In the Washington game, Meyers was good for 18 points, many picks, rebounds, and defense. He should take more 3-point shots in my opinion. Let's look for more strong contributions like this to give a boost to the 7 home game series!
I like this post, but I think your wrong. HE can hit the three's. He knows it. We know it and the coaching staff knows it. His glaring weakness is also the Blazers biggest wekaness... a back to the basket post presense. This is what he should be practicing and trying to do more. You think he shoots a good three now, wait until guys are afarid of him in the post....
The season is going down as a failure in my book because Stotts isn't attempting to develop a post game in any of our bigs. I think Plumlee, Meyers, and Vonleh all have the ability to develop at least an average post-up, but it seems we only get to see one of them make an attempt every 5 games or so. I'd like to see each of them get at least two attempts per game.
25th team in the league for points in the paint! https://www.teamrankings.com/nba/stat/points-in-paint-per-game w00t! If Meyers showed any inclination to do ANYTHING in the paint, I'd see a glimmer of hope here - maybe its all Stotts and gameplan? i dunno - but are people really thinking a 7 foot 3pt shooting marshmellow on D is what we need? shooting - and im calling this as mid/long range - we have in spades! we need bangers and bruisers in the paint for 2nd chance opps, safe rebounding and, probably not since Brian Grant, an enforcer to make people think twice about entering his 'office' Meyers, Vonleh etc need a shit ton of Charles Oakley channeling ASAP, last time i saw meyers smile he had hit a 3..... that skill vs. size vs. position play does create issues for the other teams in SOME situations, but more often than that, we need boards, blocks, defense, hustle, intimidation, screens & power.
If Meyers could learn a post game on offense and defense he'd be a max player. I'm getting to the point where I don't know if he knows the alphabet so I'm not holding my breath.
Not sure if was his has been brought up. if Meyers starts 42 games or logs 2000 minutes, his cap hold will go up to the value of the #9 pick in his draft. Not a huge difference though.
Leonard avoids being touched and gets few free throws, so I wondered how his FTAs rank with other players at least 6 foot 10, with at least his minutes and his usage. No one has been this bad since 19 years ago...Danny Ferry and Terry Mills in 1996-97. http://bkref.com/tiny/zWMMP
guess that hints to a massive likelihood of us not needing Meyers and him taking his marshmellow ass somewhere else then. I'd trade him for a banger/post presence everyday of the week n 4,000 times on sunday. also the amount of players that play themselves out of the the lineups due to poor skillsets and relative benefit seem to be a dime a dozen as well, so keep your eye out for Meyers in the discount bin in the off-season. everytime i see him play i think god he turned down an extension to bank on himself.
Biebs is an evil Robin Lopez. Lopez does all kind of great things that don't end up in the box score. Biebs does all kind of terrible things that don't end up in the box score. Fans that just look at boxscores and don't pay attention think Lopez sucks and Biebs is awesome.
