Game Thread GAME# 74: BLAZERS @ BULLS - MARCH 27, 2019 - WEDNESDAY, 5:00 PM , NBCSNW

Discussion in 'Portland Trail Blazers' started by Darkwebs, Mar 26, 2019.

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With Nurk out, who should start at center?

Poll closed Apr 2, 2019.

  1. Collins

    24 vote(s)
    46.2%

  2. Kanter

    12 vote(s)
    23.1%

  3. Labissiere

    2 vote(s)
    3.8%

  4. Leonard

    14 vote(s)
    26.9%

  5. Other

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
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  1. twobullz

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    I know a lot of you hate on ET because of his salary, but I think he is not healthy. He has not been shooting well at all since he went out with the injury and it seems everything just comes up short. I wonder just how healthy he is.
     
    twobullz, Mar 27, 2019
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    So Kanter is stepping up? Good.

    I wish we could see this team against a better opponent, so that we can get a better idea of how good or bad we are without Nurk and CJ.
     
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    To some of you Salary cap guys, why did they let Rolo go, to begin with? I realize they wanted to start over and get young, but he was like 26? I'm glad they ended up with Nurkic, but I've kind of never heard a good explanation on the Lopez stuff, I always thought he was a solid center.
     
    TorturedBlazerFan, Mar 27, 2019
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    The only negative I see is we gave up 9 offensive rebounds that half I hope Stotts is pointing that out to them at the half.
     
    James lamphear, Mar 27, 2019
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    Was he shooting good before the injury?
     
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    IIRC, while I doubt this played much of a reason on why we let him go, he was awful on Defense against good centers. Not even elite centers.....just good ones.

    That's just how I remember it, mind you.
     
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    ET has 6 assists and 0 turnovers
     
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    Turner is not 100 percent you can see that how he moves.
     
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    Hang in there Pacers!
     
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    Rebounding going have to be team effort the rest of the year.
     
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    Well he definitely wasn't "elite", wasn't their defense with that team overall pretty good though?
     
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    Yes he was shooting very good from the elbow and the key. He shot was averaging 44-52% per month until his injury, since his injury he is just shooting in the low 30's so a big drop.
     
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    What happened to Jake? 1 point. 0 shots.
     
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    Don't pick me; my knees are really shot!
     
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    He's been scouted. Need to run some other action to get him open. And he's not trusting his shot
     
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    Bulls offered him $54M. Didn't make sense for the Blazers to pay him more than that to anchor what was believed to be a rebuilding team, especially since we had Meyers who was presumably fresh off his breakout series against the Grizz, and had just traded for Plumlee.
     
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    I think you meant "He has not been shooting well at all since he came into the league and it seems everything just comes up short."
     
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    That is the norm for him. For some reason everyone just remembers the 10 or so games when he did more and think that for some reason is the norm.
     
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    Yep, also a couple times I saw players (mostly Meyers) ball watching instead of going for a rebound.
     
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    I think someone shooting over 50% for a month when playing a bunch is considered shooting well. Just need to get past your hate of his salary. Which is not his fault. I doubt anyone of the haters would have turned it down.
     
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