The Blazers' Derek Fisher? His shooting better improve. I can only dream that he'd be the Blazers' Rajon Rondo.
Chris Paul is/was better than either of Russell Westbrook or Derrick Rose! (Derrick Rose was the most undeserving MVP in the 21st century. Unless it's Russell Westbrook.) Scoot should model himself on Gary Payton, IMO. That's in the overlap between faintly achievable and unquestionably great.
I am leaning towards Scoot being a starter in this league who contributes to wins but as many have pointed out it's too soon to know that. Then there is the issue of if the Blazers will contend during his time here. As many have pointed out it's been over 20 years since we were legit contenders. This franchise never put a contending roster/program around Dame and Dame is an 8 time all-star and 7 time all NBA player. So we're not sure how good Scoot is going to be and our team wasn't able to build a contender around a top 10-15 guy in the league when we had him for more than a decade. Odds are that the answer is no but I'm hopeful that things come together for Scoot here and that the roster around him can feature guys that are good enough to contend. In other words this is a simply impossible question to answer.
That's three questions, or one question with three variables: (1) Will the Blazers be a contender during Scoot's career? I hope so but I'm not going to bet money on it today. (2) Will Scoot still be on the team if/when the Blazers become a contender? If the Blazers become a contender during Scoot's career, I think he most likely will still be on the team. (3) If (1) and (2), Scoot will be the starter.
True. How about one like: "Is Rasta Just Being Annoying with These Scoot Polls, or Is He Deliberately Trying to Get Banned?"
I think if he's not starter quality we'll try to offload him. The only possibility of that not happening is if he's our Nate McMillan. Which would actually be a pretty good end result given his start.
Well, he is already a significant part of this year's contending team... We are not front-runners but contending for the first pick in this year's draft. Of course, I'd like to see us contending on the other end of the spectrum but does lend credence to the statement of "Define contending".
I think Scoot is good enough to be a foundational piece for a contending team. Whether that actually happens or not, I dunno. Dame was good enough, too, and it didn't really happen for him. Looking at our roster, top to bottom, Scoot is the only thing that we clearly have going for us. I love Sharpe, but he's missed (for most intents and purposes) two of the last three years and I'm more concerned about him after his "Kentucky" experience than I normally would be with a second-year dude getting hurt. Our other good players (Ant, Ayton, Grant) are all paid so well that they're value-neutral, IMO.
