Grantland's Zach Lowe profiles the Blazers

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    Re: Olshey: Paul Allen Has Never Wanted Blazers To Do Full Rebuild

    Thanks.
     
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    Re: Olshey: Paul Allen Has Never Wanted Blazers To Do Full Rebuild

    The dude needs to learn not to spam this forum. It gets annoying.
     
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    I skimmed/read parts of this article. I am going to read it later. Thanks for posting it. It seems rather in depth and the point seems to be that we have given ourselves many options whether LMA stays or goes. Also excited about our defense being improved. Olshey also is pretty humble and gives credit to his whole team and Paul Allen. I like him as our GM.
     
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    It's crazy--an analysis of the Blazers that isn't just a massive sunshine-pump, and we "lemmings" aren't lambasting it? Instead, we're actually responding positively to it? What's going on here?!
     
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    Don't get me wrong, I think having an actual C playing the position will be a big help to our defense. But I'm still dubious about us being an average defensive team. I'll wait to see what the coach actually implements, but roster improvements alone will not get us from "horrible" to "average". It appears we now have three starters (Lopez, Nic, Wes) that are above average defenders. Hopefully Lillard's time with The Glove will get him close to average, but I think that might be a stretch to expect at this point. But really it all comes down to having a solid defensive philosophy with all five players properly playing their part - if coach can't make that happen the personnel doesn't really matter.
     
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    Cant help but wonder what this write up would be like if we were in the East ... the West is just plain tough. I am firmly in the camp that says our starters were good enough last season to nearly get us to the playoffs and they will only get better. Our bench has changed night and day and worst case scenario is they win us a few more games. So I can see anywhere from the 5-8 seed but I would love for a few of the upper teams to flop and snag the 4th seed for HCA. That would be fun.
     
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    ^^ This

    Don't really have much faith in Stotts, tbh.
     
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    We just need to "stay connected" and "scrap".

    he he.
     
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    I've basically said the major points in that article numerous times on this board. It doesn't take a Grantland writer to figure it out. Even the Batum stuff I've said, yet I'm just "negative".

    Next season the Blazers will be a mediocre/below average defense and an offense that will score pts, with a lot of them coming from 3's. If they can improve in both areas a little bit they have a chance at a lower seed next year, kind of like the 2012-2013 Houston Rockets, the 8th seed last year.

    That's your 2013-2014 Portland Trail Blazers.
     
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    [enter fist-shaking emoticon here]
     
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    Because this guy actually writes like he watched this team play. The others threw an article out from their ass and it was obvious that they rarely watched us.
     
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    Not quite...
     
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    Those were labeled "Fake Trade Scenarios". He probably got them from the idiocy illustrated on this Blazer board and a few others over the summer.

    Derp
     
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    Re: Are Blazers Better-Article

    Ban the sucker for starting this bullshit thread!


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    Re: Are Blazers Better-Article

    No doubt. He deserves it for missing that whole thread for two days.
     
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