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Used to be talking about injuries to bigs in Portland was ban material! Nobody should mention injuries dude.....! We have 7 bigs…..Draymond Green starts at center often and is 6'8......Mo, Jake and Chief are all as tall as Swanigan and Green...if there are issues...we play small ball...Golden State does it all the time. If it's serious....you sign a 10 day big...Leonard and Swanigan are our options....cheer for them both...as it is we have 3... 7 footers....for years we didn't....stupid would have been keeping Pappa G and dropping Baldwin

 

So if Nurk gets hurt it's okay because Layman and Harkless are 6'8"? lol

They could've improved the situation while keeping Leonard and Swanigan.

 

now asking me if Nurk gets hurt is ok.? That's a troll post dude...I've explained my take...we go into the season with 3 7 footers and and seven players who can play in the front court...I'm very superstitious about projecting injuries....as I said before we had 3 bigs that never sniffed the court all last season and no bench scoring...I think we're good as is. Something major happens...come Feb we can address that at the trade deadline....I don't see this situation you're referring too at all

 

So I'm supposed to feel confident that we are relying on guys who as you put it "never sniffed the court all last season"?

 

it is what it is.....I'm not looking for disasters before tipoff...our medical staff has been stellar of late...yeah...Big Ed's minutes are going to 2 guys who didn't play much..Pappa G is history.Leonard avg'd 7 minutes in a total of 33 games played ….people act like he's not here mostly because of the 9 mill he's paid...I think he'll be a contributor this season..in some of those 7 minute stretches he scored and rebounded really well...Swanigan will get you some rebounds
Two seasons ago Big Ed had serious injury bad luck....I don't wish that on any player. We're going to play small ball a lot in my view.

 

I'm here to cheer.....the opposite I don't find entertaining or really doing anything for me as a fan.

 

I love the Blazers. I think they are better than most and don't completely discredit the 3rd seed. They needed to get better this summer though.

 

Which was it? Bad fit or late start? Or was it something else....


Carmelo Anthony: Oklahoma City Wasn't A Good Fit
JUL 26, 2018 9:24 AM


Carmelo Anthony initially was resistant to the idea of a buyout to become a free agent.

"To get bought out, to get waived, you were looked at like, you're done," said Anthony. "Now, it's just almost like the norm. If something doesn't work, go ahead and get a buyout or go ahead and get traded. That's the new norm in our society in basketball. I had to get over that.

"I had a conversation with my wife and family. I said to them, I'm not taking no buyout. I'm not getting waived. And they said, at the end of the day, nobody is going to know that. You have to do what you have to do. It's going to be a blip on your radar. It's on to the next chapter. It took me a while to get to that point where I'm like, OK, I'm going to accept it."

Anthony said ultimately things didn't work out with the Oklahoma City Thunder because of timing.

"At the end of the day, it wasn't a good fit," he said. "I think last year -- and I haven't talked about this before -- everything was just so rushed, going to the team for media day and the day before training camp. Them guys already had something in place, and then I come along in the 25th hour like, oh s---, Melo just come on and join us. Like, you can figure it out since you've been around the game for a long time. That's why it was so inconsistent. At times, I had to figure it out on my own rather than somebody over there or people over there helping me."

Anthony is expected to sign with the Houston Rockets.

"I think winning, at the end of the day, rewrites everything," he said. "It settles everything. I also look back at this past year. When we were winning, the story was written already. When we started losing, the story is written. It's almost premeditated. I'm playing ball. I'm happy. I'm excited about what's to come, wherever that may be."

 

That's not quite the same thing as saying he wanted to start. Not even close, actually. What you said implies unhappiness with his bench role. The reality is he was asked a yes/no question with only one practical answer. What's he supposed to say, "no I don't want to start"? That's just silly.

 

I think they did

 

This is a baited argument...he said exactly what I said....sure...I want to start...I don't tell Ed Davis what he's supposed to say...I just think it's part of his reason for going east which I mentioned earlier....what's your point? I NEVER said he mentioned being unhappy either....I'll speak for myself here...glad to read anything you have to say about Ed Davis...go for it...I think your whole response to my post was actually silly....no big deal

 

Look, we'll see. He can't play D. Y'all saw him getting used by that Villanova cat in SL.

 

Don't prove his point man.. you've tried to teach me that I don't have to respond to everything people throw at me, so I'll say the same to you.

 

the personal insults around here have to stop now....used to be like that around here and I'm in zero tolerance for that bs now..it's tough to talk about the team without these things and from here on out...I'm flaggin' every person who makes shit personal...don't care what it proves other than I like to enjoy the site ...nobody has to respond to shit thrown at them here but then this place just fills up with shit thrown at people....no more...rather than argue about it....I'll use the tools the forum has. I could care less if folks don't like whatever they don't like....my friends here are welcome to use humor to joke around about me...vice versa but strangers to me don't get to do that...my 2 cents. I'm here to have fun.

 

I'm my opinion, "zero tolerance" is the same as "thin-skinned".

If I said "You have no tolerance for anything", would that be an insult? That's be me repeated what you're telling us. So if I say you're "thin-skinned", how's that difference?

There's much worse that I've dealt with in here. I never see you stand up or call out any of it.

 

If he wanted to start, he wouldn't have gone to Brooklyn - A rebuilding team with a good young center they're building around (Jarrett Allen) who Davis won't start over.

Everything I've heard is Davis wanted to come back, but Olshey didnt want someone in the way of Collins earning more playing time (like what happened with C.J. to start his career).

 

what's the point of this...move on...it's a basketball thread...zero tolerance is a choice...thin skinned is an insult....not necessary...I made my point..you can feel however you like about it bones...just don't talk about it here

 

Then quit posting misleading stuff and scrambling under the "everyone is out to get me" cover when the fallacy of the context is pointed out. You've made it a daily occurrence.

Maturity at its finest. I'm sure you'll have this flagged, too, although I'm not sure it qualifies as personal.