I can agree with this. The Nuggest are going to be pretty good again (barring injuries of course, primarily Nene imo). I think it should be an interesting struggle for the division title.
I'm excited to see what a Miller can do with this young team . . . but Blake was not the biggest weakness on the team. In fact he was a big part of why the team was successful last year.
I think it had more to do with Aaron Brooks having a better series against us than he played in the regular season
He just wasn't aggressive in creating offense for his team. 6 assists and 10 points in 38 minutes just isn't going to get it done. It's putting too much pressure on Roy to create everything. Plus his defense just wasn't very good. Miller was the second most productive player on his team in the playoffs last year. Can you honestly say the same for Blake?
Very interesting. I definitely like Blake, and I always thought we were solid at PG with him in. If Bayless isn't the answer, I definitely want Blake as my backup PG of choice for the rest of his productive career.
You really think so? I consider Blake's output pretty shaky. If you are putting up 10 points and 6 assists in 38 minutes of play in a playoff atmosphere, you'd better be contributing a lot on the defensive end. (Blake didn't.) He wasn't our worst performer in that series--Outlaw is definitely number one. But it's pretty fair to call him shaky.
Blake certainly didn't dominate the Houston series, or even necessarily have a "good" series, but he wasn't the sole reason the Blazers lost the series. The rookies were "shaky" in that series, and mostly "bad", which is how rookies tend to react in the playoffs.
It's fair to call every player on the roster outside of Roy "shaky" for that series, then. Even LMA was wildly inconsistent, and Scola outplayed him for long stretches.
True enough. By the way, whose job on the court is it to run the offense, direct plays, and otherwise get players the ball in positions where they are comfortable? Could it be that many of our players were a little shaky because there just wasn't much direction from the PG position?
I can definitely agree with your reasoning, but I think Blake simply put up an average performance. I still think Outlaw had the shaky performance. I think if McMillan could play that series again, we could win it by putting in Roy/Rudy combination instead of Outlaw or Batum.
