2018 Around the NBA - October

Are you talking about the atmosphere in the Staples Center after the game? If so, I think that is a peak at showtime returning and one of the draws and appeals of playing in L.A. for the Lakers. Man, I hate that LeBron is going to make them good again, but I do have to say, when both the Blazers and the Lakers are good, those games are some of my most clearest memories. Beating good Lakers teams is awesome!

 

Dammit you could have just kept quiet !

 

I was referring to the common forum narrative that we were the luckiest team in the league with respect to opponent injuries last year. We were not the luckiest in this regard, we were pretty much right around average of the teams competing for a playoff spot in the West. Other teams benefited, too. Some more than us. That was my point.

I don't recall who did the study, but it was professionally done, not just some fan posting in a forum. It may have been nyloncalculus, but I'm not sure.

BNM

 

I’ve let him read your posts in here...... he hates you!

 

I wouldnt blame him.

 

I think you manufactured that argument to make a point. Most people said we were lucky in who we faced and when, not that we were the luckiest.

 

BNM

 

https://www.theringer.com/the-bill-...18029276/nba-panic-teams-with-brian-windhorst

Around the 52 minutes mark they suggest Collins and Turner for Mark Gasol. Turner sure, but not Collins.

 

Do they explain the reason POR would do this? I assume it's MEM that is the "panic" team in this far-fetched scenario. We already have Nurk as our starting center and no way can you play two slow footed behemoths together in today's NBA. Do they really think we want to get rid of Turner's contract that badly (in spite of the fact that he's actually playing well for us right now) that we'd give up on the 20-year old we took with the 10th pick in the 2017 draft (who is also playing quite well for us right now)?

Marc is pushing 34-years old and this is what he's owed over the next two seasons:

$24,119,025 $25,595,700

So, it's not like we'd actually be saving any money. In fact, our payroll would go up by about $3 million a year. We'd just be shifting the cost from our back up playmaker to our back up center (who is older and injury prone).

BNM

 

The only thing they mention is that it would show Lillard the organization is serious. Windhorst is the one who brought it up.

 

What if Memphis added there #1pick this year?

Collins + Turner for Gasol + #1 pick?

 

serious about making bad moves ?

 

Serious about what? Sacrificing his future?

BNM

 

No way, not for this version of Gasol.

 

The team is winning with talent not losing with a huge lack of talent. The only way that narrative works is when we aren't playing up to expectations. Even Dame knows that.

 

Our boy Vonleh making the start versus the Warriors today. Probably gonna get killed but rooting for him. Shoutout to Ed Davis with the double double.

Swanigan not looking pretty though. Surely there must be another team that can utilize him. Maybe we get another TPE and not use it?

 

Shit, it's a 50/50 chance that Collins is better than Gasol this year.

 

Oh, hell no.

 

Still SMH about that ridiculous ESPN trade idea. WTF. Why do those network ass clowns constantly want to screw the Blazers for the benefit of other teams? It's just tiring. I honestly wouldn't trade either player alone for Gasol right now. It wouldn't make us better. So dumb.

 

By the playoffs Collins will be solid, and Gasol will be or will have been injured.