some pre-lottery discussion on Scoot Henderson. Tyler Metcalf is on the left. Tyler Rucker is on the right. I think he does such a good job of playing whatever role is asked of him, where he is going to be one of these really rare malleable superstars. Where you can just kind of plug and play him. Yes, on the court he's going to be a point guard, but we've seen for two years now, him operate a ton away from the ball. So much on the court, he is constantly moving without the ball. He's a really good cutter, he's an off-ball screener, and then he cuts and then re-screens then relocates and cuts again, whether it's a set play or intuition. That's one of the areas where I really deviate from the Russell Westbrook comp, because when Westbrook doesn't have the ball, he doesn't do anything. Scoot is constantly doing stuff to put his team, not just himself, to be in a position to succeed. (pre-lottery) I think the Pistons adding another point guard might be clunky, but you figure it out. Where I do worry about him a bit is on the defensive side. I think in isolation he's good. His screen navigation is rough. And the off-ball stuff is not good. There was just a lot of lacking attention to detail on the defensive end. Cued up to where they talk about Scoot Henderson.
Scoot is going to be a star. I would love to have him be a blazer. Imagine a backcourt of scoot and sharpe in our future…
If he falls to the Blazers, and they have a deal where they could add a Mikal Bridges / Jalen Brown / Pascal Siakam for Sharpe & Ant, they could draft him.
The pick should not be traded. The Blazers are either getting a franchise-cornerstone, athletic/strong PG who can play well off the ball, or a 6'8" wing who can shoot the shit out of the ball and rebound and defend.
Same. Also everything I read/heard was that he is the guy that really loves basketball which is a big plus, IMHO, as you know he will work hard at becoming better
In the context of, they already have a very good playmaker in LaMelo Ball, and 6'8" wings are said to rule the NBA, and Miller is a very good shooter and overall player, I can see it happen. Not making any predictions though.
Could be, but to add a difference maker now, which is a necessity , teams will want either the #3 or Shaedon to get it done. Dame is a top 10 player who has plenty in the tank left. I want to see , what a top tier wing added this offseason , can do for the Blazers now.
If you trade Sharpe (and Ant to match salaries) for a top-tier wing then you have a hole at SG. The wings we have discussed are good but not good enough to compensate for that by next year. And it hurts our future as well.
The Blazers do not need to trade Shaedon Sharpe and/or the #3 pick to get a "difference maker." The Nuggets made no such trade to get where they are now.
The Nuggets were able to get Aaron Gordan for Gary Harris, RJ Hampton & a 1st rd pick. Wouldn't call that other worldly. Saw where the Blazers could have gotten Gordan for Ant, but Olshey balked. You could be right.
Gordon's salary at the time was 18.14M. Ant's was 2.5M. Blazers were hard-capped because of using the MLE on Derrick Jones; and they were around 7M below the apron Portland would have had to add more salary; RoCo's would have fit best, but if Olshey had done that trying to match Denver, between RoCo and the price for Gordon, that would have been three 1st's for Gordon. I don't think Olshey could have sold that to the Vulcans and there was no way he'd have traded Ant who was almost certainly CJ 2.0 in Olshey's 'bloated-ego-fever-dream' of a brain he would have rather waited 4 months and traded a 1st for Nance while locking up every 1st round pick Portland had available till 2030.
"I'm Scoot Henderson" lol I like his personality. I think if he falls to us he would do great coming off the bench as our third guard.
