Anyone wanna address the elephant in the room??

To be fair to Bromixolito, the Blazers are going to have to fix their interior defense ... it's jut not an "elephant in the room," which is meant to imply that nobody around here will acknowledge that the interior defense is a problem.

 

I don't really care one way or the other. I was just making a comment about another poster. The frequency (or infrequency) of posts and lack of new threads by carlito/brock compared to the old mixum is enough for me to not care one way or the other about it.

 

our SOS is slightly above average

http://espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/powerrankings

 

I just want to point out, Mixlitock is very different than MediocreMan. MM loves to point out the positives when he sees them, but he's a pessimistic realist. Not a troll.

 

Precisely.

And personally I think this word "troll" gets thrown around way too often. To me it's analogous to crying "communist" as a way to instantly demonize your opponent and halt all debate.

 

However mixilitock is a troll by definition.

 

Such a good post. I shared it over on the Reddit NBA board, since it's the kind of thing I like reading over there. Hope you don't mind.

 

Racist.

 

I shared it on another board as well as it was excellent

 

I haven't been here a week and you're saying I already have a stalker?

 

I have a high level of respect for MM and Nik, whom may seem like Blazer fandom isn't a bunch of roses. What I'm calling out are those that are simply trying to goat the forum for their own personal attention. In fact, I have reason to believe that the said poster probably doesn't believe half the shit he puts in here. He simply wants to get a rise out of this forum.

 

Back in the day at bbb.net Mixum was banned and a few days later a new poster named Carlito started posting the exact same things the exact same way and from the exact same IP address. But hey they aren't the same person, just saying... pffffffpppphhhtttbbb...

 

A few days ago I made THIS THREAD about blazer Defense. I framed the issue in a non-troll way, but when i do that there were only 12 responses. Mixum makes this current thread in an obviously inflammatory fashion and it's like attracting bees to the hive. You wonder why trolls troll? It works a whole lot better than being level headed.

 

Further, I hardly call ye "level-headed".

 

Interesting analysis. I'm still not sold on the philosophy, but am interested to see how it pans out over the course of the season. I simply don't see how you can expect to advance in the Playoffs when you're near the bottom in allowing shots in the paint.

I guess I have two minor bones to pick with your argument that THIS is what Stotts wants and the comparison between our team and previous leaders in Opp3%:

1 - Stotts wanted to force teams to take mid-range shots - not shots in the paint. Yes, guarding the 3-point line is a point of emphasis, but we were suppose to chase them off the line, protect the paint, and force mid-range jumpers. We haven't done that.

2 - I suspect that the teams you mentioned all had good interior defense too. Without looking up the specific rosters I'm guessing those teams had KG, Perkins, Varejao, Bynum, Noah, and Hibbert. Also, Thibideau was involved with at least two of those teams, implementing a very solid team-defense system. I'd be interested to know where their interior defense ranked. Was it merely that they were good at defending the 3-point shot? Or is it that they were really good defensive teams?