Butler would be great. But who does Portland trade for him? Blake and Outlaw? Completely unrealistic...the Blazers would never give up Blake.
I love how the National media is seeing that we can't add players with any skill because they need the ball. Roy has been very bad for the franchise this season
What's funny is that we need scoring. Right now it's Roy and Aldridge. I guess we need to find a guy who can score without the ball in his hands?
Yea, I mean because back a few generations ago of Blazers, I am sure Scottie Pippen, Steve Smith, Damon Stoudemire, Rasheed Wallace, Brian Grant and Arvydas Sabonis could never function because they needed to touch the ball.....
Both of those teams had so much more talent then this team, it cracks me up when they say there isn't enough basketball for everybody. That is just flat out bullshit. The problem is the number of attempts were getting up per game.
It wouldn't be so bad if Portland played at a moderate pace. But they don't. They play at an insanely slow pace which makes every shot taken much more important. It's just crazy. And it isn't going to get any better any time soon.
I've thought that so many times this year. Before Oden & Rudy went down we were struggling offensively. We basically have one guy who can beat his defender to the basket or shoot a jumper over the top (Roy) That is pretty tough when most of your offense are Iso plays. Say what you want about Travis, but dude hit tough shots. And he did it a lot in the 4th quarter (last season anyways) On the nights Roy can't carry the load, it's shot clock violations, low % shots against the shot clock, and lots of turnovers.
Yes and No. See the problem with Travis is he makes all his shots tough. That is why he has a lot of fans. When he takes shots, they are tough. But that is the problem with Travis. He passes up easy opportunities for a hard one. So you may lament at his loss, and in ways I understand it. But in other ways I still do not miss him one bit. The easiest way to win, is to make the game easy. Travis does the opposite.
I think that the problem you have is that you say "Travis could be so much better if..." - and that is a good observation about Travis, as a player. But, the fact is, that even if he does not take the next step to become a better player, he still is very good at this entire "scoring" thing, a lot better than most anyone else we have out of the big 3 and maybe Miller on this team. So, yes, we are missing him. It's not even questionable. But, sure, it would be nice if was even better than what he is - on the other hand, if he was that much better, he would probably cost a lot more, where now he makes less money than Martell does... and Martell, let's be honest, is just not that good or effective as Travis is. Sure, he works harder - and maybe has better BBIQ - but better BBIQ with less talent in this case does not match the production you get from Travis's better talent and (potentially) lesser BBIQ.
No. and No. Dude there is no rational logic to passing up an easy layin for a jab step turn around jumper. None, and there never will be. When you come up to an answer for that, mabye I will buy in. But good luck finding it.
