Im a Trail Blazer Brasil FAN. Since i started like this franchise, i watch almost every game since the 2014 season. I really love portland, and is strange for me. I really want to spend some time in december this year in portland, watch a Blazer game in moda center, and watch a Timbers game. I really love this team and this city. We have a very dissapoiment season, a lot of injurys, but i think we finish this season with a little hope for the future. We have 3 guys to build this team arround. Dame, CJ, Nurkic. We can move any player, and i really think we will. I preferer to trader turner, i really see a future for AC... He's to young. If we can trade some overpaid guys, and use the draft picks, we are in are right way... Our team is the most young team in the league. Look at the rockets last season, they end-up just like us. In 8 seed and a very dissapoiment season. We have a bright future, i know that. Always RIPCITY. December i will go to a blazer game! Cant wait for this moment.
The future is bright indeed! Nurkic shows us what our team can be at its best. Just need to improve our bench!
...and our starting SF and give our PF some confidence to shoot since he seems to have figured out how to rebound fairly well. 14 last night....one of the few players who bothered to show up. Vonleh wouldn't need to score a lot if Dame/CJ/Nurkic and an improved SF were the rest of the starting roster. He is quite good on D when he gets switched out onto guards and finishes extremely strong going to the basket. (stationary at the basket is a whole other story)
Hark and Noah both looked great when Nurk played. To the point where I would let them both start game 1 next season if they're still here (and we haven't picked up a superstar or whatever). Harkless has a motor problem but let him look good with Nurk then ship his ass out at the deadline if you have to.
I'd like to clear up this misconception... He is quite good 1 on 1 defender, but he has no clue about team defense. There were multiple times in the game last night where his transition defense was off. He decides to check the man closest to him, causing a guard to check someone in the post. He switches at the slightest hint of a screen creating mis-matches elsewhere on the court. He's a very poor team defender. He has tools, but his low BBIQ hold him back. He needs to watch a LOT of film over the summer (with a coach right next to him pointing & explaining good vs bad defense).
