I’m not gonna make a judgment on Scoot until the end of the 2025/26 season (that’s the equivalent to Dame’s rookie season). But so far I’m encouraged.
Welcome to the forum!! Got some deep draft knowledge. First person I've met that knew of #$coota. NY!? Guess who I'm seeing tonight at the Rose Garden.. NAS, Wu Tang, and De LA Soul!
Oh I'm jealous too. have fun! I prefer the piano beat in New York State of mind pt 2 over the Pt 1 but pt1 as a whole is a better track. Some of the De La Soul production is actually sacred to me as well, I'm a big fan of DJ Prince Paul, a lot of people dont realize how much influence he had on these sort of "lofi" beats that are everywhere today.
I’m trying to figure out if the people on my blazer forum or the people on my raiders forum are more pessimistic. I think it just comes with years of losing and bad luck.
bringing up bad Blazer draft picks has no bearing in this thread. Scoot had some ups and downs in preseason, but it's not his fault the Blazers looked like doodoo. Basketball is a 5 on 5 game. At the pro level the teams have coaches that instill strategy. Somehow the Blazers hired a coach that teaches freestyle rec ball, and even Lillard scoring 40 & 50 couldn't beat most teams last season.
This may be the weakest... now contemplate that, it's the weakest out of all of all the weak ass threads that have ever appeared on this site since I came over here from OLive between 2014 and 2016. So in the last at least seven years this is the weakest thread anyone has started. Shame on you. Right now for us Blazers fans, Scoot is a fucking demigod who is growing, little by little into a full on basketball god. Scoot is fast, Scoot is huge for a PG, Scoot has court vision, Scoot has so much positive energy and unlike many Blazers guards recently before him in the last decade... Scoot gives a fuck about defense. How dare you?!?
Don't think theres any chance Scoot will be regarded as a bust. He's already done many impressive plays and clearly shows he belongs in the league. He just has an "IT" factor on and off the court. So this thread is a total fail in that regards. But will he project to an above average starting PG? I'm optimistic but also open to the possibility he'll never hit that potential we all (or most) of us here are hoping for. Another of the reasons I'm all for the Blazers waiting years before considering breaking up the Scoot Sharpe Simons trio. Its possible eventually that Scoots best position is as a backup PG, or the Blazers are better served trading him. Hope he instead proves he is the Blazers franchise level PG - but until he proves that I wouldn't write anything in stone. If fans already for certain expected him to be the franchise PG immediately - that fault is on them.
It doesn't take months of real NBA action to see the form on his J is abit off or to conclude that his outside threat hasn't been a strength on any level thus far. I'm not concerned about his preseason numbers or really about his (or the team's) numbers this season either. What I do want is for him to recognize what he needs to work on to best succeed over the course of his career. He's obviously a super run jump athlete, but teams will play off him for the drive unless he's able to consistently hit open looks & I don't know if that happens if he sticks with the way he brings the ball across his face on the way up. Add a better outside threat and teams will have to play up on him which will open up his drive game. Don't and he'll be limiting his ceiling like Markelle Fultz, Dennis Smith Jr and many other athletic PGs prior. It takes a while to make an adjustment like this stick & become second nature, but it can be done. He has the confidence, focus & time to make it happen. STOMP
I don't see any issue with Scoot jumper - his catch and shoot jumper is great. Not sure what you mean by "his J is abit off" Doesn't mean he's going to to make them at a high percentage as a rookie. Fultz/DSJ comparisons don't make any sense. You make it sound like he has Amen Thompson broken form. Scoot long shots off the dribble hasn't been effective or good though. He either needs to work on it or just not take that shot. If he only takes open catch and shoot 3's with his other offensive skills he already has; he will be a very high value complete offensive player. So he doesn't really even need the shots off the dribble. Ant or Sharpe or others can do that. Scoot can drive when he has the ball and get in position for an open shot when he doesn't or once he passes.
this comment kills me btw cuz im that one guy who calls RJ Barrett "Rowan Barrett Jr." like were still in the year 2014... I call Karl Towns... Karl Towns.. ya know.. Not Karl Anthony-Towns... But im also stupid n thats how my memory works so i plead ignorance.. Thats how I'll always remember Henderson... "scoota" not scoot... Its not like some consious choice I made im just a dumbass.. or an even spicier rename story was Dewan Huell to Dewan Hernandez(59th pick in 2019 draft) but that story is actually hilarious far as im concerned cuz the kid was a knucklehead in college.. was actually a smart move for him to disassociate with that first name after what he did.
Reminds me of going to see the Monkees, Herman's Hermit's and Gary Lewis and The Playboys in the early aughts. Older than dirt but they still brought it.......serious question; are there any oldies rap stations these days?
