Poll: Which of our young players are you most excited about?

If anyone uses a vote for Kris Murray, please ban

 

Shaeden could be great. We shall see. That will be fun to watch.

 

Hater. Just for that, I'm changing my vote. YOU GO KRIS!

 

Jabari is going to take a huge huge jump.

 

We will not ban Rasta! It won't happen. He's way too powerful!

 

Rayan will just be getting good when he's on his next team

 

This was a comment after an article I read:
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Bad organization.

Last season, their strongest position was C. They had had 3, all young. So they use the 7th pick in the draft on a 4th one.

Two years ago, management declares 22yr old Anfernee Simons their floor leader of the future and extend him for 4 yrs $100M. Simons scores >20 ppg for the next 2 seasons, so they give up on him.

It’s hard to describe how bad Scoot and Sharpe are. Both are tremendous athletes, but raw, uncoached, and lost on the court.

 

From a talent perspective, Sharpe all day. Not sure he has the “it” factor though. I hope he proves me wrong. His body language and how he answered his questions on media day made me lose some optimism but that’s probably just me.

 

Dumb comments. Just because you're strong at a position doesn't mean that you shouldn't draft at the same position if the guy you draft is better. And who says we've "given up on" Simons? If anything I'm mad that we haven't.

Can't get too mad at the organization for taking Scoot and Sharpe. Who should we have taken instead? Maybe we should've traded down and taken Jaquez but if we had our FO would've been tarred and feathered. Turns out the Wemby draft was a one-player draft.

 

Read the comment again. It doesn't criticize the drafting of Sharpe and Little Scooter. It says that they haven't developed beyond their high school playground levels. A good pro or college coach would have their BBIQs higher by now...to fit into a structured system which defines roles, to highlight every player's strengths to hide every player's weaknesses.

 

This is my criticism of Chauncey Billups. I don't care for winning games. I prefer that we're losing. He's not helping these guys get better.

 

While I voted Shaedon here and have high hopes, Jalen Williams is already an established all around stud

STOMP

 

Never mind, we'll forget about Shaedon after we draft VJ Edgecombe.

 

I'm reading the usual training camp articles from other teams. Some coaches are installing a defense. Others are installing an offense.

What about installing the Billups System? I'll summarize his Media Day: Q: "Aren't you worried about getting canned?" A: "I've learned about coaching. I'm better than I was 3 years ago."

To paraphrase: "Duhhhhhhh....My next job will be an assistant coach, where I'll learn a system from a real head coach."

To fit that into this thread: We have plenty of talent, but our players don't develop because they have no system to learn. They should rename the team the Portland Anti-Excitements.

 

I see no evidence that we have enough talent. We should fix the coaching situation and exchange our middling vets for draft capital and once our youngs are too good to be a lotto team we'll be set.

 

How about having both?

 

Trading youngs for better players doesn't just happen by itself. Each player we trade must improve while here, or we don't improve from trading him (unless the other GM is a sucker).

Individual improvement doesn't just happen by itself. Our youngs can't become good until a head coach has a system to teach them.

Besides, when their contracts end, they'll hightail it out of here. With their careers full of long, long loser fatigue years, every other team will look more attractive.

The tanking strategy collapses because Billups has no system to teach them.

 

Delusional

 

Clingan just went on record saying practice at UConn was way tougher than here. How could that possibly be? Every level of sports I played practices got tougher as I improved. I didn't improve if I didn't practice harder.