Good thing we don't. It would be insane to trade Lillard. All our energy needs to be focused on acquiring a center to clog the middle.
1. Really? Prove it. 2. Roy's rookie season was better. 3. I bet Sacramento wishes they'd thought it after Tyreke Evans's rookie season (which was also better). Comparison.
1. He should be heartened by the robust defense people are providing. 2. Damian: if you're reading this, please work on your defense. I love you man!
We'll miss you when you leave. Waitaminute - weren't you gone for a while there anyway? I guess I didn't notice.
If you don't remember many people questioning whether or not Roy could get better, after a very good rookie season, because he didn't play defense and didn't display ridiculous athleticism, then you weren't paying attention and were too busy with your euro-trash player love affairs. So it should be even easier for Lillard to improve more than Roy. And Roy improved a lot. Stupid argument. Cool story, bro. Pull up a list of players that had this level of rookie-year performance and let us know what percentage of those players should have been traded after those impressive rookies seasons. One data point in Tyreke, doesn't prove anything.
Okay youv used evans as an example multiple times but you have never even attempted to explain what happened with Evans so it leads me to believe you hardly ever watched him play and probably only looked at season stats and never did any research other then that otherwise he wouldn't be your go to example. Evans came into the league as a PG/primary ball handler for the Kings and he put up great stats his rookie year. They then moved him off the ball and tried to play him at sg and without the ball constantly in his hands his stats declined. They then tried him at SF and again his stats declined, the Kings haven't figured out his actual position but he hasn't played PG consistantly since his rookie year. Evans decline is due in great part to management/coach not knowing were to play him. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2
I would hope the Blazers learned something from the Roy/Oden ordeal. Keep Lillard as long as he is healthy.....but if he starts to break down, dump his ass ASAP.
And the fact that he's not that great. Turns out if you have the ball in your hands all the time it can make you look better than you are, but won't necessarily do your team much good. You seriously think that if he was as good as he was supposed to be after his rookie year that the franchise wouldn't be playing him at PG now?
Where have all the people gone who used to cite PER as the ultimate stat? If you're still out there, why is Lillard's PER so pedestrian?
I bet we could get a good draft pick(s) for Lillard. Trade Aldridge, trade Lillard don't use cap space this summer, tank during the year and 2014-2015 roster could have a lot of potential. Dare I say the team of the future.
Because he is a damn ROOKIE who played the most minutes in the NBA and PER isn't the end all of stats, just look at Lebrons PER his rookie year 18.3. The Kings franchise doesn't know what the hell they are doing and they realized Evans wasn't a PG they wanted but instead of trading him to a team that would play him at the spot he produces at they tried to turn him into something else and it hasn't worked out. Its not that Evans isn't talented its that the Kings still haven't figured out how to use him.
Lately? Starting? This forum is full of blowhards with thousands of posts and nobody/nothing new. It blows
