Zombie Festus Ezeli becomes a Blazer

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  1. SIeepwalker

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    Oh look, Olshey is great again. How surprising....
     
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    So if we bring back everyone our rotation after Meyers comes back:

    Dame / Napier
    CJ / Crabbe / Patty C
    Turner / Harkless / Layman
    Aminu / Davis / Noah
    Ezeli / Plums / Leonard

    Dammmnnnnn that looks deep.
     
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    That moves my needle.



    Seems like a great deal by Olshey, who I owe an apology. I can't believe the knees would be that bad or we would steer clear altogether. At least I hope we would. But team option, little to no risk. Fantastic.
     
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    It's ok, we still have pieces of Oden's knees laying around that could be used for repairs.
     
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    Dame
    Cj
    Turner
    Ed
    Plums

    Napier
    Crabs
    Aminu
    Hark
    Festus

    Project Pat
    Nova
    Lame man
    Nards
    Cliff bar

    Montero the odd man out?
     
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    He just wants to see how many Blazer fans he can get worked up into a frenzy. It's been a comical free agency so far. :lol:
     
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    I think Plumlee will start at first, just from a familiarity with the majority of the starters. Plus he is a fantastic passer and we'd have 4 ball movers in the lineup.
     
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    Prediction: Ezeli is our backup C, to extend his knees.
     
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    This is ny thought. Neil doing an agent a solid, and hoping Festus can give us something.

    IF he can stay healthy, it's a huge steal
     
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    I'll take it. 24 mins of rim protection and called in for inside scoring presence when needed. He's accustomed to that role as is.
     
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    With that contract is low risk high reward.
     
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    Yeah I'm thinking 12-18 minutes a game tops, but at $8mil a year that's fine.
     
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    I'll take that. He averaged about 17 mpg last season. It'll be awesome if he can give us 24 mpg next season.
     
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    I owe you a beer!

    And I'm very happy to pay this bet.
     
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    Reminds me of our 98-99 and 99-00 Blazers teams that routinely rolled 11-12 deep. If we win and players buy into the system/their roles, look out.
     
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    MM is going to be pissed. Another American-born white center.
     
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    I'd play Festus as many minutes as he can handle and as long as the match ups make sense.
     
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    It's not the knees. It's the dried up market. No one with cap space needed a center. If his knees were that bad they wouldn't have signed him. 7m is still 7m.
     
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