Nurkic and Kanter 48 Minutes at Center

Combined for 22 points, 26 rebounds and only 4 fouls.

Ballgame. Thanks, big fellas.

 

Kanter can straight up play. Defensive deficiencies and all, he can neutralize that himself on the offensive end most nights.

 

They had a combined 22 and 20 in the last game with only 5 fouls. Not many teams can match up with both of them.

 

He’s a smart player, he always tries hard, and he hangs around the basket. If he had a better outside shot he'd remind me of a taller Zach Randolph.

 

Is this where we complain about Giles not playing or we tip our cap to the big guys that were a part of a great win?

 

It’s the worst Blazer team of my lifetime!

They should have won by much more against a Laker team on a back-to-back at home.

 

great tag team at the 5

 

Need more 4 boards 2 point possession to get the true Z-Bo vibes.

 

Kanter commits some insanely stupid fouls that result in and-1s.

maybe the timing is just bad but seems like he fouls more than he does.

 

Giles makes more sense next to Melo, Kanter makes more sense next to DJJ or RoCo. Gotta have one defensive 4 or 5 in the game.

 

It'll be interesting to see if Melo gets any minutes at all after Zach returns.

Seems like Hood and GT coming off the bench gives us just enough defense to allow us to play Enes for his scoring and rebounding. But I think a lot of times he's just going to be played off the court by smaller and faster centers.

We're probably going with an 8 or 9 man rotation. Hood and GT will definitely be there.

Zach can play PF or C. With his defense he slots in pretty easily with any lineup, and if he's bringing an offensive game that night you can even end the game with him among the starters. You can't do that with Enes, because that means sitting Nurk.

So that leaves you with Melo and Kanter fighting over the 9th man's minutes. Kanter is clearly playing better. I wonder how Melo is going to feel about things with a string of DNP's.

 

NBA players have such respect for Melo that I don't know that Stotts is the only one who is conflicted about playing him minutes. Melo is going to get more opportunities, I think, because of that.

But each opportunity is going to come at the cost of benching a very worthy player. I think Stotts is going to run with the guy who is productive.

 

To be able to win a championship players going have to accept there roles and that's means you might not get the minutes that you think you deserve every night. So what it will interesting how Stotts will play it when Zach comes back. But we see it you can play Kanter if you have other defenders around him and you play him because he rebounds something we was missing in that 2nd unit last year.

 

I hope you are wrong.

 

Melo's only role now should be to keep himself in shape in case we have an injury. He should not be on the court otherwise.

 

This is super obvious but it won't actually happen