He's averaging 18.5 points and 12.6 rebounds in 36.3 minutes. #28 in PER, ahead of #39 Aldridge as usual. And this is Aldridge's best season. http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/tiny.cgi?id=blkg9
Why oh why did we ever trade Zach??? A Grizzlies fan? Why would I ever drive all the way to Vancouver to see an NBA game?
Sac down 3 with about 20 seconds to go, Cousins takes the ball and drives to the basket with ease. I thought it was an interesting call out of a timeout.(at that point in the game) But then i noticed who was covering the young rookie...........
maybe it matters to a team's record if it's Bigs can't/don't play defense? Just a crazy thought... and to those who are still crying about the Blazers moving Zach and pointing to stats, it was made perfectly clear at the time that he was moved mostly for the regular off the court fuck ups and lying to team/management. STOMP
You all have obviously forgot why we got rid of him. I do not miss watching him not run back on defense. I do not miss him jawing with the ref instead of covering his guy while he is down at the other end dunking. In fact if you go back and look at it, the only year Zbo made it to the playoffs is when Rasheed Wallace and Scottie Pippen were still on the team. He never took a team to the playoffs himself. He also was a black hole offensive wise. If the ball went into Zbo, it wasn't coming back out, and teams knew that. He would only rebound on the offensive end for the most part, which would lead to very frustrating defensive posessions. Now that is only the stuff about his play. How about stiffing the team so he could hang out at the Portland airport strip bar? How about holding a stripper against her will at a downtown Portland Motel? How about doing 110 down broadway in a hummer while smoking doobies? You want Zbo back? Go watch Memphis. By the way that game, he scored all that in? A loss. What a fucking surprise.
At some point we have wanted ZBO, Conley, Gay, Mayo, and Gasol. This team has talent. I wonder what their issue is................
Typical ZBO/Love game. Monster individual stats, gives up as many as he scores, makes a critical defensive error, and his team loses the game to the worst team in the league. Last night is Zach's career in a nutshell. Love is on the same career path so long as Minnesota thinks he is a franchise player. Love would be great as a #3 option offensively on a title-contending team. He'd need to play with a great defensive center, though.
Clearly they need Nate coaching them, because switching "Grizzlies" with "Blazers" on the front of the uniform would automatically make them 10 games better, and Nate would coach them to another 8 wins.
It was definitely time for Zach to move on when KP traded him, I just didn't like what he traded him for (the privilege of buying out Steve Francis' ridiculous contract and Charmin). But good for him for making an all-star game and being a pretty good player and (semi) cleaning up his act.
