: Martell out for the season. Personal opinion, but I think Martel will never have the career he was to. Batum will be our SF of the future.
Re: Its official: Martell out for the season. why mess up the chemistry.....martell will sit out, heal fully and come back strong next year (i hope). he should come back pretty offensive minded after sitting down and waiting for a year (hopefully)
Re: Its official: Martell out for the season. Merge alert. We already have a thread about Martell being out of the boot and out for the regular season. Rice is on The Game right now talking about Martell. He just said that Martell isnt like most guys who are injured and out for the season. Most guys vanish, but Martell still comes to every practice, shoot around, etc. Martell wants to come back and play as soon as possible.
I think Martell will still be our 4th option next year offensively. gonna be sweet when he returns. oh well, at least he signed a cheapish contract.
Yea that's a bummer, but I figured he was out for the season a while back. If we could get one more SF type player on the team to put up 12+ points a night consistently this team would be amazingly tougher.
i have never really understood the strong desire to bring in that vet SF. i think between batum and webster our SF position could be locked down for a long time and if you really want a vet to have an impact on the team you bring in a PG. i still think if we do anything in the offseason it's an upgrade at PG rather than SF. and i agree, without webster going down we probably never see this out of batum.
Never? Cream tends to rise to the top no matter how much 2% surrounds it, and heres guessing a defensive minded coach like Nate would have given his best wing defender a decent shot at PT. I know some contend that Martell was just about to have a "break through" season and raise the level of his play, but we've been hearing about that every pre-season since he came in the league. At no point in his Blazer career has his defense, ballhandling, and/or court sense impressed me the way that Batum's has. Nic's emergence has made me much more comfortable with Portland's SF spot then last year... hell last year I was hoping they'd resign Jones to be the starter. STOMP
sorry i meant never as in this season. that was my bad. and i'm not pinning all my hopes on webster for the SF spot but a combo of him and Nic.
I for one am totally unexcited about Martell Webster coming back. He guy can get hot from 3pt range....but he also bricks a lot of open shots like Rudy. In fact, they are fairly similar, in that they both have the ability to drive, but like to sit back and take too many 3s.
Re: Its official: Martell out for the season. I was tired and about to go to bed and saw it while I was on Oregonlive and didn't feel like taking the time to put the link on. Any particular reason why you can't look for yourself?
I agree with us really needing a PG more then a SF but what I think we need the most is a banger backup PF that can play a little center. If we can't get that good FA vet PG I would be very happy if we signed a banger/defensive PF/C.
