Game Thread GAME# 54: CELTICS @ BLAZERS - FEBRUARY 9, 2017 - THURSDAY, 7:30 PM (PST), TNT

That's not entirely true. He has a floater and some fakes to get him midrange shots.

 

I just don't think he's taken the leap I expected this season but that's just me expecting more...I don't dislike Crabbe...he just seems like he needs some B vitamins sometimes

 

They were banking on his solid playoff run. He was extremely consistent and ended the year on a high note. He's regressed. Badly.

 

How has he regressed? He's one of the best shooters in the NBA.

 

The more minutes and shots he gets the better the teams record is. That's a fact.

 

Why the f*** do you want to add more rookies with Dame and CJ in there prime... trade the picks or else you may as well trade Dame and CJ waiting on 19 year olds to develop

 

Depends. I never really cared about the draft, especially picking outside of the top 10. If we can land an impact player for two firsts, I'm all over it.

 

What does Orlando want for Vucevic?

 

Crabbe only scored 42 points in the Clippers series.

 

Crabbe is incredibly one dimensional. Terrible defensive instincts, in spite of his length, and he's often a non factor on offense for entire games unless he hits an open jumper right away and develops a shooting rhythm.

We could be replacing his production with a couple of league minimum guys and we likely wouldn't be losing a whole lot.

 

Yeah you were up Crabbe's ass all night. I don't think he played bad at all. And other than the two games against Dallas he has had a nice stretch of games. Yes he makes too much money. But has he really regressed?

 

Yea, we need to spend 3 years developing rookies that likely won't pan out with the league's highest payroll and our two best players in their prime.

 

Like who?

 

No idea what his value is. I'm guessing at least our first round pick, lottery protected.

 

That's not what I was saying. I was saying I don't like paying that much for a player who only does what he does. So I would have liked to spend that money for more value. But I get the feeling we panicked because we thought we had a potential contender and we didn't want to lose pieces we thought were important. For the record, I like Crabbe.

This might not even matter if the cap keeps climbing so ridiculously high.

 

Crabbe is 6th in the NBA in 3 point percentage.

 

More rookies? We haven't even had a first round pick who we have kept since C.J. in 2013. We're a lottery quality team this year and are starving for talent. You don't throw away lotto picks so you can chase flawed players like Vucevic, when you could be getting younger, cheap rookie contract talent. We need to develop through the draft now.

 

Tonight he wasn't fighting to get open. He just looked like he wanted wide open 3's and didn't need to work on offense. Zero effort and hustle especially when you see how a dude like Marcus Smart gets after it.

 

Potential contender? We have the same team that you all expected to win 26 games last year. Not sure why you all suddenly expected us to win more this season with Evan Turner as the only major difference.

 

Joe Ingles shoots a better 3% percentage. I don't want to throw 75 million at him.