2023 TRAIL BLAZERS TRAINING CAMP THREAD

If anyone cares, I fixed the twitter link by re-typing it to this form below, you don't need to type the word media in caps and you get to use brackets! Everything is/can be lower case.

media=twitter within brackets, followed by the twitter number *only*, then /media within brackets

 

Run with Gun. Otherwise, very nice.

 

I think we have seen enough of GM Lillard over the years to know that this is not the rousing endorsement some might make it to be.

 

Compare this thread to when we drafted Scoot. I see no comparison with the fan hype.
http://www.sportstwo.com/threads/nolan-smith.189822/

 

In this scenario, how many minutes do you see him at PF, and how many at the backup center when DA is not on the floor?

From Chauncey's answer on the video, it sounds like he understands that starting him is not an option, but that playing them together when needed..... is an option. That makes the most sense to me as well. I don't think Williams is a 30+ minute-a-night guy. So what's your breakdown.... minutes-wise

 

2011 I wasn't a member here but you're right...Pappa G sure didn't like him nor many posters I don't even know..I was a member of Iamatrailblazerfan.com during that season with Casey and Sarah Hecht and Dustin Hawes as mods. You're right about the S2 crowd...they didn't seem too high on Nolan nose picking Smith.

 

2013-14 - o/u 38.5--->54-28 (+15.5)
2014-15 - o/u 49--->51-31 (+2)
2015-16 - o/u 28.5--->44-38 (+15.5)
2016-17 - o/u 45.5--->41-41 (-3.5)
2017-18 - o/u 42.5--->49-33 (+6.5)
2018-19 - o/u 42--->53-29 (+11)
2019-20 - o/u 46.5--->35-39 (bubble year; lotsa-injuries; busted schedule = o/u of 42; so -7)
2020-21 - o/u 40.5--->42-30 (+1.5)
2021-22 - o/u 44.5--->27-55 (-17.5; Billups was 11 under .500 when trades happened, Dame injured)
2022-23 - o/u 39.5--->33-49 (-6.5)

https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_2023_preseason_odds.html

whatever you think about Stotts, one thing he could do fairly consistently was lead an overachieving team (based upon projections). Obviously, a lot of that was Dame putting the team on his shoulders and carrying them into the playoffs, but still Stotts was in charge when the team exceeded expectations

Billups, on the other hand, has underachieved. He did that when Dame was injured; and he did it when Dame was healthy, having the best season of his career. Tanking had a little to do with that, but in both seasons, the Blazers were well under the pre-season O/U pace when the tanks begin.

Billups may lead the Blazers to a surprising record thei season. But there is nothing in his first two seasons suggesting he will

 

Hey, you hear that!? That was the joke, going *right* over your head.

 

That happens to me all day long!

 

Can we see a lineup of Scoot, Ant, Grant, Ayton and Rob?

 

I'm a big Stotts fan....it was HCP that predicted 23 wins now that I think about it! Thanks for the list..interesting

 

what did that jackass say this time?

 

Yeah totally, hype only

 

Absolutely. It won't be a starting unit but it won't be a surprise otherwise.

 

looking at the pictures, this current Blazer team may have more hair than any Blazer team since the 70's

 

Have we ever had a team without a "white" player on it before? I can't remember a squad without a Joe Klein or Meyers Leonard or Steve Blake. Not that it matters at all I just thought it was a change from the Blazers history of rosters.

 

" Another terrible pick."

That's some kind of hype by the fans.