Here’s a crazy thought we have an offensive minded coach but how many offensive minded players to compliment the coaches style? Harkless, Aminu, Vonleh, Davis, Collins, Turner are all solid defensive players with limited offensive game. Nurkic is our only true 2 way guy, maybe Pat to an extent too. Dame and CJ seem to be the only 2 players that fit Stotts’ system. We complain in here a lot about the lack of defense but what I see is a lack of scorers beyond our top 3. The stats don’t lie either they are the only 3 averaging double digits in scoring. A team needs 5 double digit scorers to balance an offense... even a good defensive team needs that.
I agree we don't have great offensive players other than those three but there is also very little done to foster growth or offensive confidence. They never run a play for anyone other than the Big 3 so everyone else is just left with scraps, the occasional kick out or offensive put-backs. I don't know how many times I've seen a player get the ball and then just look to hand off to Dame/CJ. That is just the offense. It's not designed to get run plays for anyone else.
That's bullshit we just don't have anyone that can consistently shoot or score outside of the top three. Look how balanced the scoring was when we had Batum and Wes. Our entire starting lineup was pretty much in double figures scoring wise. The system hasn't changed.
Ironically because of our cap situation we had to let our best spacer go (Crabbe) because our GM made some bad decisions in FA the summer before last. Stotts offense needs shooters and frankly we are short in that dept, as I said in another thread a poorly constructed roster
yeah this still feels like an unfinished roster. We'll see where we're at post deadline. If Olshey doesn't make any moves we should riot.
We're definitely not finished building this roster...it would help if Mo could finish a layup or tip in.....he's not a shooter at all...ET either...both make me miss Chief...and Chief isn't a scorer
It's like the roster we have and the way Stotts wants to play contradict each other. That ultimately falls on the GM. He's the one that puts the team together. From what I know Stotts has very little input in that department. That being said I don't blame Neil for bringing in guys like Harkless, shit I even got why he wanted Turner. But I do blame him for not doing a damn thing since outside of the Nurk trade. We've been talking about balancing the roster out for at least two years and all we've done is traded one center for another one.
The question is which is the next player the Blazers will trade for on there rookie contact. So we can keep till we really know what we have and develop them only to see them turn out like another inconsistent player?
