As long as you have players who can make them! We clearly DON'T. Watching Terry and Peja, not just in game 4, makes me truly realize how awful Rudy, and even Nic, is. Rudy is USELESS. A spot up shooter who CAN'T MAKE SHOTS. Fuck, Peja was available to any team who wanted him, right? We need to keep Aldridge, Roy, Oden, Wallace, and Chris Johnson and replace everyone else with players who can shoot the fucking ball. Seriously.
You can't have a dominant inside team without guys that can shoot. No shooters = doubles in the post.
And Eric, I think the difference between our team and other jump shooting teams is before this season, the ball rarely entered the post before the jump shot went up. It was passingarounf the perimeter and getting a shot off late in the clock. There was a game I watched earliwer this season where one of the opposing commentators mentioned that as well. The play by play guy said we were a jump shooting team, and the analyst said all teams are, but before this season we never threw the ball down low to start the offense. I think that is what is meant by us being such a jump shooting team?
In any other draft Jimmer is not a lotto pick but I still think he could be a decent player off the bench in that Kerr/Hornacek/James Jones role.
Yes. He can shoot and he's fearless. At worst, he'll be JJ Reddick and he's better than anyone we have now.
You need a mix just like King said. I would rather have a team more focused on the inside dominance, than be a "jump shooting" team. Like I said. My opinion and looking back at history; the teams built more focused on the dominance inside wins in the post season. I didn't make the history up.
I agree with your reference to how it has been done in the past, but the rules have changed so much. The old pound it in stuff, unless you are Dirk, you get a whistle more often than not. The league is more guard friendly than I have ever seen it. The power teams of years past would never allow some shrimp to dice and slice up a defense. But, get a "super star" like we have seen and they can not be touched.
I'm a Jimmer and BYU (Graduated from there) fan, so I'd like it if Portland drafted him, but besides the defensive liability I question his ability to provide instant offense off the bench. He shoots a good percentage, and he can be instant offense, but if you watch BYU games this year, he didn't look to score until about half way through the first half most of the time. I'm not sure a role as a bench player (which he would undoubtedly would be) would suit his game. He practically never got rest in games for BYU so he never really had to come into a game cold and put up instant offense. As a pure shooter and a hard worker I think he has the ability to learn that role, but he's not had to do it while playing for BYU.
I'd like to think that any team drafting Jimmer in the lottery is thinking he can be a starter, and not a bench player. If he falls to #21, then he's worth a pick. If it means trading up into the top 10 to draft him, no thanks, at least if the Blazers have him graded as a bench player.
Good point. I guess I was thinking of the short term. I don't imagine Jimmer starting over Miller next year, should Portland draft him.
