Exclusive Hezonja to the Blazers

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    Hezonja is probably an Evan Turner replacement for the league minimum lol
     
    Blazer509, Jun 30, 2019
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    Maybe his name wasn't recognizable. How about Mario Hezonja?
     
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    We have 14 players and like three actual bigs. No way Portland is done.
     
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    Michael also represents Crabbe, so I'd say he owes us a ton.
     
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    brash young slasher from Europe who was a former top 5 pick a few yrs ago by orlando. spurned us last year to go NY where he was absolutely awful. Prolly realized he needed to come here instead. He's fearless and irrational at times but i dunno if he has much game.
     
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    us or Brooklyn?
     
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    Okay hear me out.

    Hezonja is listed at 6’9 225. Chief was listed at 6’9 220. Maybe Hezonja figures to be a stretch 4 in our offense?
     
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    Yeah, he played his best ball as a four in Orlando.
     
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    Nurk knew he was going to be signed, thus the funny communicator.
     
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    At 22 playing for Orlando, he was shooting 34% from 3 and 82% from FT
     
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    Neil on a roll...now to trade Harkless and find a backup big!
     
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    13 players unless Layman accepted his QO
     
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    He was in NY last year...

    ...with one Enes Kanter.
     
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    I think Herzonja fits as a bit of a replacement for ET and a bit of a replacement for Chief.

    My concern with the current lineup is the lack of ballhandling. Actually, that was a concern even last year. Our 3 and 4 weren't going to be much help getting the ball up the floor, where you look at a team like Toronto that had often had four guys on the floor that could capably handle.

    Herzonja is a solid ballhandler and a very inventive passer. He matches ET in the first area and surpasses him in the second.

    He's got Aminu's size and, despite his stats to this point, he has a very good-looking shot and excellent range well beyond the arc; I could see him surpassing Chief in that regard.

    Now for the downside: Chief and ET hit the boards. With Nurk out and no word on a big (Kanter, please, somehow) who can fill in, we're really lacking in that area. Although I suppose we could be approaching this like the Warriors where we throw good shooters and guys who move without the basketball who can dribble all over the court, just get other teams out of position and outhustle them to long rebounds.
     
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