Game Thread GAME# 13: BLAZERS @ SPURS - NOVEMBER 16, 2019 - SATURDAY, 5:30 PM, NBCSNW

will he be happy coming off the bench though? I think thats the biggest q

 

When it comes to our roster changes I've moved on.....no point in beating a dead horse....I'd have kept several players over the past few roster shifts but that's why I get the big bucks...people are going to replace their disappointments anyway...Chief and Mo become Baze and Hezonja for now and Meyers becomes Tolliver...Mo never played well first half of most seasons here...didn't play at all for Orlando before he got here and has gone to being a bench player now.....what we lost were defensive instincts with those guys...our new guys need to get on the same page. Melo should boost bench scoring for us...defense is team choreography. That is not going to happen overnight

 

not come down with what looked like an attempted two fist hulk smash on the opponent. Gotta jeep your cool.

 

I think rookie big's like Nas have to make a statement about not budging when defending a vet...Nas is pretty fearless and the rule for young bigs is you earn respect in the paint by fouling people hard when they try to score in the paint. Rookie season Zach and Skal both would've been pushed out of the way like rag dolls....Nas held his ground. This kid is a keeper!

 

i agree aNd he got the foul. But at the very end he also got very lucky. He tried to change green for a moment.

 

Basketball is played on hardwood, not paper.

 

I think in his mind he'd take a tech to make the guy think twice about getting in his grill again. Like punching the schoolyard bully even though you get dentention for doing it..it was worth it

 

fuck that, tired of having a bunch of Boy Scouts, we need more players with an edge that won’t take any bullshit.

 

I think it's more would he rather tag team with Nurk or Skal…..one is going to tire his guy out more than the other for you

 

It's definitely not played in hindsight or in print either

 

Over all Dame had a good game last night with assist even though he did not shoot well. They were still box and one on him a lot and gave CJ openings.

 

okay. I gotcha. Our enforcer!

 

I think you can make that assessment. Good players used properly are still good when traded, bad players are still bad. There can be exceptions and variation, esp for a niche player like Aminu, but in general it averages out. But we'll see. If we even come close to making the playoffs (say 45 games), then I'll admit I was wrong.

I disagree that you could not continue to play Aminu & Harkless. Little scored 5 points yesterday. Yet do we win that game without his defense & energy? I don't think so. Aminu & Harkless played a similar role on the Blazers. I think they were sorely underrated. We didn't need them to create shots with Nurk, Dame, CJ on the floor, and they were good enough from 3 and around the rim to represent a threat.

I agree with getting rid of Turner. If all we lost was Curry, that could be offset by Simons. But Kanter, Leonard, Aminu, Harkless, and throw in Layman basically for Whiteside + unkown Pau is a big loss, even though I like Whiteside as a player.

 

I dunno, I can't read their minds. I can see Curry wanting to go elsewhere, but Aminu, Magic... really?

 

This is fair. But honestly i'm not trying to say you are right or wrong. My preseason prediction was 48 and the 6th seed. I'm going to stick with that. It's very obtainable at this point but they must start to put it together soon.

 

I agree, only 69 games left.

 

It's been said the money was important. Remember one thing about Aminu. They call him Chief for a reason. His name translates in Nigeria to "The Chief Has Arrived" and he is a Prince. Aminu works very hard both on the court and off. Off court he also works with the Nigerian national team and does a great many things in Nigeria to help his people. I've always felt Aminu had a much bigger world view about things when it came to basketball.

 

Right, that's why NBA teams routinely ignore analytics. We did ignore analytics by grossly overpaying ET and look where it got us.

 

Those announcers were so shit it's unbelievable. They made me want a Blazers win 10x more

 

He was a dominant defender. He never got any credit.