Roster spots and Pendergraph vs. Johnson

Pendergraph.

Chris Johnson had a few lucky moments against Dallas in Game 3. Throughout the season and the rest of the playoffs, he didn't do much else. I don't understand the fascination with him.

 

Pendergraph moved out of his house in Tualatin about a month ago. I don't know where he moved to, but one of my best friends lived two houses down from him and sent me a picture message of how his trailer(s) wrapped all the way around the street. Aside from always looking like he was flexing, which I found amusing, I loved his energy. He was also a cool guy. He came over and played COD with us for my birthday last September.

 

What did Pendergraph do?

 

He's got raw strength. I'm not saying he'll ever be Brian Grant but I'm one of those people who see a Brian Grant sort of role with his skillset. Of course, we have too small a sample size of CJ to determine his worth in comparison to Pendergraph, who played more games.

Maybe I'm biased though since I really thought Johnson messed the Blazers up in Game 6 with that dirty foul on Nowitzki.

 

Like what? The "minimum salary, no exceptions" exception?

 

Much better way to look at this (count roster spots taken). Looking at that list of 11, Blazers need 2 big men. LA, Camby and Oden is about as thin as piss on a rock.

Is Rudy defintely back next year?

 

It sure would be nice to have DeJuan Blair penciled into that lineup.

 

Don't you think the Blazers are in trouble regardless? I mean Nate's a horrible coach locked up for 2 more years

Nobody is ignoring improvement at the top of the team's roster to look at the 15th man, we are a fanatic site with hundreds of topics discussed a week. Theres plenty of time to talk about the end of the roster even if it has virtually zero impact on the team's achievements next season.

 

You have to keep Rudy over scrubs like Pendegraph or Chris Johnson, but if we can add a free agent or a possibly talented rookie then we could consider cutting him. He definetely shouldn't be a lock to return to the team like Batum.

If we only have Camby/LA/Oden at the PF/C spots we likely will be a donut hole team again for large stretches. The problem is adding Chris Johnson or Pendy doesn't do much of anything to solve the problem, we need a rotational player on the floor, not a scrub on the end of the bench. We really need to subtract one or two of the guys Ed O listed at the SG/SF positions and replace them with a big man worthy of playing minutes.