Nurk only gets 2 shots in the 4th quarter tonight against Denver. He went 2-2 in 8 minutes. Nurk went 9-15 in the game. One of these 3 needed to step up. Get together and say. Nurk is going, find the hot hand. Accountability.
Stotts/Turner/Aminu all need to get wrecked. And by get wrecked, I mean not be on the team next season.
I don't care who it is. These are the three leaders of the team. Your 23 year old Center is dominating in the paint. Get the man the ball and play off him. Even more so, Nurk looked like the most physical player on the court, in a physical game. Get Nurk the ball.
Remember how well Nurk passed out of the post last season? Before he was taught the Tater Totts brand of basketball that results in turnovers?
I know ... gras is not always green on the other side, but when I see our team, I can tell ... our coaching doesn't do this team good. I have been on the fire Stotts bandwagon for some time. We have too much talent to be this mediocre ... Yea 3 seed my behind. I will be shocked if we get out of the first round. We lost to Dallas and Memphis ... let that sink in. We have guys shooting the team out of games in 2 quarters ... Stotts has not been able to get anything meaningful out of Turner. And we are paying him tons of money.
mmmm, disagree. We all saw how god awful Nurk was in the post to start the year. Stotts went away from just throwing the ball inside to Nurk, and letting Nurk go to work because it wasn't working. Tonight, would it have worked? IDK. I just wanted Nurk to continue to get the ball at the ft line or side P&R.
The problem with pick n rolls was they were collapsing hard because we couldn't hit a shot. That's fixed by players cutting/diving to the rim but instead they stay on the arc because they have a tendency to settle. That's on Stotts too in my opinion.
#blazersaccountability - Let's make this popular and start using it to let these 3 know Nurk needs to be featured more often!
The most telling thing to me is the mindset of CJ. At the beginning of tonight's game, someone (Brooke?) said they interviewed CJ trying to get the midst of the team. CJ said something to the effect of "if someone told me at the beginning of the season that we'd be at 48 wins with 2 to go, sitting in 3rd seed.... I'd take it." He's content with the season. They've 'overachieved'. There's no reason to bust his ass anymore to get more wins. It seems like they've played the last 4-5 games with this half-ass attitude. Tonight they played with a little more urgency, but settled for jump shot after jump shot.
He was setting the pick. Didn't think I'd need to type out Lillard/Aminu P&R. Unless you're getting at the fact Aminu doesn't roll. Then well played, but also nitpicky.
