https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest...rs/exclusive-meyers-leonard-farewell-portland Short article, and an 8 minute video interview with Meyers. Say what you want about the man, but I am very grateful for the Blazer he was and wish him nothing but the best. It didn’t quite work out with him the way we’d all hoped it would. He had some very low lows as a Blazer, but he was always an excellent teammate and representation of what our team is about. Gonna miss his 3-point pistols, seeing how excited he always got for his teammates, and of course will never forget game 4. Good luck Meyers.
I came to like Meyers as a basketball player in his final two years, but I think I'm going to miss his animated sideline antics and on-court posing the most. Those can't be duplicated.
Like him or not, he should've been playing a lot more than he did. For a guy as raw as him, he needed real time experience to learn defensive instincts. That was his only real fatal flaw. If he could have been at least average on defense, he would've been worth his contract. I hope Miami gives him a real shot.
Nards = JO 2.0. Change my mind. (PF/C traded by Portland before he reached his prime, whatever that may be.)
Meyers scored 5 consecutive swish3s and 25 points in 16 min (1.56 points/min) in the 1st half of WCF Game 4, which was the first time this season that he attempted 6 shots in one half. And if he had been relied on for 6 more in the 2nd half, we would have won that overtime loss. But Blazer coaches repeated the mistake that was obvious after the 132-105 win over the Jazz in Jan to squander scoring opportunities on less efficient scoring Blazers. If Terry had started Meyers in all 4 of the WCF games, we might have won the WCF. And in the one game in which Meyers attempted 6 swish3s in one half (as I had been advocating all year), he made 83.3% of them! The refusal to recognize the 45% swish3 shooting of Meyers and the stubborn playing of an injured and sub-par Enes instead cost a chance for an NBA Championship that was rare. Terry did not respect Meyers enough to get the best from the team, and must take some blame for not optimally recognizing talent. Terry should have played Meyers in many more games, and Meyers should have been game planned to take at least twice as many swish3 shots this year as he did to allow us the chance for our Championship. When you have talent scoring at that efficiency and pace, you have to rely on it; having him shoot 6 attempts per half was the logical call. Let's hope that the failures in coaching judgement can be corrected in the future to allow swish3 scoring efficiency of 45+% to be utilized and let's celebrate more wins. I hope we can find another 45% or better swish3 scorer!
Cant we just appreciate him as a person instead of all this? We utilized him to our fullest extent in Game 4. We still lost.
Not. Swayed. That part at the bottom in parentheses is where I was making the comparison - that’s all the comparison I can find. I was otherwise being facetious with my post. I hate the, “blah blah blah. Change my mind,” thing....
I have a Jersey for sale! JK. Always liked the guy even if he didnt sprout into what we wanted out of him. Wish him the best. I will wear his Jersey with pride!(until I get another one that is. )
every once in a while, you hear something that has the ring of 'truth' to it. Truth that applies to the human condition more than three decades ago, Larry McMurtry wrote Lonesome Dove. They made the mini-series a few years later. There's one scene I remember that has that ring of ultimate truth: Jake Spoon has returned after many years away. Call and Gus are talking about him while leaning on a fence. Call says "that Jake Spoon, he hasn't changed a bit has he". Gus looks and Call and says "that's rich! can you tell me when it was the last time you changed?". Call doesn't answer what does that have to do with basketball? nothing. What does that have to do with your post? next to nothing but it's the off-season why did I think of that? how should I know....now I'm thinking about peanut butter and deep cycle batteries
It was a sarcastic post where if you saw the notes in the parentheses, that was meant as my comparison.
No. We utilized Meyers well only in the 1st half, and not game planning for 6 swish3 attempts in the 2nd half probably cost us that game. That was my point. Blazer coaches need to recognize and feed the hot hand. Terry failed to do that in this and several games this year, and we would benefit if he can improve. We certainly can and do appreciate Meyers as a person, and should strive to treat Blazer players with respect and recognition of talent better than this Forum treated Meyers.
After he got hot, we went away from him. I don't believe it was because the Warriors caught on. It was more like Dame and CJ finally had room to operate with him being hot so they kind of unintentionally forgot about him. Meyers was the reason we were even close to winning that game.