He didn't look great tonight by any means, but neither did most of the team. I was actually pretty pleased with how well he looked the previous two games. Tonight he was double-teamed almost every time, and we all know that no one on the Blazers knows how to exploit double teams.
it's been painful to see Brandon tonight and much of this season. If this is the new reality for him physically, this year's club needs to reassign roles in crunch time and maybe at the starting SG spot as well. I can understand letting things play out a little bit longer to further evaluate things before making a big lineup move... dude has been the franchise. But it seems limiting BR's minutes by him coming off the bench would help him be more consistent in what he can bring. He could still finish games but he's probably more of a facilitator then he's been... those who didn't want to see any more 4th quarter ISO with Roy must be thrilled STOMP
I'm starting to wonder how great a shooter he really is. He's starting to reveal himself to be a volume shooter who needs multiple looks to be effective. Not sure it's to the benefit of the team to allow him to shoot that much. Not now, since half his arsenal has been stolen from him. Not sure how effective he would be coming in and out as a bench player then.
I've wondered that too....and maybe it coincides with Allen's choice in Cho over Phund and Ferry. The latter two more reputed as closer GM's for teams already established and looking for finishing pieces. Cho just helped engineer one of the league's best rebuild jobs, so maybe they chose him over the others knowing they needed wholesale rebuilding and not tinkering over the next few years.
I remember from the get-go when they started searching for a GM they were dead set in looking for someone with experience. That was the #1 thing they were looking for. A week or two later, they hired Cho. Didn't make any sense to me.
keep in mind guys that the new CBA might have some type of "out" (one-time or perhaps something else) for bad contracts, there is precedent when new CBA's have been implemented.
From Wikipedia: That salary of the waived player only comes off the luxury tax number, but not the rest of the cap. Maybe the teams can negotiate a better one-time amnesty deal with the next CBA.
I was under the impression that no one with experience wanted the Portland job after the way KP was thrown under the bus. I think Cho was the absolute best they could do. As of right now that hire looks pretty poor. Perhaps Cho will do something in the near future to change that impression.
Too bad that, according to Roy, Roy and Miller have never had a conversation. Way for the "team leader" to reach out to the new guy -- for over a year.
I've seen no evidence that Roy has the mental makeup to make that change or accept that role. I hope like hell he surprises me. For now, he prefers to blame the bench for his own shortcomings, it seems.
He's actually pretty smart about his shots if you look at his game log this season: http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/roybr01/gamelog/2011/ Look at the last seven games to see his current trend: if the shots aren't falling, he actually takes relatively few. It's only when the shots are falling that he takes more. So yes he's a volume shooter, when he's hitting his shots. Being a jump-shooter will definitely make him look like a chucker, because he's not getting to the foul line anymore. But I think that, if he's limited to 10-15 shots by being a 6th man, he will maximize those opportunities, even driving a little because of the reduced load.
