Do you think Kpee has given up on this season?

This team has a plethora of average/mediocre players, and a dearth of impact players. They should be looking to trade - not to salvage *this* season, but to jumpstart the transition for next season. Let the team go through the adjustment phase now, instead of waiting and wasting half of next season.

 

KP is a wuss. He washes Blakes and Nates laundry and they have tea together every other sunday.

 

Offensively I agree, but he's already probably a top 20 defensive player in the league ... and that's not just hyperbole.

 

Trying to eat your cake and have it too?

 

Any GM who has read Mixum's posts already knows our players are all over-achieving scrubs with no trade value, so I think we'll just have to BAKE IT!

 

This thread makes me wonder two things:
1. Why Kpee and not Kaypee?
2. Why on Earth does anyone respond to MIXUM?

 

For me, it sums up why mathematicians like Hollinger are incompetent sources for evaluating a player's worth.

Had he taken his eyes off the box score once in awhile he'd know LaMarcus was double-teamed nearly every time he touched the ball, due to our inability to hit from outside.

If he understood the inside-outside game he'd know sometimes you kick it back out so you can establish a more dominant position and then get the ball right back.

 

That maybe. I didn't see the game, but who was it that let Durant walk all over them Webster or Batum? Because looking at the box score it looked like a horrible defensive job. Batum also let Artest have some relatively easy looks. Unlike a lot of you guys I am not going to jump the gun with him and annoint him as a superstar let alone as a key core member. If there is a trade to get a player like a Bosh and Toronto requires Batum back with some others, I do it easily. He maybe a pretty nice defender, but I haven't seen much of him on offense for him to be considered a key piece.

 

It wouldn't suprise me at all to hear that there is inside hope that the Blazers fall back into the lottery. I think both Paul Allen and KP enjoy playing it.

 

Based on what 9 games?

 

This.

 

9 games is hardly enough time to gauge consistency. Especially with a 21 year old player coming off a shoulder injury.

 

I want to see more before we crown him as the next Scottie Pippen. He makes a good point about consistency. So do you with him only playing 9 games. But I tend to lean towards his thoughts on the matter.

Let's see more.

 

I'm not crowning him the next Scottie Pippen. Lets keep it in context though, the guy is built like a giraffe, has great footwoork on defense, can glide to the hoop with ease and is hitting his jumper regularly. He's shooting 56% from the field and 44% from the 3 point land, hardly inconsistent. Because he gets burnt a couple times by a 6'11" player thats leading the league in scoring, I'm hardly going to fault him.

Did I mention he's 21?

 

Blazers Keep Big Picture In Mind During Trade Talks

 

Repped.

 

Bayless is 21 to, what does that mean? People rip on Bayless for his inconsistency (maybe not "rip" on, but are quick to pick it out) and the same thing can happen with Batumm but people are still creaming thereselves over him. That is fine, but his faults should be pointed out as well and he shouldn't be viewed anything other than a young guy who has shown nice flashes an perhaps in a couple years can be looked at as a key/core piece. It is quite clear he is an inconsistent player right now, there really is no arguement about it currently. It is fine that he inconsistent because young guys tend to be, but he in no way should be valued as a core piece yet especially if you can trade him for a huge upgrade like a Bosh (not going to happen, but a player like Bosh is what I mean).

 

But but but the Oklahoma City game was a MUST WIN, and we LOST!

 

Bullshit.

Just sayin'.

 

Rudy and Bayless have potential to be great role players for the Blazers, usually most cores consist of guys that can help teams, not just super stars. You guys may have some homer hatred towards all those guys, but all of those guys are above average rotation guys for the roles they do (lone exception is Blake). Rudy and Bayless are both only in their 2nd year, most NBA players don't fully develop consistency, or their game in general until at least their 4th year in the league. Around their 5th year is when they're a finished project, so I wouldn't be booting Rudy and Bayless quite yet because they aren't consistently producing in the sophomore year.