I don't know that Blake has that much value. Earlier in here people were talking about how one-dimensional Sergio is. The same really applies to Blake. He's a fantastic three point shooter (when he's on), but he otherwise doesn't give you anything at all. He's basically a slower, bigger version of Eddy House or Boobie Gibson. How much value do either of those guys really have? I'd trade Pendergraph and Cunningham for them, or Outlaw's expiring deal, but I wouldn't trade anything of real value. It's so fucking stupid how long Nate thought it was important to start Blake over Miller. What a fucking joke that was.
Maybe Dre can't play next to Roy, but he sure as HELL can play without him. I second how dumb it was not giving Dre a decent chance to show who should start long before it finally happened. Go Blazers
I really like what he has done with this team. I hope he doesn't get traded. He has more aggressiveness to drive towards the basket which Blake is so reluctant to do so.
Part of that strikes me as being psychological; LMA is sort of hard wired to defer, especially with Brandon in the game, without him around I think he feels more 'responsibility' to try and take over (to whatever extent he can). The other part? For all of Brandon's strengths, he's just not a point guard and really struggles to create easy shots for his bigs unless it's a dump pass into the post and Greg or LMA then iso from the block, and I've yet to see him ever run a pick and roll where he passes to the rolling big.
At this point I would be very disappointed if we traded Miller now. Nice to finally have a true poing guard. By the way this might be the best play from a PG I've seen on the Blazers since Rod Strickland.
