Notice Preseason Positives and Negatives

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  1. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Depending on your situation, preseason means many different things to many different people. For young crappy teams, like the Magic or Wolves, winning and looking good is very important. They hope the vibe of winning and seeing some success from all their hard work in camp can carry over. For contending teams like the Bucks and Lakers, it just doesn’t mean as much. They realize they can just turn it on whenever. Sometimes they can and sometimes they can’t.
    I watched a couple of those contending team’s preseason games, and they could have won, but pulled their starters. But what does it mean for middle of the pack teams like the Mavs, Pacers or us?
    What does it mean if you have a tenured coach like Spo or Pop, compared to a rookie like Coach Billups?

    That said, what does it mean to fans. I’m quite sure Nets fans look at it differently than Wiz fans.

    I, in all my honesty while watching the 4th quarter tonight, was thinking to myself, trying to figure out a SINGLE POSITIVE from this preseason. And I just couldn’t see a single thing that has got me going into the season excited or pumped. Like what is our new staff sitting on the plane tonight saying to each other that they hope “BLANK” continues and carries over to the regular season?
    If you guys have anything you feel looked great out there, please share.
    I’m sure some will say, “Don’t overreact, it’s just preseason” Or, “Give it some time” Then that answers my question on what you think or expect from preseason.
    I can understand the wait and see thing and thats what I’m doing.
    I will give them 30 games before I really start to judge, but there is usually a few things I saw that give me some hope……just didn’t see it this year. #RipCity
     
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    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    A championship caliber team can lose its star player and still make the playoffs.

    A playoff caliber team can lose its star player and won't make the playoffs.

    Without Lillard we are a lottery team.
     
  3. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    I think you sir are correct unfortunately.
     
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    Phatguysrule Well-Known Member

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    Unfortunately this isn't much of a surprise... Hopefully changes are made before Dame asks out.
     
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    If the thing you can be most excited about is cutting Ben and CJ after a preseason, you know the offseason sucked ass
     
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    They look like a lottery team.
     
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    44 wins, 7 or 8th seed, 1st round exit. That's the takeaway I got.

    Oh and Lillard gone after next season. Full rebuild.
     
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    When you were sitting watching the 4th quarter, none of our rotation guys were playing. Also, the Lakers aren’t a contender. In 2014, they would’ve been the best team ever, though.
     
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    KSF-ERIC Well-Known Member

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    But if we were to trade Lillard for another impact player, we would make playoffs.
     
  10. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    *edited* Answer my question. What did you see in the preseason from this team that you hope carries over to the regular season.
     
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    What I took from preseason was that Dennis Smith Jr earned the 14th spot on the roster and that the coaching change isn't going to be seamless.
     
  12. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    I like what I saw from him for sure.
     
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    our defense in the first quarter was a sign of what we can do. trapping steph, then rotating out was a sight for sore eyes.

    but kerr adjusted... and we didn't counter. it looked like our guys had no idea where to be.

    it's gonna take some time. i just hope chauncey sticks to it instead of reverting back to terry's old strategies to salvage regular season wins.
     
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    My takeaway is they look bored. Also it reaffirmed my concern about Nurkic. He just doesn’t have it. Dennis Smith needs to make the team. Preseason doesn’t mean much but it can show some red flags and that’s what happened the last two weeks.
     
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    nurk's finishing ability just hasn't improved. really disappointing.
     
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    Not sure I like that he seems to have fallen inn love with the 3 as well. I’m cool with him NOT shooting anymore.
     
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    the chances Portland trades Dame for an impact player are really small. Caris Lavert, or DeMar Derozan or Danilo Gallinari are not impact players. And that's the caliber of players that seem to get traded when a star demands to leave

    not only that, if Portland trades Dame they would have a tough time re-signing RoCo and Nurkic

    if Portland trades Dame they'd be stupid to waste an opportunity for a full rebuild, and they'd be compounding stupid to build around CJ & Powell. That's just about the worst kind of purgatory
     
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    if he can make em at a 35% clip, i want him shooting at least 2 a game. i don't have a problem with this.

    more of my annoyance with him is the soft, no touch flip shots that have no chance of going in. dude needs to improve... wheres the practice?
     
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    We played only 3 teams. Luckily we won’t have our superstar out of the lineup more than he’s in the lineup. But we’re short, unimaginative on offense and still give up open 3’s.

    I’m hoping for us to turn a switch come regular season. But I was also hoping for us to try and shake up the roster the past 5 off seasons.

    Should be an interesting year.
     

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