A LOW POST SCORER Andre Miller is seriously our best low post scorer right now. Our (current) starting PG. LMA drifts and rarely attacks the rim. When we had Greg he made life easier for everybody. It's too bad we wont have his post play until next October. This should be KP's primary focus right now. LMA - mid-range PF Cunningham - mid-range PF Pendergraph - mid-range PF/C Przybilla - no-range C Toliver - mid-range PF it's our achilles heel.
cause our gm is over rated but nobody will admit it. barkley said the same thing.... thats all we need is a low post player and we would be scary. but.... kp has no clue so dont expect it. he signs guys who cant play with our best player instead. amazing how bad he is
At this point, his knees look better than Oden's. But you have to wait and see if he survives two full seasons before saying nearly every athletic trainer in the country is dumb.
what a fucking scrub, right? Draftin Roy and Aldridge and Bayless and Rudy. These guys are awful, am i right? A real fucking pro would draft perfectly every year!
We have a great low post scorer in the making, he is just injured till next year. If we spend our assets on getting something that is only needed on a temporary basis we may squeak into the playoffs this year, but will end up worse off next year when all our players will once again be healthy. I am not opposed to a trade, but the trade needs to have the future in mind. With two huge centers in Oden and Joel, we don't want to get a lot of low post players to crowd the paint. Already, Roy is having a harder time going inside. We need balance. Some good inside play counterbalanced with more good shooting. As much as we want a quick fix, our best bet to be good is to wait it out till next year. With Oden back on the inside, LMA, Roy and Bayless darting through the paint, and Batum, Rudy and Outlaw spreading the floor, we will have the right balance.
Every athletic trainer except for those who work for the Team of the Decade. Except those who work for the organization we've been cherry-picking from for years. I mean, who would've taken the risk that a lotto talent who'd fallen because of injury concerns could potentially waste a 2nd-round pick?
Oden isn't going to come back and magically play 82 game seasons for the rest of his career, however long that may be. If anything, his latest injury has shown we can't build around/rely on him being there on any given night. We need a low post scorer outside of Oden. He'll get injured again.
Blair is not a player you can ISO on the block. He's a pure garbage man. Too bad Elton Brand is vastly overpaid and a shell of his former self.
Same reason we didn't draft Paul Millsap. Our GM likes players with length that can play more than one position. Well, we have plenty of length, we have lots of versatility, what we lack is width - a wide-bodied back-up power forward with a low center of gravity who won't get pushed around in the paint. I was high on Millsap before the 2006 draft and thought the Blazers should have taken him at 30 or 31 (they had both picks). I was also high on Blair before last June's draft. I was amazed he slipped as low as he did - and even more amazed that we passed on him multiple times. KP tried to undo the Millsap mistake last summer, but it was a classic case of too little, too late. If only we would have drafted him back in 2006 when we passed on him at 30, 31, and 45 before Utah finally took him at 47. Just like when we passed on Blair at 22, 31 and 33 before San Antonio took him at 37. We could have EASILY had BOTH of these players, but unfortunately, they went to two very good teams we are always competing with for play-off spots. Other than passing on Millsap, KP did GREAT in the 2006 draft, but he overvalues length and versatility compared to production. He also loves his Euros. And seems to have an inexplicably strong bias against wide-bodied, great rebounding power forwards. BNM
Yeah, I suppose that might have been a good idea. Maybe there was something else going on? Pendergraph was healthy when we picked him.
He's a garbage man. We need a player you can ISO on the block. Bass/Blair/etc. are all cut from the same mold.
The kind of player you can isolate on the block and consistently go to (i.e. a low post star) is very rare and Portland is extremely unlikely to be able to trade for or sign such a player. Portland's only realistic hope for that is Oden. The idea of a "quick fix" addition of a low post go-to scorer is crazy. It's like if Roy was injured saying "We need to acquire a Durant-like player to cover for missing Roy." That isn't going to happen.
Somebody be sure to send KP a link to this thread. I'll bet he isn't aware that the team could use a low post scorer. Probably never occurred to him. Maybe we should include a few "reasonable" suggestions of solid, preferably near-All-Star low post scorers that we could obtain with our contingent of beat-up players, bearing in mind that we don't want to part with Roy, Aldridge or Oden, of course. I'm sure he'll be excited to get the help.
Agreed. It's been embarrassingly bad. Worst offensive system I've ever seen in years of watching NBA. That would be the fault of that supposed coach McMillan. Instant upgrade for the team once Mac is gone and replaced with someone who lets the guys play the game.
