The Official Blazers vs Suns Game Thread 07/18/13....

The Trail Blazers will take on Minnesota tomorrow at the Thomas & Mack Center in the team’s final Summer League game. Tip-off is at 7:30 PM.


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I've been delivering to your place of residence all week. Was going to stop and say hi but couldn't remember your last name.

 

Dang you should say hi man! Fucking douche!!!!














Just kiddin

 

So the press conference came on right at the start of the 29-5 run? Wow. Thanks David Stern; you did us a favor.

 

This Summer League makes me sad. It tells me that the regular season will be no better than the previous one.

Lopez is a tiny bit better than Hickson, but offsetting that, we replaced a bunch of experienced bench with these goofballs we just finished watching. Our 1st round pick can't shoot, drive, or playmake.

We have regressed. Last year we had no injuries. This year we probably will. I think our record will be no better (not including the tank, we were a little below .500).

 

I've seen enough of the players that will actually play (McCollum, Robinson) to feel better about our bench.

 

Robinson will be good in a year, and McCollum in 2, but Aldridge is bored with this nonsense. He should move to a team that wants to win.

Blazer fans dislike older, experienced players. So we are forever starting over, totally dependent upon the draft. They always see a golden future just over the horizon.

 

i wonder if a good college team would just wipe the floor with them, they just seem so disorganized, no spacing for drives, and when they do drive, its right into someone

half the shots are front iron or airballs

its frustrating to watch to say the least, but its good to see them, and most of them look ok

ML- is what he is right now, soft nba backup. would love to see him go up harder, but he is making his little lay ins, so not too big a deal. kid can hit the jumper. no help defense.
CJ- not lillard. still better than anything we had last year on the bench wing or otherwise. shoots with both hands, kinda silly looking
crabbe- incomplete, didnt show me anything, def not a star by any means, could be good for all i know though
claver-saw some nice playmaking ability, some nice offensive moves, and a few boneheaded plays too, solid rotation guy this year though
barton- holy shit...every time down the floor just barrelling wildly into his defender and throwing a shot up behind his back. looked like a football player or something
trob- great rebounding, looks like barton on offense, so weird, i dont remember hearing that he had ZERO offensive game out of college, but every move he makes in gets jammed up beyond belief till he turns it over or squirts a pass out
freeland- looks passable at times, and really bad the rest

as far as man defense goes, its hard for me to pay attention to that, but i didnt see too much horrible shit, could be wrong

 

Jeffries, Babbitt, Pavlovic, and Maynor were so much better than this crew of clowns in SL. They had experience and discipline. Maybe a couple of years from now, after great investment of teaching, this crew of clowns will be as good as what we had last year--the weakest bench in the league. Meanwhile, we're a worse team. Our bench actually regressed. Impossible but true.

 

need a bug zapper up in here

 

You lost me at "Our first round pick can't shoot"

 

Well percentage-wise he is not doing a great job.

That would be the least of my objections with his posts. Babbitt for one is horrible. Crabbe is better if he doesn't even take a shot.

 

Yeah I could care less what his shooting percent is this week. It is pretty evident that CJ can shoot. What I especially like is how he can race up the floor, stop on a dime, pull up and hit a jumper from every distance. Those are the tough ones and he makes it look easy. I don't need a box score to tell me that

 

Is my sadness bugging you?

McCollum led the league in points by shooting a percentage so low that you have to go down about 22 spots to find someone with a lower FG%.

http://www.nba.com/summerleague/2013/statistics/las_vegas/index.html

He shot about 5-10% for long balls. He is sure no Lillard at shooting, yet he's a SG.

 

Save it for the stats geeks.

 

Speaking of basic stats, do you even know what year this is? I click on Schedule and I get

http://thepwe.com/schedule/

 

Bullshit. The season went south when Batum messed up his wrist and never did get back to form.

 

C.J. is garbage.

 

I don't follow. I clicked on your link and saw something form Pinwheel Empire. Are you somehow thinking that we are one in the same?

 

LMA was also injured and out some games at the end of the year. Not to mention Wes.