I may be wrong but wasn't he supposed to go to Louisville last year and bailed when Pitino was fired and ended up at IMG instead?
I think Neil is happy with the Lillard/McCollum backcourt and doesn’t plan on trading CJ anytime soon. Not what you want to hear, I know, but I think it’s the truth.
I'm not a proponent of trading CJ. I'm not totally against it either, but only in very unlikely scenarios.
I dunno, it sounds like he already has a good grasp of the Blazers defense! That reclassifying his draft class thing makes for one seriously confusing (as written) timeline.
Why are people making the claim that this was a high risk pick by NO and that he finally did something risky. He absolutely did the OPPOSITE of that. He took a guy no one expects to play at all in the next year (maybe two), so when / if he doesn’t really get on the court well no one expected otherwise. It’s completely low risk as the expectations are basically nothing, by the time we think he’ll play we will all have moved on to different drafts, different rosters. Last year was a much higher risk, trading up for a guy and proclaiming him to be part of the foundation of the team. I don’t know how I feel about this draft for the Blazers, it didn’t really do much for me. One guy has potential but more than likely won’t be playing for a while, the other guy basically plays No defense at all. It’s a wait and see.
These 2 is wait and see players but it will be up to them how good they get by there work they put in to get better.
FWIW, Turner has always been a better player as a starter than off the bench. If we get a good shooting wing next to him who is athletic and can defend, I think Turner as a starting SG is fine.
Good point. It just seems that (blazer) fans are just impatient and unrealistic. I'm willing to give them at least some playing time on the court first.
watch him dunk in the workout film....he's just really young looking...as prunetang mentioned...he's probably not done growing...
I also agree with the strategy. At no. 24, if they concluded there was no clear difference maker on the board, swing for a home run. If they whiff, oh well, didn't really lose much. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Whoever he took at no. 24 couldn’t be expected to contribute next year. Who out of the last three drafts went 24 or so and contributed to his team in first season and made them better? Kuzma, Hart at Lakers and Anunoby at Raptors. In 2016 maybe Murray and Siakam but they contributed more in 2nd year. Let’s not act as if we had a top lottery pick. The argument above could have been done for 2017 draft and Collins.
I don't mean to beat the dead horse, but I'm looking at this like the Blazers traded the No. 24 pick in this year's draft, because they didn't see a difference maker on the board, for a top 10 (top 5 if I dream big) pick in the 2019 draft. Based on my assumptions, I think that's a pretty good deal. It doesn't matter if he doesn't contribute this year, this pick is for next year.
I think they got rid of those little wing windows because they made it easy to break into cars. But yeah, low tech air conditioning at it's finest.
