Inside Access: "Nurkic is that 'third guy'"

My favorite part of the season...... the offseason!

 

Where everyone has the same record and all the moves are potential championship makers!

 

And the refs can't fuck us...... yet!

 

As much as I detest having Butters on our team, this was my favorite line.....

Nurkic had been in a good mood that night while dining in Portland with backup center Meyers Leonard.

If we're stuck with Butters as a 3rd stringer, or whatever capacity- Nurkic is spending time with him. HOPEFULLY , his attitude and style of play will rub off on Butters. PLEASE!!!

 

You have to also remember that Olshey will never say anything bad about a former player. After trading Plumlee, he's not going to come out and throw him under the bus. Look at how the question was worded, it wasn't about Nurkic, the question was about Plumlee:

He may not have known the immediate impact Nurk would have, but he knew we needed more size and strength in the paint to shore up our defense and that Nurk would make the game easier for Dame and C.J. Which makes it sound like he was never really interested in Okafor and was just using PHI as leverage to pry that MEM pick from DEN.

BNM

 

Check my post history lmao just kidding but not really.

If an idiot like me could see the potential in nurkic why couldn't a professional?

 

You thought that Nurkic could come in and completely change our entire team, including Vonleh, almost overnight? If you can show me where you thought that he would completely revitalize our roster and propel us to the playoffs, I would love to see it.

 

Great post. That's one thing I really like about NO. He's not gonna try to make himself look better, by bashing other people. Classy, IMHO.

 

More about that dinner...

BNM

 

I'm pretty sure Neil knew he was getting a very good player.

As a GM, Olshey is smart enough not to brag about how he fleeced another team. Remember the whole Pritch-slap thing and how teams basically refused to deal with him after that? No one in a position of power, like an NBA GM, wants to be made to look like a fool and publicly humiliated by one of their colleagues. Neil knows that. He didn't go around gloating after he got CP3 from New Orleans and he's not going to go around gloating about stealing Nurkic from Denver.

BNM

 

And that is why I couldn't be a GM. I would have been down on the court after the Denver win right beside Nurk yelling "RIP CITY!!" ala Damian Lillard.

 

I don't care enough to actually dig up my comments about nurkic and how he'd team up well with Vonleh but I did say it so it's on here somewhere.

 

Not to bash Neil too much, but he had as much to do with that CP trade as David Stern.

 

Yes, it's true Paul was only available because the league vetoed the Lakers trade (thank god), but that still left 28 other GMs in the running.

BNM

 

Player 1 - 20.7 PER, 102 ORtg / 106 DRtg, 46.5% FG, 73.8% FT, 11.7 REB per 36, 0.9 BLK per 36
Player 2 - 21.1 PER, 105 ORtg / 104 DRtg, 50.8% FG, 66.0% FT, 12.8 REB per 36, 2.3 BLK per 36
Player 3 - 22.8 PER, 103 ORtg / 100 DRtg, 45.4% FG, 77.0% FT, 13.3 REB per 36, 1.3 BLK per 36

Which one would you pick, overall? Player 3 also shoots threes, at 37.9% on 5.8 attempts per 36.

 

Yeah...I don't buy whatever spin Neil may have been selling there. Is this the only comment Neil made from which to determine his intent?

Myself and a lot of posters here thought the trade made the team better now. Plums was a popular guy, but we were lottery bound as long as he was our starting center. I think Nurk was the target.

BTW: The trade keeps being discussed as if we got Nurk AND the pick for Plums, but didn't Neil essentially buy the pick?

 

Player 2. Well balanced offense and defense.

 

The irony in this thread is the only guy trying to discredit Olshey is the dude with Plumlee as his avatar....