DeAndre Jordan Might Be A Blazer Superthread

Wait I can't even call people a coward on here? Damn, there goes my Saturday.

 

Unless you're also including the refs, you realize that's not actually possible, right?

BNM

 

I can.

 

I’m only in favor of trading for DJ if it’s in a larger deal or a sequence of deals that brings us a starting caliber forward alongside Dame and CJ. Just switching Nurk for DJ is dumb and would seemingly only be done for names sake. It reeks of Neil thinking adding a big name like Jordan would appease Dame even though it would make almost no difference on our ability to compete.

 

So what I miss?

 

Great, another Dame basher, just what we needed

 

You can challenge people to a fight on Mt. Tabor, but you can't tell anyone about it if they don't show up.

 

This guy isn't up on our rules yet. I would cut him some slack and give him some time to assimilate. If in a month he is still like this then you consider more extreme measures.

 

Except his athleticism is starting to go. It's the first thing to decline and his athleticism is all he's got.

 

Gallinari is no better than Matthews, more injury prone, makes more, and is under contract for more years. You blasted my idea of Turner and a 1st for Matthews, then suggest Turner and a 1st for Gallinari?! Lmao. Wow.

 

Welcome to S2, we even enjoy comments like this that are about as stupid as one can get and make Strenuus look completely inept at figuring out basketball and trying to troll your way to an "edgy" narrative.

 

Wow.

Shocking.

The O-Live board shuts down and this place turns in O-Live board 2.0.

This place went downhill, and in record time.

 

The 4 point increase I was talking about was comparing his Denver stats to his Portland ones, not comparing one Portland season to the next. Nurkic spent last summer in Bosnia, and has been worse at finishing around the rim from the start of the season. Stotts must be very powerful indeed to influence Nurk from half the world away. It looks to me that Nurkic's game is the same, but his lost weight has thrown his game off slightly. I think he needs to add some bulk (preferably muscle, not fat, but either would work), and slow down, stop rushing.

Regardless of the slight difference (some are better, some are worse) in Nurkic's stats from last Portland season to the current season, or the reason. I don't think any of the differences are large enough to state that Nurkic was a beast, and now he's not.

 

Gallinari is 6’10 and can swing between SF and PF... which are the positions we are in need of. Wes is a 6’5” SG you want to play SF.... and Dame/CJ is already undersized backcourt and you want to go smaller?! Also Gallinari is 2-3 years younger.

 

It still blows my mind to see Joe Ingles on that list. JIngles used to be a poor three point shooter, he's greatly improved simply through sheer hard work.

 

And you pull up some cockamamie stats as “proof” that DeAndre Jordan is declining ... how about he leads every player in the NBA in rebounding and fg% THIS YEAR... and do you even watch games?! DeAndre eats up a ton of space in the paint, he alters many decisions to drive in the lane... you talk about blocks per game being down... maybe you haven’t noticed the entire NBA is blocking less shots... the league leader is barely over 2 per game... you are not worth debating

 

Yeah, I have the lowest Bball IQ.

I'd rather have an undersized player that can defend than a 6'10 stiff who can't move his feet or even stay healthy. The biggest problem with being undersized is it hurts defense. But you're advocating for Gallinari instead of Wesley? Hah. And you do realize that players don't decline at the same rate, correct? When youve been through as many different injuries as Gallinaris been through, you're gonna decline faste r.

But yeah let's give up a 1st round pick to pay Gallinari $20M over the next 4 years (a year longer than Turner!) a year guy who's getting chubby, can't defend, and averages 47 games a season.

Stick to watching football.

 

He's improved every year he's been in the league, while also increasing his volume of 3FGs. That's significant improvement:

2014-15 3FG% = .356, 0.9 made 3FG/game
2015-16 3FG% = .386, 1.0 made 3FG/game
2016-17 3FG% = .441 (3rd in the league), 1.5 made 3FG/game
2017-18 3FG% = .446 (3rd in the league), 2.4 made 3FG/game

He's currently made only 12 fewer 3FGs than Dame and only 6 fewer than C.J., and shoots a higher 3FG% than both. He's among the league leaders in both 3FG% and made 3FGs.

BNM