With the 7th pick in the 2024 NBA Draft, The Portland Trailblazers select. . .

I’m confused on why Cronin would be on hot seat. I thought he did a really nice job last year with the Lillard trade.

 

id be ok with Edey at 14. He’ll definitely be able to contribute just in limited minutes and in weak draft I don’t expect much at 14.

 

Your confused to why Cronin MIGHT be on the hotseat -- hmm -- I do not have limitless time so I will just refute your statement on how he did on the Dame deal

I will concede he did OK on the first part of it but then he decided to do nothing else so far and now there is a solid chance we might only get a 2nd for each of Williams and Brogs cause they are broken down. This is why this summer is very important not just for the team but for Cronin cause IF he cannot finish what he started last summer then it was a mild cluster fuck and that is the truth. Time is ticking for Cronin and for the Blazers sake I hope he can turn chicken shit into some tasty chicken salad or this team could be in a hole for awhile -- LOL

 

The jockeying and misnfo at the top is always so stupid. Remember the final Miller/Scoot workout with MJ in the gym last year?

lol

 

She was on Danny and Dusty today.

 

Guarantee they get more than a 2nd for Brogdon. Williams was always a risk but he’s still young and potentially be a very good bench player in playoffs obviously only if he stayed healthy.


We’ll have to agree to disagree I like the trades last year and IMO Dame was traded at the perfect time. Getting Bucks unprotected pick could be gold by the time 2028 pick comes around. I think they tear that team down by then and potentially trade Gianis before 2028.

 

Thanks! I learned by watching the best (you).

 

Yellow flag after yellow flag here.

 

Yes. I listen to a few people I know talk here and there but you won't get me to click on a pod cast or a mock draft until well after the draft has taken place. I do like to look at what was projected after the fact and see what was right and wrong.

 

As I've said: Nic Batum. Nic just sorta let the came come to him and picked his spots, but he was a really solid player.

And not "trying to dominate" is under-rated. It can lead to really poor offensive efficiency.

 

?? Plague on board??

 

You shoulda seen the bullshit they said about Sharpe. This is nothing.

 

We don't know if that's "bullshit" yet. Shaedon regressed last year.

 

Nonsense.

He was most definitely not regressing.

He just slowed down and wore out after chauncey ran him into the ground. He had a stretch of playing 41, 42, 40, 41, 46, 42 minutes consecutively in December. All games with super high usage while being the primary focus of every defense.

But you seem to be set on this baseless notion so I don't see you caring about it.

 

There will always be yellow flags before the draft for 95% of the players. But there isn't always such positive comments

Western Conference executive No. 2: Maybe my glasses may be a little bit colored, because I’ve seen him so much. I’ve seen him in high school, AAU, at Colorado. He’s gotten better and better and better, and his body has filled out. And he’s shown more in his game at every step. No question this kid, I see him as a starter. In 16 to 24 months, I think he will be a full-time starter. Where are guys that are close to 6-9, that can (be) unselfish, see it, can deliver it, can handle it, can score it, and can defend now anywhere out on the floor? What am I missing here? And he’s a phenomenal, phenomenal human being. You’re preaching to the choir on this one, with him. You’ll note two or three instances in his games where you’re like, ‘I see that in an NBA game, every night, what he just did.’

 

He only averaged 33 minutes per game. He should be able to handle that. But his shooting percentages fell from 56/35 to 46/33, that is quite a drop off in efficiency. That puts him in the bottom 20th percentile.

The Blazers had the worst TS% in the league last year as a team and his TS% was even worse than the teams overall. And he's not exactly making up for it with defense is he?

He sucked last year. We've seen he clearly has a lot of talent and might become very good, but he hasn't proven that yet.

 

Efficiency drops when teams focus on one dude. What a revelation. Amazing analysis.

 

That's rather silly a cop out. Shaedon was somehow facing tougher defense than the rest of the league?

Also you just pulled the idea that teams were "focusing on him" out of your arse. Shaedon was just missing a lot of shots.

 

Take a look at the guards who are high on this list. They are good offensively. Now take a look at the players around where Shaedon is, they are not good offensively. It's not because teams are "focusing" on them.

https://www.nba.com/stats/players/a...&SeasonType=Regular Season&dir=-1&sort=TS_PCT

 

No. I watched the games. His uptick in minutes in November coincided with Ants absence.