I’ll say three things for Jordan, no one is gonna push him around, he’s not gonna float out and try to play “pretty basketball”, and he isn’t missing layups...cause his only shots are DUNKS!
Unfortunately we have a GM who wants to sit on his hands and not make any moves. None. Just hands out bad contracts while dames prime years are wasted. I’m not talking make a move just to make a move either. It’s obvious we need to do something about the roster. You have 3 bad contracts, 2 of which are fucking terrible. Meyers and turner. I just don’t get it. What’s Neil’s plan? To sit here with these bad contracts all summer into next season? You have to start working these deals now. People blame stotts. I blame olshey. He’s a great little actor but has really fucked us the last couple years. Also, I like collins, I think he has potential but for fucks sake man let’s trade our picks in to get the 10th to grab a player who came off the bench in college as a project.
I’m not saying he’s the reason for the game. He played great in the 1st quarter, actually even had some post moves though once again, most of his looks come from dame off the pick and roll. Him fouling out stupidly and that easy layup at the end there. It’s a build up all season. I can’t stand the guy anymore.
It’s not the body of work that bugs me about Nurk, it’s how anti-clutch he appears to be to me. He can be a real stat stuffer and then when it gets to crunch time or an important possession he just completely does something lazy or of low BBIQ. I now cringe when he gets the ball in a close game with under 5 min to play, I just expect a weak shot attempt or turnover.
He makes stupid decisions after stupid decisions, still can't finish around the Rim, makes stupid fouls, has no range in the modern NBA. I've been saying this the hole Season, and still a lot of people defended him, hopefully now they wake up and See that Nurkic has cost us a lot of wins this year
Hmmm... I wonder if a proven big man coach would help. Oh fuck, never mind. It makes too much fucking sense. It will never happen. POR pissed away any chance of Meyers Leonard ever being a serviceable NBA player when they fired Kim Hughes. Noah Vonleh is in his third season here and can't even get off the bench. Nurk is still salvageable, but he needs help. And then there are the two 20-year olds we used three first round picks in a deep draft to acquire. With five young players to work with, there is no shortage of work to be done. Hire offensive and defensive specialists. They don't count against the cap or luxury tax. It seriously boggles my mind that none of Paul, Neil, Terry and the Vulcans can see something that is so fucking obvious. How many first round picks are we going to piss away by not developing the guys we draft (and trade for)? Is this organization still so fucking butt hurt over Kim Hughes breaking the news of losing LaMarcus Aldridge that they are in denial about the value of a good, proven big man coach? I'm not generally on the fire Neil, fire Terry bandwagon, but those two need to put their pointy little heads together go to Paul and say, "Look, we have FIVE big men, all former first round picks, including three lottery picks, all between 20 and 25 on this roster. We think, to maximize the return on your investment in those young players, we should hire a proven big man coach to accelerate their development". If they are too fucking stubborn to ask for help, Dame should do it the next time he has a sit down with Paul Allen. He should go to Paul and say, "I know that we have a tough time attracting top tier free agents, and we lack the assets to acquire a star caliber player via trade. So, the best route to contention is developing the young talent we already have." We have drafted and traded for five big men, all young and raw, in my time here. What can we do to help those guys become the players you envisioned when you approved those trades and draft picks? I think a proven big man coach would help. Hire one, or trade me." Ok, maybe leave out that last sentence - for now. Jeezus, this just pisses me off to no end. Look at the caption below my avatar. Nurk needs fucking HELP. Get him that help and do it NOW. BNM
Leonard had a flat learning curve with or without Hughes. The natural poet had no athletic instincts, no matter who coached him. But let's keep the thread about Nurkic.
I think a lot of people here are starting to see Nurk how the rest of the gms in the league see him. I no longer think Nurk could be the centerpiece to acquire a talent like Jabari Parker, Nurk is probably more likely to net you a Julius Randle or someone like that.
It's unbelievable to me. I'm hoping they just want to wait until the off-season....yeah, I'm being positive (or in denial) Nurk has so MUCH untapped ability that he's getting by on talent alone.
Which makes Portland 9-9 in tight games. We win half of them.... making us exactly what we are -> a mediocre team
No, every team should be around .500 in tight games--when it comes down to a possession or two, it's essentially anyone's game. A team with a particularly talented isolation scorer might do a bit better in such situations, but major deviation from .500 in tight games is largely luck. Good/great teams are good/great because they generally avoid it coming down to the last possessions.
I don't buy that it's largely luck. Great teams are more disciplined and deliberate. Bad teams are very error proned in tight games.
But, he was much closer to that flat ceiling with Hughes than he has been since. In his third season, he was actually a serviceable NBA back up big man. Since, he has been completely useless. I'd hate to see a similar fate for Nurk and Collins and Swanigan, and Vonleh. Those guys all have higher ceilings than Meyers. All the more reason to do everything possible to help them reach their ceilings. If Paul was willing to invest in a proven big man coach to help Meyers, would he not get more return on his investment now that we have Nurk, Collins, etc.? BNM
Under Hughes, Leonard was already at his flat ceiling, i.e. not a serviceable center. Red Auerbach and John Wooden could join efforts, and Leonard's ceiling then and now still wouldn't change. After his wasted rookie year when he should have been embarrassed, at the start of his first Summer League game, he walked out laughing, sociable like a woman. The other players were nervous about the challenge. The goofball floated through the game smiling, even worse than his first Summer League a year earlier when his face turned red whenever he received, smiling and laughing, a Lillard alley-oop. He was incorrigible until his contract was ending. Then he became stern, probably because the coaches motivated him by informing the moron that all NBA players had no respect for him. Since then he has played harder and it had nothing to do with Hughes, since he was already gone. With the attitude problem gone, he had only one reason left for sucking...he's a dork, not an athlete. No coach can change that. "But let's keep the thread about Nurkic."
