I came really close to throwing a big ass party the day Blake and him hit the road. Until we get through next year without KP resigning one of them though, I thought it would be premature.
My kid is EXTREMELY bummed Travis got traded...the reason? the Blazers won't be playing his "outlaw" western theme when he hit a shot...
Batum is obviously the future at SF. Cunningham has shown he can hit that mid-range shot with consistency and shows a high BBIQ. With ISO players like Bayless and Rudy, Travis is irrelevant. He'll continue to put up nice hollow numbers.
I disagree that his numbers are "hollow." His scoring is about as valuable the numbers suggest. He just doesn't add a lot of rebounds, assists, etc, which are reflected in the numbers.
Rudy is an ISO player? His crappy year, imho, is because he does a lot more of it instead of just shooting the open jumper as he did last year. JB is an ISO player, actually, at this point, he is either ISON or ISOFF. But, hopefully, consistency will come. At the end of the day Travis had a very, very valuable skill - getting his shot no matter how hard it is, no matter how broken the play is, and hitting it at a good clip. We are going to miss that, and have been for quite some time. There is a reason the Blazers were so good finishing games last year and even the year before - but are so mediocre this year. When the defensive intensity increases and plays break - we are more often than not end with a Miller clang...
Agree with that. I can't even count the number of times I've yelled "Shoot it" when Rudy has the ball in a spot to shoot, then he "drives" - and I use that term loosely - into a crappier shot/pass... Even if he's missing, he needs to take the open 3's when he sees them...I mean, they can't be too much worse than Miller's 3's, right?
That's a fairly good line. Kudos. Rudy is absolutely not an ISO player. He's almost the opposite. His role comes either in being assisted or in assisting others. He doesn't have the handles to isolate and break down a defender one-on-one.
